Industry Intelligence: Optimizing the Oil Change
Oil changes are an essential part of your business model. If you look at the selling price, the cost of parts and labor, and most importantly the value of that bay to your business in a day, it only makes sense to look for additional vehicle needs when an oil change customer comes into your shop.
The Changing Functional Fluid & Filters Market
What ever happened to the $19.95 oil change? The answer is that it disappeared, along with the “dinosaur” oils of the day. Using the $19.95 oil change as an example of the unique challenges faced by the auto repair industry in general, its original intent was to attract vehicles into the service bay for visual
Kost Tire Paying Penalty for Charging Phony Oil Change Fee
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced on May 10 that New York-based Kost Tire Distributors will pay a $275,000 penalty for charging customers a phony $2 fee for oil changes, local media reports. The company owns 25 service stations in New York, with several in the Syracuse area. Since Jan. 1, 2012, Kost Tire
Wix Filters Launches Quick Search On Its Website
Wix Filters has added a Quick Search option to its website to help streamline searches. Visitors who use Quick Search need only to enter car make, model, and year to get information on the correct oil, fuel, air, cabin and transmission filters for their vehicle. Search results feature Wix part numbers hyperlinked with additional information
Bosch Introduces Engine Air Filters
Robert Bosch has expanded its Workshop brand filters portfolio with the addition of engine air filters. With this new addition, Bosch now offers a complete line of workshop filters – air, oil, fuel and cabin air filters – to automotive service technicians. Bosch Workshop Engine Air Filters are 98% efficient and their exclusive filtration
Building Oil Change Profits One Job At A Time
For many years, we’ve considered the under-valued lubrication, oil and filter change (LOF) as a loss-leader service designed to “up-sell” other services. To make matters even worse, some shop owners have further undermined the value of the LOF by using a time clock to measure lube bay efficiency. In so many of these cases, such
Cabin Air: The ‘Hidden’ Filter
Many motorists are unaware their vehicle has a cabin air filter, much less where the filter is or how to replace it. Cabin air filters have been included in many vehicles since the mid-1980s, and are used in more than 90 percent of newer cars and trucks. Yet many motorists are unaware their vehicle has
Wix Filters Celebrates 75th Anniversary
Affinia Group’s Wix Filters rolls out a die cast for the 1939 Ford Deluxe Coupe as part of its die cast collection. This collectible is in 1:18 scale die cast replica, complete with custom paint scheme and vintage 1939 North Carolina license plate detail to commemorate Wix’s 75th anniversary. An in-store promotion begins April 1
Building Oil Change Profits One Job at a Time
For many years, we’ve considered the under-valued lubrication, oil and filter change (LOF) as a loss-leader service designed to “up-sell” other services. To make matters even worse, some shop owners have further undermined the value of the LOF by using a time clock to measure lube bay efficiency. In so many of these cases, such
Extended Oil Change Intervals
Filter replacement intervals are designed to minimize maintenance expense for the vehicle owner.
