DipstickIQ Free audit

Find the money hiding in your shop.

DipstickIQ reads the reports your shop software already exports (declined work, estimates, customer history) and shows which jobs are worth a call this week, in dollars.

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$34,820 recoverableSample shop, last 12 months of repair orders

Illustrative figures. Your audit uses your own data.

  • $18,420Declined repairs
  • $8,400Estimates that never became jobs
  • $5,100Customers who stopped coming in
  • $2,900Labor and parts priced too low

Six places a busy shop quietly loses money

Your shop software records all of it. Nobody has time to go back through it.

Declined repairs

Work your techs found that the customer said "not today" to. Most of it still needs doing.

Open estimates

Quotes that went out and never came back. A well-timed follow-up converts more of them than you'd think.

Lapsed customers

Good customers who haven't been in for a year, often with a vehicle that's due.

Missed maintenance

Mileage and service history tell you when a car is due. A fixed six-month reminder doesn't.

Labor and parts margin

Job types and suppliers where you're consistently earning less than your target.

Empty bay time

Slow afternoons you could fill with customers who already have work waiting.

Every job comes with a reason and a next step

You get a ranked list, not a pile of reminders. The biggest, most likely wins sit at the top.

  • Built from your technicians' own recommendations. DipstickIQ never diagnoses a vehicle.
  • Ranked by repair value, urgency, time since the visit and how often the customer comes back.
  • Suggested wording for the follow-up, written the way a service advisor would say it.
OpportunityContact this week
Customer
John S.
Vehicle
2019 BMW X5
Declined
4 months ago
Miles since visit
About 5,200 (estimated)
Front control arms$1,480
Alignment$180
Opportunity$1,660
Recovery potential: High
  • Safety-related suspension work
  • Declined 4 months ago, still unrepaired
  • Customer usually comes in every 4 to 6 months
  • About 5,200 miles driven since the inspection
Suggested message

"When your BMW was in back in May, we noted wear on the front control arms. It's been about four months, so we'd like to take another look. Want me to find you a time this week?"

No new shop software

DipstickIQ works from reports you can already export. Your team keeps the system they know.

  • Tekmetric
  • Shopmonkey
  • AutoLeap
  • Shop-Ware
  • Mitchell 1
  • RO Writer
  • Most others with CSV or Excel export

How the free audit works

  1. Tell us your shop system

    We'll tell you exactly which reports to export.

  2. Send the exports

    Upload CSV or Excel files. Nothing to install.

  3. We find the money

    Every opportunity is priced and ranked by value, urgency and how recently the customer was in.

  4. Walk through it together

    A short call to go over your top opportunities. Keep the report either way.

How much work is sitting in your declined estimates?

Find out for free. No software change, no contract.

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