E-mail
John Wessels
euromog@aol.com

HOURS
M-F 8am-5:00pm
by appointment only

925-373-3878

Celebrating Our Nineteenth Year in Business

Our Facility

We have a mobile service and repair facility. Our 40ft self-contained trailer has been personally designed by John Wessels, and custom built to his specifications. It contains a internal lift, and the ability to handle all repairs including fluid changes. The truck is a 2003 Mercedes Unimog. * We may not be able to provide service at all sites due to size limitations and terrain
 

Mobile Auto Repair. How does that work? - By John Wessels 

Many ask why I changed to a Mobile repair service from a fixed base of operations. The most simple is to adapt to how much the auto repair business has changed.  Over the past ten years and especially the last five the amount of service and repairs needed by today’s cars has been drastically reduced. Maintenance intervals are two to three times longer than they used to be. Current cars are also built much better. Major repairs with engines when properly maintained are rare now. Cars simply breakdown much less often now. Since major work is rarely needed it has become inefficient to be a full blown hospital of auto repair when all that is needed for 99.9% of the time is an out patient clinic. Most of the work now is diagnostics and regular service.

 So with less work coming into repair shops along with rapidly rising cost of doing business many shops have disappeared. The complex technology that has to be kept up was enough on it’s own to make it difficult to be profitable. Add to that the astronomical rise in real estate values and greedy landlord’s rents have become unsustainable for small repair shops.  The complexity and the hard work required of an employee for him to be profitable have made eligible candidates extremely rare. So even if you could get enough work in the shop to cover the escalating costs you can’t find a good technician to complete the work. There are no minimum standards or licensing requirements for an auto technician in the state of California. Anyone can be hired to do the work. Unfortunately many desperate repair shops do this at the expense of competent, quality work. 

As with all electronics auto test equipment has become much smaller and much more powerful. What used to be the size of two refrigerators now can be held in one hand. It is also portable and can be used while the car is driven. Powerful features can also record electronic wave forms during a test drive that can be analyzed later. For the difficult intermittent problems this technology has been a big help. Other technologies have also been developed that have made a very capable Mobile auto repair possible with out sacrifice. The German made Nusbaum lift that is installed in the trailer will lift a car over six feet in the air with all mechanicals still exposed for repairs. I use state of the art air tools that have quiet operation technology.  I have wireless internet so that I can order parts, find repair information and process credit cards easier than ever.  I have designed my service trailer and had it custom built to my specifications to make full use of all this new technology. It is the only one in the world like it. 

Being Mobile also enables me to acquire more new customers so I can stay more consistent with my work flow. Studies have shown that most people do not like to drive more than five miles for auto repairs. I can now go to smaller commuter towns that have no one available to service their German car. For many of these towns people have to drive 45 to 90 minutes to find competent repair service. Of course scheduling of work so that I spend time in certain areas at a time will be necessary to keep my travel time as little as possible. 

European Motorsport

3770 Owl Creek Road, 
Mariposa, CA 95338

9141 E. Stockton Blvd
Suite 250-210
Elk Grove, CA 95624

I promise to give you the personal service you deserve.

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