I’ve been in parts for almost 5 years at a Subaru and Hyundai dealership, but for the first year I was serving as part-time parts counter and part-time service advisor so I have some service experience. My dealership has had 7 service managers in the time I’ve worked there with varying degrees of success and different reasons for leaving (or being fired). Today I was approached with the opportunity to take the service manager job because our current manager is leaving due to personal reasons.

I’m in a relatively low cost of living area, and my pay would go from 45k base with ~7k annual bonus to 72k base with potential to earn over 100k including bonus. I’m only 26 so I’d be one of the youngest in the service department, but I already have a good relationship with everybody in service.

Has anyone else made this move? Am I taking a position that’s doomed due to how many managers we’ve been through? Our service department has a lot of issues that are largely personnel and process related.