come to think of it our fucking van drivers are on 17k a year with there attendance bonus,,,, they work 1 sat a month and most of em are at fucking home by 4pm monday to friday ,,,,,, and they winge when they had to attend a meeting that started at 6pm ( when they are paied to finish)

 

im on £9 an hour for technician (glorified mechanic lol) mot tester and i fabricate custom stainless exhausts as well as doing all the welding plus bits of body repairs and spraying its shit really i only stay because i have my own workshop next door and my boss hates taking on what we call long stay jobs eg// clutches headgaskets etc... so gives them to me to do in my own time which allows me to earn an extra £500-700 a week (more than i earn in my job lol) this is the only reason i stay as without those kickbacks i would not be able to live as i do and would have to try and find a better payed job which at the moment is very difficult

 

would love to get paid that for driving my van

who ya work for?

john

 

I would have thought possibly small local independent dealerships and garages would be suffering now as people are giving up cars more because of the fuel costs and probably can't afford to keep them running as much and increasing overheads from inflation. But I am surprised a main dealerships isn't paying a semi respectable wage.

 

Hgv tech with main dealer,not the worst paid.just shy of £10 an hour day shift.£13 back shift,but £20 a/h on a saturday and when on call

cheeRS stu

 

A courier company, well for the next few weeks then i will be leaving and starting my own company with a few others

 

fuk that i fix motorhomes and caravans and im on 11 quid an hour

 

get out of mecanics and go in to bodyshop. Im a body fitter which is just like a mecanic but in a bodyshop,removing engine's,trim. Replacing bent suspention and racks ect. Im on £13 hour plus £13 bonus and we complain as some companys in the area are paying £14 to £16 per hour but to get these rates u do realy need a ATA test but most company's will put you on this as they need to comply with PAS125 to get work of some insurers. See people may not be paying out to get there car serviced but there's always fools that crash.

 

where are you based? been driving doing multiedrop delivery from wick to the bourders and everywhere inbetween on the east side of scotland for nearly 2 years lol

and all for £6.05 ph

wish this damed economy/recession wud hurry up and pass

john

 

£8 at vx dealer ship, goes up to £9 with mot and to £9.50 for being a master/gold tech. thats my wages at the mo.

 

Essex mate

 

We are on just over £14ph Hgv mechanic (Own fleet not main agent)

 

It's £10-13ph up here - a couple of the better dealers are paying £17-18ph for Testers to do permanent backshift plus bonus.

I guess it's a bit different up here as the motor industry has to compete with the Oil industry. A lot of my pals are in both industries and they've not been short of work.

It's a fair trek from Durham tho.........

 

bit far to go then lol

cherrs mate

john

 

Peugeot tech in sheffield £8.25 p/h

 

i work in a bodyshop too as an estimator! where you work? all our branches are pas125 approved too!

 

check post dates before quoting

i posted that the motortrade was fucked as it was back then.....in MARCH 2009!

 

solus park royal

 

Hope there not as bad as the one in basingstoke

 

i used to work at volkswagon at stoke and was on 6.50 an hour left there and became a diesel fitter with half the stress for £12ph, car business is just dud nowadays

 

im at veetec just over the other side of the a40 from you lol

 

na its the HQ. Why did u or do u work there?

 

do you go to the ACE cafe on OSF night?

 

Na i work oppersite at daf but about 8 years ago i worked at autoglass and they had such a bad rep lol changed name so many times now was a jag place then norwich union now solus i went in there to do are fleet mechanics land rover discovery we did are pre check and were marks all over it where it had just been painted and it was around the windscreen appeture area tryed to get them to sign it and they tryed saying it was us lol had a massive argument with the tall twat with the slick hair whos still there and he banned us from the workshop lol so the guy who owns it went down there and found so many bits on it he got it re painted before he even got it back he also found one of the bull bar bolts had been snapped off and a large zip tie round it buy that bolt hole lol. My bro still works for autoglass and he says it still makes him laugth when there not aloud in there so autoglass just ring the insurance company and then later on that day they have made room for them to come in lol

 

havent been ace's for awhile now! whens next nite?

 

i was on 4.60ph at FORD when i started in mechanic then i moved to another garage to get more varitey on other makes i was on 4.85ph now i am a driver/PDI MAN for manpower at the GBA KIA MOTORS site working on KIA'S and get 5.80ph but soon hopefully i will be on 6.50ph

 

It still is anyway mate. Fair enough a few places may be picking up but a lot of the independants are still struggling

 

hey 2 of my biggest customers

 

im from birmingham i work for stratstones jaguar as a technician and get 14500 pa .plus 150 bonus if we hit target very shit money when they charge 120 pound an hour

 

lol where do ya work?

 

poor indeed, i worked at a ford main dealer for a while but i started without asking on money, when i found out what it was i took every opportunity to make on the side (taking bits off scrappers/ uninsured when scrappped etc etc) til i left after a few mths to my job now (aerial man)

my mates an mot man of £7.50
shocking!

 

think its first tues of the month i stayed late at work last month and went straight there. was a good night was ramed few nobs in non fords flying past trying to show off which pissed off a few people,as its a ford night and nobody cares about some plank in his mums astra driving like a prick far to close to my cossie.

 

i live in dorset as an mot tester/mechanic and after tax i take home £286 per week. though i have some private work but so tired after doing that in the evenings i struggle to do my day job. the main dealers round here tend to pay less than the independants. there is no work going down here though so i am lucky to have a job where so many of my mates have been made redundant

 

I fit tyres and exhaust and get paid £19000 a year.dont know what im on an hour tho lol

 

shit thats about 9 pound odd an hour if you work 40 hours per week

 

didnt realise it was that much,depends on my bonus tho as iv just had a pay rise,£19500 but if i work mega hard each month can earn up 2 £20000 or more.i get 40p for every tyre or exhaust part i fit,and £4 for a tracking.

 

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What make trucks do they have in New Zealand

 

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I hate working on sweaty wagons lol.