Raise the Standard
Champion University was built for shop owners who believe automotive service can be better.
Better for the customer. Better for the team. Better for the business.
Raising the standard means we do not rely on pressure, guessing, or personalities to carry the shop. We rely on clear inspections, honest communication, documented proof, trained advisors, and technicians who understand the process behind great service.
It means customers are not just told what their vehicle needs. They are shown what was found, why it matters, what is recommended, and what can wait.
It means advisors know how to communicate value without sounding like they are selling. It means technicians know how to document their findings clearly. It means owners can build a shop that does not depend on them explaining the same things over and over every day.
And yes, when the process gets better, the numbers get better.
Better inspections create better estimates.
Better communication creates better approvals.
Better documentation creates more trust.
Better training creates fewer mistakes.
Better systems create a stronger shop.
Champion University teaches shops how to grow by doing things the right way.
Because integrity should not hold a shop back.
It should be the reason the shop wins.
Train Anywhere
Champion University was built for real shop life.
Your team does not need to sit in a classroom for three days, shut the shop down, or wait for the perfect training schedule that never actually happens.
These courses are designed to be simple to access, easy to follow, and practical enough to use during the workday.
Advisors can train from the counter.
Technicians can review lessons between jobs.
Owners can assign training without having to personally explain the same process every week.
New hires can start learning the standard before bad habits become their default setting.
The training is broken into clear lessons your team can complete from a phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop.
At the shop.
At home.
During onboarding.
Before a team meeting.
After a missed opportunity.
Anytime your people need clarity.
Champion University gives your team a consistent place to learn how inspections should be documented, how recommendations should be explained, how customers should be educated, and how the shop’s standard should be followed.
The goal is not to add more work to an already busy shop.
The goal is to make training easier to deliver, easier to repeat, and easier for your team to actually use.
Inspection First
Most shops do not have a sales problem.
They have a trust problem.
Customers hesitate when they feel like price came before proof. They pull back when recommendations sound rushed, unclear, or disconnected from what they came in for. They say “let me think about it” when they do not fully understand what was found or why it matters.
Champion University teaches shops to fix that problem with an Inspection First process.
Inspection First means the customer sees the condition of the vehicle before they are asked to spend money. It means every recommendation is supported by photos, measurements, technician notes, and a clear explanation.
No guessing.
No pressure.
No vague “you need this.”
No hoping the advisor can talk the customer into trusting the shop.
The inspection becomes the foundation of the conversation.
The technician documents what was found.
The advisor explains what it means.
The customer understands what matters now, what can wait, and why the shop is making the recommendation.
That is how integrity becomes visible.
And when customers can see the truth, trust builds faster.
Better inspections create better conversations. Better conversations create better approvals. Better approvals create better numbers without turning your shop into the kind of place customers are already afraid of.
Champion University trains owners, advisors, and technicians to build sales through clarity, proof, and process.
Because the best shops do not sell harder.
They show better.
Champion Tire and Automotive, Durham N.C.
Built by a Real Shop
Champion University was built by a shop that had to earn trust the hard way.
Not with theory.
Not with slogans.
Not with some recycled training advice from people who have not stood at a counter with a customer questioning every recommendation.
It was built inside Champion Tire & Automotive, a real shop serving real customers, where the process had to work in the middle of busy days, hard conversations, technician questions, advisor mistakes, customer hesitation, and the pressure to do the job right.
In just two years, Champion Tire & Automotive earned a 5.0 average on Google with over 300 reviews.
That matters.
Because customers do not leave reviews like that just because a shop fixes cars. They leave reviews like that when they feel respected, informed, and treated fairly.
Many of those reviews mention the inspection process directly. Customers talk about the photos, the explanations, the honesty, and the fact that they understood what was being recommended before they spent money.
That is the difference a real standard makes.
Champion University takes the same lessons learned inside the shop and turns them into training your team can actually use. Some of that training is built around inspections. Some of it is built around service advisors, phone skills, technician communication, onboarding, leadership, customer trust, and the everyday habits that make a shop better.
This is not just digital inspection training.
It is shop training built from real shop experience.
The goal is simple: help your team communicate better, inspect better, document better, recommend better, and serve customers in a way that protects trust while improving the numbers that keep the business alive.
Because doing things the right way should not make your shop weaker.
It should be the reason your shop wins.
` DVI Training
A digital vehicle inspection should do more than collect photos.
It should help the customer understand the truth about their vehicle.
Champion University’s DVI Training teaches shops how to build an inspection process that creates clarity before price is discussed. That means better photos, better technician notes, better organization, better advisor presentation, and a better customer experience around the inspection itself.
Most shops have access to digital inspections. The problem is that many teams do not use them with a clear standard. Photos are missing. Notes are vague. Recommendations are rushed. Advisors send estimates before the customer understands the condition of the vehicle. Then everyone wonders why approvals are inconsistent, because apparently confusion remains a terrible sales strategy.
DVI Training helps fix that.
This training shows technicians how to document findings clearly, advisors how to explain those findings in plain language, and owners how to create a repeatable inspection standard the team can actually follow.
The result is a cleaner process where customers see what was found, understand why it matters, and feel respected before they are asked to spend money.
Inspection first. Proof before price. Trust before approval.
Service Advisor Training
Your service advisor is often the difference between a customer feeling informed and a customer feeling sold.
Champion University’s Service Advisor Training is built to help advisors communicate with more clarity, more confidence, and more consistency at every point in the customer experience.
This training focuses on the conversations that happen every day in a real shop: answering the phone, setting expectations, explaining inspections, presenting estimates, handling hesitation, documenting declines, following up, and helping customers understand what their vehicle needs without pressure.
The goal is not to turn advisors into scripted salespeople.
The goal is to train advisors to lead better conversations.
A strong advisor knows how to slow the conversation down, explain the value of the inspection, connect the recommendation to the customer’s concern, and help the customer make a confident decision. When advisors communicate better, customers trust faster. When customers trust faster, approvals become cleaner and the shop’s reputation gets stronger.
This training helps shops build advisors who can explain clearly, recommend ethically, handle objections professionally, and create a better customer experience from the first call to the final checkout.
Onboarding
Coming Soon
Most shops do not have an onboarding system.
They have a new hire, a busy week, a few rushed explanations, and the quiet hope that the person somehow figures it out before creating expensive chaos. Humanity calls this “training,” which is generous.
Champion University Onboarding is being built to help shops give new advisors and technicians a clearer start from day one.
The goal is to create a structured path that teaches new hires how the shop operates, what the standards are, how customers should be treated, how inspections should be documented, how communication should happen, and what daily performance expectations look like.
Strong onboarding reduces confusion. It helps new employees understand the culture before bad habits settle in. It gives owners and managers a repeatable way to train without having to explain the same things over and over every time someone new joins the team.
This upcoming training path will focus on new hire readiness, clear expectations, shop standards, customer communication, inspection basics, workflow habits, and the mindset needed to represent the shop professionally.
Onboarding is not just about getting someone through their first week.
It is about setting the standard before the standard gets ignored.
The DVI Bible Series
The DVI Bible Series is built as a connected, role-based training system for the entire shop.
Each book works together, and each course follows the book.
The Technician Edition, Service Advisor Edition, and Owner / Manager Edition all follow the same chapter structure. Each chapter teaches the same core DVI subject, but from the perspective of that role.
That means Chapter 1 in the Technician Edition, Chapter 1 in the Service Advisor Edition, and Chapter 1 in the Owner / Manager Edition are all connected.
The technician learns the subject from the bay.
The service advisor learns the subject from the counter.
The owner or manager learns the subject from leadership and accountability.
The videos that go with each chapter reinforce the same structure. Each role has training that matches its chapter, so the team can read and watch the material that applies directly to their position while still learning the same shop-wide standard.
This allows the whole team to train on the same subject at the same time without forcing every role to study the exact same material.
Everyone is learning the same DVI process.
Everyone is seeing how their role connects to the other roles.
Everyone is working from one shared standard.
That is what makes the DVI Bible Series different. It is not just three separate books or a collection of random videos. It is one connected shop training system, written and taught for the people who actually have to use the process every day.
Chapter 1: The DVI Standard From the Owner / Manager Perspective
Chapter 1 Summary
Chapter 1 introduces the same core DVI subject covered in the Technician Edition and Service Advisor Edition, but from the owner / manager perspective.
The chapter reading and the video work together.
The reading explains the standard.
The video reinforces the lesson and helps connect the subject to real shop leadership.
The technician is responsible for inspecting, measuring, photographing, and documenting the vehicle clearly.
The service advisor is responsible for reviewing that information, organizing the recommendations, and explaining the findings to the customer with proof.
The owner or manager is responsible for making sure the standard is clear, trained, reviewed, and protected.
Each role has a different responsibility, but the subject is the same.
That is why the DVI Bible Series is designed chapter by chapter, with matching videos for each role. The team can study the same topic at the same time while learning how that topic applies to their specific position.
This creates alignment between the bay, the counter, and leadership.
When every role understands the same DVI standard, inspections become easier to review, recommendations become easier to explain, and customers receive a more consistent experience.
Chapter 1 begins by showing how one shared DVI standard supports the entire shop.
The Champion DVI Playbook
The Champion DVI Playbook is the practical guide for installing a stronger DVI process inside a real shop.
This is where the standard becomes usable.
The Playbook gives your team the structure, examples, scripts, inspection expectations, and process steps needed to make digital inspections more consistent, more professional, and easier for customers to understand.
A strong DVI process is not just about checking boxes.
It is about building trust through proof.
It is about helping technicians document clearly.
It is about helping service advisors explain recommendations with confidence.
It is about helping owners and managers create a process the team can follow without having to rebuild the standard every day.
The DVI Bible Series teaches the full standard by role.
The Champion DVI Playbook helps you put that standard into motion inside the shop.
It gives your team a clear path for better inspections, better communication, better customer trust, and a more consistent repair process from the bay to the front counter.
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Service Advisor Excellence Series
The Service Advisor Excellence Series is premium training for the advisors who set the standard at the front counter.
This three-tier series gives service advisors a clear path for growth, from learning the foundation of the role to mastering customer communication and developing higher-level leadership.
It is built for real automotive shops where advisors have to manage phone calls, customer expectations, inspections, estimates, approvals, declines, workflow, and trust every day.
Each tier builds on the last.
Tier 1 gives advisors the foundation.
Tier 2 develops stronger communication and presentation skills.
Tier 3 builds advanced leadership and front-counter control.
The goal is not to turn advisors into scripted salespeople.
The goal is to train advisors who can communicate clearly, protect the customer experience, support the technician team, and help the shop operate with consistency.
The Service Advisor Excellence Series gives shops a complete advisor development path:
Beginner / Foundation.
Intermediate Mastery.
Advanced Leadership.
Tier 1 — Beginner / Foundation
Built for new advisors, developing advisors, and shops that need a clear front-counter standard.
Tier 1 teaches the foundation of the advisor role: phone flow, customer intake, expectation setting, inspection-first communication, estimate organization, follow-up, and daily advisor habits.
This tier helps advisors understand the role, follow a process, and communicate with more confidence.
Tier 2 — Intermediate Mastery
Built for advisors who understand the basics and are ready to become stronger communicators.
Tier 2 focuses on presenting findings, explaining recommendations, prioritizing repairs, handling hesitation, answering customer questions, documenting declines, and using proof instead of pressure.
This tier helps advisors lead better customer conversations and make the inspection process easier to understand.
Tier 3 — Advanced Leadership
Built for experienced advisors, lead advisors, service managers, and future leaders.
Tier 3 focuses on workflow control, technician communication, follow-up, accountability, leadership habits, and protecting the shop standard under pressure.
This tier helps advisors lead the front counter with more consistency, maturity, and control.
Service Advisor Excellence Tier 1 Summary Video
Tier 1 is the foundation of the Service Advisor Excellence Series.
This training is built for new and developing advisors who need a clear standard for the front counter.
The focus is not scripts or sales tactics. The focus is role clarity, communication, workflow, inspection-first thinking, estimate organization, follow-up, documentation, and professional advisor habits.
Tier 1 teaches advisors how to move through the day with more structure, from the first phone call to the repair order, DVI review, estimate presentation, customer update, and final follow-up.
The goal is to help advisors stop guessing and start following a process.
Before an advisor can master advanced communication or leadership, they need to understand the foundation of the role.
That is what Tier 1 builds.
Community Care Champions
Community Care Champions is built on a simple idea:
When a local business makes a discount available in exchange for a food donation, everyone wins.
Customers save money.
Families in need receive food.
Local businesses create goodwill.
The community gets stronger.
At Champion Tire & Automotive, we use Community Care Champions to turn everyday customer visits into real support for local families. Customers bring in non-perishable food items, receive a discount on service, and help stock local food resources for people who need support.
This is not just a coupon.
It is a way for businesses to connect service, savings, and community impact in a way customers can actually participate in.
When businesses give customers a reason to donate, generosity becomes easier. When customers donate, families benefit. When families benefit, the whole community moves forward.
A Discount That Does More
Community Care Champions helps local businesses turn everyday promotions into something bigger.
Instead of offering a discount just to create a sale, businesses can connect that discount to a food donation and create a win for everyone involved.
The customer gets value.
The business earns trust.
Local families receive support.
That is the heart of Community Care Champions.
A better offer. A better reason. A better impact.
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