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D_E_Bishop
Feb 21, 2016Explorer
Just remember you can't do everything on the cheap. Sometimes you have to bite the bullet and pay the piper. A fabricator that charges a fair price is a fabricator that will be in business when you buy your next vehicle and need the baseplates installed.
I don't do all the work I could do 10 or 20 years ago and it galls me to pay over a hundred bucks an hour to have work done almost as much as the job schedule estimates that shops use.
An example is my wife's car was at her dealers shop for the scheduled maintenance and they recommended a new serpentine belt. $50 for the belt, $375 for fifteen minutes work. Because the job schedule book said that was the average time to do the job.
Today it is a fact of life and sometimes that is the cost of living and RVing.
I don't do all the work I could do 10 or 20 years ago and it galls me to pay over a hundred bucks an hour to have work done almost as much as the job schedule estimates that shops use.
An example is my wife's car was at her dealers shop for the scheduled maintenance and they recommended a new serpentine belt. $50 for the belt, $375 for fifteen minutes work. Because the job schedule book said that was the average time to do the job.
Today it is a fact of life and sometimes that is the cost of living and RVing.
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