dvid

Just dropped car off to get a couple of bits done, they call m eup and say btw its £45 per hour!!! scandelous I say!

Fudgey

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ford charge £80 an hour iirc + VAT!!

Jim Galbally

did you not check the labour rate 1st?

gurnE

£45 is a fair labour rate imo

dvid

must learn to do things myself

Oranoco

£45 an hour isn't too bad I don't think. You can save a good few quid by being able to do jobs yourself. I just can't be bothered most of the time so the car end up in SCC and I drink a hot chocolate whilst they get their hands dirty for me

danvisteon

when i worked for bmw the labour rate was £110 an hour us workers in the workshop didn't get to see anyting like that!!

Stu @ M Developments

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Nor did you foot the bill for the equiptment/advertising and rent

danvisteon

true but they had 14 guys in the workshop and if you work out the hours sold (pure profit) everyone was around 120hours sold a month so 120 times 14 times 110 = £184,800 a month pure profit just from the workshop let alone sales parts etc...

Stu.H

so you and the 13 other guys did the work for absolutely nothing?

Nath

£45 per hour is very cheap. Sometimes its easier to ask a price for the jobs themselves outright as you dont want to be paying them to answer the phone and scratching their ass like some places do ...... Just imagine paying £90 for an oil and filter change though

danvisteon

no basically say you worked 120 hours you sold that ( booked time) 120 hours then sold another 120 hours on top so say you did 120 jobs in a month and made an hour on each one ( for example a inspection service is booked for 4 hours and you do it in 3)
does that make sense basically they cover their overheads and make a very large profit! but the customer will still pay for a 4 hour service regardless of how long it takes you, that is why in a lot of main dealers you get come backs coz people are trying to hit bonus by selling so many hours a month and a lot of the time people cut corners, this is when things go tits up