Michigan Car Repair Shop Owner (Clip)
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These tariffs affect your day to day operations. I mean, is charging more the only solution?
These tariffs affect your day to day operations. I mean, is charging more the only solution?
That's the problem. You know, you can only pass so much on to a customer. You know, as a mechanic, our labor rates are a little bit high because cars are more complicated to work on, to diagnose. So we try to help a customer by getting parts at a discount. Now with these 25% going up, it's not much we can help. And we're scared that customers will put off their repairs.
That's the problem. You know, you can only pass so much on to a customer. You know, as a mechanic, our labor rates are a little bit high because cars are more complicated to work on, to diagnose. So we try to help a customer by getting parts at a discount. Now with these 25% going up, it's not much we can help. And we're scared that customers will put off their repairs.
Hopefully not too long, but we just don't know what's going to happen.
Hopefully not too long, but we just don't know what's going to happen.
These tariffs affect your day to day operations. I mean, is charging more the only solution?
That's the problem. You know, you can only pass so much on to a customer. You know, as a mechanic, our labor rates are a little bit high because cars are more complicated to work on, to diagnose. So we try to help a customer by getting parts at a discount. Now with these 25% going up, it's not much we can help. And we're scared that customers will put off their repairs.
Hopefully not too long, but we just don't know what's going to happen.