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DaveDCB
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Coke is £7 a pop at the hotel I’m in tonight!! Bloody rip off!
hiluxman
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Are they on drugs too.
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DaveDCB
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Think so, the bar is €50 minimum spend or you can’t get into it! …. Mrs picked the place lolAre they on drugs too.
heritage machining
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Just what I did with the lifton drive pump I was quoted 1500 quid for a rebuild turns out it was not that complicated took me about 6 hrs to rebuild luckily I have a machine shop at my disposal which made it easierThe strip it out and find out all about it is so right ...... then put it all back together without leaving any signs of having been there is good training
Thomas7740
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£300 for that is extortionate imo, but that could be to do with being in NI.
My guy done 500hour service on the CX80C, fixed door lock and set her up for more speed. £200 all in including the filters. I had the oil, think the filters were £117. Will have no problems getting him back. Plus he works for case main dealer so knows his stuff. Yes he does it at nights and weekends but suits me as the digger needs to be working through the day
My guy done 500hour service on the CX80C, fixed door lock and set her up for more speed. £200 all in including the filters. I had the oil, think the filters were £117. Will have no problems getting him back. Plus he works for case main dealer so knows his stuff. Yes he does it at nights and weekends but suits me as the digger needs to be working through the day
doobin
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Not comparable. He's a fly by night almost certainly using his bosses tools and diagnostics/dealer login. At that money he's probably nicked the filters from the spares department too!
I jest, but seriously, how do you think his firm would feel if they knew?
Thomas7740
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It’s his own tools and vehicle. His firm knows as he buys the parts off them and as it’s not their tools or vehicle it doesn’t matter. Also it’s not like he’s stealing their work, I wouldn’t use them apart from partsNot comparable. He's a fly by night almost certainly using his bosses tools and diagnostics/dealer login. At that money he's probably nicked the filters from the spares department too!
I jest, but seriously, how do you think his firm would feel if they knew?
He’s getting a few quid, I’m saving by not using the dealer, win win imo
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bobthebuilder
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probaly on heroin aswell ?Not comparable. He's a fly by night almost certainly using his bosses tools and diagnostics/dealer login. At that money he's probably nicked the filters from the spares department too!
I jest, but seriously, how do you think his firm would feel if they knew?
Thomas7740
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He wouldn’t appreciate you saying that and neither do I. He’s far from that sort of person.
Furniss
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I think it was a joke on Doobins comment earlier in the thread
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bobthebuilder
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i was making a statement on people throwing wild accusations around with no evidence
Furniss
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Funny it was too
Thomas7740
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That’s fair enough.
doobin
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It is like he’s stealing their work though. You say you wouldn’t use them- I bet you would if you needed diagnostics that only they could do. How many others do you think he’s servicing, loosing them income whilst being perfectly happy to take their wage?It’s his own tools and vehicle. His firm knows as he buys the parts off them and as it’s not their tools or vehicle it doesn’t matter. Also it’s not like he’s stealing their work, I wouldn’t use them apart from parts
He’s getting a few quid, I’m saving by not using the dealer, win win imo
He wouldn’t work for me if I were a dealer.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
used to let my guys use the workshop for jobs for themselves ...
anything using a lot of materials got put out to them at cost ...
the one guy started doing 'rather a lot' for himself
and got challenged on it ...doing 'foreigners'
....his " LA privileges" got "revoked" ........ PDQ .. stupid boy
Thomas7740
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If the work isn’t being directed to them in the first place, how is he stealing it? If I let a random indie mechanic service it, would that be stealing the case dealers work?
As for diagnostics, it can all be done through the screen, all fault codes, changing parameters etc can be done in cab. Only a few things require it to be plugged in, in which case I would let him do it. He isn’t allowed to take the dealership laptop home so he has his own. He used to work at lorries so it’s used for that aswell
doobin
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Really simple- because the work is going to him first!
He sounds like a good, skilled guy who could make a go of it on his own. Were I the boss of that dealership, I'd be saying 's**t or get off of the pot'- and I don't think that's an unreasonable attitude.
How would you feel if your labourer bought a mini and did jobs cheaper at weekends? You know, because he didn't have the overheads that you have as an established business doing things by the book. Paying in to his pension so that he doesn't need to worry about setting up his own as he would if self employed etc. How do you know that that potential customer wouldn't have used you otherwise?
I don't think your guy would be half as cheap if he wasn't still sucking on the dealership's teat.
Thomas7740
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If I didn’t use him I would use someone else, the dealer would be an absolute last resort for me. It just so happens he works for case, I’ve known him for years and he done stuff for me when he worked at the lorry dealership, was he stealing their work?
I don’t have to worry about that, I am my labourer
He’s not sucking on a dealerships teat, if he was using their vehicle, tools etc I would agree with you, but the fact is it’s all his own stuff, so it’s not like he’s costing them anything. Not even costing them income because the work isn’t theirs to start with, not like I went to him in the dealership and said “here come to my work instead of me using the dealer”
doobin
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Maybe you would feel different had you actually experienced being on the other side of the equation. We'll leave it at that.I don’t have to worry about that, I am my labourer
Mick-the-fitter
It’s what I do!
How about one man having a very good skill set, working for a company with lots of highly paid bosses, and them saying yes to anything broken coming in for this one man to fix, no problem but the labour price gets divided by about 6 and that 1/6th is the engineers hourly rate, the company does very well by a few good people with the knowledge!
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