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[JiM P 2001]

Originally Posted by MYIX8UR8

Hi...I work at a Porsche/Audi/VW dealership here in Schenectady. Thanks for the kind words

LOL At least you are properly trained. As I was leaving the dealership, A mechanic pulled up in a white durango. There was clearly a shattered front differential in the vehicle. Mechanic says to customer "This is unsafe. It's either a wheel bearing or differential, we'll have to pull it apart and take a look." Explain to me how you can confuse a wheel bearing with a shattered diff? That's like saying he's low on blinker fluid. The wheels were skipping because it was locked for gods sake! Not to put you down, I don't know about your expertiece, but most mechanics at dealerships are glorifed parts changers and have no clue of what do do without going to the computer, punching in the problem, and having it spit out a few parts to try swapping. It's pathetic on the car manufacturer's part to not properly train the emplyees that are repairing their vehicles.

[JustAFocus]

haha i love it, hey, i'm the behind the scenes guy running every number on the car that someone buys and seeing bottom line what the car cost us against what the person paid...i don't think you guys have any idea how bad it is

[mikecentola]

Jim - Premium or ban.

[crazybrew609]

i am a glorified parts hander outer... you think ryan knows how bad people are screwed... me and eric make parts prices.. sure i can sell you a self taping screw for $2 each.. or a mini fuse for $15 a peice... or the best yet is our high mount brake blubs.. 25085970 part number and they are $8.58 each.. each L series car has 6.. and they blow all the time... sad part is si know the price/part number off the top of my head.. we sell 1 and almost make all of our money back for a set of 10

[JiM P 2001]

Originally Posted by crazybrew609

i am a glorified parts hander outer... you think ryan knows how bad people are screwed... me and eric make parts prices.. sure i can sell you a self taping screw for $2 each.. or a mini fuse for $15 a peice... or the best yet is our high mount brake blubs.. 25085970 part number and they are $8.58 each.. each L series car has 6.. and they blow all the time... sad part is si know the price/part number off the top of my head.. we sell 1 and almost make all of our money back for a set of 10

Dealers... LOL

[Celtic1982citleC]

Luckily I work in sales, and not service. So I don't have to deal with the nightmares that go on over there.

[JustAFocus]

"brew, i got a car being delivered without 'leather', what's our cost?" haha

[i2tuning]

see ....

like I said .... dealerships USUALLY are NO GOOD

oh well I have always gone by , if it breaks ... just upgrade it

thats how I get a majority of my parts haha

[crazybrew609]

Originally Posted by JustAFocus

"brew, i got a car being delivered without 'leather', what's our cost?" haha

listen the second you walked up saying that, i pulled a Paunches Pilot and washed my hands of that one..like 6k your cost, 9k to the customer

[1320ride]

hehe parts is only a portion of the service aspect of things...i LOVE the flat rate labor system. find a job that says it takes 2 hours book time... charge 2.5 for rusted or corroded issues and bullshit plus an hour of diagnosis time and have the mechanic finish the job in 35 minutes... @ 85$/hour now THATS what i call profit. and im assistant service manager at a local dealer just for the backround...

[JustAFocus]

try a 99 m3 listed at 19k, in our books now at 12.5..or the 99 accord coupe we just got in with a 125k on it that they're tryin to push for 9,995...i won't even say what thats in our books for

[crazybrew609]

on a side note for that accord.. it's got a super JDM AEM cold air intake,tint, and is in pretty good shape.. nice car for under 10

[JustAFocus]

i actually like it, before i knew what we were asking i tried to push it to my friend dave, then i found out they wanted that much for it and he backed out of it