What a great video. Watching you casually pull a motor out of a car. And back running in what would have taken me weeks or months to do haha. Much respect.
Time to raise your rates. You are not charging enough if you have more customers than time. Raise your rates and buy a new mobile van if you want to continue mobile work. You have been working out of the back of a pickup truck for long enough, while trying to find time to fix your own mobile van. You deserve it, and your family deserves it.
find a coast car port dealer and get a catalog book maybe the landlord will let you put one over the whole driveway you can get custom sizing a little they put them up real quick the sooner you call them after you pay like half up front the faster they get the installers out then you pay the rest after installation they can work around trees and bushes probable cars a little i didn't call them i got tired of waiting called within five days it was up over my driveway now i need to hang some curtains on the sides if i get an aroundtoit it was fairly affordable and it can b put on dirt concrete or ties foundations whatever i don't know about permits and ordinances i didn't need anything at my place I'm almost in your back yard mine was lagged to the cement drive with a fence and gate's on both sides in front of a double garage next to the city street
You maybe should look into getting your own garage and get people in the work with you hopefully you will find time off to enjoy with your family the mechanic we take or cars to only work by himself most of the time he has a lot of customers so if it’s no urgent you will have to wait for a couple of weeks but most holidays he just closes his garage up it closed last week and he will be only open again in the new year but his customers still going out back to him
The issue with going from mobile to a shop is the overhead cost. It's not as easy to start or maintain as folks assume. While shops are stingey, rent, insurance, air, shop equipment, taxes, etc, are all costs a mobile guy doesn't incur, which inturn keeps the savings back in the customers pocket. And you can charge a fair amount because of the convenience. Also as a mobile guy, you get to charge more for an emergency if the need arises. Shops kinda suck.
@ we do have mobile machanics in the U.K. but the area a lot of local garages to choose from so prices are pretty cheap also my garage is in walking distance from my house so just drop the car off and go out for the day using my free pensioners bus pass which you can Apply for when you reach pension age we also have my wife’s 2003 Ford focus which she has had from new it has only covered 70.000 miles but because it’s well looked after drives like new we use my cars because a get diesel and do all the work I have had 3 since she got hers we don’t really need 2 cars now I have retired but her car is a member of the family now my nephew is a HGV machineic but lives in London which is 300 miles from where we live in Manchester so it would cost more in fuel the pay are local garage my brother does get is cars fixed for free my nephew works for a big company and he has a van provided by the company so he can fix them he just stays at home on call he loves the job if you like what you do work out side but I was a telephone engineer and has I got old to winter weather was talking it’s toll on me I don’t miss working I wish I had retired sooner now
What a great video. Watching you casually pull a motor out of a car. And back running in what would have taken me weeks or months to do haha. Much respect.
Lol rain and clouds sure are more scarce on the west for the most part. I like sunny days, but summer is scorcher
Time to raise your rates. You are not charging enough if you have more customers than time. Raise your rates and buy a new mobile van if you want to continue mobile work. You have been working out of the back of a pickup truck for long enough, while trying to find time to fix your own mobile van. You deserve it, and your family deserves it.
You should look into getting a big canopy at least so you can work in the rain and or 24/7😂
find a coast car port dealer and get a catalog book maybe the landlord will let you put one over the whole driveway you can get custom sizing a little they put them up real quick the sooner you call them after you pay like half up front the faster they get the installers out then you pay the rest after installation they can work around trees and bushes probable cars a little i didn't call them i got tired of waiting called within five days it was up over my driveway now i need to hang some curtains on the sides if i get an aroundtoit it was fairly affordable and it can b put on dirt concrete or ties foundations whatever i don't know about permits and ordinances i didn't need anything at my place I'm almost in your back yard mine was lagged to the cement drive with a fence and gate's on both sides in front of a double garage next to the city street
You maybe should look into getting your own garage and get people in the work with you hopefully you will find time off to enjoy with your family the mechanic we take or cars to only work by himself most of the time he has a lot of customers so if it’s no urgent you will have to wait for a couple of weeks but most holidays he just closes his garage up it closed last week and he will be only open again in the new year but his customers still going out back to him
The issue with going from mobile to a shop is the overhead cost. It's not as easy to start or maintain as folks assume.
While shops are stingey, rent, insurance, air, shop equipment, taxes, etc, are all costs a mobile guy doesn't incur, which inturn keeps the savings back in the customers pocket.
And you can charge a fair amount because of the convenience. Also as a mobile guy, you get to charge more for an emergency if the need arises. Shops kinda suck.
@ we do have mobile machanics in the U.K. but the area a lot of local garages to choose from so prices are pretty cheap also my garage is in walking distance from my house so just drop the car off and go out for the day using my free pensioners bus pass which you can Apply for when you reach pension age we also have my wife’s 2003 Ford focus which she has had from new it has only covered 70.000 miles but because it’s well looked after drives like new we use my cars because a get diesel and do all the work I have had 3 since she got hers we don’t really need 2 cars now I have retired but her car is a member of the family now my nephew is a HGV machineic but lives in London which is 300 miles from where we live in Manchester so it would cost more in fuel the pay are local garage my brother does get is cars fixed for free my nephew works for a big company and he has a van provided by the company so he can fix them he just stays at home on call he loves the job if you like what you do work out side but I was a telephone engineer and has I got old to winter weather was talking it’s toll on me I don’t miss working I wish I had retired sooner now
don't snort brake or clutch dust.
You’re to busy promoting garbage tools and not working on cars. Seems like that’s the problem