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More power to your elbow
According to ASE (incorporating Trevor Jones), the average overall labour efficiency of dealers' service departments fell from 83% in 2008 to 80% in 2009. Our own data record a similar fall and you have to go back more than a decade to find service labour efficiencies regularly exceeding 100%. Bodyshops, too, have seen overall labour efficiencies declining over time.
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DIY job card analysis
Analysing job cards is an essential research tool for our reports on the market for servicing and repairs. It is the simplest way of deriving the average values of jobs and revealing the strengths and weaknesses of the two principal market suppliers - franchised and independent. The method, albeit arduous and boring, is relatively straightforward and it's the kind of research any franchised workshop or independent garage can do for themselves.