Billy they just are not teaching how to rebuild a starter or alternator any longer. Nor ae they teaching much about points and wait a few years they will stop teaching distributers alltogether as fewer car and trucks have them. Part of the reason is that a assembly line set up to rebuild someting is much more effecient than a mechanic in a shop. So the question is cost both in money and time. The customer wants his vehicle back now, not in the morning and they want it back at the lowest possible cost. If you are from the old school you now that a total rebuild on a carb means throttle and choke shaft bushings and all the rest. The last time I looked at the flat rate to remove, rebuild, install and adjust a Rochester Quadrjet was about 8 hours. Shop I was working in was 45 an hour. So that would be 360 dollars plus parts for a carb that as a reman at the time was 200 bucks hour of labor to R&I. At those kind of cost everyone is going the reman route.
Plus if the shop messes up the rebuild they have to eat the cost of fixing it again. With a reman you turn it in for another one.
Part of the problem is the consumer. When people don't know how to change their own oil they sure as heck can't change an alternator. So shops are seeing a lot more vehicles. I know a fw farmers who are not very good mechanics and have to pay to get stuff fixed. Again the shop isn't going to be willing to mess something up. Most of the guys I know would demand a loaner is they had crops to get in or harvest. So throw a reman in and get it back to the guy. Reman goes south and the shop can tell the farmer "well call the rebuilder about a loaner, all we did was change the part".
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