used car dealer talk

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@KrazyKid

You need to understand me more, and how my brother and I were brought up. My late grandfather has a big influence on my life. He was a long time GE worker, back when this country had a set of balls and worked for what they wanted to earn. He was inventive and skilled. My father works for everything he has extremely hard, instilled those values into me too. Hell he sold me my first truck for way more than it was worth looking back, but he made me earn it. I don’t get handouts, never have and never will. I also try to make everything around me perfect, which has been a major downfall for me. It clouds my judgment at times and makes me take rash actions, and it usually backfires in my face. So I am forced to choose… continue to help everyone around me or start to help myself. People who don’t know me well think that’s selfish I suppose, but the people who know me and what I have been through I hope understand what I am trying to do.

That being said, my current job is the polar opposite of everything I said, and I does not make me want to get out of bed every morning to go do. We all laugh and think a cushy office job doing nothing and getting paid for it is awesome, but it fucking blows. I need to force myself to get up and go do it, so any supplemental income from doing enjoyable work on the side is what keeps me sane, makes me feel like I am not living for nothing. Simple as that.

Cheap cheap cheap… in the grand scheme of things that is catastrophic. Sure it works #'s wise to start off, and the next guy down the street but it can and will catch up to you. You hire a tech to fix your junk with junk. He is getting the same flat rate pay as the guy working on nice clean cars. Example: AC comp on a civic. Its bellow the alternator, which is below the PS pump. Hes is getting paid 1.2 hrs lets say to swap it. If the cheap car is botched, bolts are stripped, brackets are rusted its taking him longer to even get at the part he wants to replace. On the clean nice car, its off in a jiffy. You hand him a used part for $100 to put in it the crappy car. he puts it all back together, charges the AC. Done in 1.2 hrs on the button. You hand the guy the new ac comp for $200 for the nice car finishes the job in 1.0hrs. (keep in mind your paying him the same no matter what but now he has .2hrs more time he can work on another car for you ) Crappy car, comp is a dud wont come on. Good car is on the lot for sale working fine. Now, you have to dick with a warranty claim with JBAP, wasting time while that nice car is being looked at by a customer where your attention should be. Or there isn’t a warranty on the used part. Now you either gamble on another $100 used one which puts you at the price of the new one to begin with, or your not making that mistake again and buy the new one putting you $100 over budget on the repair. And that part isn’t going to swap it self in there so your paying your tech again to do it… but wait your tech is working on another car for you… so this car sits and waits now.

Some say I think to far into things… but feel free to shoot holes in that example.

As per our deal and the current deal I have with my tech and 3 body guys, I dont pay hourly, I pay by the job or in myself and your deal by the profit after a vehicle is sold… Your trying to make your theory sound alot better then it is lol… That ac compressor was I think $200 new… Or $60 used with a warranty from jerry browns which has top notch used shit lol… If it dont work you get your money back… I dont know about you, but alot of cars need 3/4/5 different repairs made and with that price difference on 1 single part, you bet your god damn ass im going the used junkyard part route… Even shit that doesnt have a warranty, you still get it replaced AND 90% of the time shop time for installing/uninstalling so again, im about saving money and cranking profit, aaalll dayyyy.

@BDSKJChris

the only aspect you are missing in regards to hacking cars together that you plan to sell, is the negative impact on your dealership’s reputation…i worked for a guy for a while doing dmv paper work at his dealership and the place was a dump…building, location, and inventory all had great potential, but employing scumbags and morons combined with cutting corners on everything is currently sinking that business…im not going to say the name of the dealership but i would bet my left nut if i PM’d you the name you could pull their file and it’s gotta be filled with nothing but complaints/claims against them…i used his showroom to sell a 96 corvette with 13,000 miles on it in 2010…i payed 9 for it…it was worth 20,000 all i had to do was detail it, not a scratch on it, and it sat forever because nobody trusted the dealership, i sold it to prestige auto for 14,700 and he sold it for 22,000. so cutting corners in the automotive business only leads to failure IMO.

#1, its not called “hacking” …“hacking” is a short cut, different from the right way to repair a vehicle… Adding a peice of metal to a $250 subframe instead of replacing it with a new one is “hacking”

#2 Im not about nor would I ever be about “hacking” …I choose to buy a $60 jerry brown bumper thats already black then buy a new one for $120, pay for paint and materials and have the labor involved when it can be used to do something else… I’d rather buy a used alternator for $40-60 with a warranty rather then a $200-250 one… I’d rather buy a junkyard transmission for $300 then to rebuild one at aamco for $1,500…

@PJB

People in Schenectady want cheap cars they can buy for $3k or less. Ive seen one dealer have nothing but cheap old high mileage cars and their inventory changes almost daily because they have what people want.

yup, I’ve only been a dealer for like 3 months, ive sold probably 36 cars lol…

@JSEnclosures

the “cheap cheap cheap” customers are the same ones who will report you to dmv in a heartbeat and then you’ve got big problems. doesn’t matter what nys mandatory warranty says, dmv complaints are a whole different ball game

You couldnt be further from correct… Customers that report you are the higher dollar cars that people have alot more to loose… My customer base which includes mostly cars under 5k include jigs, mexicans that cant talk english & white trash that dont know how to sign there name… DMV inspector even told me when he approved me for the license, there real lenient with dealers that sell low dollar cars bc they know its tough to please everyone… I mean really, what the fuck can you expect for $2-3k which is 90% of my cars… They all come inspected with a warranty, what else can you ask for?