jamcneely

Profit now, pay later!

I own a 2020 Performance Model 3 as my commuter and it works very well for me. It's smooth, stupid fast, incredible sound system, etc. I absolutely love the car! I ate up a set of tires in 9K miles in which Michelin pro-rated so it only cost about $500. It seems that auto crossing your daily is not the best idea. But damn it was fun and impressive! It amazes me how well technology keeps us safe. The car makes you feel like you can do no wrong, pretty cool yet scary! I feel bad for this generation of drivers and the other drivers (us) around them considering the differences between my 71 Nova in high school and this Model 3. I have a Tesla charger at home and at the shop using 220 which takes about 5 hours to charge. I have solar on my house and battery back up. I live in far Northern California and unfortunately our wonderful governor (Gruesome) is most likely going to start taxing my car, my solar and attach a meter to my well and charge me for water. Gruesome is a huge backer of all this EV nonsense and says by 2035 there will be no more ICE's sold in Ca. He also had the nerve to tell EV owners to NOT charge our cars because the grid can't handle it. WTF? LOL!!!!!! I also own a 2016 Tundra and a Miata I use for racing so I feel I'm kinda evening out my carbon footprint. We have a couple customers with EV's at the shop however other than tire rotation and alignments we haven't done much yet. I am looking forward to working on them, well having my son work on them. My dad got out of the tech side in the early 90's when carburetors went out and EFI came in. I took over as the drivability tech at that time and then the business in 2016. Now my son is that guy! We have been in business 55 years as of 2023 and my boys are 4th generation here. I believe the US political money mongers feel better that we drill for oil and take from the ground all of the things we need in third world countries as opposed to ours because out of sight out of mind. There needs to be a mix of ICE, hybrids, EV's, hydrogen, etc. to make this all work but there's always gonna be the one stickler group that'll throw a wrench in the whole thing. Thanks guys I really enjoy reading these posts.

We've played the customer supplied parts game before. We as professionals are liable for fit and function of any parts installed on a customers car. By the time you have determined it to be the correct part, installed it and found it doesn't work you could have easily sold this customer on the quality parts and labor you offer. We explain to our customers that our parts will fit and function as intended and come with a 2 year 24K mile warranty which includes towing, over night accommodations, rental car, etc. should it be needed. We want to be 100% responsible for the service we perform because in reality, whether we supply the parts or not, we are responsible. (at least in California) We also explain to them if they were to supply the part, we disassemble their car and find the part is not correct, faulty, etc. they can be liable to pay the hourly rate of rack time since it is keeping us from taking care of our other customers. Usually when its explained this way they return their parts and have us do the job because they would rather not have any worries. Jerimy

In California we can be held liable for customer supplied parts. Under most circumstances we will not install customer supplied parts, however if they insist we charge enough labor to cover the cost of the part and the labor to redo the job. We make sure they understand this. So, if it is a 1 hour job we charge 2 hours plus the cost of the part. I then tell them when we supply the parts they are also receiving a 2 year 24K warranty which includes lodging, towing, etc. should that part fail. I've only had 1 pot grower decline the warranty and had us supply his Orielly diesel injectors at double the labor and an extra $750 to cover the injectors....stubborn, stoned or stupid!