Jayden Lavespere

Jayden has been doing his own maintenance for years — his vehicles, his family's, his friends'. Brakes, fluids, belts, batteries, starters, front-end work: the jobs most people hand to a shop, done in a driveway on his own time because he wanted to know how they actually worked. By the time anyone was paying him for it, he had already done most of these repairs more than once.

The interest runs past maintenance. Classic trucks and engine builds are the hobby — the kind of work where you cannot just look up a torque spec and move on, because half the parts have already been changed twice by somebody else. Pulling an engine down and putting it back together is what teaches you how the whole thing fits together. That is the part that matters when a customer is describing a noise over the phone and you have to picture what is making it.

He turned it into work from there: brakes and tires at a high-volume shop, where you learn to be fast because the cars do not stop coming. Now he is studying Automotive Service Technology at College of DuPage, which is where the other half comes from — a real diagnostic process instead of replacing the cheap part first and hoping. Quick hands and a methodical head are a rarer combination than they should be.

Remote Auto Repair started for a simple reason: a lot of repairs do not need a shop. A brake job, an alternator, a battery, a no-start diagnosis — those get done on a driveway every day. What people are actually paying the shop for is the building, the service advisor and a two-hundred percent markup on a part they could have bought themselves.

So the model is deliberately plain. You buy the part or he prices it for you. You get a flat labor number before a single bolt is touched. He drives to you. Nothing extra gets sold on the spot, because there is no service advisor with a monthly target standing between you and the technician.

He is nineteen and moved up from Louisiana. ASE certifications and eventually a Master Technician card are the long game. Remote Auto Repair is how the hours and the reputation get built in the meantime — one driveway at a time, on nights and weekends, for people who would rather deal with the person doing the work than with a counter.