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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.
This page is the actual proposal, not a pitch deck. It says who owns the customer, how referrals are counted, what you get, what happens when something goes wrong, and where Cars With Fares genuinely is right now, which is small, new, and honest about it. Read it and decide.
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.
Two doors here: your vans become fleet work at your own yard, and your crews' personal cars are a natural referral. Both run on the same link.
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.
The blocker is real and it's ours. Most boards require a certificate of commercial garage liability insurance before anyone touches a car on site, and Fares doesn't carry one. Townhouse and low-rise boards without that requirement can go ahead now. Everyone else: this is a later conversation, and pretending otherwise would waste your time and burn the relationship.
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 you carry no liability for the repair. If it goes wrong it's his problem and he handles it with the customer directly.
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.
The tracking is already built and running. Partner codes ride the same rail the customer referral links already use, rather than a second system bolted on beside it. Nothing here depends on Fares remembering to log something, which matters, because a system that needs daily attention is a system that dies.
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'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.
Real reviews live at /reviews/. There are two of them, both genuine, and there will never be invented ones padding it out.
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, the credit gets paid to both rather than argued over. 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. The link keeps working for anyone still holding a card, so no customer of yours hits a dead page. Credit already banked stays valid. There's nothing to unwind.
Three partners, ninety days, one of each of the strongest-fit types, all inside the five cities. Small on purpose, the point is finding out which partner type actually produces before printing anything at scale.
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.
You'd be putting your name on a recommendation, so here's the unvarnished version.
If you need an established vendor, this isn't it yet. If what you want is someone who picks up, does what he said he'd do, and writes the terms down before there's a problem, that's the trade on offer.
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. Every visit is logged, every lead through it is stamped with your code in the database, and the credit is calculated off those rows when the job completes. Nothing depends on anyone remembering a conversation.
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.
No, and it isn't implied anywhere on this site. Sole proprietor, working in the open. It matters most for property managers and condo boards, who usually require a certificate before anyone touches a vehicle on site, if that's your requirement, this can't meet it today.
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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