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Your very lucky T3, finding an honest anything nowadays is hard going, but when they are efficient, meticulous on top of that and you "trust" them, then they have no need to advertise really, word of mouth is the highest praise!
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depends on what diagnostics are done...if there's a pool of water on the ground and the diagnostic is.."mate I think you are leaking fluid"...then...hmmmm...if it entails hooking up a laptop to the OBD port then sure...but even then $165 is still a rip.
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Feel free to post again when you can convey what you are trying to get across with all the references to pride, what is wrong with being proud of the work you do? Do feel free to check the different meanings of pride, ego, self worth, etc If you are confusing pride with arrogance let me know as your posts might make a bit more sense.
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On some car consumables now, there’s very little between typical discounted retail and wholesale trade price when you compare apples to apples. DIN55T batteries are one; maybe $20 fat on a decent CCA/warranty and you’re expected to fit it then put a meter across the charging system. I buy some stuff through my part-time workplace just to keep the account sales volume up.
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My daughter works for a major discount liquor chain (which just so happens to be owned by one of the biggest retail giants) and they have restaurants and even pubs buying their wines, spirits, and even some bottled beers. When another daughter worked for a major pizza chain (I assume they are franchises) the Owner/Manager got so sick of being fleeced by CCA, that he started buying trolley loads of softdrink from the local supermarket. But, there's a difference between that and the "gouging" that some mechanics still get up to. There's a local bloke who "fixes" cars by fitting parts he scrounges from Wreckers, and cons people that he's doing them some huge favour "cos they don't make em anymore." Now if my turbo has sharted itself after 80k, why the **** would I pay for your labour to fit something from a wreck that's probably done twice that? and FYI it's a bog-standard MHI turbo, so yeah you can still buy the parts brand new. He refused to fit a new part, "cos of warranty issues" but reckoned he could provide warranty on some rusty piece of junk from a wreckers. So yet another ****ing job I have to do myself. Last edited by Crazy Dazz; 29-06-2021 at 11:40 PM. |
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Since I finished my trade I have worked all over Australia, big cities, little towns, remote, dealer workshops, mine sites, mum and dad outfits, for myself picking up skills both for my trade and people, so I understand both sides of the argument, now I work on what I want to work on, I accept a challenge and get quite proud when I can repair the so-called unrepairable / Stuffed what ever, I tend to work on the odd, old, different, or down right strange using the old skills that aren't taught to the younger people any more. Don't charge like a wounded bull and I am mobile. If I can't fix it or make it run / do the job they get it for free, usually I get paid my diesel to and from when I do remote or bush, I don't have to pay anyone else, BUT as always the parts / consumables have to be paid for. AS I have said before maybe I am Different but I have met more psycho's that are customers then us mechanics.
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And everyone is different when it comes to pricing, used to be called a "handling charge".. Cheers King Billy ![]() |
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Just caught up on the last few pages of this thread. Geeze I had a great chuckle.
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Billy, you got to keep up son. read reply no. 17 from back when this thread started.
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heritagestonemason.com/Fordlouisvillerestoration In order that the labour of centuries past may not be in vain during the centuries to come...... D. Diderot 1752
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I was only a baby then!...sucking on my dum-dum, lol.
Yes I will look directly, there are an awful lot of posts and threads in this forum!...lol... ![]() Cheers King Billy ![]() |
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Well had a quick squizz, did you know that your post Number 17 is dated 08/08/2020....that's a year ago today!...Mmmm, must be providence, told you I was sucking a dum-dum....lol..hahaha...
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You do know its still July ?
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heritagestonemason.com/Fordlouisvillerestoration In order that the labour of centuries past may not be in vain during the centuries to come...... D. Diderot 1752
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