Start a mobile mechanic business
A van or truck kitted for the jobs on your service menu, a menu limited to what is safe and profitable in a customer's driveway, a diagnostic fee charged before any repair, parts sourcing with same-day delivery, and the first 100 jobs completed with a comeback rate under 5% — with the day-90 decision already written down on paper.
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Who it's for
Working and laid-off technicians with $5,000–$20,000 to invest who want the shop's labor rate for themselves instead of a share of it. It also fits experienced DIYers who already own a serious tool kit. It does not fit someone without repair experience — you must already be able to diagnose and finish every job on the menu without supervision.
About this playbook
This guide takes a working or laid-off technician with $5,000–$20,000 through the steps to a registered mobile-mechanic business that keeps the shop's labor rate instead of a flat-rate share of it. You start by proving people will pay — interviews, a diagnostic-fee test, and pre-sold jobs — before any real money is spent, and the exit ramps live in that first phase. Then you price one job end to end, run the four tables that show what you must sell to break even, and only after that make it legal and fund it. The middle of the guide names the registration, licensing, insurance, and financing rules the way your own state names them, then moves to the first ten customers, the channels for the first hundred, suppliers with a named alternative each, and the weekly rhythm. The guide ends past opening day, with the real numbers read against the plan and the decision you agreed in advance for day 90. It does not cover lift-only work such as transmissions, growing past an owner-operator into a crew, or marketing beyond your own city.
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Phase 1: Prove that people will pay
4 stepsPhase 2: The menu and the price
3 stepsPhase 3: Do the arithmetic
4 stepsPhase 4: Make it legal and fund it
5 stepsPhase 5: First customers and the daily rhythm
5 stepsPhase 6: The first 90 days
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What you need first
You can already diagnose and repair the jobs on the service menu — batteries, starters, alternators, belts, brakes, and sensors — without supervision. You have a valid driver's license and a record that can pass commercial-auto insurance underwriting, a place to park and load the van, and the $5,000–$20,000 in capital. You live in one US state, and the plan will tell you to look up that state's own rules rather than assuming a national one.
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