Cambelt change price

[Jebus]

Personally, I would go back do the filter change get the money for the job, note on your paperwork, parts chosen by customer, no washer supplied etc sign it off pack your tools up and tell him sorry but you are not interested in doing any other work for him, will never be happy, thinks deserves the universe for nothing so get rid, better to have a few quiet days work than the grief you get off that type

[360beast]

So I finished the job in 5 mins this morning, he paid me £100 and a turbo downpipe I needed for the 940 GL I'm doing a turbo conversion on now.

After being arsey last night he was also nice as pie this morning.

Very very strange!!!

[827Roverman]

Originally Posted by 360beast

So I finished the job in 5 mins this morning, he paid me £100 and a turbo downpipe I needed for the 940 GL I'm doing a turbo conversion on now.

After being arsey last night he was also nice as pie this morning.

Very very strange!!!

I'd have two words for that customer Luke, second one being, off !

[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by 360beast

So I finished the job in 5 mins this morning, he paid me £100 and a turbo downpipe I needed for the 940 GL I'm doing a turbo conversion on now.

After being arsey last night he was also nice as pie this morning.

Very very strange!!!

A few possibilities there Luke :

1. He had a carp day yesterday and was auditioning for grump of the week.

2. He had a good think and came to his senses

3. He's a member and read your thread, realised he'd been a plank and decided to try and make amends

4. Combination of the above

5. Other reasons impossible to guess or know possibly combined with one or more of the above.

6. He's a true "Jekyll & Hyde" character.

7. You met his "Evil Twin" last night but the real twin this morning.

8. I'll WhatsApp you number 8...........................

[griston64]

Originally Posted by 360beast

So I finished the job in 5 mins this morning, he paid me £100 and a turbo downpipe I needed for the 940 GL I'm doing a turbo conversion on now.

After being arsey last night he was also nice as pie this morning.

Very very strange!!!

The big man had a word in his ear last night Luke

[Clan]

Originally Posted by Martin Cox

If I coud get that much good quality skilled labour for £80 I'd be delighted! I'd also feel rather guilty about underpaying.

As an aside are you talking about a copper washer on the sump plug? If you really have to reuse one, heat it to a dull red heat and let it cool. This anneals it and makes it soft again so it should seal when refitted. A trick I learned running an old 240 many years ago.

Martin

annealing is getting it red hot and plunging it into cold water ...

[360beast]

Originally Posted by Laird Scooby

A few possibilities there Luke :

1. He had a carp day yesterday and was auditioning for grump of the week.

2. He had a good think and came to his senses

3. He's a member and read your thread, realised he'd been a plank and decided to try and make amends

4. Combination of the above

5. Other reasons impossible to guess or know possibly combined with one or more of the above.

6. He's a true "Jekyll & Hyde" character.

7. You met his "Evil Twin" last night but the real twin this morning.

8. I'll WhatsApp you number 8...........................

I've worked with him in the past and I have always known he has a side to him like Jekyll and Hyde but he has always beennfune with me until yesterday. He is a stingey bugger who buys the cheapest chinesiest things possible, is never in the wrong and it is always someone else's fault. Glad I don't work with him anymore but I thought as he can't do this work himself he should be fine... obviously not!

Originally Posted by griston64

The big man had a word in his ear last night Luke

Is that anyone over 5ft 7 up your way? 😋

[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by Clan

annealing is getting it red hot and plunging it into cold water ...

Not necessarily - with steel, definitely not, copper, brass and aluminium you can but it compromises the annealing process :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annealing_(metallurgy)

I prefer to let any of the latter three cool naturally as it gives a longer lasting durability, better for crush washers IMHO but each to their own.

Originally Posted by 360beast

I've worked with him in the past and I have always known he has a side to him like Jekyll and Hyde but he has always beennfune with me until yesterday. He is a stingey bugger who buys the cheapest chinesiest things possible, is never in the wrong and it is always someone else's fault. Glad I don't work with him anymore but I thought as he can't do this work himself he should be fine... obviously not!



Is that anyone over 5ft 7 up your way? 😋

I know the sort of client you mean Luke, i'd definitely try my WhatsApp suggestion and see what happens. Either way it works as a win-win for you then!

[classicswede]

4 hours - are you normally £40 a hour so making £160 total?


A big lesson to learn is never bodge no matter how much pressure the customer puts on you. I learnt that one teh hard way and publicly shown up on the forum at huge expense. It does not matter what the customer asks for teh job has to be right.

Not that I have ever had a cam belt tensioner ever fail but should it fail you could be held responsible.

As to your invoice as suggested you need to put "customer supplied parts"

[360beast]

Originally Posted by classicswede

4 hours - are you normally £40 a hour so making £160 total?


A big lesson to learn is never bodge no matter how much pressure the customer puts on you. I learnt that one teh hard way and publicly shown up on the forum at huge expense. It does not matter what the customer asks for teh job has to be right.

Not that I have ever had a cam belt tensioner ever fail but should it fail you could be held responsible.

As to your invoice as suggested you need to put "customer supplied parts"

I normally charge £25 an hour but I did it at mates rates and even then it wasn't an acceptable price, then he overpaid me!

Invoice says customer supplied parts and states no new washer so I samded the old one down to reuse it.

If there is any comeback then it is on him as the sump plug was torqued to spec etc.