Auto business isnt economy based ? Spoken well by someone who doesnt know. Its completely economy based . I have my own shop , but thats not my job. All the years I did around 80k was from multiple big A/C jobs , multiple big preventive maintanance jobs , like flushes and timing belts. Multiple accesory and custom jobs . When the econmy is bad people dont jump to fix their A/C as long as the car runs ,and they dont care about maintanance at all unless they can afford it. If they cant ,they drive it untill it breaks.people let that oil change go to 10k instead of 3k. The auto business is completely driven by the economy. Mantanance pays way more than repairs and is far easier for the tech doing it. If all your doing are repairs you're not making as much money in the same amount of time