Originally posted by Dave Severson
Yup, you beat me too it, Mike!!! Flat rate sounds like a ticket to being a zillionaire, but reality is a whole lot different!!!! IMO, it would be a lot easier to "jip" the customer charging time and materials vs. flat rate. None of it, with maybe the exception of installing the seats, is any kind of "custom" work.
Or maybe the shifter. The rest, there is a book time. I guaranteed my mechanics minimum wage, after he doubled that I paid him 1/2 of the labor on the w/o, he fixed his come backs, and if he broke anything (like the windshield putting the hood on) he paid 1/2 of that. that minimum Wage didn't mean nothing, because if he couldn't turn no more time than that, he didn't stay long no how. hard way to make a living.