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Old 11-07-2013, 01:58 PM
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How do people mess this up?
Just to be double clear, really you can't mess that up. (changing the rotor). What you are reading about is indexing the dizy after it has been removed.
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See, it's on its way.

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Is there gonna be an illustrated write-up after you are done, too??!
Of course.
Many beginners have PM thanked me for my write-ups.
Not everyone is a lifelong gear head.

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And come on..... you do any work to this xj you will find some way to **** it up..... and it will turn into some 60+ page ordeal on how a mechanic should of done it and how they will charge you $1,000,000 to replace the rotor or some ****.
Hey, no one said this stuff is easy.
People don't pull $100/hr+ for trivial work.
Minimum wage is $7.hr

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What you are reading about is indexing the dizy after it has been removed.
YES!! That's what I was thinking about.
Very glad the cap/rotor is not a big deal
Why would someone need to pull off the entire distributor anyway?
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Originally Posted by BimmerJeeper

Of course.
Many beginners have PM thanked me for my write-ups.
Not everyone is a lifelong gear head.
Great, looking forward to it
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Originally Posted by BimmerJeeper

Of course.
Many beginners have PM thanked me for my write-ups.
Not everyone is a lifelong gear head.

Hey, no one said this stuff is easy.
People don't pull $100/hr+ for trivial work.
Minimum wage is $7.hr

YES!! That's what I was thinking about.
Very glad the cap/rotor is not a big deal
Why would someone need to pull off the entire distributor anyway?
$100 an hour? Where do you come up with this ****?
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So are you done?
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$100 an hour? Where do you come up with this ****?
LOL, what rock do you live under?

Labor rates these days can be anywhere from $80.00 an hour to double that amount and more.

In NJ, your local shop is around $100.00 per hour, and the dealers are between $165-250 per hour.

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So are you done?
No, I still need to order the parts.
I'd like to get to it before winter.

My next projects are the rear shocks and headlights.
Been putting these off for almost a year.
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Labor rates you pay the shop have nothing to do with how much the guy doing the work pulls in, like you implied in a previous post.
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See, it's on its way.


Xs a 1,000,000
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Originally Posted by BimmerJeeper
Not everyone is a lifelong gear head.
Yeah, but common sense goes along way as does comprehension. Just saying.
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Labor rates you pay the shop have nothing to do with how much the guy doing the work pulls in, like you implied in a previous post.
Yeah but labor rates are what it says on the bill you end up paying. He is spot on for those rates in NJ too, by the way.
Also I bet those incredibly detailed write ups help a lot of less experienced people. I just like most of you disagree with his time for the work.
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Originally Posted by XJPat
Yeah but labor rates are what it says on the bill you end up paying. He is spot on for those rates in NJ too, by the way.
Totally different story lol

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People don't pull $100/hr+ for trivial work.
Minimum wage is $7.hr
Nobody fixing vehicles is making $100/hr, except maybe the odd time a master tech with Caterpillar goes out to fix something on site making overtime.
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You are still retarded. The mechanic doea not make that. The shop does. The mechanic makea under $20
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I want to work at the dealer that charges 250 a hour. My shop charges 110. But I make no where near that.
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