Parts List

Every trade has its own small vocabulary. These are the shop words that appear in the two jobs, so nobody has to guess what we meant.

Install order

The sheet written before any work on a car begins: which car, which part, the steps in sequence and the checks at the end.

Clipboard

Where the install order hangs, usually from a side mirror, so the person working can read the next step without walking away.

Tick

The mark in the margin when a step is finished. A step is ticked when it is done, never when it is about to be done.

Special line

The space on an install order for whatever this job needs that the last one did not. On the door card, it is the one thing that is different today.

Outline board

A tool wall with a painted shape behind each tool, so a missing tool shows up as an empty shape from across the room.

Line of sight

What the driver sees through the windshield without moving the head. Nothing we fit is allowed to sit in it.

Trim panel

The plastic covers along the dash and doors. Cables run behind them so they never swing loose in view.

Holder

A mount for a phone or a screen, set low and fixed in place before the car moves.

Final check

The walk around the car by a second person, who reads the ticks on the sheet rather than asking the installer what they remember.

If a word in the notebook is missing from this list, write to us and we will add it.