100,000 mile OCI

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While I may agree with some of your points ^^^^^^

When I worked at Winn Dixie a grocery store 25 years ago.... We went through about 50 people in a year's time.... Only 3 people were worth anything and actually worked hard...

Many, many, many people don't want to work that hard....

What toadu stated is quite likely dead on accurate...
Oh absolutely, there are lazy kids, lazy employees, self entitled spoiled brats. Everywhere. Every generation and maybe today’s generation is worse, it probably is, but I’m talking about the automotive trade specifically. And you said that yourself “25 years ago” you ran into this problem, it doesn’t just exist today.

This is a very tough trade and employers just don’t pay. They won’t pay to retain talent, they won’t provide benefits fitting of most careers and then when they can’t keep their employees...they whine and blame everyone else. But themselves. I’ve seen this first hand. I’ve had many employers come to me asking why they just can’t find good techs, keep them in the trade and retain them. It’s real simple, they won’t pay THEM. In a trade that requires a ridiculous amount of training, tools and knowledge of mechanics, electricity, hydraulics, air conditioning, machining, welding...heck, just about everything under the sun. These guys don’t get payed like they should. And their benefits are ridiculous. So they leave. Plain and simple. And then the service manager at the dealership pretends to wonder why. It’s laughable. I have tremendous respect for technicians...dealer owners and service managers? Not so much. Sorry not really sorry.

There are literally thousands of different careers in the United States. In the top 300 lowest paying careers in the US the automotive trade has 5 placements in it...service technician mechanic/recondition tech/motorcycle technician/ boat mechanic/small engine repair. The only other trades that were even on that list were culinary, metal fabrication and machinist. A locksmith makes more in most states than a technician. That’s unacceptable to me (no offense to locksmiths). There was no electricians, plumbers, or carpenters on that list. There was no auto day guys either (because in some states insurance regulations don’t hurt their hourly wage). And I’ll tell what I’m financing...machinists are getting paid right now - they will probably move off that 300 list - a place like GE will train, retain and pay a machinist. They will give them a great benefit package and hourly wage, with yearly raises. The automotive trade needs to step up and put some of their profits to the people that actually fix these cars. IMO.
 
Whoever said auto mechanics have to buy 40k in tools to work...false.....no a single tech in my shop has even half that in tools. Everything expensive I own, keep locked up and check out as the need arises. All of the ratchets and air tools belong to the shop. usually the best mechanics have the least in tools I have found. Yes they all have their own boxes and yes they own their tools and keep them locked but you can be a very successful tech and not own 40k in tools. It varies shop to shop. In my shop everything considered A specialty tool is owned by me, locked and organized in a cage and checked out by the shop manager. Maybe I’m not so bad after all to work for? I don’t know.
 
Anyone think we can get to 100k OCI for new cars? Even medium duty trucks from Ford have 150k OCIs for the 10 speed transmission. (No combustion of course in a tranny). The trend has been longer OCIs. Mobil 1 AP...ect. Wonder if the technology is there for a “filled for life” just top off your oil for cars......
Not quite in a range of 100k miles, but our 2018 and 2019 Peugeot Boxer 2.0 HDI CR diesel are on 50k km intervals and our Peugeot Expert 1.5 HDI CR diesels are on 40k km OCIs , some hitting 200k without problems. Expert consume about 2L per interval on average, big Boxers 3L, on average.
 
Definition,,,,,,, Lifetime = The time in your life you own the vehicles. Once you sell it, it is born again for a new drivers lifetime.
 
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