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which Seattle shop will install my parts from FCP Groton?

posted by  Bob Wennerstrom on  Mon Jan 7 13:11 CST 2008
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So you do understand that the shop wants their profit on parts, especially on a gravy job like scheduled maintenance. Offer to pay the markup on their parts on top of their labor, using your parts and I bet they would do it. Of course it would end up costing the same or more as if you had never ordered the parts in the first place, but mechanics don't just make their living off the labor. If they weren't allowed to make a profit on parts, the labor rate would be much higher.

Either that or send the whole box back to FCP, get a refund and hope the mechanic doesn't remember that you're the guy who asked them to install your FCP parts. Final repair bills can be subjective you know :-)



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