How do you explain the price without losing them?
The customer describes the noise. They get a plain explanation, a price range and whether it can wait. Before they call three other garages.
The estimate is drafted and the job is logged, without you writing it twice.
For your own business, or as a service you charge other businesses like yours for.
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A grinding noise, you say. Two questions and I can tell you what it probably is. Does it happen when you brake, or all the time you are rolling? And is it worse in the first five minutes, when the car is cold? If it is on braking and worse cold, on a car at 118 000 km, it is the front pads nine times out of ten. If it is all the time and gets faster with speed, that is a wheel bearing and it is a different conversation. Tell me which and I give you a range tonight.
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| What you notice | What it usually is | How long it can wait |
|---|---|---|
| Grinding when braking, worse cold | Front pads | A week, not a month |
| Pedal goes soft or long | Brake fluid or a leak | Do not drive it, call |
| Steering wheel shakes when braking | Warped discs | Two to three weeks |
| Squeal that stops after ten metres | Damp on the discs | Nothing to do |
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Two lines out of six mean stop now, and they are the two most often ignored. The difference between a steady and a flashing engine light is the difference between a sensor and a 900 euro catalyst.
Garage Moreau
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A grinding noise when braking, worse cold, on a 2017 Clio at 118,000 km is front pads nine times out of ten, sometimes the discs with them. Pads alone 140 to 180 euros fitted, pads and discs 290 to 340. It can wait a week, not a month. Bring it Tuesday morning and you have the real figure in twenty minutes.
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Hello, Front pads and discs replaced this morning. 312 euros, inside the 290 to 340 range I gave you Monday. The discs were at 21.4 mm for a 22 mm minimum, so they had to go, and I kept them in the workshop if you want to see them. What to expect in the next 300 km: braking a little longer than usual and a light smell after a hard stop. Both are normal while new pads bed in. Avoid heavy braking for the first two hundred kilometres if you can. What is not normal and means come back: a return of the grinding, a pedal that goes long, or a shake in the wheel. Any of those, call, it is under warranty. Two things noted and not done, because you did not ask for them: the rear pads are at about 40 percent, so next year, and your roadworthiness test runs out in March. Garage Moreau
A customer who hears a noise calls three garages and remembers the one that explained something. That is where the next five years of servicing get decided, and it is exactly the moment an independent mechanic is under a car with both hands busy. Auto shop software runs the diary, the repair orders and the invoicing; it does not talk to the customer at 7pm. This lab would do the translation, from the noise as described to an estimate in plain words, with your labour rate and your booked times behind every figure.
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Put there once by you, read by every magik, corrected when reality moves. Full on day one, unlike the collections below.
Worth more in month six than in week one.
The collections belong to the lab, not to any single magik. Every magik reads them and every run adds to them, which is why this lab is worth more in month six than in week one.
| Vehicle | Job | Time | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| City car, 128,000 km | Front brake pads | 1h30 | 180 € |
| Diesel estate | Timing belt | 5h | 740 € |
| Van | Clutch | 4h | 620 € |
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It wears your name, not ours.
The same lab, under your name, your colours and your logo. Your customers never see ours.
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A tool built for exactly your job, and only that, will go deeper at that one job. This is for the jobs nothing covers, or the ones spread across three tools today.
It uses the rate you wrote down, and only that. No national average, no figure picked up somewhere else: a price a customer can check against your invoice is the only kind worth giving. If you would rather show a range without the hourly rate, that is a rule you set.
No. Invoicing, parts and the workshop diary stay where they are. This idea works before all that: the customer who describes a noise at nine in the evening and is deciding right then whether to call you or three other garages tomorrow.
No. They get a hypothesis and a question: what that kind of noise usually points to, and what has to be checked on the ramp. A remote diagnosis on a car nobody has lifted is worth nothing, and a firm price promised on top of it always comes back at the garage.
From your labour rate and your booked times, which you put in, and from the jobs already done in your workshop. That is what makes it defensible: they are your prices, not a national average your customer will compare with something else.
Which is why it is a separate magik, with your rules inside it: what you treat as stop driving now, what holds until the next service. When in doubt the careful answer is the one that comes out, and the customer is asked to come in.
It proposes and you confirm. Your diary depends on who is on the ramp, which part is on the shelf and what came in this morning, none of which a message can see. What arrives on your side is a request that is already clear enough to place in two minutes.
Probably, and the point is to be the one who answered first and in plain words. A customer who understood what would be checked and roughly what it costs comes back more often than the one who got a voicemail, whatever the other three quote.
A tool built for exactly independent garages, and only that, will go deeper at that one job. This lab is for the jobs no tool covers, or the ones spread across three tools today, and it runs under your name.
Every audience is still open.
Nobody has taken a square on this idea yet. You declare your audience when you take the lab (“roofers in Brittany”, “plumbers around Paris”), and two people can start from the same idea on two different audiences without getting in each other’s way.
And it wears your name, not ours.
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