Comments by "deezel_fairy" (@deezelfairy) on "Who hurt you? Customer Dictates Every Step! STOP! Cadillac SRX 4.6" video.

  1.  @raulrse  He's not a scumbag mechanic, he's talking from experience. I'm a forklift mechanic but the same shit applies. I will generally try to avoid doing thousands of dollars of repairs on a machine that worth it's weight in scrap iron except in some very rare circumstances. Reason being it rarely ends well, what starts out as $3k worth of repair ends up becoming $5k because off all the f@&ked ancillary stuff that's in the way that has to come off such as bolts breaking, hoses having to be cut off because they're so hard and perished, corroded hose tails disentergating in your hands, old brittle wiring that snaps as soon as you breathe on it - the list goes on. At the end you wind up with a massive bill no one wants to pay, your pissed off, the customers pissed off and it's not like you've even got a good machine at the end of it, you've got a pile of scrap that's had $5K chucked at it. Trust me, jobs like that is how you LOOSE customers, not win them. And for the record, there are just as many scummy, scammy customers as there are scummy, scammy mechanics.
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  2.  @douganderson7002  Exactly. If you damn good at what you do and your as honest as the day is long the flip side of that coin is:- 1) I don't have to take your shit because I don't deserve it. 2) You want that above and beyond proffesional service your going to pay for it, you don't get it for free! I can never get over people's individual level of entitlement in this day and age. Most of this entire videos comment section seems to be people who think being an honest, proffesional mechanic means taken a long, thick one being rammed up your rear on a regular basis 🙄
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  3.  @immikeurnot  💯%! That's what the scumbags do, milk you for a few grand over a few visits. I've always had a 100% blunt honesty policy with my customers. Sure, some people don't like it but the majority of my customers appreciate it tremendously. People who don't like hearing and accepting the truth I generally people who are not worth dealing with anyway - they're nearly always trouble.
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  4. Oh yes, we've all experienced it. For the next 6 months you get constant visits such as "Since your guy changed my oil my tail lights don't work" or any other number of defects completely unrelated to anything you did to their car. So much talk of scumbag mechanics, people forget there is just as many scumbag customers aswell.
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  5.  @mehmeh5471  It was torqued, it's called having a well calibrated right hand. Takes experience to develop one 😉
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  6.  @marioreali5925  Sounds like a wise man who can quickly judge someone's character.
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