Mike Melton trains tire technicians on three essentials: test vehicle sensors first to protect the shop, organize your bays and workflow to move cars through faster, and invest in premium equipment like $35,000 Road Force balancers. Always verify tire specs before installation.
What he's going to do, he's going to be testing the sensors before we touch the vehicle. Because you want to test them before you touch them, because once you touch them and say the light doesn't work right, then customer's going to say it's you, you did it. Okay, so make sure you're touching this stuff, make sure you're testing it before you touch it. It is very, very important. It's called CYA, cover your ass. All right, so as soon as we raise the vehicle like this one here, it's got the front raised, we don't have the rear raised yet. But once we do, we hit that timer, we time our bays. So this is how we do it. We got a truck or vehicle in each bay then, right? Say we fill them up, then we start lining them up outside ready to go for the next time. So one thing with our company, we use the absolute best equipment. You can't cheap out on equipment. A lot of companies do. Road Force balancer, we have 4 of these things. These things are about $35,000 apiece. There's a lot of people out here just say you can't afford them. Listen, how can you not afford them? I would get them in there, we get them pulled. What they do, they got to double-check and make sure we got the right tires, right load range, right brand, right size, and everything that goes for that vehicle. You never want to put the wrong tires or right or wrong load range on a truck.
