Is My 08 Prius Steering Busted ??

BS. Proof. Link. Dealers NEVER get paid as much for warranty work as out of warranty. They get paid a set amount amount based on a labor guide and it always has very optimistic labor times.

 

my husband was a dealer tech- as a certified undercar specialist he did lots of alignments. non-warranty alignments paid .7 hours, warranty gave 1-1.5 hours. i've said it elsewhere on these forums in years past, i'm not just making this up to dispute you.

 

I can back up galaxee on this one (and most others). She knows of what she speaks.

Whether warranty work or paid, the techs get paid a fixed amount based on the standard labor guide. In the case of paid work, the dealer charges the customer; for warranty work they bill Toyota. Toyota is a more generous and less suspicious customer than your normal car owner.

Tom

 

thanks, tom. just to clarify, in the majority of cases warranty work pays less than out of warranty work. it's rare for a warranty job to pay more than the same thing on the customer's dime, and techs usually try to avoid the low paying jobs. that's where sorka was basing his assumption.

 

I stand corrected if alignments are a special case. But yea, in general, I've listened to my mechanic friends complain for years about this.