Comments by "deezel_fairy" (@deezelfairy) on "" video.

  1.  BreatheScotland  The fairest price is the hours you've spent - nothing more, nothing less. Especially the "3 other mechanics have had a stab at this" faults. No way you should low-ball yourself if your the guy who fixes it. I can guarantee you the other 3 unsuccessful mechanics got paid and they may well have knocked a few hours off and rightly so. If you want quality work you've gotta pay for it - people need to get their heads around that. Low balling the hours just sets an unrealistic price presidence that hurts all of us trying to make a living at this job. This pricing strategy had completely killed my industry (forklifts) over the last 2 decades.
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  2. Feel your pain Wes. Reminds me of a Nissan forklift I had with a constant battery drain no one could find. I get those jobs as I'm the only one at my work pig-headed enough to keep diagnosing rather than just getting the parts cannon out! Only caught it out of desperation - turned the rear spotlight on and the engine shut down like you'd turned the key off. Turns out the negative for the coil of the ECM power-on relay which is a switched negative had shorted to the positive feed of the rear spotlight - keeping the relay energised when the truck was turned off (battery drain) by earthing through the bulb put also putting a positive signal on that coil negative when the rear spotlight was on. Had to open the whole harness to find it - no external chaffing whatsoever.
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  3. Don't you just love intermittent faults? Being a mobile tech I normally give myself a couple of hours and if I've made no progress or haven't seen the fault it's time to call it a day and yes the customer has to pay. Most are OK with it, they just don't understand the complexity of the situation. My advice to younger/inexperienced techs is learn how to communicate honestly and clearly with your customer - makes these painful situations so much more pleasent. Customer communication skills are nearly as damn important as being able to do the job itself.
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