370Z oil consumption

Originally Posted by bleufiend

Sure

1. I don't smoke.
2. Show me a dealer that I can rake in 15 hours a day and I'll go there now, if you think all we do is just spin one wrench and then flag a hour for it your quite wrong.
3. Your paying not only for the time it takes to do the job but also for the experience and training of the dealer tech. Not to mention your also paying for the right to come back and chew out both me the service advisor and the manager if everythings not right with your car.
4. I'm happy flagging 8 hours a day. If I make more then that great but I don't want to screw people in the process for it. When you don't come back because of a bad experience then that means we just lost a customer.

I work for BMW and have now for 3 years since graduating school, our cars tend to go anywhere from 12,15k between oil changes. In that time the engines use about 1.5 to 2qts that we top up when the customer comes in.

Originally Posted by 370Zsteve

I've worked in quite a few dealerships that routinely billed in hour increments when a job took 10 minutes. Dealerships charge by what their book tells them to charge. If the bok says the job should take 2 hours, and the tech finishes it in 65 minutes, guess what? Customer is billed for 2 hours.

Just because you get paid 8 hours doesn't mean the dealership didn't bill 12 hours for your labor.