When I was contracted to fix that dealership, I was blown away that even with 41M$/yr in car sales, 77% of the TOTAL income came from the Service Department!Just_a_fan wrote: ↑Wed Sep 01, 2021 1:39 pmThat seems like excellent value. Land Rover charge around £15k for a replacement 3.0 V6 diesel. But they are money grabbing bar stewards...Zynerji wrote: ↑Wed Sep 01, 2021 1:34 pmI've seen the dealership cost of a replacement BMW N54 engine charged at $800. Obviously, the dealership charged the customer $4400 for it to be installed.... I expect it costs BMW about $400 to make if they sell to dealers for that price.Just_a_fan wrote: ↑Wed Sep 01, 2021 1:28 pm
That seems reasonable. How much does an engine cost the car manufacturer? We know that buying the engine separately as Joe Public can be expensive - if you buy all of the parts to build a car it will cost a lot more than the cost of the built car from a dealership, after all - but how much does a typical V8 cost GM themselves, for example? We'll likely never know, of course.
Most of that was due to 8 out of 10 brand new cars from the dock needed to be "fixed" before it could be sold...