15 facts/tips to be a retail installer.

[Famous_78]

1. If you cant drink on the job, laughter is the best medicine for keeping your sanity.

2. Hot glue and/or heat gun is your favorite secret weapon.

3. DO NOT get trashed and expect to be fine the next day during remote start season.

4. Remote starts are made just to make you pissed at yourself and/or the car.

5. If your going to lie to a customer make sure he is a complete dumbass and you can not get caught up in your own lie.

6. Keep solder away from all open wounds.

7. Do a check in and check out OF EVERY CAR. There are people in this world that want you to pay for something that is totally not your fault.

8. Anything that goes wrong with a car after you install sumthing is your fault no matter what ( if you install a deck and the tire comes off 2 weeks after you did it the customer still thinks its your fault)

9. When a day starts off bad in retail prepare to hit rock bottom real fast.

10. Do not laugh at customers when you talk to them you will get wrote up. (i laughed at a customer because he thought car audio amps were wireless.)

11. Do not change the channel on your display sirius radio to playboy, you and other installers are the only ones that think it is funny.

12. Being smacked with 4 gauge will drop you to your knees.

13. The worst prank to ever be pulled is to unplug the hood pin and let the other one work for a hour trying to figure out why it isnt starting.

14. It is impossible to make some customers happy.

15. Have plenty of tylenol, weapons, and spare parts in your tool box at all times.

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[Andrew12 10+ year member]

#12 pertains to everyone lol

 

[Famous_78]

Very much so i still have welts from 3 weeks ago.

 

[Andrew12 10+ year member]

lol, nice little list none the less

 

[ultimate157 5,000+ posts]

Haha... That made me laugh. Thanks //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[Dtrickz 10+ year member]

all is very true

 

[04_edge 10+ year member]

i guess this would be funny if i were an installer?

 

[WhoSayWho? 5,000+ posts]

i guess this would be funny if i were an installer?

Or retarded.

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[Lil Poot 5,000+ posts]

makes me glad i'm now an EX-installer. i didnt want any part of this december bs, the 5th was my last day. i'm now at spirit aerosystems making more than twice what i did as an installer //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/veryhappy.gif.fec4fed33b4a1279cf10bdd45a039dae.gif

i learned a lot though, so i got what i wanted out of the job.

 

[jco1385 5,000+ posts]

#13

 

[Famous_78]

#13

Hood pin is on a remote start, so if the hood is open the car wont start.

 

[its_bacon12 10+ year member]

hahaha

i installed at CC for a bit and 2 out of 4 of the guys were pretty good installers.. the others sucked at life. one of the good ones was so **** funny. i remember some mexican dude tried doing his own remote start and he came in and we had to fix it. mike, a good installer, was in the car and all you heard from him was swear words, occasionally screaming them - for like 3-4 hours. it made my life worth living

 

[ssj2xxgotenxx 10+ year member]

Remote starts are a btch to install.

 

[Worlddre 5,000+ posts]

1. If you cant drink on the job, laughter is the best medicine for keeping your sanity.
2. Hot glue and/or heat gun is your favorite secret weapon.

3. DO NOT get trashed and expect to be fine the next day during remote start season.

4. Remote starts are made just to make you pissed at yourself and/or the car.

5. If your going to lie to a customer make sure he is a complete dumbass and you can not get caught up in your own lie.

6. Keep solder away from all open wounds.

7. Do a check in and check out OF EVERY CAR. There are people in this world that want you to pay for something that is totally not your fault.

8. Anything that goes wrong with a car after you install sumthing is your fault no matter what ( if you install a deck and the tire comes off 2 weeks after you did it the customer still thinks its your fault)

9. When a day starts off bad in retail prepare to hit rock bottom real fast.

10. Do not laugh at customers when you talk to them you will get wrote up. (i laughed at a customer because he thought car audio amps were wireless.)

11. Do not change the channel on your display sirius radio to playboy, you and other installers are the only ones that think it is funny.

12. Being smacked with 4 gauge will drop you to your knees.

13. The worst prank to ever be pulled is to unplug the hood pin and let the other one work for a hour trying to figure out why it isnt starting.

14. It is impossible to make some customers happy.

15. Have plenty of tylenol, weapons, and spare parts in your tool box at all times.

Remote starts are a btch to install.

pussies