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We charge $85 for the mount and balance in order to be somewhat competitive with the Big Brands and America's Tires of the world. Most tires are done by lube techs who are still paid double minimum because they have their own tools. It is more of a loss leader in order to upsell work that pays...

That is a program run by a company called Dealer Tire who handles tire distribution for multiple car lines. We use them for Mazda. Basically you have to sell 3 at regular price and the 4th for a dollar. Then the dealer has to submit the RO to Dealer Tire who reimburses the dealer the cost on...

At that point we are still losing money. Techs have to be paid double minimum wage in California if they supply their own tools, which in our county makes it around $32/hr. Our normal door rate is $210/hr so we are technically also losing out there.

The factory Pirelli P-Zero tires on my Mustang, along with the 2 replacement sets I have put on there have the Mercedes "MO" symbol on them. They are being replaced with a set of Michelin Pilot Sport 4S once they get down the wear bars.

Please don't judge me for what I am going to say, I'm just the parts guy, but the main reason that dealers sell tires is for the inevitable upsells and then customers coming back for rotations to get more upsells. There is minimal profit in tires, like a set of 4 that retail for $300/ea might...

We sell a lot of tires. So many people just drop their vehicle off in service and say "put the same ones on" that we mostly stock the replacement factory fit tire. Also the vast majority of the calls we get for tires are people asking for the same thing. Now our volume is nowhere near a tire...

All of my wholesale is either 20 or 25% off list, even for collision. We make significantly more selling parts under Ford warranty now that the laws changed so we don't have to kowtow to the big collision centers for 5% profit and a 45% return rate. We still have some accounts that are on...

We had a customer bring in one of those Jeep Wagoneer things with a 6.4 and wanted to wait for the oil change. Autozone charged us $11.26/qt for M1 0W40. If anyone had bothered to give me a heads up I could have sourced it cheaper, but no-one plans ahead anymore I guess. OReillys was around...

Autozone's webpage is nicer and it is substantially easier to print invoices when needed. We don't have a NAPA or AAP and the CarQuest here doesn't do online anything. Also an honorable mention for Parts Authority purely for the multitude of brands they carry. The parts navigation is clunky...

Sometimes we use that specific one in more than one spot. Usually one of our more McGyver customers will come in needing one that is disco duck and we usually stock those. They can be made to work where needed.

Those part numbers are used in a bunch of different places on different applications.

6L5Z-9943170-A is the internal latch mechanism 1L5Z-9943400-AAA is the plastic handle that always breaks F37Z-9943400-A is the metal handle that hardly ever breaks and swaps right in.

E83Z-5421952-B

Good. We have too many unnecessary issues with the current offerings.

They started calling it Sequential since the injectors would fire in time with the intake valve opening. Before that you had K-Jet for continuous and batch fire that either fired all the injectors or one bank at a time.

Another reason we use VINs: there is no 2017.5 in the Mazda GEPC. Only 2017 and 2018 with different listing for transmission type.

Literally scrap value. Everything powertrain related is obsolete.

The turbo engines use a traditional thermostat. The aftermarket parts catalogs for these aren't great, I've looked, so we get a fair amount of people coming to us with wrong parts they have bought from other parts houses. Even on the dealer end, without the VIN the catalog can be cumbersome as...

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