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Imagine as a software developer you tracked your time working tickets, your pay was hourly, and depending on the ticket type you were prescribed how long that t
by mattbrewsbytes 4y ago
Imagine as a software developer you tracked your time working tickets, your pay was hourly, and depending on the ticket type you were prescribed how long that ticket should take and paid those set hours whether you went over/under the set hours. This sounds completely insane but this is how car mechanics work (as I understand a lot of shops do this). Replacing a battery might be 1/4 hour labor, replacing brakes on car model XYZ is 1.25 hours, etc. This is why mechanics won't really want to spend time on issues like this. It could be a wild goose chase tracking down every electrical sub-system in the car only to find something chewed thru a wire somewhere under a panel. The fix might be $15 in parts and 20 hours of actual labor but their system might quote replacing a wire as 1 hour labor.
- winrid 4y agoThat's kind of how dealer mechanics work but not any other mechanic... They work for 10 hours, you get billed for 10 hours.
- jonfw 4y agoMany shops work by book time, not just dealers, although obviously YMMV based on the shop and the work. It’s more common for routine maintenance to be charged by book time since it’s a standard procedure, less common for more complicated issues
- c4mpute 4y ago> That's kind of how dealer mechanics work Refinement: That's kind of how dealer mechanics work when they know that book time they are billing is more than the time they actually need for the task. For all the other situations, there is book time like "diagnosis, complexity high, diagnostic equipment involved" billed per 6min unit.