Snap on and their lies!
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- fool me one shame on you fool me twice shame on me. as I get older and go through using my tools I have found snap on is not all that it's cracked up to be... hopefully this will save you some money before you make the same mistakes that I did.
My entire 10,000 square foot shop on 3 acres, complete with 3 phase power and electric 14 foot doors on both ends cost me less in 2015 than what lots of guys have wrapped up in their Snap On boxes
It’s funny that u made this video cause I am a gm tech I use a $500 dollar husky tool box. Our lube techs are all decked out with expensive snap on boxes. I like the snap on hand tools for the convenience of not having to mail tools off to fix them. But not falling for the tool box that costs what a new truck does
@@bigboreracing356 a box has no engine, no heater ac or moving parts... it's just sheet metal on casters... the box can't even handle speeds of 80mph... it just sits there... doesn't make you money... just looks cool so you can impress other young dudes in the lube tech bay... but maybe that's what your into...
no regular snap on box costs 30k. basic boxes dont cost more than 5k
tool boxes filled with tools does in fact make you money@@RIDEONDIRT14
@@nomercyinc6783 just looked on their website snap on classic 54 inch no power accessories is over 6k... :)
I have a matco and husky box now. I think both were a mistake. I'd buy us general for both if I had it to do over again. I had the first gen us general but those weren't deep enough. I sold it to a buddy and he's still using it 10 years later.
Yes snap on is great. But not all the tools they sell are USA made. I personally have been a auto/machine mechanic for almost 25yrs. I personally have tools off the snap on truck that are not USA made! The best advise is too not go in debt for 50,000 dollars when you aren't even making 50k a year.
whats your point. a ton of gm vehicles are made in mexico, germany, and korea. american brands dont make all their cars. nobody owning chrysler products owns anything american
what they sell is a payment.
I only pay cash but he never comes around :/ . I waited for him to give me a qoute on a new tool cart and he never come back, i ended up buying a box from napa. Dont matter how good they say their tools are the tool truck guy never.comes around!
While I own a snap on tool box and multiple snap on tools, I will say this: They are not the best there is. There are quality tools everywhere, and many are significantly less expensive than snap on. In 40 years of being a tech, what I've found is that the tool that will do the job, hold up to abuse, and is warrantable is the best tool for the job. In most cases, it's not snap on. There are some specialty tools that snap on has that are required for certain jobs, but those are one by one situations.
I've tried explaining almost exactly that to younger techs. The last shop I was in, the young dudes would get on the snap on truck and have a d swinging contest on who bought what. They were $1,000's in debt with them and had almost nothing for tools. They spent a grand on a socket set on sale. 19mm was the largest socket in the set
I have harbor freight sockets deep and short I use them on impacts and by hand for almost 10yrs and only very few have ever broke soo snap on is always not the best nor needes.
There are a lot of tools on the market that are more reasonably priced. I like Wright tool.
Save more and have more money for other things you need.
The best techs use the best tools.
If your boss wanted you to sport a Snap-on toolbox, he should have been willing to pay the premium. That being stated, if your tools are damaging customer property, that is a completely different story. For example, a techs lug-nut sockets damaging expensive mag wheels, using inferior torque wrenches or other measuring equipment, safety equipment.
lots of dealerships pay for entire boxes for their techs. acting like every shop and dealership requires you to have a box is utterly incompetent. peoples ideas without proof are meaningless
Here's what I know. Ran a quicklube for a couple of years. Got to the point where I'd just stop at harbor freight and replace a wrench instead of wait for the snap on guy to show up and replace their garbage. My tactix box worked fine in the auto body shop for 7 years before I changed work and brought it home. Have lost plenty of husky sockets, but never broke one. The only tool from harbor freight I've managed to break was a studfinder I bought 15 years ago. I dropped it 2 years ago, and now it only lights up and doesn't make a beep. There are a few things snap on does good that I wouldn't go elsewhere for, but I mean like less than 10 things. Like the wobble end open wrenches that I think them and Die hard make. Snap on would be the way to go there.
The problem with the tools these days is that they're all made in 2-3 locations by the same hands.
The metal quality is garbage, it's all just thrown together.
Great video! The idea that 'the customer will see the tools and know its quality' is sooooo dumb. If the customer cared about tools, he wouldnt be paying someone else to do the job.
In my opinion this video is true, the line is certainly more expensive with no real advantage. I think a big part of the cost is to provide more income for those guys that drive those trucks, and there's nothing wrong with that. If you are willing to pay the premium for those tools, thats your choice. I know a handful of guys that get wide eyed when they go out to that truck and see some of the new stuff. There is also a convienence factor of that rolling tool shop that comes to your shop, and these guys have no problem spending a paycheck on a new tool that they need, or to replace a tool they've broken and need.
After high school I quickly learned that Snap On is just an overpriced name. For power tools all I have is Milwaukee and some Ryobi and for hand tools I have a mix of harbor freight brands, DeWalt, Vevor and Wera and highly rated stuff from Project Farm. I've never broken a tool that was being used for its intended purpose so when people talk crap on Harbor Freight it honestly makes me think they must be kind of dumb. Can't imagine the amount of money my tools would have cost if I bought all Snap On. I guess you're paying the companies profit + the tool guy getting rich + any future warranties + made in USA and cost of materials but I know they are being mass produced not hand made...
I love my Icon tool box. Also have alot of snap on and Icon tools used daily. I wish Icon was around 30 years ago when I got duped into buying snap on tools..
Same
Preach it brudder! I agree, I have several brands of tools and most of them work very well and cost half the price.
I wished I could buy good quality USA made tools from a USA company, but it's just not feasible anymore. While I'm not a professional mechanic and worked for roughly 4 years as a fabricator during college, my tools are a mix of harbor freight stuff, koken, kobalt, newer craftsman, tekton, gear wrench, and other odds and ends. They work just fine. I've been wrenching on cars since I was 13, back in the 80s. I've never had the high end stuff. I've built transmissions, engines, etc. never a problem. If something broke without a life time warranty, I didn't care as they were inexpensive. They either made me money or allowed me to help friends. I got a harbor freight tool chest set up for 800 and that's new with a side locker and add on cab. Snap on would be well close to ten times that. I want USA made, but I cannot and will not afford a lot of the prices
I am a fabricator as well, funny thing is I can find more fab tools USA made at a reasonable price then any tech tools, empire tools, sk, tube noticng tools, tmr, all USA made. I think snapon has dominated the market for so long where they feel like they can get away with the prices in the tech world, in reality they are ripping alot of people off...
Biggest point is the made in America.. hate that lie. Great video!
I have a wide variety of both tool truck and lesser expensive tools.
If you can’t tell, or recognize the difference between a premium tool and a lesser expensive one, then I see no reason why you should purchase a premium tool.
If you are trading in an old Snap-On box for a new Snap-On box, on the tool truck, you will get a good trade-in.
@@dennisgardiner43 keep drinking that koolaid
They're good tools, but they're just way too cost prohibitive for anyone who intends to actually make money with their tools.
I have a small sanp on tool box that i had since 1992 or 1993. I can remember. I only have that box and alot of snap on tools. Cause when i was going to the tech school. Snap on was the only tool company that showed up. Nobody else did. When i started turning wrenches. I have some matco, mac tools, also. I stipped turning wrenches. Cause trailer hitches and car lifts hurt real bad. When they come in contact with your shin bone.
I have been a tech for over 30 years I have Snapon tools I will say they probably make the best ratchets and chrome swivel sockets but I have been using Astro pneumatic air tools and cat are my favorite air tools capri koken sunex and many more you can’t go wrong
Just like Harley Davidson's hold their value too 🙄
The only things that seems to hold value now days are diesels haha 😄
That box in my area would sold. It about the market in the area. I will always buy snap-on tool box cause I had 20ton jack with a bus go in to the box and it only make damage was the draw. I have work in this business since I was 16 stared with craftsman. But buy certain things from snap on like specialty to they have for certain diesel and air tool. Every thing else is mix from s&k to sunex all
Great tools.
This guy said home shop. That's all u need to know. He's a diy guy.
I dropped a stubby 13m ratcheting wrench from snap on have not had it for 9 month now we dont have a rep and its broke i can call corporate but i need it everyday and cant wait 2 weeks to get a new one i cant really wait a week for a new one so now i have to buy a new one off the Cornwell truck cause he is constantly showing up and he carries the tool that make the stuff that matco and snap on sell with thier name on it all the trucks rebrand
Mechanics that do not use good quality tools cannot afford good quality tools !
A set of $200 sockets and a set of $1000 sockets will make me the same amount of money... just one set I will have money left over to buy more tools or suspension parts.... mechanics that pay for snap on are not smart about money... obviously you haven't seen my 4runner videos... trust me I can afford what you call good quality...
The fact is that MOST of the products on the Snap-On truck are made in USA. Even some of the Blue Point products are made here and they’re constantly opening new factories and manufacturing facilities in America to bring more of their catalog here. The products that aren’t made here are very clearly labeled with where they were made. By law… So if you’re buying something because you think it’s made in America and YOU’RE TOO STUPID TO CONFIRM THAT… That is most definitely a you problem.
I agree that customers don’t care what you use. And also that expensive tools are not gonna make you better at your job. There are a lot of products that I will ONLY buy from Snap-On. Such as Ratchets. But there are plenty of their products that are total garbage and I would never recommend buying. Basically anything branded Snap-On that uses a battery, with the exception of their digital torque wrenches,is complete trash and completely worthless.
Also… Screwdrivers are not now, have never been, nor will they ever be prybars. Buy some AMERICAN MADE prybars and stop breaking screwdrivers. In 20 years as a Diesel mechanic I have NEVER broken a screwdriver, from any brand or country of origin, while using it as it was intended to be used.
As far as boxes are concerned… I’ve compared them. And Harbor Freight, Homak, Home Depot and Menards all have great boxes. Menards actually has the best ones for the best price if you ask me. But I know Harbor Freight is the cool kids store these days because… I don’t know, reasons? But they simply CANNOT be compared to the boxes of high end brands like Snap-On, Mac, Cornwell or Matco. The steel is half as thick, they have no actual frame structure so lifting them is almost always going to damage them. The drawer slides are EXTREMELY cheap. The drawers themselves are floppy because they don’t have enough supports and the steel is far too thin. The casters are very cheap…
Meanwhile I’ve got a low end, entry level, Cornwell box that is 12 years old. This was the second box I bought for myself. I had a small 48” Snap-On that I outgrew and so I bought the 76” Cornwell for a smokin deal because it had acquired a couple of paint defects during shipping. The Snap-On box I had. I sold to my cousin for 3/4 of what I paid for it and it was over 5 year old at that point.
This box has been bashed with forklifts, backed into by pickups and dump trucks alike. It’s fallen off a forklift once. It’s been smashed with the bucket of several different skid steers over the years and while it’s understandably beat to shit and ass ugly now. And of course not worth a dime to anyone now…ALL of the drawers still work very well and are all busting at the seams with how full they are. The locking mechanism still works as well as the day I bought it and it still rolls across an uneven floor as smooth and silent as the day I rolled it off the truck and into the shop…
matco literally came out with pry drivers. screw drivers literally designed to pry. people using screw drivers are pry bars and then complaining they broke their screw driver are idiots. doing shit wrong and incorrectly doesnt make anyone a good fuckin mechanic or tech
I appreciate your thought out input and respect your views. However the comment of screwdrivers not being pry bars I know. I learned that lesson early on in my career. I broke my screw drivers taking apart a winch using them how snap on advertised. Phillips and flat head bot snapped the tips and I had a wrench around their necks for that added leverage. Not being used as a pry bar by any means.
@@RIDEONDIRT14 You know hand impact drivers are a thing right? Snap-On makes quite a nice one right here in America… 🤣
I’m just giving you crap. I know screwdrivers do break from time to time and that’s where a warranty helps out. And while we’re on that subject… Since when are replacement warranties supposed to mean the tool will never break. It literally means the opposite of that. It means. We know this will probably break at some point but don’t worry. We gotcha covered.
@@brandoncrimmins6296 yes lisle makes the same one for around $50... unfortunately at the time did not have one on hand..
@@RIDEONDIRT14 I mean yes… Lisle and many other manufacturers make impact drivers… But Lisle, like everyone else makes a cam type. Snap-On’s is Hydraulic. I have the Snap-On and a couple of cheapo parts store specials and they is no comparison between them. But everyone is entitled their own opinion and can do with their money what they choose.
I bought a used snapon 56 in clasic box for 1000 bucks
I laugh at the young guys who have a 15 k tool box and then another 25k in tools... that's a joke.
having 25k in tools isnt stupid. there is in fact a tool for every task. doing things the hardest way possible because it ends up working isnt intelligence. doing shit the hardest way possible doesnt make anyone intelligent. makes them stupid
Be lucky to get 1500 out of that box.
Thats all it is is a box with some reinforced drawers. You can get a cheaper box and reinforce the drawers with a trip to the hardware store and still be well under ⅓ strap-on cost.
Not to mention how they bend ya over that tool box with their strap-on payments. 😂
It cost more because you can make payments
people being mad at a tool trucks doesnt make anything about it important.
Buddy let me tell you something...
Every single one of Snap On tools that🎉🎉 are made with Snap On Steel are made in the good ol USA! Now a days that's saying alot. So give them the respect they deserve and quit bashing them.
@@jimmcfarland3990 bahaha hope this was sarcastic cuz I've broken more USA quality bs snap on screwdrivers then Taiwan husky screwdrivers. USA doesn't make the best they make the most expensive don't get the 2 mixed up.