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Hey I was wondering about a ideal I had in the back of my head ,not sure if it would work or shoot me self in the foot.Was wondering about lowering the labor rate for cars with high milage to atract more buisness.Do you think it would just get confusing,or attract the wrong costomer?or just be a problem because there old cars and you could run into unforseen problems or may be it might work by just using a discount on a certain milage?

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Hey I was wondering about a ideal I had in the back of my head ,not sure if it would work or shoot me self in the foot.Was wondering about lowering the labor rate for cars with high milage to atract more buisness.Do you think it would just get confusing,or attract the wrong costomer?or just be a problem because there old cars and you could run into unforseen problems or may be it might work by just using a discount on a certain milage?

 

All I can say is usually the older the car the harder they are to work on due to rust, corrosion, brittle parts, etc.

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I agree with xrac. If you want to price something a little lower, do it on the maintenance times since those are more "gravy" money. Don't short change yourself on harder work.

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