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Detailers, tow operators, tire shops and trades with work vans see failing brakes, weeping leaks, dead batteries and warning lights every week, and hand the car back without a useful answer. This is the answer: one tracked link you can hand over, a mobile mechanic who goes to the customer, and written terms so nobody has to trust a handshake.
Refer suitable repair work with clear written terms: your customer gets $50 off their first job, and each completed referral earns you a $50 service credit. Fares confirms the service area, job and location before accepting the work.
The zone is exactly five cities: Mississauga, Oakville, Milton, Brampton and Etobicoke. If your customers are outside those, this doesn't work yet, and it's better to say so on the first screen than three weeks in.
This goes to Fares directly. He reads it and gets back to you himself, one-man operation, so it's him, not a team.
If you'd rather it landed on his phone right now, send it yourself, everything you typed is already in the message.
Text it to Fares Send it on WhatsApp Call 647-450-0406A referral is only worth making when it makes you look good. That's the whole test, and most referral programs fail it, they're a favour dressed up as a partnership, and the person doing the favour gets nothing except the risk of the recommendation going bad.
Here's the version that passes. A detailer finishes a car and the owner asks about the squeal they've been ignoring for four months. Right now that detailer says "you should get that looked at," which is worth nothing to anybody. With a link, they say "here, he comes to your driveway, he'll tell you what it actually is, and there's fifty off because you came through me." The customer gets a real answer, the detailer becomes the person who solved a second problem, and nobody had to leave the driveway.
Same shape for a tow operator whose customer is standing beside a car that won't start. Same shape for a tire shop with the wheels off that can see the pads are at three millimetres but has no bay time this week. The referral has to be useful to the customer in front of you. If it isn't, don't make it, and this is built so that never costs you anything.
Fit isn't the same for everyone, so it's written out rather than glossed over. Green means the fit is real today. Amber means it depends on how you're set up. Grey means the honest answer is not yet.
You're inside hundreds of cars a month with better light and closer attention than the owner has ever given the thing. You see the leak on the driveway, the ground-down pad through the wheel, the light on the dash. You fix none of it, and you never will.
Zero conflict. Fares doesn't detail and won't start. Nothing he sells overlaps with anything you sell.
You meet people at the exact moment of failure, no-start, dead charging system, overheating, a car that quit in a plaza. That's precisely the work Fares does fastest in a driveway.
It closes your loop. A tow that ends with the car fixed at the customer's house makes you the operator who sorted it, not the one who dropped it somewhere and disappeared.
You've got wheels off constantly, so you see pads, rotors, worn links, leaking struts and seized calipers more clearly than anyone. The honest catch: plenty of tire shops do brakes and suspension themselves, and if you do, that's a straight conflict and you should pass on this.
Where it's real: you're tire-and-alignment only, or you're booked solid through the changeover rush and turning that work away. Fares does not sell, fit, store or dispose of tires, and does not do alignments. That line is written into the outline.
Landscaping, HVAC, plumbing, courier, small delivery outfits, vans and pickups where a day off the road is a day of lost revenue, and dropping a vehicle at a shop costs more than the repair.
You control whether anyone can work on a vehicle on the property at all, which makes permission, not referral, the actual product. A sanctioned, tidy mobile mechanic is a genuine resident amenity.
Before any on-property work is accepted, send Fares the site's insurance and vendor requirements. He must obtain and provide current documentary confirmation of the required coverage, insured business, activities, limits and dates for your review. This page does not establish current coverage. No work is booked on a property requiring a certificate until that requirement is met and permission is confirmed.
Used-car dealers, permanently out. That's reconditioning work bought on price, and it's the opposite of the customer this business is built for.
Other repair shops and mechanics. Fares isn't a broker. He won't route work to other shops and he won't take yours. There's no middleman role here in either direction.
Body shops, a straight customer referral would be genuine, but what body shops actually want is sublet mechanical work invoiced to the shop, and that's a different business that's closed. Not worth starting a relationship that has to be walked back.
Insurance and warranty programs, out, on purpose.
From the moment they use the link, Fares quotes them, invoices them, and carries the work and the warranty. You are never the contracting party, you never invoice anybody, and Fares handles repair issues and the workmanship warranty directly with the customer. Your site's permission and vendor requirements still need to be confirmed before any on-property work.
Cars With Fares doesn't sell detailing, tires, alignments, towing, or whatever trade you're in. Your customers don't get added to any list, don't get marketed to, and don't get pitched anything outside the repair they asked about. There is no list to be added to, no email or text marketing exists in this business at all.
Not a joint venture, not a vendor agreement, not a subcontract. Neither business is the other's agent and neither can bind the other to anything. That's stated plainly in the outline so it never has to be argued about later.
Your active link records referred enquiries. Fares reconciles completed work and credits in a written partner statement. Applications require confirmation and activation before a link can accept referrals.
The customer can also just phone instead. If they mention your code on the call, Fares stamps it on the job manually and it counts exactly the same, which is what the attribution rule below exists for.
Every completed referral banks $50 as a service credit against mechanical work Fares does on your own vehicle or your work van. It is earned when the referred job is completed, not when a link is opened or an enquiry arrives. Fares records each $50 award and every redemption against an agreed invoice in the statement ledger; redemptions reduce the unspent balance, and corrections are separate dated entries with a reason. There is no cash payout or automatic deduction at checkout. It's never cash, and that's a design decision rather than a way of being cheap.
Cash per lead pays you for volume, which quietly pushes you to send everybody, including the customer who was never going to spend a dollar and the one who'll haggle for an hour. Within a month that turns a good relationship into a tap producing junk, and then it gets switched off and the relationship is worse than before it started. A credit against your own repair bill pays you for sending the right ones, and it lands as real value on a bill you were going to pay anyway.
| Published range across the work he wants sent, no-start and charging, brakes, cooling, suspension | $180–$1,500 |
| Off the first job for the customer who came through your link | −$50 |
| Service credit banked to you when that job completes | $50 |
| Cash paid out per referral | $0 |
| Cost to you to join, ever | $0 |
Being straight about our side of it: that $50 credit costs Fares parts and his own time rather than $50 of cash, which is exactly why it can be offered with no volume requirement and no cap. And a referred customer arrives already half-trusting, so the job closes without the long convincing a cold web lead needs. That's the actual trade, you get real value on your own vehicle, he gets customers who don't need selling to.
The ranges above come from the published range card and are market context, not a quote. Every job gets one flat number agreed before any work starts. No hourly meter, and no tax line. Fares isn't HST-registered at his volume.
You'd be lending your judgment. That's the thing actually at risk here, and it deserves more than a promise to do good work.
Read the customer reviews and the selected completed work. Public customer identities stay anonymous.
If the code was used, it counts. If the customer phoned instead and named your business, Fares stamps your code on the job and it counts the same, as long as it's within 30 days of them being in front of you. If two partners claim the same customer, the code actually recorded on the job wins, and if there's no code on the job at all, Fares records a separate $50 service-credit award for each partner in the statement ledger, with the same job reference and a dual-claim note. It's fifty dollars; the relationship is worth more than that.
It's between Fares and the customer, and you don't get pulled into it. He tells you what happened and what he did about it, whether or not it makes him look good.
One message. Earned credit stays valid. Fares confirms whether the referral link will remain active; customers can always contact him directly at 647-450-0406.
Confirm the fit, agree the referral details and activate your link before distributing cards.
Everything gets better as more partners join. Which types convert becomes measurable rather than guessed at. The wording that actually works gets passed between partners instead of each one inventing it. And once a few partners are active, with permission, and only with permission, being able to say who works with him becomes real proof rather than a claim.
No. Every completed referral banks a $50 service credit against mechanical work on your own vehicle or work van. Cash per lead pays you to send volume; a credit on your own car pays you to send the right ones. It also keeps this out of finder's-fee territory, which is where these arrangements normally go bad.
The repair customer is Cars With Fares' customer, he quotes, invoices, and carries the work and the warranty. Your customer stays yours: he doesn't sell what you sell, and nobody's list changes hands. The introduction is the whole of the relationship between the two businesses.
One short code and one link. Link opens are counted and accepted enquiries through it record your code on the job, and the completed job is the evidence for your $50 credit. Fares reconciles earned and redeemed credit in a manual written statement. Ask for yours by text or phone at 647-450-0406.
No term, no minimum, no exclusivity, no fee in either direction. One message ends it and banked credit stays valid. The written outline exists so nobody is guessing, not to lock anyone in.
Brakes, suspension, no-starts and charging faults, cooling and water pumps, CV axles, belts, tune-ups, straightforward oil leaks, and pre-purchase inspections. Not timing chains, timing belts, clutches, head gaskets or internal engine work, those need a hoist and a full shop day, and he turns them down.
Then don't hand them the card, because the link would waste their time. They can still use the free quote checker to sanity-check an estimate against published GTA ranges, which costs nobody anything.
Before any on-property work is accepted, send Fares the site's insurance and vendor requirements. He must obtain and provide current documentary confirmation of the required coverage, insured business, activities, limits and dates for your review. This page does not establish current coverage. No work is booked on a property requiring a certificate until that requirement is met and permission is confirmed.
Only about their own repair. Every completed job gets a service record page the customer owns, and that's it. There's no marketing list, no newsletter and no text campaign, because none of that exists here.
Not a signup and not a demo. Fares comes to you with a one-page brief and a stack of cards, and you decide at the end of it. Nothing here costs anything to try, and nothing has to be unwound if it doesn't work.
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