What is the average hourly repair rate?
I need some work done on my 5er. My selling dealer is long gone, as is the repair shop I have been using. I've called a couple places, a brick and mortar shop was about $100 (and booked way out), a ...
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Yes, the rates for about any service on anything are considerably higher in the S.E. Michigan area than in the rest of the state and is why so many from your area bring their RV's to the west side for major service.
One member on this forum was quoted a price of more than double for a rubber roof replacement than what he got it done for at a reputable RV dealer here on the west side. I'd PM'd him some info and he checked it out. Guess where he had it done and saved thousands of dollars.
The materials used cost the same on either side but the business operating costs are very different like apples to oranges. I know as I had an engineering office and operation on both side of the state for decades and our son and his son plus families owned and lived there for years and one still does in Howell. Make more income each year but it's swallowed up plus with the higher cost of everything in the S.E. area of the state. Same goes for the east coast and the west coast or in very large city areas but people are free to make their own choices and then live with the details of life there.
One member on this forum was quoted a price of more than double for a rubber roof replacement than what he got it done for at a reputable RV dealer here on the west side. I'd PM'd him some info and he checked it out. Guess where he had it done and saved thousands of dollars.
The materials used cost the same on either side but the business operating costs are very different like apples to oranges. I know as I had an engineering office and operation on both side of the state for decades and our son and his son plus families owned and lived there for years and one still does in Howell. Make more income each year but it's swallowed up plus with the higher cost of everything in the S.E. area of the state. Same goes for the east coast and the west coast or in very large city areas but people are free to make their own choices and then live with the details of life there.
