TheIronSausage
Two brain cells left.. rubbing together for warmth
I've absolutely been toying with the idea of having a garage and renting bays and tools. It makes sense.. Joe Blow has a 5 hour timing belt job on his Honda that some jackwagon on Youtube told him was easy in a heavily edited minute and thirty second long clip. Mr. Blow has a pretty sweet 5 piece set of twenty year old screwdrivers, and a half rusted set of off brand channel locks that immediately slip and smash his soft, stupid fingers every time he puts pressure on them. He's fed up with the parts hangers at Poop Boys that want $1000 every time he gets his neglected pile of crap towed in there. He's ready to take matters into his own hands.. He summons the courage to extricate his balls from his wife's purse long enough to go to the parts store and get half of the parts required, albeit for a completely different car. A bay is rented for.. $100 a day? After all, he only needs it for "five hours". There's an additional tool rental fee, and a "counseling", or expertise fee for the resident mechanic to come around and salvage Mr. Blow's pride, dignity, and valves from his inexperienced, but cocksure hands. Assuming $100 a day per lift, (operated by staff only), let's call "a day" ten hours. Another $50 a day for tool rental (plus deposit), and $30 a billable hour per job for the mechanic to unfuck the situation.. When Joe's "5 hour job" inevitably bleeds over a day or two, and he ruins his car because the jackwagon on Youtube forgot to mention replacing the torque to yield bolts, or that if he doesn't put the shoulder bolt back in the middle hole on his Alfa Spider's starter that he'll grenade his bellhousing, then there's a friendlier, and reduced "storage fee" of let's say... $20 a day? Sure, the insurance might be astronomical, but never underestimate the power of spurned determination and stupidity.
