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    15 hours ago, Olaf said:

    The blunt view - and understandable - is frequently "do you take your steak to a restaurant to get them to cook it?".

    It's a minefield for the business too - they get your car up on the hoist, the part you supplied is wrong.  Now what - the hoist is tied up with a job that's stopped.... and for what, labour-only charge?  It's not worth it.

    Or, you pay for the job, they install your part.  Part craps out.  You obtain a replacement and pay for them to change it out.  Now you've paid labour twice - if you'd just had the workshop do the job, make their small margin on the part, it becomes their problem - you go back and say 'love the work you've done, it's crapped out - can you take care of it with your supplier please?' and leave the car with them,  For want of a small margin on parts, it's a pretty good deal.

    I think there's an obligation under some consumer act or another that makes this difficult to opt out of.

    Put yourself in the position of your chef; would you want to stake the reputation of your restaurant on a punter bringing in his own steak?

    Not sure I fully understand this comment. I have been to shops that have installed a new part (from whatever supplier they use). Part has crapped out shortly after. Yes they have replaced the part but they still charge you labour to do it so no difference.

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    Bellars Auckland North shore is the same - sign on the wall. I have a local mechanic that does my work and they will use parts I supply but when I first asked they weren't exactly keen 🙂

    I've always imagined a profit margin in the parts dept right - they buy at a discount but charge customer full ticket so they would be missing that component perhaps.

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    I feel like the search options don't always capture detail like they used to... Seems people enter their rego and just go with whatever the lazy border data was. I'm looking for a e46 coupe at present and often find them listed in 330i or 325i - not 330ci or 325ci. Even searching by number of doors doesn't seem to work... 

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