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I hit 500 hours on a single timing belt job and it made me rethink the whole 'book time' system.
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felix4147d ago
Remember when shops used to just charge you for the time the car was actually on the lift? I had an old Volvo that needed a heater core, a job known for taking forever. The shop gave me a flat rate price based on some manual, but the guy ended up finding a nest of corroded lines that doubled the work. He stuck to the original quote because he said the book time was a guess, not a promise. That kind of honesty feels rare now, which is what makes @xena_bailey18's point about the system being set up to make you pay more ring so true.
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mark_ward8d ago
Book time is a total scam, man.
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xena_bailey187d ago
Yeah, calling it a total scam is pretty spot on. I read this article about how shops use those flat rate times to make everything look simple, but they're almost never right. It's just a way to charge you for five hours of work when the job only took two. The whole system is set up to make you pay more, not to show real labor.
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