My cousin has owned a 76 station with a garage for a long time at the
main street leading to Oakland Hills. He has had a very successful
auto repair business.

I had my cars done there a couple of times. It is too far from me or
I would probably never need any other shops to work for me. As far as
I know he calls around and those parts suppliers send him the parts he
needs. He does not spend the time on the wheels to get parts. Even if
you do I don't think it is OK to charge customers labor for that.
I may be wrong. I am not sure if this is an industry standard or not.
Does every customer get a charge of labor for an hour or two for
buying parts for the repair work?

David

--- Benny boy <huotb@VIDEOTRON.CA> wrote:

> Quick mean i'm fast and work non stop, van don't stay long for nothing in or
> beside the shop.
>
> That job was a complete re-seal of the core, heads, pistons (rings gap),
> parts cleaned, complete sandblast of most parts around the engine, painted.
>
> Like all the job i do. Something like that:
> http://www.benplace.com/bjp/100_0021_78c.jpg
> to that
> http://www.benplace.com/bjp/100_0046_78d.jpg
>
> I said 28, that include the 1.5 to 2 hours of road test and running around
> for some rare 2.0L parts.
>
> That about 9 to 10 hours per days.
>
> It's not only the engine itself but everything aroung, it's as important. A
> leaky FI system can ruined and engine job.
>
> Yea, it may be a bit more than an average top-end... but you get way more
> security.
>
> Ben
>
> On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 17:28:00 -0700, David Kao <dtkao0205@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
>
> >What I don't really understand is how you spent 28 hours for the"quick"
> >job. That's 3.5 8 hour day work for labor. Just curious, nothing else.
> >$3200 CDN seems not that bad. But if you claim 28 hours labor that seems
> >a little excessive to me.
> >
> >David
> >
> >
>

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