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Wrenching Women Wednesday with Katie French, featuring Jaime Spedden

RepairPal

I started working on cars because of the first “The Fast and the Furious” movie. I was a senior in high school when it came out and I drove a sporty compact car. The movie got me into modifications, which got me thinking about making money working on cars (for a living). Go start off as a lube tech somewhere.

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What ‘Family-Owned and Operated’ Really Entails

Brake & Front End

This relative got to work and rose in responsibility, moving from lube tech to service advisor and eventually to assistant manager. Morale began to suffer and car count fell, though the average RO dollars went up to cover some of the lost revenue from car count. However, things weren’t as rosy as they appeared.

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