The Auto Repair Shop Field Manual
128 copy-paste AI prompts for garages and mobile mechanics — explaining a diagnosis so it is believed, authorisation before work, parts and labour, comebacks, and the customer who read the internet.
Key Capabilities & Features:
- •The Workshop Primer: paste your bay count, labour rate, specialisms and typical jobs once — every prompt after it writes for your shop
- •Diagnosis explanations built to be believed, with dangerous separated from can-wait, because the trust problem in this trade is structural rather than personal
- •Authorisation prompts that get a written yes before the extra work starts, which is the only moment it is chargeable without an argument
- •A section on the customer who arrives with a diagnosis from a forum, handled without condescension
- •Diagnostic time charged rather than absorbed, which is where a great deal of unbilled labour quietly goes
- •128 prompts across 8 sections — explaining the diagnosis, estimates & authorisation, parts, supply & delays, servicing & reminders and more
- •Works with ChatGPT (GPT-5), Claude Opus 5 and Gemini 3.7 Flash — fill the bracket, paste, done
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What's Inside
8 modules128 promptsEvery module below is included in the single purchase.
- 1
Explaining The Diagnosis
22 promptsDescribing a fault so a non-mechanic believes it, separating what is dangerous from what can wait, and the explanation that does not sound like an upsell.
- 2
Estimates & Authorisation
20 promptsWritten estimates with parts, labour and contingency, getting authorisation before the spanner moves, and the extra fault found once the car is on the ramp.
- 3
Parts, Supply & Delays
16 promptsExplaining an aftermarket versus original choice, the part that is three days away, courtesy car and delay messages, and the customer supplying their own parts.
- 4
Servicing & Reminders
16 promptsService and inspection reminders people act on, seasonal checks, building a recall list from your job history, and the customer who has not returned in two years.
- 5
Comebacks & Disputes
18 promptsThe car that came back, distinguishing a related fault from a new one honestly, warranty on your own work, and the dispute headed for a claim.
- 6
The Informed Customer
16 promptsThe person who has read a forum, the quoted price from elsewhere, the diagnosis they arrived with, and disagreeing without condescension.
- 7
Pricing & Labour Rates
12 promptsLabour rate against your real overhead, diagnostic time charged rather than absorbed, menu pricing common jobs, and raising a rate customers accept.
- 8
Reviews & Local Trade
8 promptsAsking for a review at the handover, replying to a review about price, listing copy for local search, and building trade work alongside retail customers.
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The hardest part of running a garage is not the diagnosis. It is that the customer cannot verify anything you tell them, knows it, and has been warned their whole life about people in your trade.
The Auto Repair Shop Field Manual is a 128-prompt playbook covering explaining the diagnosis, estimates and authorisation, parts and supply, servicing and reminders, comebacks and disputes, the informed customer, pricing and labour rates, and reviews and local trade.
Start with the Workshop Primer — paste in your bay count, labour rate, specialisms and typical jobs — and every prompt after it writes for your shop.
The diagnosis section treats the trust problem as structural rather than personal. A customer cannot check your work, so an explanation has to do the job that verification would. That means describing the symptom they already noticed before naming the cause, saying what would happen if it were left, and — crucially — separating what is dangerous from what can wait. A shop that volunteers that something can wait six months has done more for its credibility than any amount of accreditation.
Authorisation prompts get a written yes before extra work begins. The fault found once the car is on the ramp is a normal part of the job and it is chargeable at exactly one moment: before you fix it. After, it is a negotiation about a car the customer needs back.
And there is a section for the customer who arrives having read a forum. They are often partly right, occasionally entirely right, and always able to tell when they are being patronised.
Note: roadworthiness testing, emissions rules and consumer repair rights vary by country. The prompts flag anything statutory as needing local verification rather than asserting a requirement.
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| Specification | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customer Rating | 4.86(26) | 4.91(34) | 4.88(31) | 4.9(33) |
| AI Models | GPT-5, Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.7 Flash | GPT-5, Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.7 Flash | GPT-5, Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.7 Flash | GPT-5, Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| Formats Included | PDF Prompt Playbook | PDF Prompt Playbook | PDF Prompt Playbook | PDF Prompt Playbook |
| Lifetime Updates | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Creator Rating | PromptWolf (99.2%) | PromptWolf (99.2%) | Aria Thorne (98.5%) | Elena Rostova (98.9%) |
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Starting with what they noticed
Such a small reordering. Leading with the noise they already heard rather than with the component name has stopped the suspicious silence I used to get on every big job.
Telling people it can wait
It insists you say so even when it loses the job today. Three customers this month have come back for the bigger work specifically because I told them the first thing was not urgent.
I was giving away nine hours a week
Diagnostics, unbilled. The Primer asks for that number and I had never worked it out. Now charged separately and credited against the repair, and nobody has objected.
No technical help
It will not help you find the fault, which is stated clearly. Everything after the fault is found is genuinely good.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does it help with the actual diagnosis?
No. The diagnosis is yours — this is about explaining it, pricing it, authorising it and handling what happens afterwards. It will not tell you what is wrong with a car and does not try.
I am a mobile mechanic rather than a garage. Useful?
The Primer asks. Explanation, authorisation, parts delays, comebacks and pricing all apply directly. The bay scheduling and trade-work material assumes premises.
Does it cover MOT or inspection rules?
No. Roadworthiness testing, emissions standards and consumer repair rights differ by country and change. The prompts flag anything statutory for local verification rather than asserting it.
How is it delivered?
You receive a PDF with all 128 prompts organized into 8 sections, delivered within 24 hours of purchase. No app or account required — copy a prompt, fill in the bracketed variables, and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.
Can I use this for client work?
Yes. Your purchase includes a single-user commercial and personal license, so you can use every prompt in your own business or for client deliverables without restriction.