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specifically alignments and suspension work. I’d rather do 40 oil changes than 1 alignment. What I really despise is the amount of cheap labor my boss thinks he can get out of me.
really alignments are gravy money man most should be toe and goes unless you’er at a high line type of place
Because I’m 6’2″ and 300 pounds, I really dislike heater cores, under dash work, and stuff inside the car, it just kills my back and shoulders trying to contort under the dash.
I don’t mind the smell of gear oil and trans fluid, usually good money in those repairs.
Forgot to add, I’m over 50 years old. When I was younger, I threw my back out lifting a rear differential wrong, then broke my shoulder skiing, stress cracked my legs, and had other ankle/knee injury when in the military. Now I have some arthritis, mostly in my right shoulder and knee.May sound whiny after some of what you guys do, but….
As a tech on the tire side, I hate any low profile tires. I also strongly dislike cheap chrome painted custom rims, nothing like doing an 8 ounce static balance.
Another thing that grinds my gears:
We offer free lifetime rotation and balance if you purchase tires with us. It’s up to the customer if they want them rotated or rotate and balanced. we have guys with trucks and jeeps with mud tires that come in every few thousand miles and want a rotate balance. I end up scraping off weights that are still clean. And mud tires never balance well. I guess they figure because they shelled out $1500 + on tires they should try and get their money’s worth.
F$&k corvette tires. My Forman and the other guy can have all the corvette work they want. Even if it is gravy oil pans and rear mains on a c6. The customers are mainly assholes and either fish bowl or want their car done asap. Living in Mid East central Florida we have a TON of corvette customers around our area.
I dislike front evaporators on the traverse, Colorado and camaro. Rediculous how this shit has to come apart to be removed.
To be honest I hate 2014+ Silverado vibration above 70 complaints. They made the frame too rigid trying to keep up with ford, and allows the nvh to transfer into the cab way too easy. The damn tires have to be absolutely perfect, the rear end has to be set up perfect and the retards didn’t learn from the 14/15 body mounts grounding out on the frame when they redesigned the cradle on the 16.
I’ve figured out the trick on the traverse oil changes and we gave the engineer that designed the filter set up on it hell when he came to our dealer once. There are a few things you can make money on still but not much.
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I don’t have to deal with too many vettes. In Tennessee we deal with a lot of big lifted trucks with mud tires, those are some of the worst. Short lug nuts recessed into the wheels, every but takes a key, hubcap has to be removed with torx bit, you get the idea. The guys driving them can also be a pain. Fortunately our shop has a very very small window, most of our “fish bowlers” are actually standing outside the bay door.
Six in one, half a dozen in the other. If the job is harder and more difficult, means I can charge more labor. What eats me is when insurance or warranty companies are involved especially when I find out after the repair has started. Then suddenly they want to do tear down or investigation to find out what went wrong. This takes up time and can be a hastle. Sometimes there is a lot of argument. Often it can take weeks or months.
Which jobs do I dislike the most? Any job that the customer has tried to fix beforehand. Or has taken to some hack “friend who knows a lot about cars and fixes his own”. I used to fit that second description til I got some training in school. The difference is, I learned the hard way on my own vehicles only. Never on someone else’s.
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