Wrenchhead
Millbury,#2Consumer Comment
Tue, August 19, 2008
I heard some horror stories in my 15 years in the auto business, but, labor time is not based on how long it took to work on your car. There are business guidelines that companies use like a company Alldatta or Wrenchhead that quote labor times. Often labor times include the time it would take your basic technician to lift car rem. and replace parts and reassemble. If book time is 1hour and a half and an experienced tech can do it in 30 minutes then great for the tech. If book time was 30 minutes and a nut was rusted on and it took the tech 1hour and a half to get it off you are only charged the half hour. This is how good mechanics make money. The faster you work the more work you can do. I had a tech that would work a 12 hour shift and would bill out almost 20 hours of labor each day... The tech would eat his lunch while waiting for parts and work on two or more cars at a time. While rotors are being turned on one car he would be replacing an axle on another car. most auto labor is min 65-95 an hour.
Wrenchhead
Millbury,#3Consumer Comment
Tue, August 19, 2008
I heard some horror stories in my 15 years in the auto business, but, labor time is not based on how long it took to work on your car. There are business guidelines that companies use like a company Alldatta or Wrenchhead that quote labor times. Often labor times include the time it would take your basic technician to lift car rem. and replace parts and reassemble. If book time is 1hour and a half and an experienced tech can do it in 30 minutes then great for the tech. If book time was 30 minutes and a nut was rusted on and it took the tech 1hour and a half to get it off you are only charged the half hour. This is how good mechanics make money. The faster you work the more work you can do. I had a tech that would work a 12 hour shift and would bill out almost 20 hours of labor each day... The tech would eat his lunch while waiting for parts and work on two or more cars at a time. While rotors are being turned on one car he would be replacing an axle on another car. most auto labor is min 65-95 an hour.
Wrenchhead
Millbury,#4Consumer Comment
Tue, August 19, 2008
I heard some horror stories in my 15 years in the auto business, but, labor time is not based on how long it took to work on your car. There are business guidelines that companies use like a company Alldatta or Wrenchhead that quote labor times. Often labor times include the time it would take your basic technician to lift car rem. and replace parts and reassemble. If book time is 1hour and a half and an experienced tech can do it in 30 minutes then great for the tech. If book time was 30 minutes and a nut was rusted on and it took the tech 1hour and a half to get it off you are only charged the half hour. This is how good mechanics make money. The faster you work the more work you can do. I had a tech that would work a 12 hour shift and would bill out almost 20 hours of labor each day... The tech would eat his lunch while waiting for parts and work on two or more cars at a time. While rotors are being turned on one car he would be replacing an axle on another car. most auto labor is min 65-95 an hour.
Wrenchhead
Millbury,#5Consumer Comment
Tue, August 19, 2008
I heard some horror stories in my 15 years in the auto business, but, labor time is not based on how long it took to work on your car. There are business guidelines that companies use like a company Alldatta or Wrenchhead that quote labor times. Often labor times include the time it would take your basic technician to lift car rem. and replace parts and reassemble. If book time is 1hour and a half and an experienced tech can do it in 30 minutes then great for the tech. If book time was 30 minutes and a nut was rusted on and it took the tech 1hour and a half to get it off you are only charged the half hour. This is how good mechanics make money. The faster you work the more work you can do. I had a tech that would work a 12 hour shift and would bill out almost 20 hours of labor each day... The tech would eat his lunch while waiting for parts and work on two or more cars at a time. While rotors are being turned on one car he would be replacing an axle on another car. most auto labor is min 65-95 an hour.