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Originally Posted by Fuzz
It's not a conspiracy, but here are a whole bunch of things I think are conspiracies...
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Nothing I said is remotely wrong and it's showing up in the data. The automotive tech shortage is reaching critical levels and getting worse, despite the industry graduating a lot of skilled techs. People are leaving the business like you wouldn't believe. This is while dealerships charge $170+ in labour rates too, btw.
You probably don't like to be shorted by tens of thousands of dollars annually on compensation, getting harassed and not appreciated. If you know, you know how bad things are in the business. A huge problem is the garbage and how it's been engineered ,the complexity of systems that don't need to be overly complex for simple operations.
The younger techs at most shops are being over worked with tech/diagnostic issues and being short changed on things like warranty time and diagnostic time (ie: working for free) The old timers who are amazing parts replacers/ fabricators are aging out and having to contend with the nonsense I described above and a lot more. Furious customers, people stiffing them on jobs cause the repair bill on essentially new cars is higher than the value of the car.
If you have any automotive tech family and friends, they will tell you 100% the same things. If you know, you know.