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From the dealer's point of view, ordering parts for customers can be tricky, and sometimes very time consuming.
It was not uncommon for the parts guys and the bosses and owner to come back in the shop and drag me up front
to deal with someone throwing curve balls, which never helped my labor $ numbers as a mechanic.
But from a parts guy's point of view, he will get grief from the bosses if he has ordered a lot of parts that no one buys,
and if he has a long line of customers waiting, and he is dealing with someone with an oddball project.
Fitting parts from one model onto another certainly applies.
And also, many times the customer comes in, supplies the part number, and if it doesn't work for what he wants,
he still tends to blame the parts guy, it helps when he tries to get his money back.....
It was not uncommon for the parts guys and the bosses and owner to come back in the shop and drag me up front
to deal with someone throwing curve balls, which never helped my labor $ numbers as a mechanic.
But from a parts guy's point of view, he will get grief from the bosses if he has ordered a lot of parts that no one buys,
and if he has a long line of customers waiting, and he is dealing with someone with an oddball project.
Fitting parts from one model onto another certainly applies.
And also, many times the customer comes in, supplies the part number, and if it doesn't work for what he wants,
he still tends to blame the parts guy, it helps when he tries to get his money back.....