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Today we will consider a new business idea with a quick payback and minimal investment - this is an on-site car diagnostics.

Onsite car diagnostics — perfect solution for those who decide to open their own business with a little starting capital, and it is this new idea for business that will be discussed in our article.

It is no secret that the auto business is a profitable niche with a quick payback and it is quite easy to enter it. The number of vehicles in the country is steadily growing, and the demand for specialized services is also steadily growing.

Cars are becoming more complex, requiring specialized equipment to diagnose and repair them. Particularly in demand in the market for services computer diagnostics cars and they are provided by almost every car service.

However, not always the car owner can get to the car repair shop on his own, a breakdown can happen on the way and in order to understand what the problem is, on-site car diagnostics may be required.

In addition, diagnostic services are in great demand before buying a used car, because it is always easier to pay a small amount to a specialist to protect yourself from unpleasant “surprises”.

Obviously, the demand for the service is growing, so let's figure out how to organize an on-site diagnostics business right now!

1. How does the field diagnostic business work?

The essence of business – provide a range of car diagnostic services on the road, upon the call of the client.

Such services are in demand in the following cases:

• In case of breakdown of electronic systems vehicle when it is necessary to identify the cause of the malfunction (autoscanner services);
• before buying a used car, for complex diagnostics technical condition(services of thickness gauge, autoscanner);
• after the repair work or loss of keys for "registration" and connection again installed systems(autoscanner services);
• when resetting service intervals.

Despite the fact that I myself am very well versed in cars (on the first specialty of a mechanical engineer), recently I had to use similar services. After I replaced on my car old battery to a new one, there was a failure in the system and the car radio stopped working. I had to call a specialist, so I met a field diagnostician named Mikhail, after a conversation with whom it was decided to write this post.

Mikhail is exclusively engaged in diagnosing car electronic systems using an autoscanner. Now he has a pretty cool scanner in operation. LAUNCH 431 PRO With Bluetooth adapter DBScarII, which allows remote diagnostics up to 10 meters from the car. In terms of its capabilities, it is comparable to dealerships, and, accordingly, it costs in the area 80000 rubles.

It looks like this:

However, until recently, Mikhail used a simple Chinese mini-scanner ELM327.

This small adapter plugs into OBD2- connector and via Bluetooth communicates with any computer, tablet or smartphone (android) that has the appropriate software for diagnostics.

With it, you can:

• Read and erase error codes;
• measure fuel consumption;
• Real-time check: vehicle speed, oil pressure, coolant temperature, engine load, pressure intake manifold, position throttle valve, oxygen sensor values, air intake, temperature, etc.;
• upload data to external media in various formats for subsequent printing;
• record various parameters, display graphs in real time, and much more.

As you can see, not bad for a scanner costing less than one thousand rubles!

Mikhail himself says that he started working as a diagnostician by accident. A year ago, he worked as a driver, and bought a scanner for his car, because it is expensive to constantly make diagnostics in a car service, and here everything 500 rubles and use as much as you want.

The first diagnostics immediately revealed the cause of the lit "check", as it turned out, the cause of all the troubles was a faulty oxygen sensor. The next object was a service Ford, then a garage neighbor asked for 200 rubles scan Renault. This prompted the idea that car diagnostics can generate income.

Mikhail posted an advertisement for the provision of diagnostic services on Avito.

During the first month, we managed to earn about 25000 rubles, then more. Now he quit his main job and is exclusively engaged in auto diagnostics, earning more 70000 rubles per month.

2. Business plan for on-site car diagnostics

A special business plan is not required here, and the whole business process is arranged as follows:

1. Buying an autoscanner.
2. Placing an ad on Avito with the following content:
   “Exit car diagnostics for only 350 rubles. You do not need to come anywhere, we will carry out diagnostics right near your home.
3. Acceptance of applications: where and when to arrive.
4. Direct vehicle diagnostics. The process itself is very simple and takes 10-15 minutes. We connect the scanner to the OBD2 connector (usually it is located in the glove compartment of the car or below the steering wheel). We go through the program pre-installed on the tablet or smartphone and the application will automatically contact the scanner. It remains to choose a brand, scan (literally in two clicks) and tell the customer about the identified malfunctions.
5. Receiving money from the customer for diagnostics, and if possible, for a fee, you can eliminate the identified malfunction, pay off the "check".
6. Departure for the next order. In a day, you can easily earn 1500-2000 rubles.

As you can see, everything is very simple and clear, anyone can do this job.

Any activity related to cars is considered to be in demand and effective, as well as profitable. It also includes field auto-diagnostics, carried out directly on the road. This service is in demand, because often people in the process of moving on the roads by car have vehicle breakdowns that require urgent repairs. To do this, it is important to understand what the problem is, for which diagnostics carried out by specialized equipment are used.

Brief business analysis:
Business setup costs: 112 thousand rubles
Relevant for cities with a population:from 10 thousand people
Situation in the industry:average level of competition
The complexity of organizing a business: 2/5
Payback: 2-4 months

A business based on the provision of auto-diagnostics services does not require a room at all, since it is enough just to have a small garage where equipment for work is stored. However, it is still desirable to rent a small office. An important point creating publicity for business is considered, because otherwise people simply will not know where to turn.

One of the primary and most important tasks is to draw up a competent business plan for the future business, which should display all the steps to implement the business idea.

What is an on-site diagnostic

Almost every vehicle owner has encountered a situation when, during a trip by car, dashboard a red icon appeared, signaling an error in the car. In this case, it is necessary to urgently contact a car service, but the car is not always safe to drive.

An error may occur in which the car cannot move further, so the solution to the problem can be solved in two ways:

• calling a tow truck, accompanied by the transportation of a car to a service or parking lot, and for this service you have to pay substantial money;
• contacting a company that provides a service for on-site diagnostics of a car, which will allow you to determine the cause of the problem in the vehicle on the spot with minimal waste of money and time.

Important! To open this case, you will need specialized equipment that has long term operation and ease of use, so if you understand the rules for working with it, then quality services are provided.

Often a business idea field diagnostics combined with a stationary diagnostic center. In this case, the opening of such an institution will require quite significant financial investments, often exceeding even 500 thousand rubles.

List of possible services

High-quality diagnostic equipment allows the business owner to provide several services to potential customers at once:

• body check, which usually takes a lot of time, and this service is the most expensive;
• checking the interior of the vehicle;
• diagnostics of its engine;
• studying electronic system what a specialized scanner is used for;
• brake system diagnostics;
• study of the chassis of the car with the help of an external examination;
• testing the car on the road.

Important! To provide these services, it is necessary that the state has a qualified and experienced specialist who knows how to work with equipment, as well as is well versed in the device and features of repairing cars of different brands.

Necessary equipment

To work in this field of activity, it is necessary to acquire high-quality and reliable equipment. It is considered quite simple and inexpensive, but it is important to carefully study all the rules for working with it. For on-site diagnostics of a car, you need:

• a mobile scanner, which is a universal equipment, and its price varies from 50 to 90 thousand rubles;
• thickness gauge to determine the thickness paintwork on any part of the car, and its cost starts from 10 thousand rubles;
• a laptop in which a specialized program must be installed that decrypts various fault codes on different brands Vehicle;
• adapter for connecting the car to the computer.

Important! A diagnostic program must be purchased in order to enjoy all its benefits, and regular updates are also required, and usually you have to spend up to 5 thousand rubles a month on this.

How is the order

The work of this organization is carried out in a certain sequence of actions:

Stage 1

Initially, you need to advertise the organization different ways so that as many potential customers as possible know about it. It is important to focus on the professionalism of the employees of the organization, as well as on high quality used equipment for work.

Stage 2

Customers call the phone number indicated in the advertisements to order services. The manager who is always in the office accepts applications. It is important during a telephone conversation to find out what the model and brand of the car is, as well as where it is located. This information will allow you to determine in advance where the connector is located in the vehicle, thanks to which it can be connected to a computer for diagnostics.

Stage 3

An employee of the organization goes to the specified address, where the diagnostic service is provided. To do this, a special chip is connected to the car connector. You need to go into the program installed on your computer to carry out the procedure. At the end of it, information will be displayed on the computer screen about the reason for the error, as well as what needs to be done to repair the vehicle.

Stage 4

The customer receives from the employee of the company information about the existing malfunctions in the car, after which he pays for the call of a specialist. Usually, the entire diagnostic process does not take more than 3 minutes, after which the company employee can go to the next call.

Working according to this scheme, the organization can receive daily revenue in the amount of 3 thousand rubles. from each employee.

Advertising and customer search

An important point effective work is a high-quality business promotion, and various methods can be used for this:

Promotion method	Its features
word of mouth	Most effective method however, it is in no way dependent on the actions of the company. If really high-quality, effective and inexpensive services are provided, then customers will recommend the company to their friends and acquaintances, which significantly increases the number of potential customers.
Social media	If you correctly use the opportunities of social networks, then a huge number of customers can be attracted. You can do promotion yourself or with the help of a hired specialist.
Creating your site	Modern people prefer to find the services and goods they need using the Internet, so having your own electronic resource that contains information about the company and its services can attract many customers.
Placement of ads in different media	The traditional way to promote effective business development.

Thus, for the development of the company it is allowed to use several methods of promotion at once.

Financial expenses

112 thousand rubles are required to open a business:

• purchase of equipment - 70,000;
• advertising expenses - 40,000;
• business registration - 2,000.

To this we must add the cost of writing a business plan for on-site auto diagnostics, which will become the “cornerstone” of the entire business. At this link - you can find a business plan for organizing a full-fledged car service, and

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If you wish, you can find such examples of business that could not be realized only because they were simply ahead of their time, or rather, their time has not yet come. Further, as one of the business ideas, we will talk about computer diagnostics of a car.

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Recorded? And now honestly (after all, you answer to yourself) mark with plus signs those points that you can implement today. And tomorrow - remaining in the position in which you are now, without own business. Let small, but own.

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Maybe - you are hoping that an employer will suddenly appreciate you? Will he understand that he definitely cannot do without your services and increase your salary many times over? Or make it a business partner? And what - for such hopes there are some prerequisites?

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There is a great opportunity to try yourself in a new business, to try to implement a small business idea that does not require extra effort and high costs. Trying is definitely not torture.

When a person has a computer, he does not immediately begin to perceive it as a new tool for making money. But the stage when the computer is just a toy and a means of obtaining information - this stage passes quickly enough. Unless, of course, you are not 13 years old, you are an adult and are concerned about finding additional income.

You have probably heard about computer diagnostics of a car. This is a good and promising business, a car service is one of the constantly demanded services. So why don't you start providing this service? Difficult, expensive and difficult? Nothing like this.

Car service computer programs that you can buy and download on our website will open the way for you to this business. You can enter the business of car service and computer diagnostics of cars quite quickly and - which is important at the first stage - without any special costs.

You can use a computer in a car service in several main areas - in computer diagnostics injection engines and all other nodes associated with the computer, which are in domestic and foreign cars. In the field of providing services for the correction of mileage for electronic speedometers(odometers). And you can also provide services for working with immobilizers (here you will find a huge number of firmware for immobilizers of various models).

It is not an obstacle even that you may have never been involved in car maintenance before, and you know the car itself only as a passenger. You just need a companion. Ideally, if he is an auto mechanic.

Such a person already has a circle of his regular customers, but he is unlikely to provide them with car diagnostic services - most auto mechanics are poorly versed in computers.

The mutual benefit from such a partnership is obvious - together you can provide a wider range of car service services. You diagnose, he repairs. His clients can become yours, your clients may well want to receive not only car diagnostics, but also repairs.

For example, that's how I started. I found a mechanic in my city who has a garage and an established client base, agreed with him and started working. I agreed that I would give him 30% of my profits for a place to work. At first, I only worked on weekends, worked from morning to evening in order to develop my client base. Over the weekend it turned out to earn approx. 10000 rub. of which 3000 gave the owner as agreed. After 2 months, I decided to defuse the schedule a little, i.e. distributed working hours for the whole week on average 2-3 hours a day. I agreed with my partner and he informed the clients that they should come for diagnostics in the evening when I went to work. For a week it was possible to earn 10-12 thousand rubles. clean So we worked for about a year. I have accumulated a sufficient amount of money, I bought my garage and now I am doing this business on my own.

Everyone knows that most of the imported and domestic cars- injection, the operation of the engine is controlled in them electronic blocks control (ECU). However, the maintenance and diagnostics of such engines is a service sector where demand still significantly exceeds supply, especially in the regions. Of course, branded and expensive car service centers use modern expensive scan testers. But not everyone knows that an ordinary computer with special program. The price of a program for computer diagnostics is immeasurably lower than the cost of a scan tester.

What do you need to provide such a service - and what is the "question price"? Let's count:

1. You will need a laptop - far from the newest and most advanced. The main thing is that it has a COM port (“daddy” 9 pins (2 rows, 1-5 and 6-9)), operating system Windows 98 on a computer. All this will cost you within 10 - 15 thousand rubles.

2. A special adapter "K-L-Line" for most foreign cars or "K-Line" for domestic cars - they will be required to connect the car to the computer. In finished form, they cost between 2000-3000 rubles. But, if you own a soldering iron, then you can easily assemble the adapter you need yourself. The cost of components in the range of 300-400 rubles. Wiring diagrams of adapters for each program are included in the package.

3. Special computer programs for diagnostics, work with immobilizers and odometers. Depending on which car models you will work with, you will need different programs. You can find their names and descriptions on our website. The first step will require approx. 5000 rub.

4. Place for diagnostics (garage). The cost of a place to work can vary. It all depends on your wishes and possibilities. If you are going to work according to the principle that we talked about a little earlier, i.e. together with a mechanic in his car service, then the cost per place will be minimal. You can either pay him a certain amount monthly, or give% of your earnings.

5. Funds for a small initial advertisement. You can meet 5-7 thousand rubles.

That's basically it.

Counting to the maximum, you will completely meet 1 thousand euros.

And now calculate how long it will take you to return the invested amount, if simple diagnosis a car without any repairs costs at least 200-300 rubles (depending on the region).

Mileage correction will cost the car owner 500 rubles. Now let's talk briefly about this specific service. Will we discuss the ethical side of the issue? As soon as odometers appeared, so did those who changed the readings of these devices - so what is there to argue about? In other words, everyone does it. And the one who orders this service is responsible, and not the one who provides it.

As you already understood, computer programs for changing odometer readings can also be purchased on our website. Adapters for working with odometers are not complicated in the device. Electric circuits are also provided complete with programs.

The cost of a set of equipment (assuming that you already have a laptop and a place for diagnostics) for the provision of computer diagnostic services in a car service center will pay off for you literally after servicing the first twenty customers. And then there's the net profit.

And mind you, no one says you have to work around the clock. Such a business as computer diagnostics in a car service can be done on weekends or after the main work - for an hour or two a day. For a start, at least.

Diagnostics of one car takes an average of 15-20 minutes. Those. in a good scenario, you may well earn 500-1500 rubles for these 1-2 hours a day. in a day! Later, when you feel that this work brings you very good money, you yourself decide how much time to devote to it.

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The main advantage is low competition, in addition, investments in such a business idea are minimal.

The disadvantage of a business idea is the difficulty in attracting a clientele. Very often, car owners do not trust small diagnostic offices, preferring to turn to a larger and more trusted provider of such a service. However, with a competent marketing policy, you can effectively function in this area.

How to implement?

If there is a lack of funding, the first step is to draw up a business plan, with which you can apply to an investor or a bank. This direction is quite promising, so the problem with financing is solved quickly.

Initially, you should choose the location of your car diagnostic center. For this purpose, a garage that you own or rent may be suitable. If possible, it is better to locate the diagnostic center near the roads with a small distance from the city center.

The next stage of the business idea is the purchase of the necessary equipment. For a car diagnostics business idea, you need the following:

• mobile scanner;
• computer with installed program decoding fault codes;
• connection adapter.

The cost of such a diagnostic kit varies from 90,000 to 380,000 rubles. It is also worth considering that the diagnostic program should be regularly updated due to the growing number of car brands and related innovations. As a rule, the cost of updates does not exceed 4,000 rubles. The next step is to implement a client acquisition policy.

Car Diagnostic Marketing Business Ideas

The basis of the marketing policy for this business idea is informative and concise. Here are some ways to attract:

• Low price policy. Here you need to analyze the auto diagnostics market in your region and find out average cost such a service. It is recommended that your diagnostic center install more than low price. This way you will ensure your sustainable competitiveness.
• Accompanying services. As a rule, the car owner can turn to car diagnostics not only to check it, but also to provide temporary assistance. Therefore, it is recommended not only to look for faults, but also, for example, unlock the doors using a scanner if the owner has forgotten the keys in the ignition or start the car without a key.
• Correct ads. On this moment the most effective are ads on the Internet, as well as their placement in parking lots and car dealerships. It would be advisable to place an ad on Avito or other sites. It is impractical to create your own website for this type of service due to low information saturation. In addition, it is necessary to order business cards, as they are an advertising basis in this area.
• Outdoor advertising. In addition to a sign at your diagnostic center, it is recommended to place pillars next to highways. When a breakdown occurs on the road, the car owner will turn to you.

Field autodiagnostics

This business idea should be singled out separately. Most often, the car breaks down right on the road, or an error is displayed on the dashboard. IN this case for the car owner, the only way out is to go to a car service, and if the car does not allow it, call a tow truck, both of which are not always convenient and often expensive. On-site auto-diagnostics allows you to deal with the problem right on the spot for a small amount.

For on-site diagnostics, you will need to purchase a mobile autoscanner, no other equipment is required. Additional costs are advertising costs, as well as fuel. You can come to the place of the call by your car.

If you decide to open a stationary car diagnostic center, then you can implement such a business idea with investments from 95,000 to 400,000 rubles. In addition, there is the possibility buy a ready-made business in the field of car diagnostics. Then you get all the necessary information and assistance in organizing a business. The cost of a ready-made business will be from 75,000 rubles. and higher, depending on the size of the enterprise.

By implementing the auto diagnostics business idea, you get a stable income with a minimum investment and a short payback period.

Dear blog site reader! I present to your attention the first article in the heading "Ideas for business". As you guessed from the title, we'll talk about how computer diagnostics, as a business, is a profitable business.

A person who has his personal personal computer at hand will definitely be able to find a worthy use for him. It can be used in almost any area of ​​commerce. Entrepreneurs, especially young ones, often underestimate how useful a computer could be in a car service. And I will tell you that these opportunities are quite high, and on a wallet you can easily implement this business. In addition, computer diagnostics of a car today is a fairly promising service. Everything you need to buy as a businessman necessary equipment and rent a room, as well as issue an IP.

The range of services provided, and the question of the premises

It is possible to specialize in such types of services as diagnostics of injection engines, mileage correction and chip tuning. If there is a desire, then over time it is possible to expand the range of services provided with more and more new proposals. The target customers will be used car owners. And the diagnosis, you know, is enough necessary procedure, and without it there is no way to check what condition your vehicle is in now.

Also, do not forget to buy an adapter to be able to synchronize the car with a computer, as well as special software and a diagnostic scanner - a device that determines the thickness of the coating. Considering the issue with the room, perfect suitable option car mechanic garage rental. In the same place, if necessary, he could eliminate the faults found.

How much money should be invested, and what is the profitability?

Seems like a great idea! But, how much approximately do you need to invest in this idea? Well, I can't name a specific amount. Well, as far as I know, the total cost should not exceed 130-140 000 rubles . For the efficiency of attracting customers, it makes sense to provide field services, but then, in this case, the prices for diagnostics will be higher.
What is the profitability? To date, one car diagnostic is worth
By market price order 2000 , or even 3000 rubles. Thus, your income can be from 50,000 to 60,000 rubles per month provided that you receive one order per day. The project pays off quite quickly, in just a few months. But it is quite possible before. It all depends on how productive you are.
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