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By Transmission Repair · Posted
No wholesale for other shops. I avoided warranty companies like the plague, mainly because of the hassle factor of plugging up our production. We only did retail jobs and left the rest to other shops to do. We had plenty of work to do. -
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By Joe Marconi · Posted
Did you do wholesale work, work for other shops? And also for warranty companies. Were there different labor rates for these, and how did you maintain a decent profit margin? -
By Transmission Repair · Posted
We had different labor rates for different jobs. Sometimes it was because of the difficulty, and other things like risk. We had our labor rates at the lowest, plain vanilla, straight jobs. If the vehicle had been chipped, twin turbos, high flow heads, exhaust, or deleted emissions, part labor for those types of vehicles carried a higher premium labor rate. For me, it's not just about the money as it was about managing risk. We commonly found when customers make a horsepower/torque range change, the first thing that goes is usually the factory original transmission. With diesels, this is especially true. The transmission simply is the weak link in the drivetrain. They were never meant to handle that much power. Sometimes it was the extra hard parts/upgrades that drove the price up, which is additional parts on top of the increase in labor. Our ARO for major jobs was about $3,600 as of 2015. -
By Joe Marconi · Posted
A critical strategy that should be consider by shop owners! Excellent podcast! -
By Joe Marconi · Posted
Once again, Hunt brings clarity and great information to shop owners! -
By Joe Marconi · Posted
With labor rates going up, one concept me also need to consider is multi tier labor rates. For example, performing jobs on heavy trucks is different than work on a Honda Civic, or Toyota Corolla. Also, if you do complicated computer work, electrical and driveability, that requires your top tech with the most expensive tools and training. And those jobs have no part profit. Shouldn't this be billed at a higher labor rate? Do you have a tier labor rate strategy? I would like to hear from other shops. -
By champtires · Posted
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