How to Perform a Digital Vehicle Inspection Efficiently

This level inspections: You better sell min $250 service or you’ve wasted your time (from purely business perspective).

Is their an online course to teach all of that info for all kind of cars ?

There is more worry with timingchains then timingbelts.

I use mirrors for lights

Man that southern car is so clean underneath.
And I say that still south of the Mason Dixon with admittedly one of my cars being from NM.

Aren't the hoist controls supposed to be on passenger side?

That a so good video. Wow

Thx

I am planning to buy a car in Toronto and wanted to see what they look into in a car safety check and come across this video, this gentleman is doing his job very well, I mean it is at a standard. If I could get his certificate on the car I am buying, will have no worries. I looked for in Toronto but couldn’t locate him in google map.

Most tires have built in depth indicators..

You should always start putting plugs back in by hand unless your that skilled

That's quality work!

You hit it outta the park with this process / tutorial ! Thanks mate !

Looking to make my own custom shop with basic service as well anything would be great for the information I need

This is definitely more of a full inspection or like a pre purchase inspection rather than a free courtesy inspection. Some of the stuff shown is a bit excessive and goes beyond the scope of what should be a quick free look over. For example actually taking a spark plug out. I would just go by mileage normally or by symptom. What if you damage or break something? Then your fixing something the customer didnt even ask you to touch. Also with the transmission and checking the fluid from a drain plug if they dont have a dip stick. That is also a bad idea in my opinion because if you're just cracking it open to get a fluid sample and then tightening it back, now that you broke the seal and aren't changing the crush washer it may leak. Another added liability. I'd just go by mileage or drivability issues. Taking the wheels off to check the brakes seems excessive too unless you're doing a tire rotation or the wheels dont allow you to see the pads through them and you suspect they might be low. Then there's removing pannels you wouldnt otherwise need to remove just to look for a potential leak or other issue that may not be there. I also think prying at bushings that visually show no sign of wear is excessive unless they're in for a suspension concern. Every thing you touch there's a chance you break or damage something and that's really bad when it's something that didn't need to be messed with for the repair or service that the car came in for. Not as big of a deal for you in Georgia though with little to no rust on the cars.
If you couple all this with taking a million pictures and writing notes then you have a very lengthy inspection that could have no pay off in the end or even end up costing you money. I'm guessing you guys have a decent labor charge given your quality of work and sometimes customers will just come to a place like yours for an oil change and the free inspection and then take that inspection and go to a cheaper shop and get your recommended work done there. I get if you have a lot of experience doing this and dont deal with rusty cars often you can get pretty quick at it but you really need to exert a lot of attention and energy to do an inspection this thoroughly in 20 minutes. In some cases you'd literally have to be working like a nascar pit crew to get that done. It takes time and energy away from work that is already sold and waiting to get done. This is especially an issue if your paid flatrate.
Now don't get me wrong I really respect how thorough you are and the pride you take in your work and I think this is a great video but I think for most techs and shops some of these extra steps should be saved for more thorough inspections the client actually pays to have done. Or at least until your at the experience level where you can do this level of inspection really fast without breaking anything or burning yourself out on unpaid work.
As a young tech who used to work strickly flatrate at a shop that was stingy with its labor estimates on jobs, and wanted a CVI done on every car despite the fact they couldnt sell work or get the right parts to save their life, this will kill your productivity and ability to make hours. It takes a certain kind of shop with the right clientele and a lot of years experience for this system to actually work in the shop's AND the technician's favor. Unless you're hourly then honestly it doesnt really matter from the tech's standpoint how long the inspection takes them.

First mistake... never touch the customers radio 😂. Only thing that I can say is when testing the coolant it may not be a good idea to check from reservoir. Only reason is if customer or some other shop has topped it off they may have not premixed it causing your readings to not be accurate. But it is hard on some cars when they come in and engine is hot and under pressure. Otherwise nice thorough inspection. Sometimes it is hard to do a complete full inspection though especially when its busy and customer is waiting. Also when the service writer comes out five minutes after you've pulled it in and asks if the inspection has been completed yet 😐. But I get that once you establish a routine that it usually goes quickly.. for most vehicles. Except for us northerners 😐. You southerners have it easy with your limited rust buckets 😂😂.
Just one question... does your shop make you price tickets up to some degree. I've always worked at a shop that I've written up tickets and hand it in and advisor writes it up and and questions they have gets discussed before it gets presented to customer. The new shop I'm at wants us to do inspection and price tickets out for the most part. I've have struggled with this step and while I agree to some degree that the tech should have some responsibility for his own ticket, I find it difficult to do sometimes especially when its busy and there are multiple vehicles to inspect or work on.
Anyways keep up the good work. You definitely would be a shop that I would take my vehicle to 👍

When doing an inspection do you check seatbelts

Wow really detailed, Thanks!

How Long it takes this free inspections ?

Nice we use Shop Ware as well. Our courtesy inspection is nowhere near as big. Im the youngest tech and the only one that writes detail inspections. I was surprised you guys do Fuel Injection service at 30k. I thought atleast 60k to do a FI Service again. What FI aervice are you guys using?

I could have 100 pictures and people at my shop just want the oil changed 😅

Is this completed free of charge to the customer?
If so is there a minimum charge for the customer to bring there vehicle is?
And is this same inspection completed for the smallest repairs such as a tire repair or oil change?

what was that Milwaukee tool used on the spark plug inspection? great video!!

What kind of fender covers are those?

I’m a auto technician and we do multi inspection but the customer always gets angry when we inspect their car smh

And what system for your dvi do use ?

how many pictures average on each dvi and time spent on each dvi ?

good video very through about the same length of what I do at my job. I have to disagree with the pulling of spark plug step you did. I feel it opens up too much of a liability especially on a hot engine you just got done taking on a test driving.

So I have only done paper write ups on the back of work order. How do you compensate a technician to be a little more in depth in their inspections by doing a DVI?

Never done a digital inspection. I just fix what’s on the ticket