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The owner is in San Francisco keep up on the Craigslist there just in case he ever sells it

I didn't actually build any engines. I mostly machined random one off parts they needed and ran 2 lathes doing full time production turning coil over parts. But nearly all of the engines built at the shop were LS based and in the neighborhood of 600-700hp at the crank N/A.

That's still bad ass did you enjoy it sound like it must have been fun getting to tackle different problems i presonally like problem solving and fabrication

Service Advisor at a Body Shop. Used to be a detailer, apprentice body tech, mech tech and parts manager.

How are your body men all the guys at the insurance shop i was at sucked ass except for like one guy who left right before i did.

im in Alberta and have my Journeyman and Redseal diplomas for automotive technician and was the last year that got taught the old curriculum before they new coddled one came out because millennials are retarded

all i can say is for anyone thinking of being a mechanic dont do it, soul sucking 6 years of my life. albeit i did learn alot and can fix my own stuff now but its a miserable job. ive worked in security now for a while and after a couple years of not being a mechanic i finally work on my projects again

It was fun, I learned a fair bit from it and it was nice being able to make that part that they really needed to get an engine together. But I had to share a computer with the software I needed with another person, I didn't do much actual design/engineering work, and I got tired of coming home everyday with my pockets and shoes full of metal chippings and smelling like CNC coolant. At my current job I get to run a CNC lathe/mill once in a blue moon for prototyping parts so I don't hate it anymore.

Delivering goods sucks

Women

That's cool and yeah i hated that do had to do a lot of fabrication at the custom shop and metal shavings suck but overall i enjoyed it

Tire and oil jockey at fyre Stone workout on becoming a tech

I hear alot of tire guys bitch about low profile wheels why is that ?

The owners are absolute cunts who make fake damage claims.

not the same guy but i used to do low pros, theyre a cunt to mount and you can tear the bead if youre not careful. even with wheel bearing grease on the bead i had some i put to 100psi to seat, i did 1000s of tires when i was a tech. im surprised none blew up in my face

Do rims usually get scratched when you guys mount new tires?

The lower the profile/stiffer the sidewall the harder it is to get the bead over the lip of the rim. The worst are runflat tires.

Counter person at my local NAPA

It really depends if it’s like a 55 or 50 series it’s not to bad. But if it’s some low ass shit on a expensive rim it’s pain staking trying to get the tire on the rim without ripping the bead or fucking up a rim. We had a guy fuck up these two rims and it was like a grand to replace them lol.

We have low pro run flats at my shop and their a nightmare to do.

When I was doing them we got paid 2 hours for a set and people still didn't want the job. The issue I would have is the tire is so rigid that you can't pull the bead over the front face unless the bottom bead was broken, but it was next to impossible to break both beads at the same time, except for where the rollers were the tire would just reseat itself because it is so stiff.

We get an hour for 4 low pros and .6 for regular tires

Pannel beater for volvo, shits dope, they want me to do a paint course as well. cant say i wont, learn it and fuck off to a higer paying job

Do it bro i did both at the custom shop when i switched to just paint at the insurance shop i was way more happy it's alot better

i will have to go and see how long the course will be, doubt it would be a weeklong course must be a course over split weeks or months or somthing, i like the body side, but i want to change it up

Also Abit of advice the clean painter is always the better one keep your jobs clean and blow it down after every step guys who switched to paint that i know tend to be dirty and get alot of crap in there clear coat. You'll save alot of time and energy doing it right rather that having to cut and buffing out all kinds nds of dirt and crap after it's painted

It depends on what type of rim generally no unless the tech is experienced or does not care

Also wear gloves paint is alot harder to clean out of your nails that body filler and if your girl is like mine she won't let you finger her if your nails are covered in crap

she wont let me near her with work hands anyway, in my shop the ammount of lads that go in with just a jumper and work trousers over a suit is shite, i will keep that noted. suppose i will speak to work and se when they want me to start training

How much body fillering do you do? my spot makes the body boys do that and the paint lads strip and prep for paint. do you just take the pannel after body boys finish with it?

One last piece of advice get multiple paint guns for specific purposes (base coat, clear, primer, ect) it's expensive but worth it. Your jobs will get done quicker and cleaner.

Zero unless it's a side job I'll do somewhere else or after hour like in the pic ( hail damage)

Damn didn't know they sucked ass so much you have my sympathies

Had the same problem until I realized you can put tire paste where the tire actually seats on the rim, instead of just the lip of the bead like you regularly would. Never had a problem since, no more airing up to 80 psi and praying.

Also works great for sumitomo tires, for some reason those always snap super hard. Always thought sumitomo tires were going to be what killed me.

I'm a software engineer for a car manufacturer.

Lube tech here, ask me how hard I laugh when I charge $70 for an oil change and 90/120 for engine and cabin filters

They're a fucking cunt and a half, the dealership I work at won't even touch them and tell you to fuck off to wherever you bought them if you come to us with some bullshit low/superlows

What is your commission on those sales?

Was a salesman at a large used car dealership for 3+ years. Ask away

Why don't you properly moderate this board?

What are the two biggest mistakes stupid people make?

1.)Getting in a hurry. Time is always on your side. People psych themselves out/convinces themselves they have to or need to do something right in the moment.

2.)Negative equity. People who try to run away from one bad financial decision by making another one

I don't believe it's the real you

No, it is he's just lowkey about his online personality. God forbid he loses his privileges

I'm a lube tech, I'm hourly so I make money even with my thumb up my ass. It's nice because I have no ambition to be a line tech and I'm literally just here to use the shop for my own use and can spend half the day doing jack shit because it's a luxury dealership and I'll personally do maybe 8-10 cars in a day.

I just find it hilarious what we charge for this shit.

I'm an EMT. I shovel idiots up from the road almost every day

Any photos or stories? Post uniform or something

When are you gona give us what we want?

Nice how much you get n hour

just go for a high paying non Veeky Forums related job and work on cars in your free time. working on cars as a job is the fastest way to hate working on cars.

>low profile tyres
I fitted a set of 4 recently that came to 2100 euros on rims that were worth 3000. If I had ripped a bead or scratched the cunts precious rim I probably wouldn't be eating this week. Plus, almost exclusively owned by dickheads who like to glue themselves to your elbow and get in the way of your work.

I used to have vaping as a hobby for two years.

I then spent 2 years working in a vape shop.

I don't vape anymore.

If your at a shitty lube or mom and pop shop i loved it at the custom shop i was at

At all the shops I've worked at we don't allow customers in the shop area why are they back there with you ?

The building used to be a showroom, so it's pretty open and directs customers to where the entrance used to be. Now we have the four bays there and the entrance is secluded off to the right which makes it hard to spot. We do have chains to put up across the bays and signs etc to keep the punters out but we deal with so much traffic that putting the chains back up or telling customers to get off the floor tends to be the last thing on your mind.

Forgot to say that I am a tyre-fitter/mechanic.

That sucks must be annoying as hell

So someone turns an $800 a month/60 mos fuck up into a $1,200 a month/84 month disaster. High schools should be teaching folks about wage garnishment.

They do but you have to take it as an elective and they call it business math they teach you about loans buying cars houses and things like that

I took it. They never explained how fucked you can get off of a car loan.

11, i know it's not the best I could be getting but I have no actual training, just started as a valet then parts runner and I don't care to put the effort in to warrant making any more. I also live pissing distance away so I just daily a paid off motorcycle and stack cash minimum effort.

Nice but i would keep learning the more you know and they spend to train you the more valuable you'll be to them and get better vacation time play and flexible schedule also if something happens to your job there you'll be able to more easily get hired somewhere else thx to all your experience. I have so much experience i got hired at the insurance shop as a painter only three days after i moved to Texas ( flew in on Sunday and got hired and started on Tuesday) because i can weld do body work paint do Abit of mechanic work spray bedliners and Abit of other non Veeky Forums related stuff to

Not entirely true.

I'm an upholsterer specialized in custom vehicle interiors. I mostly do classic cars, boats and motorcycles but I've done a bit of everything.

Since working in a shop, my interest in it has only grown. Nice little comfy place with an old guy who has been in the buisness for 50 years and his wife. They look me under their wing.

Just did my first alligator skin interior this past month.

live the dream user

Can upholstery shop repair cracked dashboards and make em look like new? I'm talking 240sx spider Web cracking

>So someone turns an $800 a month/60 mos fuck up into a $1,200 a month/84 month disaster

Exactly

Nice any pics we re did the carpet seats and respayed this Land cruiser awhile back

Any careers that actually make money?

Just gotta have one of these bad boys and it's no biggie, but yeah with the traditional style of machine they are the stuff of nightmares

I’m a bus mechanic. Would be Veeky Forums related if I worked on city buses, but I work on charter tour buses that none of you can afford to ride on.
>pic sorta related
Most of the buses I work on are MCI j4500s from 07-17. We do have quite a few different Van Hools, too, and a couple Prevost.

Just started work today for a company that does "traffic control and management systems" across the US. $30/hr just sitting at a desk managing databases.

I've also worked in engineering for harley-davidson, bosch, and hyundai.

I'm a locksmith so about 30% of my job is opening SUVs and making new keys for middle aged women that lose their keys in the supermarket

I'm a fedex driver, so I drive sprinters, W700 and other box trucks all around.

Godspeed to you user, don't let craftsmanship die out.

I load vans, and prep stuff for them to be reloaded later.

I used to make wiring harnesses for stuff like pic related, but can't legally answer questions about them without committing treason.

Lol that's cool my grandfather worked on subs after he got outta the service and always told me if he told me what he did he'd have to kill me

I used to work in a maintenance bay for light armorred vehicles. Shit was pretty cool I guess. My job was to deal with all the electrical and optical side of the vehicle and some of that included hydraulic. Learned to read a manual and parts list and tools and all that good stuff. Worked pretty close with a bunch of the mechanics and learned a lot. It's the whole reason I started becoming a hobbyist in the first place.

Now I'm in an armory and hate my life

Just finished rebuilding this pump for the A side chemical to spray bedliner what you all do at work so far Veeky Forums

Gona be replacing this one blew an o ring and is leaking pretty bad

We have an apprenticeship program so we have 4 greenhorns but everyone else is a bunch of old grumpy dirty old men who miss beating out steel and hate repairing plastic and aluminum. Our shop is one of the only ones local to work on Tesla and aluminum ford trucks. Both are a nightmare. They do good work though.

I'm sorry to hear that the new Ford's are a bitch from what i hear but at least your guys do good work cause guys like pic related made my life hell

Pic very much related

It wasn't that serious, just had RESTRICTED printed on the bottom of all the CAD sheets.

But then socialism cut the defence budget and cancelled all the projects the company was working on, so everyone lost their jobs one day.

Damn that's depressing