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Summit Auto Calibration franchise — is it worth it?

Medium risk Item 19 disclosed

Summit Auto Calibration offers an automotive franchise opportunity with an initial investment ranging from $160,550 to $1,086,500.

Everything below is free, read straight off Summit Auto Calibration's registered filing, with where the numbers land against automotive peers. Weighing Summit Auto Calibration against other options? Get a free shortlist of franchises that fit your budget.

Figures above are as disclosed in Summit Auto Calibration's most recent FDD (registered 2025). Source: Wisconsin Dept. of Financial Institutions — Franchise Registration · filing 639747 — check it yourself. See every other Wisconsin-registered franchise.

How much does a Summit Auto Calibration franchise make?

Summit Auto Calibration is one of the franchisors that answers this on the record: its most recent FDD makes an Item 19 financial performance representation — actual unit earnings figures, disclosed by the franchisor itself. The headline figure is $1,369,554 in average unit revenue — read it alongside what Item 19 says about which units it covers (often only mature or top-performing locations). See every automotive brand that discloses earnings in the Automotive franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings ranking.

Summit Auto Calibration franchise profit vs. revenue

Revenue is not profit. An Item 19 almost always reports sales — what a location takes in — not what an owner keeps. Out of that number come Summit Auto Calibration's 9% royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a Summit Auto Calibration franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "Summit Auto Calibration franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure. On $1,369,554 of revenue, a 9% royalty alone is about $123,260 a year before any other cost.

Summit Auto Calibration lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

We do not publish a litigation answer for Summit Auto Calibration. Item 3 could not be read reliably from this particular filing, and a claim that a company has no legal history is not one to make on a failed parse — so we say we do not know instead. Item 3 of the FDD itself is the place to check; the methodology page explains what we do and do not machine-read.

Summit Auto Calibration closures & failure rate

Before you sign, Summit Auto Calibration will hand you a list of current owners to call as references — and they choose who's on that list. It won't include the owners who quit, got bought out, or were forced out last year. The FDD does report that number, even though the reference list leaves those people off. Below is what Summit Auto Calibration's most recent filing shows, and whether it's normal for a automotive of this kind.

The closest thing an FDD has to a failure rate is Item 20 — outlet openings, closures, terminations and non-renewals, reported by the franchisor. Summit Auto Calibration's outlet tables did not machine-read cleanly; Item 20 of the source FDD has them.

Who owns Summit Auto Calibration?

Summit Auto Calibration's franchise is offered by SAC Franchise Co LLC — the franchisor named on the cover of its most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2025), and the entity a franchisee actually signs with. That name comes straight off the filing at WI DFI; it identifies the franchisor, not necessarily the ultimate parent company behind it.

Automotive franchises at a similar investment level

Anyone weighing Summit Auto Calibration is really weighing it against the other brands their money could go into. These are the closest by total initial investment (FDD Item 7), each with its own FDD-based page.

Summit Auto Calibration franchise — frequently asked