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Old 27-06-2021, 09:42 AM   #181
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What car?
Everytime i bought parts for my Saab the price tripled, the 85 Corvette Coupe was worse, but $110 IN today's market, bring your own parts, that's worth it, and the bonus....meticulous work!
You lucky, most make their "beer" money from a 50% write up on the parts, so your deal is a beauty!...
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Falcon They go by the hour so type of car isn't really a factor. I have sent different cars in there and its the same. I also get a free courtesy car whilst its there, even if the job is only a couple of hours. Have built a pretty good rapport with them, to the point where they even let me bring my own coolant I have been using them for 8 years now.

I say "melb tax" because that is what my mates up in QLD call it. They always laugh when I tell them how much it is to do a job here.
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Old 27-06-2021, 10:00 AM   #182
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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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Old 27-06-2021, 10:08 AM   #183
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I worked in a Melbourne inner city workshop and parking was a drama. Luckily the council Ranger was corrupt and wouldn’t book our cars in exchange for free services.
Yep I see some of those inner suburban workshops and I wonder how that works, corrupt council employees are a bonus
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Old 27-06-2021, 10:57 AM   #184
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Yep I see some of those inner suburban workshops and I wonder how that works, corrupt council employees are a bonus
Using terms like corruption or bribery makes it sound bad. The feel good term is greasing the wheels.
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Old 27-06-2021, 02:15 PM   #185
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Local independent workshop across the road from work is $165/hour with minimum 1 hour diagnostic charge the moment they look at the car - which is fair enough.

I still reckon they're too cheap.
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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Old 27-06-2021, 04:00 PM   #186
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That accent is pretty epic, I thought it was the real deal.

Then I did googling, oh my
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Old 27-06-2021, 04:52 PM   #187
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I offer you my condolences, and I do feel sorry for you, your logic is flawed and you can't see past your own nose.


Cheers Billy.
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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Old 27-06-2021, 08:00 PM   #188
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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.
It seems my posts only seem to bother the folks who are trying to justify who they are, lots of folk always justify greed by attacking, and go into denial, sad really!



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You lucky, most make their "beer" money from a 50% write up on the parts, so your deal is a beauty!...

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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 favourite one was a whole $1.74 difference between workshop price and retail from a Ford dealership

You're lucky if your margin is 20%.
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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.
If you're running a small business, even buying through a "trade network" I can practically guarantee you that Supercarp can sell it to the public cheaper, and still make money. And their other great advantage is that their warranty obligation is limited to "nah, you must have fitted it wrong."

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.

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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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My favourite one was a whole $1.74 difference between workshop price and retail from a Ford dealership

You're lucky if your margin is 20%.
20% is better than 19%?
And everyone is different when it comes to pricing, used to be called a "handling charge"..


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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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Just caught up on the last few pages of this thread. Geeze I had a great chuckle.
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Then tell us your worst experience with Psycho's motor repairers?
You must have at least one bad experience!...lol


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Then tell us your worst experience with Psycho's motor repairers?
You must have at least one bad experience!...lol

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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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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...


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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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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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I panicked, thought i was about to miss my old mans birthday
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You do know its still July ?
We're due for Christmas celebrations end of this month I believe.
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