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Just hit 10,000 brake jobs in my career
I was cleaning out my old toolbox and found a notebook where I'd been making tally marks for every brake job since my apprenticeship. Counted them up and it came to 10,003. That's a lot of rotors and calipers. It hit me that I've probably spent over two full years of my life just doing brakes. The weird part is, I still get a customer at least once a month who insists their new pads are squealing because I did something wrong, not because they need to be bedded in. Anyone else have a number that made you stop and think about how much of this trade is pure repetition?
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evancarter6mo ago
Yeah @jenny42, I read somewhere that most techs do like 300 brake jobs a year, so your number tracks.
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wendyd266mo ago
My old shop in Dayton did about 350 a year, easy. EvanCarter is right on the money with that 300 number. We had one guy who basically lived in the brake bay, it was his whole thing.
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