Shop progress!

[CJ]

name is super stupid gay.

[Darren M]

Also the shops name has changed. Its gonna be called "Laser-Fire Automotive & Performance"

Obviously, it's your shop, name it as you see fit. However, if I were to need a shop, and I had to choose between 2, I would probably go to "[Insert your lastname here] Automotive & Performance" before I'd go to "Laser-Fire Automotive & Performance".
Just my 2¢. Good luck on the shop! (I have family in Lorena, if they need your service, I'll send em your way.)

[Binky]

"Pew Pew Automotive" sounds...uhm...uhmm.

[dville_gt]

Obviously, it's your shop, name it as you see fit. However, if I were to need a shop, and I had to choose between 2, I would probably go to "[Insert your lastname here] Automotive & Performance" before I'd go to "Laser-Fire Automotive & Performance".
Just my 2¢. Good luck on the shop! (I have family in Lorena, if they need your service, I'll send em your way.)

x2, if you are really trying to pick up the general maintenance crowd don't go crazy on the name, maybe even consider dropping performance from the name and go with something like, blank auto car, or blank complete auto care. then run the performance side under a different name, maybe like a acronym from the name, for example, davidson's auto care center, then the performance side would be DAC Performance.

Just my 2 cents.

[Silverback]

I'd go with Triple Ninja Outlaw Laser Pew Pew Pro-formance

[CJ]

laserbeam facebook kindle fire.

[YALE]

I'd go with Triple Ninja Outlaw Laser Pew Pew Pro-formance & Rib Shack

It still needs something...

[Silverback]

It still needs something...

[GrayStangGT]

Tits of GTFO Automotive and Performance

Seriously though I would go with LF Automotive or something along those lines before I went with Laser-Fire.

[onemeangixxer7502]

Tits of GTFO Automotive and Performance

Seriously though I would go with LF Automotive or something along those lines before I went with Laser-Fire.

Yah ditch performance and laser fire or you might as well call it " closed in 6 months performance"

[2165 Turbo Rail]

x2, if you are really trying to pick up the general maintenance crowd don't go crazy on the name, maybe even consider dropping performance from the name and go with something like, blank auto car, or blank complete auto care. then run the performance side under a different name, maybe like a acronym from the name, for example, davidson's auto care center, then the performance side would be DAC Performance.

Just my 2 cents.

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[grove rat]

i agree with the others, if you wanna be taken seriously change that name

[dblack1]

Paint will be off that gavalume trim within three years.

The wall might last a little longer. Most gavalume is acrylic coated and doesn't hold regular paint very well.


I also wouldn't use a shop called laser performance.

Go with ______________ complete car care or automative repair. Or simply __________ automotive. The most profitable local shops in my area are the owners last name and the word garage or the word automotive. Simple name, good location, and the key, prompt turn around.

I worked for three different independent garages while in college, and I spent a summer in high school in a body shop. I worked for one that would have made a ton of money, but the owner was a dumb ass financially and over promised/under delivered 99% of the time. I worked for one that was well run, and the owner was on his game. His only downfall, which is part of any business, was operating capital for slow times.

There is way more to the business than working on cars. You will find turning the wrenches is the easy part, turning a realized profit that rewards you away from work is a different story.

[redrocket5.0]

Straight Up performance, Outlaw Automotive, we have a few shops with names like that here. They do ok. But insert first name, or last. ______ automotive. Build your name.

[LaserSVT]

Well hell, thanks for the name input folks. Everyone thats been to the shop and people on Stangnet and LVC like the name but y'all are Texans and would have a better feel for what may or may not work name wise.

As far as the walls go they are staying that way for a while. I want to keep enough money in the bank to help us stay afloat as we get started just in case things are slow. Re-insulating the walls and covering them is too expensive for now plus there are a few leaks so the drywall would get shot right away. I am leasing the shop at an excellent rate because the owner knew it needed work. If business is good our first year then I will shut down for a few days and have the leaks fixed and do the inner walls as well as rewire the whole place.
If things go south then I can recoup a good amount of my investment as it stands now. I am trying to be as careful as possible doing this. It may fail or it may win but I had to try it. If it fails then I know I at least gave it a shot and gave it all I got. If it succeeds then I can get back to enjoying life and loved ones. Been a tough couple years and I really needed this.

And the work continues. Got a shop computer and fax/scanner/copier/printer today and some other crap. We got the other half of the floor epoxied and started setting up the office. After that we got the lift cables ran and hoses hooked up..... well one anyway as the other one is missing a fitting which I will get tomorrow. Got the parts store account started and bought a bucket of Dextron II for the lifts. Glad to say the lift works well. Forgot to take pics of the back half of the floor after it was coated but it turned out well.

Took a couple wide angle pics with my buddies GoPro camera, I want one of those. Excellent wide angle on them. Before calling it a night we decided to give the lift a try.















Also have already worked on two cars at the shop while doing the shop prep. LOLZ