JasonJ
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- Aug 20, 2001
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Re: Run as is?
Are there good mechs out there, yes. Are there hacks out there that are only interested in the dollar, yes. It has been my experience, through knowledge of others as well as personal experience, that good mechs that actually care about what they are doing are the exception, not the norm. C'mon now, don't get all twitchy. If you are not a hack, then my comments are not relevant. Todays crop of mechs have little mechanical intuition. They just read through a troublshooting guide, and swap parts around, barely fixing the problem. Just look at all the marine mechs that won't touch the older engines. Without a port to plug a machine in that does the job for them, they are lost. They hide behind the statement that it is too old for them to work on, that it isn't worth it. They don't want to admit that they are glorified parts changers, not true mechanics. I'm sorry, but a real mechanic will take care of the customer, not turn them away or quote them outrageous prices so that they don't have to actually think about what the problem is. If you take offense to what I have said, then you must be, or at one time have behaved in such a slipshod lazy manner. Don't even give me that "I won't make enough money on the old stuff" crap. What I see when I hear such garbage is that you won't be able to swap a sensor and then charge the customer for three shop hours. You might have to actually spend three shop hours fixing something, and that will get in the way of pushing a truck load of service though the door. I am not stupid, I know people in the field. The clever witty comments on how they can do 20 shop hours of work in an eight hour day makes me ill, and the customer is none the wiser. <br /><br />Maybe I am being too harsh, but as far as I am concerned, if you claim to be skilled at a profession, you better be skilled at it. A lot of them are just money taking parts changers, thats the fact. I had both my alternator belts break on my diesel work truck a few weeks back. I was out in the boonies and had to stop at the only shop that was there. Since I lacked the tools to do it myself, I was forced to let them do it. After watching two mechs stand there scratching their heads at the seemingly alien world of belt changing on an Isuzu cab over 2 ton truck, I had to give them a class on how to change the belts. I then had to pay them for the service. Nope, I stand by my beliefs. If you are a good mech, God bless, you. If you are a hack, shame on you, go get a job at Wal-mart as a stock boy where you belong....
Are there good mechs out there, yes. Are there hacks out there that are only interested in the dollar, yes. It has been my experience, through knowledge of others as well as personal experience, that good mechs that actually care about what they are doing are the exception, not the norm. C'mon now, don't get all twitchy. If you are not a hack, then my comments are not relevant. Todays crop of mechs have little mechanical intuition. They just read through a troublshooting guide, and swap parts around, barely fixing the problem. Just look at all the marine mechs that won't touch the older engines. Without a port to plug a machine in that does the job for them, they are lost. They hide behind the statement that it is too old for them to work on, that it isn't worth it. They don't want to admit that they are glorified parts changers, not true mechanics. I'm sorry, but a real mechanic will take care of the customer, not turn them away or quote them outrageous prices so that they don't have to actually think about what the problem is. If you take offense to what I have said, then you must be, or at one time have behaved in such a slipshod lazy manner. Don't even give me that "I won't make enough money on the old stuff" crap. What I see when I hear such garbage is that you won't be able to swap a sensor and then charge the customer for three shop hours. You might have to actually spend three shop hours fixing something, and that will get in the way of pushing a truck load of service though the door. I am not stupid, I know people in the field. The clever witty comments on how they can do 20 shop hours of work in an eight hour day makes me ill, and the customer is none the wiser. <br /><br />Maybe I am being too harsh, but as far as I am concerned, if you claim to be skilled at a profession, you better be skilled at it. A lot of them are just money taking parts changers, thats the fact. I had both my alternator belts break on my diesel work truck a few weeks back. I was out in the boonies and had to stop at the only shop that was there. Since I lacked the tools to do it myself, I was forced to let them do it. After watching two mechs stand there scratching their heads at the seemingly alien world of belt changing on an Isuzu cab over 2 ton truck, I had to give them a class on how to change the belts. I then had to pay them for the service. Nope, I stand by my beliefs. If you are a good mech, God bless, you. If you are a hack, shame on you, go get a job at Wal-mart as a stock boy where you belong....
