Question about pricing??

[dazedandconfused]

Normal hourly rates around here are between $85-95 a hour. I can have a trans out in under a hour working at a decent pace. Fastest was 30 minutes to have one out. R&R here is going from $400-500 depending on shop.

[ellis93]

7.4 that makes the labor rate like 148/hr maybe just didn't wanna tackle the project...

But if you do it for 400 that means your working for pennys. The average labor rate around here is about 100 for regular automotive shops (Firestone Monroe etc) cummins was either 125 or 150 last time I was there. Not sure about tranny shops.

I make a good living at 70$ a shop hour,people bitch about paying that here. As Andy said its not a bad job and I can have it totally done in an 1hr and 1/2. Working on this stuff is a breeze when its over your head on a lift. You can get to everything,and there is absolutely no reason for someone to pricea job that high unless they just don't want it. I wish a 100 times a day I could work on these old trucks and make my living from them.

For future reference chain stores charge some crazy @$$ prices and their work is usually sub pare. I used to work at a NTB while going to school at UTI in Huston. I know what kind of turd people work there,not all of them are that way but most I've seen were. I'd get an alignment to do that was just (supposedly) done at some other store and Id find it was all jacked up with a "good" toe reading. Basically they set the toe and let her go and screw the rest,half a$$ it to make a dollar fast. This was also when they charged 60$ for it. That's a total ru-ru for the customers booty.
To cut this off some, if you want a tire go to Firestone or Sears,if you want it worked on fine you a "shop" to take it to before your wallet is sucked from your pocket and inverted

[PToombs]

Everybody around here drives volvos and lexus and stuff

You must not be down near Derby! Those guys would help you do it too, lots of experience.

[slow_90firebird]

Why whats down in derby? Thats way the heck down there from me. Im in manchester, but I work in west hartford. If you are farmiliar with west hartford, you will know that is where the money is. Its all doctors, lawyers, or property owners. Which is why shops like the one I work at can charge a higher labor rate than the dealer haha. We just dont do big jobs like that there. My boss sends all that stuff out. He said he can make more profit on selling tires all day and brake jobs, than on big repairs. Also why I cant do it on the lift at work, because we only have 5 bays and they all get used. Not to mention that I cant even fit my truck in far enough to shut the door, or go high enough to walk under it

[PToombs]

Derby is the headquarters, or used to be, of the NETDP. New England Turbo Diesel Power. A bunch of the guys had a shop rented in Derby, and they had friday coffee nights there, and people would be wrenching there all the time. They have a new shop they just rented in Shelton(i think it is) 15 minutes away from the old one. This coming weekend they are having their annual event, Seefood! People will come from all over the northeast, Pa, NY, Mass, NH, Maine, Ct, RI.
I've been to Sandy Hook, I got my donor truck there.

http://www.newenglandturbodieselpower.c ... /index.php