I'd love to know what most of you are paying per hour for mechanical work.

Here in Las Vegas, the better independent shops specializing in Mercedes all charge around $135 per hour.

Makes me want to see if the dealer would be cheaper or about the same.

 

The next issue would be finding a dealer that knows anything about or cars?

 

That seems a bit high to me. I'm in northern Kentucky and the dealer's here are charging $90.00 to $110.00 per hour, the last I heard. I don't go to the dealerships though so those might not be correct. The mechanic I go to has five employee's and they specialize in all import car's. He charges $75.00 per hour, and does very good work.

Jim

 

maybe you want to send me his info so we can get a discount and

add him to this list. https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...air-shops.html

 

Thruout much of the USA, I can see $100 per hour as reasonable. Having been in the service industry for 29 years, the cost of equipment, taxation and employees works like this:

1/3 to taxation and over head
1/3 to operating the business and scraping out a profit of maybe 5%
1/3 to the employee

THat does not mean the guy working makes $33 an hour, it costs a lot to employ someone, and all employes have non-billable time thruout the week that must be paid. At $100 an hour, if the employee has any benefits at all and is paid even $20-25 an hour, his cost to the boss is going to be $30-35 an hour.


I pay zero, as I don't let anyone work on my car but myself or a friend at a tech day.

 

My rate is zero as well as the m112 motor is simple to work on and very reliable.

 

Have you tried this shop to see what their rates are? Crossfire Repair & Service in Las Vegas, NV