This is why we have a mechanic shortage!

An evaporator replacement under #warranty on a #toyota #tacoma pays 4.3 hrs.

So if this takes you 2 days to replace properly, you only got paid 4.3hrs of work for those 2 days. Warranty times need to be updated for numerous reasons or flat rate needs to be removed.

#evaporator #howto #mechanic #dealership #replacement #

[elikemohammed]

It would take me 4.3 hours and a 12 pack just to get my mind right to start that job. 😂😂😂

[smokeskull]

Sometimes it takes .5 or more to find the vehicle to get it in the shop.

[carsandme]

That would take me 4.3 days to do that and I would have forgotten how to put it back together 🤣🤣🤣

[Camj]

I’m an Acura tech and have contacted acura and told them some of the labor rates don’t make sense and they’ve increased them. Just did a warranty transmission on a new mdx type S. Book time was like 7.2 hours and they increased it to 10 hours. I’m pretty sure manufactures are just making up labor times and techs have to start calling them out on their bullshit. I’m at the point to where if they don’t want to pay me fairly than they can have an hourly lube tech do it.

[jmyers]

That's why I don't do warranty work anymore. Went got a CDL. No more depressing heater cores and other 💩

[FixRestoreConvert]

Love this video a lot of people don’t understand what it takes to be a professional mechanic and how much skill it takes to do a job properly.

[Thefive]

When you consider the amount of work required on top of all the tools you need to purchase just to make 55-60k a year is why you have a shortage. I made 160k last year working 4 days a week in an office setting

[jameswilliamstrucking]

Let’s do the math on that let’s say u get $30 a hour flat rate and they payed you 5 hours for that job . For that whole job you get payed $150 lol. That’s my I got out of the industry you get robbed all day

[robinhood]

Customer be like.. but the noise wasn't there before.

[andym]

They pay horribly and wonder why things go wrong. Just like how Toyota never gives you warranty diag time but they want you to tear apart the whole car to check some stupid connector. The other day my co worker did the first differential service on a new Tacoma, idiots at the factory over tightened the fill plug and the threads came out with it. He had to helicoil it and he didn’t get a dime. Us techs are tired of getting punished for the factories mistakes!!!

[gidget]

That's absolutely nuts. It takes 2 hours just to replace a Cadillac headlight. I staying with older vehicles. Thanks for the info buddy.😊😊

[AndrewKidd]

Yeah 800$ I charged a lady and did it really well flush and all the components. 6 years later she still gets her car serviced and ac has been ice cold ever since. Never use stop leak

[whechi]

I miss being a mechanic sometimes but then I see a video like this

[jongonegone]

but going back to 2010 and as far back as the late 1980's evaporators and condensers never leaked for 20 years under the dash, very few dashes ever got pulled off, even heater cores lasted 20 years plus !!! today, everything is leaking at 12 to 24 months new from the dealer.

[justinh.]

Just did this on a 2024 sentra that hadn’t even made it to the first oil change. 4.5 warranty time. Took 7 hours to do it right, no leftover hardware, no rattles, no comeback. Leaving the dealer after 18 years for an independent shop that’s paying me more than $20/hr more. ✌🏻

[jessemedina]

THANK YOU. Master ASE and Toyota expert here.. just started my new career as a biomedical technician and strongly encourage all good techs to do the same. I will never heal from the years of pain and low wages.

[familypokemon]

You changed the out the old evaporator, Great job! 👍 💪

1 week later, the heater core takes a crap, and it's under warranty😂😂😂😂😂

[ofcitsredd]

I have a interview with a Toyota dealer tomorrow, and this is changing my mind😂

[Dark_Knight_USA]

Greetings: I have been there. 90s Ford junk. Said 2 pay about 8hrs. I did it in about 6hrs...over 2 days. I had 2 keep walking away. Never again! Thx 4 the share. 😊

[RichThiele]

I just retired at 59, from the best shop I ever worked at. Right there is one reason of many, aside from my body being shot from 40 years being an auto tech. They paid hourly and stressed quality over quantity, but still....When I had to pull the front doors, along with instrument panel and carrier, console, steering column, hvac plenum, etc...., to replace a heater core on a 2018(?) Ford Fusion, it was the last straw, so to speak. In other words, it made my mind up about retiring or not.