
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.
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Sep 3, 2026
Young Technicians Aren’t the Problem. Bad Mentorship Is. | Phil Ubinger & Hunter Jackson - Ep 39
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Tanika HaynesHOST
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.

Phil UbingerGUEST
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.

Phil UbingerGUEST
And if you're not going to use a torque stick, put it on the ground and use a torque wrench.
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