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Post by **abscate** » 17 Oct 2020, 14:17

IS 50 quid an hour the going rate ther?

It's easily twice that here

Cookeh · Post by **Cookeh** » 17 Oct 2020, 14:21

£50 is a very expensive one. Sadly the one within biking distance of me happens to be very expensive. Most independents are £30-40 per hour, with smaller ones oop noorth being more like £25-30.

Post by **scot850** » 17 Oct 2020, 16:02

Cookeh has a good point! If a local repair shop is delivered the parts, what do they charge for fixing it? Volvo, oh, probably around $150 CDN!!

Neil.

Post by **abscate** » 17 Oct 2020, 16:19

Cookeh wrote: ↑17 Oct 2020, 14:21 £50 is a very expensive one. Sadly the one within biking distance of me happens to be very expensive. Most independents are £30-40 per hour, with smaller ones oop noorth being more like £25-30.

Amazing. My cheap independent is now at 70 GBP per hour and a dealer is easily 120 GBP an hour.

Cookeh · Post by **Cookeh** » 17 Oct 2020, 16:35

Not to discredit mechanics but that's extortionate pricing. The Irish in me would be sobbing into my stout if I had to pay that. I guess it pays to be willing to get stuck in over there, even more so considering the average salary is comparable between our two nations*.

* Figures retrieved from 30 seconds on Google, so may be out of date and wildly inaccurate. I failed as human and didn't check sources for reliability.

Post by **June** » 17 Oct 2020, 16:36

I think I'm paying $150 per hour at my dealership. I haven't seen $120 a hour in at least 20 years if not more. June

Post by **abscate** » 17 Oct 2020, 16:48

Without getting too political we are seeing the difference between societies where health care and retirements are socialized.

Cookeh · Post by **Cookeh** » 18 Oct 2020, 01:04

Oh, no, I understand the premise - there are an awful lot more overheads that need to be covered. As you say, best to avoid politics and I shall stop derailing the thread.

Post by **Ocelot** » 18 Oct 2020, 03:53

June wrote: ↑17 Oct 2020, 16:36 I think I'm paying $150 per hour at my dealership. I haven't seen $120 a hour in at least 20 years if not more. June

Some insight in the Dutch prices. My local Volvo dealer asks 65 euros per hour, that's somewhere around 70 dollars I guess. I also go to a local DIY-garage where I can rent tools, a bridge, et cetera, even the help of another mechanic for 40 euros per hour (45 dollars?).

Post by **abscate** » 18 Oct 2020, 04:41

I also go to a local DIY-garage where I can rent tools, a bridge, et cetera, even the help of another mechanic for 40 euros per hour (45 dollars?).

This is another area where this is rarely found here, and my guess is that liability is the hard part here.

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