Engine oil prices - how low does it go?
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For old cars I'm doing oil changes on I normally buy Euro Car Parts own brand TripleQX 10w40 oil - it's about £13 for 5L which is about as cheap as it gets at retail prices
They rang me this morning offering me 20L for £23+VAT - that's pretty much half the price per litre!
Got me wondering, how much do garages pay for those massive drums they use? Pretty sure I've been invoiced some silly £/L amount by a garage as part of a service before
They rang me this morning offering me 20L for £23+VAT - that's pretty much half the price per litre!
Got me wondering, how much do garages pay for those massive drums they use? Pretty sure I've been invoiced some silly £/L amount by a garage as part of a service before
TooMany2cvs said:
It's called "profit", and it's why the owner of the garage unlocks the door in the morning. So he has a house to go home to that night, with food on the table.
Well aware of how business works thanks - do you need to post such hostile comments on every thread that mentions the motor trade?Not interested in how much profit who's making.
AngryPartsBloke said:
When i worked for a main delaer We used to sell 205L drums to trade customers for £195, which was below cost. We'd get a rebate from hitting a target for selling a certin Value of parts from the Franchise we were part of.
Somebody once got in trouble for selling a drum at £205 and making profit on it.
Treating a rebate as your profit margin, No surprise we went down the pan tbh.
So that's probably about as cheap as it gets Somebody once got in trouble for selling a drum at £205 and making profit on it.
Treating a rebate as your profit margin, No surprise we went down the pan tbh.
Isn't treating rebates as profit margin quite common in new car sales too?
I don't care where you work - your constant hostility towards anyone that mentions anything related to garages/the trade is tiresome to read.
Accounting practices of main dealers who choose to invoice ridiculous amounts for fluids as part of a service in order to spread the labour charge the customer sees on the bill is what I am referring to - at no point did I mention that I expect a garage to service a car for £1/litre and a packet of crisps - I can do that myself in my own workshop using the oil I bought this morning!
Accounting practices of main dealers who choose to invoice ridiculous amounts for fluids as part of a service in order to spread the labour charge the customer sees on the bill is what I am referring to - at no point did I mention that I expect a garage to service a car for £1/litre and a packet of crisps - I can do that myself in my own workshop using the oil I bought this morning!
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