Start a mobile mechanic business

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Map the market around you
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This step produces your competitor table: at least ten repair shops, dealership service departments, and mobile mechanics inside your driving radius, each with the labor rate and diagnostic fee it actually charges. The tricky part is that almost no one publishes those numbers — a shop’s website shows a phone number, not a price sheet — so the table gets built one phone call at a time.
Read the table for coverage, not for price alone. Which jobs does no one advertise doing at the customer’s location? Which hours is every shop closed — evenings, weekends? Which part of the radius has no shop at all? That gap column is the seed of your service menu: it stays on top of the table and travels into every later decision about what you will carry and what you will refuse.
- Draw a 30–45 minute drive radius from where the van will be parked, on Google Maps.
- List every repair shop, dealership service department, and mobile mechanic inside it — aim for ten or more.
- Call each one and ask the service writer for the labor rate and the diagnostic fee; note who answered and when.
- Record name, address, phone, hours, labor rate, diagnostic fee, and whether they do mobile work.
- Mark the gap column: jobs, hours, and neighborhoods in the radius that nobody covers.

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