Re:Launch HN: Fiix (YC W17) – Same-Day Auto Repair at Your Home
by overcast on Thursday March 09, 2017 @03:04PM
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Let's get serious for a moment here. Beyond relatively simple home garage fixes, how do you plan on addressing larger issues that a mobile service could never handle. Something that requires a lift for example? Exhausts, transmission, basically anything under the body. Are teams available? How did you handle mounting / balancing with TireSwap?
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Re:Launch HN: Fiix (YC W17) – Same-Day Auto Repair at Your Home
by khallil on Thursday March 09, 2017 @03:15PM
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If the car needs a tow, we'll get it taken to one of our partner shops. So far, we've repaired a few thousand cars and less than 1% have needed a tow. We only contract licensed mechanics with many years of experience, so they can do pretty complex work by jacking up your car on your driveway.
When we were running TireSwap we did on rim tire changes and rotations only (summer to winters and vice versa), so no mounting / balancing was needed.
Re:Launch HN: Fiix (YC W17) – Same-Day Auto Repair at Your Home
by Danihan on Thursday March 09, 2017 @03:13PM
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The mechanic shows up in a tow truck.
Re:Launch HN: Fiix (YC W17) – Same-Day Auto Repair at Your Home
by khallil on Thursday March 09, 2017 @03:19PM
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None of our technicians drive tow trucks. You can see some of them, and their reviews here: https://www.fiix.io/mechanics
Re:Launch HN: Fiix (YC W17) – Same-Day Auto Repair at Your Home
by pbhjpbhj on Thursday March 09, 2017 @04:51PM
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Does anyone make a mobile car lift, like a truck with an embedded hydraulic lift. Seems doable, just not sure if it would be worth selling because you can tow to a lift and that lift would be [much] cheaper?
Re:Launch HN: Fiix (YC W17) – Same-Day Auto Repair at Your Home
by cellularmitosis on Thursday March 09, 2017 @10:36PM
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Perhaps something like a PODs truck? http://www.merchantcircle.com/pods-peoria-moving-and-storage...