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You forgot Mercedes! if you would like to be the best of the best go for Mercedes. the pay is very good. you go to school about 3 times a year. no shortage of cars to work on. currant models C E CLS S, CLA, GLA, GLS, SLK, SL, ML, GL, GT AMG.
Working for Mercedes as a bumper to bumper tech but doing most of the heavy duty work. Mercedes was very fair with book time but around 2007 it went to down hill. but for the last year they have changed how we do book time. any time we have to do diag we clock on the clock as none time. lets say you have a check engine light you run the short test for .3 then you perform the required test and this is when non time kicks in you get paid for the time you put in for diag. when you perform the repair you get what the book time pays for replacing the faulty part. I am paid about 3.5 hr to diag and replace a thermostate on a 4cyl and it only takes about .5 to preform repairs. but some times the book does kick your ass. with conman repairs they look at the average time tech run from all over the world. this can be bad thing if you don’t run your time properly.
I don’t know how other manufactures do it but Mercedes let’s the tech perform all repairs from complete engine rebuilds not a long block or a cage motor. I had to repair a Mercedes CL63 engine do to a valve that dropped I had to replace the engine block, right cyl head, valves, and pistons and a lot of other things I was paid about 60 something hr.
and when ever a car comes in for service and lets say you find motor mounts weak, valve covers leaking, thrust arm bushings worn and what ever faults you find you just have the Forman add the lines.
when the car is out of warranty you take the book time and times it by 1.5. so if you have a up sale for 5 hr you charge 7.5.
I had a bad feeling about working on this car. do to the heat the v12 puts out every thing is braking. so this is how it brakes down. remove battery ground, evac a/c system, I like to start from the top of the car, so remove all coolant lines, a/c lines, power steering cooling lines and abc line, remove engine wiring harness from ecu, remove brake booster line, fuel line, heater core hose. ok now it time to take off the front wheels, remove front brake calipers, remove steering knuckle from upper control arm, now for under the car. remove exhaust system, remove steering shaft, remove oil cooler lines, remove engine with transmission from under car froth the front axel.
now to replace turbo cooler lines and oil lines. remove heat exchangers at each cyl bank, remove coils, remove a lot of heat shielding. now to replace the lines, they are a pain in the ass they are wrapped around every thing. to do this it took about 5hr nontime to replace all the lines. now to remove transmission to replace the rear engine cover and seal. reinstall engine with transmission
reconnect all lines (life support) and top off every think so I started the car and every thing is going good so I go on the test drive down the pacific cost highway and test every think out a/c blowing cold, engine temp is good, trans is shifting good. all was good till I turned the heater it started to blow hot and then started to cool down till no heat was coming out. go back to the shop and hooked up the lab top found a code in aac for heater temp to low. i checked all the things i could have done wrong to cause this to happen. what i found is that the coolant take holds a sack of stuff that keeps the coolant good for 150,000 miles or 15 years. the stuff clogged the heater core. so now next week i have to pull the dash to replace the heater core.i was so mad about all this i went home played with the bulldogs and had one to many beers. the next day i was talking to the Forman and told him what wad happing and all he did was laugh and seat you just got v12 real good. he seat every think on them brake or leak do to the heat.
i have about 2 1/2 days in it. i am hope i get about 24hr for the engine work and i think the heater core pays about 8 to 10 hr.
come on people chim in and tell us your story’s about how a car can just kcuf up your week.
I had a bad feeling about working on this car. do to the heat the v12 puts out every thing is braking. so this is how it brakes down. remove battery ground, evac a/c system, I like to start from the top of the car, so remove all coolant lines, a/c lines, power steering cooling lines and abc line, remove engine wiring harness from ecu, remove brake booster line, fuel line, heater core hose. ok now it time to take off the front wheels, remove front brake calipers, remove steering knuckle from upper control arm, now for under the car. remove exhaust system, remove steering shaft, remove oil cooler lines, remove engine with transmission from under car froth the front axel.
now to replace turbo cooler lines and oil lines. remove heat exchangers at each cyl bank, remove coils, remove a lot of heat shielding. now to replace the lines, they are a pain in the ass they are wrapped around every thing. to do this it took about 5hr nontime to replace all the lines. now to remove transmission to replace the rear engine cover and seal. reinstall engine with transmission
reconnect all lines (life support) and top off every think so I started the car and every thing is going good so I go on the test drive down the pacific cost highway and test every think out a/c blowing cold, engine temp is good, trans is shifting good. all was good till I turned the heater it started to blow hot and then started to cool down till no heat was coming out. go back to the shop and hooked up the lab top found a code in aac for heater temp to low. i checked all the things i could have done wrong to cause this to happen. what i found is that the coolant take holds a sack of stuff that keeps the coolant good for 150,000 miles or 15 years. the stuff clogged the heater core. so now next week i have to pull the dash to replace the heater core.i was so mad about all this i went home played with the bulldogs and had one to many beers. the next day i was talking to the Forman and told him what wad happing and all he did was laugh and seat you just got v12 real good. he seat every think on them brake or leak do to the heat.
i have about 2 1/2 days in it. i am hope i get about 24hr for the engine work and i think the heater core pays about 8 to 10 hr.
come on people chim in and tell us your story’s about how a car can just kcuf up your week.
so far I have replaced 4 turbo cooling lines,the rear main seal, expansion tank, rear flex dice and right lower spring link and engine drive belt. things I have to do is top off trans fluid, change engine oil, fill and bleed the coolant system, fill and bleed low temp circuit. fill and bleed the power steering fluid, ABC fluid (active body control)and a/c. I will be flagging the ticket next year. I will let you know the hours I flag and the complete list of things I did. some more photos.
so far I have replaced 4 turbo cooling lines,the rear main seal, expansion tank, rear flex dice and right lower spring link and engine drive belt. things I have to do is top off trans fluid, change engine oil, fill and bleed the coolant system, fill and bleed low temp circuit. fill and bleed the power steering fluid, ABC fluid (active body control)and a/c. I will be flagging the ticket next year. I will let you know the hours I flag and the complete list of things I did. some more photos.
