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[Kneale Brownson]

I thought covering the overhead was why shop rates are three to four times 
what the mechanics are paid.


At 01:21 PM 07/15/2001 -0400, Alexander van Gerbig wrote:

>     Well now that I am an official monkey lad I now understand why mechanics
>hate people bringing in their own parts.  I know lots of shops that charge
>almost twice the labor rate to install parts other people have brought in.
>I work in a small shop and we charge a very small amount above what we get
>parts for, sometimes our prices are still under what people get their parts
>for on the net.  I was very surprised at how cheaply my boss can get good
>OEM parts, and within a day or less, even the really obscure parts.
>
>     Now think about how much it costs to run a shop, it's crazy.  Plus there
>is a lot of money being put out before it ever comes in, especially on the
>restoring jobs like we have been doing.  One fellow owes us $20k in parts!
>I now sympathize with shop owners, some go a little overboard on parts
>markups, but I doubt the majority does, especially in the shops where most
>of us go or should go, specialty shops.  A shop couldn't survive if every
>part they laid money out for just got paid back to cost, how about the cost
>of running that shop, paying the secretary, the lads, the electrical, and
>all those things.  The labor rate only can't run a business and support the
>owner, they have to have food for their kids too.
>
>Alexander van Gerbig -- '88 80t (Gone, but never forgotten)
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