So my £33+vat per hr is overcharging, but the local Landrover dealer is £77+V (& the merc dealer up the road is on £110+vat.) I have the same equipment, same updates etc, perhaps not the huge new building (funded by the service dept). & 'Which' have the nerve to tar me with the same brush as the minority which rip people off. All these "Schemes" are just that, schemes to extract money from hard working honest people who repair motors vehicles. Vehicles which are far more expensive to repair than their owners could ever conceive. While I'm in a slightly aggravated mood, who charges us £500 for an ecu that probably costs £10 to make, or charges £400 for an air flow meter one month & £40 the following month? Could that be the manufacturer? Do you want that part overnight?? to keep the customer on the road? well instead of the measly 10%, you will get NO discount! Rant over On the subject of Licensing, what about this easy option, Make it Mandatory, let everyone register if they are already trading, but need some qualification if coming into it fresh. Charge a nominal registration fee of say £100 per year, that'll give them £2,500,000 for policing the scheme, then all they need to do is take the licences from the ones which have lots of complaints upheld against them. The only downside I could see about this, is the various 'official' organisations can't cream money from it........sorry guys Regards
"Strings of mystery shops all show motorists are routinely overcharged"
Steve
