splitshot
Head cook, Bottle washer, and Peace keeper.
Starting to pick up more side jobs and want to be fair. I.E, just replaced a power steering pump and some eletrical work in a Chevy p/u.
Flat labor rate wrenching links?
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inkpot
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Googled and got this: http://www.doocbig.net/free-auto-repair-flat-rate-guide-labor-time/
I'm not sure how accurate the free stuff is. I use the Chilton Labor Guide and pay a little fee for each new year. My computer based system goes from '13 back to '81 and I have the books that will get me back to '67.
It's not free, but for someone that is not a professional mechanic, you could find used books on ebay and you can find labor guide cds new on Amazon that are a few years old NOS. I don't know if you take on jobs for late model vehicles or just the early stuff, but a labor guide is just that, a guide to tell you what it should take someone with all the right tools and experience to do a particular job.
That being said, an oil change for an '04 Land Cruiser books at nearly an hour. If I sold it at that, I would be out of business, quick!!
Dave
It's not free, but for someone that is not a professional mechanic, you could find used books on ebay and you can find labor guide cds new on Amazon that are a few years old NOS. I don't know if you take on jobs for late model vehicles or just the early stuff, but a labor guide is just that, a guide to tell you what it should take someone with all the right tools and experience to do a particular job.
That being said, an oil change for an '04 Land Cruiser books at nearly an hour. If I sold it at that, I would be out of business, quick!!
Dave
BTW, I do electrical at actual time. Sometimes it takes a lot of diagnostic time to catch a gremlin. But, my diagnostic rate is less than my job rate, and if I diagnose something that requires labor to change, like a starter or alternator or switch, I'll cut my diagnostic down or even drop it completely if the parts and labor have a good margin.
I have a customer with an '09 Aston Martin. He is fine with paying a little more for me to take my time on his quarter million dollar car. I made him buy the volumes of the factory service manuals, too.
No. His is a silver roadster. That is a later model. I think the led daytime lights started in '11 or '12.