Anyone in the Collision Repair field?, starting my job in a week... advice? Options

[Badkarma]

i graduated from UTI Houston for collision repair. i also attended and graduated from the Mercedes-Benz ELITE training school. i wast recently hired at a shop in oklahoma that my friend works at. he also graduated from UTI. im really hoping to make something of this opportunity, and i wanted to get some advice from some new tech's in the field, and some experienced collision repair technicians. what are some things i should look out for?


Any advice or suggestion would be greatly appreciated..

Thanks, Erich




This post has been edited by Badkarma: Feb 21, 2009 - 4:46 PM

[blu94gt]

I "apprenticed" a bit with collision repair at the dealer I worked at when we were low on mechanical work. I would say my BIGGEST piece of advice is 99% of the time the job is not going to look perfect, so you totally can't be a perfectionist. While aiming for perfection is good, there will always be 1 little thing that your trained eye will find. Most customers just want it to be shiny and no longer damaged.

The advantage to my shop was we were just re-conditioning trade-ins so we didn't have to do any major work, and the managers kept lowering the standards to save money lol.