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I got a call from a dealer that wanted me to do some work for him. It was close enough so I drive out there. MAN O MAN these cars were rough. nothing like what I'm used to. They were roughly 7 hour cars. When he told me he was paying $75 a car, I told him to stick with whoever he was using. I'd rather spend my down time cleaning my shop than working for that. Gary
 
$75 bucks huh:rofl . Whatta joke these guys are . I woulda love to been there to see the look on his face when you turned him down . Way to go Gary .:xyxthumbs
 
I never liked the thought of doing work for dealerships. Despite all the money they make selling cars, they refuse to pay detailers what they are worth.
 
I get between $75 and $85 for a car (and believe it or not, I've had guys STILL trying to talk me down from that) from dealers, but they get what they pay for. That means a one-step on the outside, only claying on the rough cars, and only leather conditioning if applicable. I do turn away the cars that are complete disasters, though - those just aren't worth the hassle.
 
turbomangt said:
I got a call from a dealer that wanted me to do some work for him. It was close enough so I drive out there. MAN O MAN these cars were rough. nothing like what I'm used to. They were roughly 7 hour cars. When he told me he was paying $75 a car, I told him to stick with whoever he was using. I'd rather spend my down time cleaning my shop than working for that. Gary
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You are absolutely right Gary. During our last long, cold winter we had a little lot call me up amd ask us to do some cars for them so I went out and had a sit down with the owner's son. First vehicle was a 99 dakota - dark green and beat all to hell. We detail it top to bottom and the old man goes over this thing as if it should look like it should look like it just came out of the factory. Then he bitched that we should only charge him our "car price" because a dakota is a small pick up. Second car - 1996 cavalier, black, rusty as hell and ha 275000 kms on the odometer. Can't make a turd shine so we did the best we could with it. Bitches about that one too. Bye bye - send you @*## somewhere else and give me my money. Lots like that are all the same - send them packing.
 
$75 :lol :lol For a full job? He is out of his mind. We are picking up some dealer work because we need to stay busy. We even did work for another detail shop because they were to busy. We didn't make a whole lot doing his cars but it gave us something to work on for a slow 2 week period we had. We are getting between $125-150 for a dealer car right now. They are in pretty good shape for the most part so its not to bad.





James
 
I have a guy that is paying me $130 for a full detail and I thought that was very low. He thinks it's a fair price and if he gives me a lot of business then I do too.
 
The way I look at it is that I have to turn down full priced business to take dealer business. No way is it worth it.
 
BTW I'm in a fixed location. Its not just me here so that helps and I need the money. I have been lucky so far that I have not had to turn down any retail for dealer work.



James
 
I used to fall into the trap of piling the dealer work up at the shop and having to turn away retail but no more for the last 2 years. We had months where sales approached $40000 and we made very little profits. Now we can do far less work and make very tidy profits by ensuring that we take every single retail appointment we can. The dealer stuff just has to wait.
 
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