tdrisdale
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I bought a Snap On camera system once, it lasted about 7 years, it was a lot of trouble and many repairs, BUT mostly I could not give it away. I updated it and bought two cables to the tune of $250 each just so I could sell it. I took a loss when I sold it, I should have just given it away and not fixed it. The Hunter would have retained some real value and been worth some real money. That is something to think about.
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I know you do not want a helper but when I started out as a one man shop I quickly realized that a helper cost only about one flat rate hour per day but will help you yield more that triple that, even if all he does is run parts, clean the shop and hand you tools. Plus you always need someone to help lift, hold, watch, turn or do something that requires two people. Last, IdentiFix now has repair info, labor times and best of all the answer to a lot of common problems you may never fix without it.
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One thing I think needs to be mentioned is that Mitchell can be learned in a week, and I still have not learned all there is to learn in RO Writer. Mitchell also has good training videos. I use ROW because of the Smarte Cat feature, nobody else has that. But I also used to have Mitchell in a small Honda shop and it worked great because we set up all the canned jobs and with World Pac we did not need the Smarte Cat. I need to say that if you are not a real computer and program type of guy then Mitchell is your choice. Mitchell also has some nice features that ROW does not have. One I like is the search history feature, I can look back and find a job I did on a similar vehicle in a matter of seconds and give a very accurate quote. Also I can copy and paste the job onto the new RO, parts and everything. Also Mitchell lets you and keep multiple jobs in folders attached to each vehicle. Mitchell is easy and ROW is complicated.
