Unbelievable

[Patrick Burns]

At 02:37 AM 12/16/04, TooManyAudis at aol.com wrote:
 > This prompted her to take a trip to the service bay.  She came back  with:
 > "It's a two hour job, So it will be $220."

Holy smoke! $110/hr labor rate?

It's $85/hr at the Audi dealer where I work. I ask the service writer to 
charge 2.5 hours for a 4 wheel alignment on a new A4/A6 though. That number 
isn't picked out of the air. A standard way to figure the cost of a 
customer pay job is to take the Audi warranty flat rate time, and multiply 
it by 1.5. Audi pays 1.7 hours for a 4 wheel alignment on an A4 or A6 
quattro under warranty. 1.7hr x 1.5 = 2.55hr. At $85/hr, that comes out to 
$216.75, which sounds awfully close to $220.

Patrick