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ive dropped into afew places up here in south brissy and some do cobras
and we had nice chats bout the future and i dont mean next year i mean 10 years
and not just about cobras
the automotive parts is getting like the retail market but not as bad
everything is online so u these days u have to adjust to the times
the days of talking to the person u r buying the part whether its 5 bucks or 50000 bucks from are long gone

alot of parts i wont sell now
i would rather keep them to myslef and dont tell anyone where i get them made
and only sell them to the customer only if i make afew bucks fitting them
so for a part that i make 50 bucks on y should i sell it then customer spends an hour on phone to me asking how to fit it
id rather keep my intellectual properly to myself and charge for supply and fitting of the part and if someone wants to just buy the part on the internet then they can figure out how to fit it and hopefully not ring me for info on how to fit
afew places i know work this way to try keep the quality of the parts getting fitted to cars up there as 70% or more of the stuff u buy online is junk

its so hard to sell parts these days so the best way to make money is labour
and when all u have to offer is labour then u have to specialise in something
the next guy to u doesnt

i dont know how some mechanical shops survive just liek in hornsby when i used to work there 10 years ago
within a 1 km radius there was about 40 to 50 mechancial shops ranging from brakes to engines to efi to servicing to exhaust etc etc
and to survive u started seeing brake shops or exhaust shops start doing servicing
same as what midas and some other big shops are doing these days