Cracked Cylinders

[sk47]

I’d like to see some evidence that ford has good paying tech jobs. One that anyone on this forum would consider a good deal.

Hello; A story I read recently said qualified techs could earn over $130 K. The spoiler being they do not get that salary right away. Apparently, they have to work some number of months as an apprentice at a lower pay.
Now for me a salary of over $130 K would be more than I ever made as a teacher. My top year in Ky was mid $30K. I did get just over $40 K in NC for two years after I retired from KY.

I guess much depends on what forum members consider a good deal. I worked on cars on the side in my younger days for low pay.

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[Mike Pfeifer]

Hello; A story I read recently said qualified techs could earn over $130 K. The spoiler being they do not get that salary right away. Apparently, they have to work some number of months as an apprentice at a lower pay.
Now for me a salary of over $130 K would be more than I ever made as a teacher. My top year in Ky was mid $30K. I did get just over $40 K in NC for two years after I retired from KY.

I guess much depends on what forum members consider a good deal. I worked on cars on the side in my younger days for low pay.

Yes, you could eventually earn over $130k, after years. Those guys that do make that much don’t care too much if they screw over a customer. I know the type all too well. That’s not the type you want working on your car. But the dealers love them. They make them alot of money. Anyway, those guys also have $30k+ in tools. And the dealer will take 10+ years to send you to all the training required to make it to that level. Maybe. Not months. Oh, and you’re gonna have to put in 12 hour days to get there. Maybe 6 days a week. Maybe if you find a union shop in a super busy area it will be easier.

I have been a tech for BMW a long time- i’m in my 27th year of it. I am the highest level achievable. I have been shop foreman and I have always worked in areas that have typically above average financial demographics. I have maxed out our pay scale. There’s a couple guys in my shop that might make $130k, but not me. Still a little ways away for me. I wouldn’t want those $130k guys working on my car.

Point is, those “high paying” tech jobs that they have trouble filling effectively don’t really exist.

 

[11GT50]

When are you expecting to have your replacement coil?

If the coil does not fix the issue then I'm going to go back to my comments in your other thread.

I've had the P0300 multiple misfire code and various individual cylinder misfire codes with it. It only showed up at higher RPM until the break in the connection was significant enough that it started showing up at lower RPM.

Attached is a picture of the fuel rail pressure sensor. It is located on the drivers side of the engine. Log and watch the fuel pressure in real time and manipulate the wires along that harness to see if you lose pressure. Check that harness carefully and check the harness going to each of the fuel injectors.

 

[sk47]

Yes, you could eventually earn over $130k, after years. Those guys that do make that much don’t care too much if they screw over a customer. I know the type all too well. That’s not the type you want working on your car. But the dealers love them. They make them alot of money. Anyway, those guys also have $30k+ in tools. And the dealer will take 10+ years to send you to all the training required to make it to that level. Maybe. Not months. Oh, and you’re gonna have to put in 12 hour days to get there. Maybe 6 days a week. Maybe if you find a union shop in a super busy area it will be easier.

I have been a tech for BMW a long time- i’m in my 27th year of it. I am the highest level achievable. I have been shop foreman and I have always worked in areas that have typically above average financial demographics. I have maxed out our pay scale. There’s a couple guys in my shop that might make $130k, but not me. Still a little ways away for me. I wouldn’t want those $130k guys working on my car.

Point is, those “high paying” tech jobs that they have trouble filling effectively don’t really exist.

Hello; Thanks for correcting me. I merely read an article. I knew of mechanics buying and owning their own tools. I also knew of mechanics being able to take training to become certified in various aspects of automotive repair.
From memory seems a problem cited in the article by young mechanics was the starting salary and the upfront cost of buying personal tools. I think it was six months at apprentice pay before starting on the higher tiers of pay. Sorry to have implied the $130 K + came right away.

But were i a young man who enjoyed working on cars as i did in my youth, I would take the deal. I wound up with long workdays for much less pay and no steps to a high pay. I got up before 5:00 AM to do a second job of driving a school bus. Then to my main job at the school. Then get home just before 5;00 PM. Then on to a third job nights & weekends installing carpet some years or other pick up work. Even to shade tree car repair.

"And the dealer will take 10+ years to send you to all the training required to make it to that level"

To maintain my teaching certification, I had to go back to college to get advanced degrees on my own dime. Usually during summers but also long drives to night classes. For only a modest pay bump at that.
The school systems eventually took away weeks of summer vacation for various reasons. Weeks I had counted on to find a summer job. One school system started classes on July 12 th or 13 th.
So yeah, I would take the deal.

 

[robvas]

$30k gets you a tool box, some sockets, and a set of screwdrivers from the tool truck

 

[Inthehighdesert]

I have one good friend that’s a master tech at one dealership and another at another. They’re both in the 150k range here. There apprentices are in the 70-75k range going in to year two. My granite installer was just asking me about this for his son. This is at Ford. Did have a mobile bcm update done and he was a volkswagon master tech that just moved over. He said he was about the same there but the management started screwing them on there rate/description so he left. He had been there a dozen years or so before the move.

I’ll add, I know where my one good friends numbers are because I’m helping him do a build for himself/family and I did his paperwork for the construction loan side, cost estimates and finished values.

I’d like to see some evidence that ford has good paying tech jobs. One that anyone on this forum would consider a good deal.

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