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Phil Ubinger

Phil Ubinger

Automotive industry guest on the Downshift With Tonnika podcast (Ep 39 with Hunter Jackson), discussing mentorship and the technician shortage in auto repair.

Sep 3, 2026

37:11
What lessons are you really trying to pass on at this point? Are you teaching somebody to repair the car? Are you helping to build a professional? Because it sounds like you're helping to build a whole person.
37:23
So when I was hired in 2005, I was hired by Kelsey's father.
37:29
And Kelsey's father had...
37:31
many years of of being a manager and an owner and he had and still does a kind of a kind of a strict set of rules that we were expected to follow and these strict set of rules are just simple basic stuff like it's simple basic stuff like the first thing that comes to mind is You put wheels on and you use a torque stick to torque the wheels.
37:58
And if you're not going to use a torque stick, put it on the ground and use a torque wrench.
38:02
You know, it's like it's that's a very simple thing.
38:05
And he was so strict on that.

20 MINS LATER

58:36
Yeah.

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