airbagbob

Some say best way to build a 3 million dollar shop would be to spend 6 million and then sell it. But you don't have to spend a lot to make a multimillion dollar shop. Space is important. Quality equipment and tools. Cleanliness and above all quality workmanship. We have two shops one is 3400 sq ft and our newest is 5000 sq ft. We primarily work with body shops and a few dealerships providing airbag replacement including seat upholstery changeouts plus headliners and dashes. We also do wiring repair and harness replacement as needed. ADAS services including wheel alignment in both units plus typically 3 or more techs out on jobs at the body shops. We also have a bit of work with AC recovery and charges. Our business is primarily a labor operation that is set up to let the body shop make its money on the parts for the jobs. If we were selling those parts we would easily be over 4 mil gross as our current flow puts this year at 1.4million in labor sales (thanks to west coast labor rates and happy customers. The advantages for us is we do not deal with the individual owners of the cars and we don't have to bill the insurance companies or deal with the adjusters. I took me years to understand the value of the work we do and finally realized our rates were to low. Our pricing is set below what a dealer would charge and we have found that we can pay our techs well, pay our bills on time and eliminated having to pay for bank loans anymore.

Our investment with new scan too (bound to the adas tower) was close to 24,000 for the complete system. If you are only interested in windshield calibration you can buy less components or buy the new A600 tower and targets. 9k plus your Autel Scam tool with at minimum of ADAS update software at around 900