Business advice needed

[rivermobster]

This is what I preached and preached to my clients in Oregon!!!!! I want to service your boat not fix it!! Most all of drive problems come from lack of oil or water contamination and a service will show this in an instant. I actually had several of my guys pulling their drain plug for an instant to look for water which I thought was kind of cool for them to do. I really did have some customers that saved themselves a ton of money on a reseal instead of a rebuild or NEW drive. I think Rd's idea has a lot of merit. I'd much rather do something to some one's boat that I know what I'm getting into rather than taking up a lot of time diagnosing a problem that happens every other Thursday and only when I launch at Cat Tail.

Solid advise...

But people don't even service the cars they drive every day, much less their boat or Trailer!!! lol

Most of us on here (RDP) know better, but the average guy out there does not. They never listen. After forty years in this (car) business. I've seen it too many times to count.

 

[King P.V.]

I think you will find...that IF you only do badsc maintenance durring thr busy season, you can schedule "bigger" service procedures during the "off" season. water pump jobs, install depth finders, pull outdrives and grease u-joints, etc.... Stuff you may not have time for in the busy season. but customers can wait for. off season can get pretty lonely....