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Originally Posted by midiwall
I just PM'd John and asked him to come comment. Hopefully we'll finally know what really goes on!
I certainly don't want him to expose any trade secrets, just a better undestanding of time and parts.
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Great minds think alike!!! I PM'd him too.
Anyway, I am not trying to kill his business at all (in fact I want to see just the opposite!!!), just to have him explain to us where the costs are allocated (ie labor / parts and what is being replaced, modified, etc). I know myself that I always like to know exactly what is done to my truck so if I need to troubleshoot it, I am well informed (that's just the engineer in me!). The shift kits have been around for a long time (no secrets there) and doing these mods can be applied to most vehicles with auto transmissions (obviously not exactly the same for each tranny) except the CVT style ones. The tranny is a basic system of band clamps and a fluid coupler (way simplified there!).
Even if I did know how to do all the mods and had the parts and equipment I would still prefer to have him do the work and guarantee it for me. More of a piece of mind than anything else for me anyway. I used to do the same and go to the dealer to have all the work done on my truck....they screwed it up too many times so now I don't trust them.....so now I have to do all my own maintenance again. Trust is tough to come by especially in the auto repair biz and to me that is the real value added there!!!
