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Originally Posted by sacarguy
Well for one there comes a point where you realy should tell your customer .. JUST BUY SOMETHING MORE SOLID...
his time will be saved your time will be saved to many shops want to just run that labor bill up fixing whatever they have to when the customer would be better served by being told the simple truth.
Also far to many shops take in multiple cars when they simply can not work on them..
i see it every day a shop has two guys < a chasis shop for example > and they got three cars there already needing work.
a fourth guy shows up and they say sure I can do it just to get the job in there.. then so they can collect money from each person they do a little on one car then a little on the other then a little on the other etc etc.
a simple rule can stop all this..
DON"T take in work that 1 the customer cant pay for you to work continualy on unless the customer specificly understands the project will take extreme amounts of time.
and 2 dont take in another car if you got a car a customer who will pay you to finish by working non stop on it and wants to.
I am about to finish a full frame off resto mod including paint etc on a car and i have a total of 5 weeks invested so far in the car and i only have me and two employess one of wich is just a shop errand runner.
I mean soda blasted to bare metal, every nut and bolt replaced, a new engine built, full vete brakes, powder coated suspension, and rear end, and sub frame, as well as a new transmission, and full reproduction interior, custom stereo, covans dash, etc etc there is nothing left of the old car except the floor and the rear half.. new trunk floor but other wise non rusted car.
The total turn around by time im done painting the car will have been 6 or 7 weeks and ill make as much or most likely more in that time as i would have trying to take multiple cars a little at a time and without the headache of complaining customers over time taken, or having to track multiple builds etc etc.
I understand this is not the same situation with all the custom work you have done you simply need to tell people either you are going to have to give me xx per week so i can work on your car solid or you will have to just wait and have it done as it can be done.
as hard as it may be for some of the smaller shops to do you also some times you just have to say no i cant do it right now.
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Okay so you have 2 guys working on the car or just one guy?