Please Help - Girlie being taken for a ride?

Ring DP tomorrow.
They quoted me £300 a year ago.
Allowing for inflation and the fact that yours is a 110, I'd guess £400 tops.

I'd do it for you, if I could weld........

*snigger a man of your calibre, surely you can weld tre!

The Mad Hat Man said:

Pikey - if yu recon 8 hours - my local stealer charges £85 an hour - so thats about £680 plus £70 for the xmember - thats about £750. which ties up with the OP. Cept no-one pays stealer prices if they can avoid it!!!

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Aye but that's me on me own and I'm a below average self taught chappy not some time served or experienced welder.

toplizzy said:

Wadebridge.....on my tod and I am really at a loss as to how they have come to this amount......

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tis very easy - 200 fer parts and consumables - 8 hours work even at 50 squid an hour is another 400 (and that's a cheap rate) - bit of fiddle factor time and profit plus the VAT soon makes it nigh on 800

Sean said:

tis very easy - 200 fer parts and consumables - 8 hours work even at 50 squid an hour is another 400 (and that's a cheap rate) - bit of fiddle factor time and profit plus the VAT soon makes it nigh on 800

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£200 for a crossmember & a roll of wire?? Where the fook do yu shop??

Bit of a trip, but Chris at Trevecca LR charges £28.50 per hour and he's a good welder - just a bit moody at times.
I'll drop yer home if you take it to him and pick you up and take you back when it's done.

i can weld, but i'm in essex, if someone else did the prep work i would weld it for ya, but i'm in essex

Treworgey 90 said:

Bit of a trip, but Chris at Trevecca LR charges £28.50 per hour and he's a good welder - just a bit moody at times.
I'll drop yer home if you take it to him and pick you up and take you back when it's done.

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Your a star Trewy for your offer... the alpha male has spoken ....................... :hug:

Ere Trewy - wot about that guy that stuffed his disco into a tree - was having probs with his kids being bullied - he cud weld - couldnt he?

redhand said:

Aye but that's me on me own and I'm a below average self taught chappy not some time served or experienced welder.

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i bet the average bloke who does ANY DIY work is MUCH more productive than any "experienced" mechanic, technician or whatever they call them this week - when you do work for yourself you dint stand leaning on yer shiny tool box for 15 minutes outta every hour looking at the job, plus there's another 10 minutes per hour drinking yer brew - plus there's your hour tea break (which i usually more like 2 hours)

so out of a mechanics 8h day, for which you the customer will be charged for 8 hours, there's going to be less than 4 productive hours

I was at DP last week for some welding (just up the road from ere!!), fookin excellent job and not too pricey (think they're £30 an hour) and they put me engine in too. They will definitely do it for less than half what Mick has quoted you (Mick is excellent but prices now approaching main stealers and mega shiney new premises, he's got his work cut out so can charge a bit more!)

Take it to Joe at Temple, he'll see you good!

redhand said:

£200 for a crossmember & a roll of wire?? Where the fook do yu shop??

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very few if any garages will pass on materials cost for zero profit, and if they do their hourly rate will be higher to compensate

Sean said:

i bet the average bloke who does ANY DIY work is MUCH more productive than any "experienced" mechanic, technician or whatever they call them this week - when you do work for yourself you dint stand leaning on yer shiny tool box for 15 minutes outta every hour looking at the job, plus there's another 10 minutes per hour drinking yer brew - plus there's your hour tea break (which i usually more like 2 hours)

so out of a mechanics 8h day, for which you the customer will be charged for 8 hours, there's going to be less than 4 productive hours

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cheeky git when i was still working in a garage (i'm a C&G qualified mechanic) i worked fookin hard i used to get at least 7 hrs good work in a day allowing for an hours lunch

The Mad Hat Man said:

Ere Trewy - wot about that guy that stuffed his disco into a tree - was having probs with his kids being bullied - he cud weld - couldnt he?

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Capn Chaos
He's down in Helston - even further away.
He's out of circulation at the moment - family problems.

Treworgey 90 said:

Capn Chaos
He's down in Helston - even further away.
He's out of circulation at the moment - family problems.

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e's on FB most eves...OI CC we know yer there!!!

G-man said:

cheeky git when i was still working in a garage (i'm a C&G qualified mechanic) i worked fookin hard i used to get at least 7 hrs good work in a day allowing for an hours lunch

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am sure there's exceptions, but when there's an hourly rate involved there's no incentive to work hard, unless your a small one man band who's got a line of work ready to be doing - would be interesting to see the breakdown of that quote she was given

Sean said:

i bet the average bloke who does ANY DIY work is MUCH more productive than any "experienced" mechanic, technician or whatever they call them this week - when you do work for yourself you dint stand leaning on yer shiny tool box for 15 minutes outta every hour looking at the job, plus there's another 10 minutes per hour drinking yer brew - plus there's your hour tea break (which i usually more like 2 hours)

so out of a mechanics 8h day, for which you the customer will be charged for 8 hours, there's going to be less than 4 productive hours

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Dunno what garages you go to but ****ing hell they must be bad! Fair enough.... I ain't been round many garages however the one i work at we have a 20min tea break at 10:30 and then at 1 we have an hour lunch. No other tea brakes, no leaning on the toolbox for 15 mins out of every hour, don't spend 10 mins drinking tea either..

As i said... The garages you either go to are either crap or main stealers... Which is the same thing....

Mseries3 said:

Dunno what garages you go to but ****ing hell they must be bad! Fair enough.... I ain't been round many garages however the one i work at we have a 20min tea break at 10:30 and then at 1 we have an hour lunch. No other tea brakes, no leaning on the toolbox for 15 mins out of every hour, don't spend 10 mins drinking tea either..

As i said... The garages you either go to are either crap or main stealers... Which is the same thing....

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make yer whole comment a bit pointless, in the real world paying for 8 hour works really doesnt mean you'll be getting 8 hours of work

Sean said:

am sure there's exceptions, but when there's an hourly rate involved there's no incentive to work hard, unless your a small one man band who's got a line of work ready to be doing - would be interesting to see the breakdown of that quote she was given

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Yes there is there's the boss who quoted 7hrs but expects it done in 3.5hrs so he can rip 2 poor bastids of instead of just the one. and make even more money. Most mechanics are on about £8 to £10 an hour. and have the boss breathing down there necks to make sure he gets his pound of flesh out of them.

Sean said:

make yer whole comment a bit pointless, in the real world paying for 8 hour works really doesnt mean you'll be getting 8 hours of work

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I have worked in a ford main stealer and a independent garage.... Both seemed to have the same amount of work productivity, I have been around a few garages in the local area (Say 5??) and they all seem to work about the same... If they don't the boss shouts at em.... but it does depend on what you see as alot of garages i suppose.. But you do hear alot of stories about garages ripping people off...