I just dont get it. Its all billable time. Only excuse for not getting it done is you are incapable or plain old lazy.
I look at every job as billable hours. No other shop in town wants to replace or repair leaking exhaust manifolds, i like that work, its by the hour and as long as it takes...
theres a t-bird in the body shop,i offered to help out with the dirty work to get it moving forward,and to make room for my barracuda.
There is a challenger sitting at a shop, sitting outside with no glass in it,will be the 5th winter it has been full of snow. Its junk by now i think.
Well the deal with my Barracuda was this.
They had plenty of space but 'only' had three or four guys.
So it was a matter of time/project management.
The main guy I dealt with was also a mechanic. He was a pretty good guy and had some good welding skills and probably a good mechanic.
Owner of the overall business, which was machining plus this 'race car' shop they had setup, did no hands on work.
Not sure why things had dragged for the first months, but the last month or two the owner had prioritized "more important" customer(s).
I understand sometimes its neccessary to get an important job done for a deadline, but after that's over I expect to be put first in que.
Part B of the story is that they weren't as good as they thought. That was especially true of the new guy they added - who was assigned my car.
When a shop calls themselves a Race Ready Technologies, and works on race cars (some anyway), and the mechanics don't know basic maxims laid down by Carrol Smith, there will be problems. That and the new guy had a bit of attitude, insisted he knew mopars but worked slow as molases - all on t & m.
So put A & B together and the decision became obvious.
