View Poll Results: Should MR Automotive open a shop on Brisbane's southside?

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Thread: Should MR Automotive Open Another Shop?

  1. 14th January 2013, 10:25 AM #1
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    Should MR Automotive Open Another Shop?

    I have been trying since early December to book the Defender in for a service at MR Automotive. Before Christmas they were too busy so I thought I would wait until the dust had settled in January. Now they can only fit me in in the first week of February.

    They are just TOO BUSY. They explained that they have to attend to breakdowns as well as servicing so this means that they generally cannot get you in for anything for at least two weeks, even during "normally busy" periods let alone December/January.

    I can't even organise what I'm doing in two days!

    I know that there are people from all over Brisbane, including Ipswich and the Gold Coast, who make the pilgrimage to Redcliffe a couple of times a year for what seems like the only reliable and affordable servicing of their Landrover. So I asked them - "why don't you open another shop on the southside?"

    Let's take a poll and, as I am sure they have someone who checks this site, see if the numbers can pursuade them.
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  2. 14th January 2013, 10:34 AM #2
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    Move to the south side ? then I wouldnt be able to walk over !
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  3. 14th January 2013, 10:34 AM #3
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    I suppose that's why We were very very busy over the Xmas New year close period, we were supplying parts to last minute services and break downs. Never had a day off. Every one else was closed.

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  4. 14th January 2013, 10:35 AM #4
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    hahaha.....yes it can be hard getting at short notice

    maybe send you defender there on a tilt bed.......
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  5. 14th January 2013, 10:36 AM #5
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    in theroy yes, but if quality slips because they can not control the workers etc as much then it becomes a moot point. I would imagine it hard to find good working, enthusiastic LR mechs to fill 2 workshops....all the best places seem to keep a small reliable workforce.
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  6. 14th January 2013, 10:37 AM #6
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    MR Automotive Ipswich. A dream come true.
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    There is a third option; offer their best/highest potential mechanic a 50:50 deal where they supply the parts and help establish the workshop in their name and he runs it as a 50% partner, they would probably have 1 or 2 blokes who live closer to the new workshop who would want to go there, put it closer to the south side for the gold coast LR guys.
    Do they have any mech's who want to start a LR shop in the gong?
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  8. 14th January 2013, 12:01 PM #8
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    One in inner Brisbane within a 5 k. radius of the GPO. It is a right PIA going 50 minutes each way to Redcliffe.
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    Massive overheads in running one mechanical workshop, let alone 2.
    Two weeks is not a long stretch, and a pretty good sign actually.
    I'm sure they'd rather have 1 workshop booked solid, than 2 half full.


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  10. 14th January 2013, 12:48 PM #10
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    Quote Originally Posted by trog View Post
    Move to the south side ? then I wouldnt be able to walk over !
    This isn't a poll about them moving.

    Quote Originally Posted by FenianEel View Post
    I'm sure they'd rather have 1 workshop booked solid, than 2 half full.
    And it's not a poll about what they want.
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