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Showrooms & Workshops

Everyone who owns a bike or a car has dealt with showrooms and workshops. Showrooms supply our favourite machines and on the other hand workshops maintain them. In India every Authorized car or bike dealer has a workshop as well, as from companies perspective these two are inseparable and there is no issues with that. The main source of income for a bike or a car dealerships are workshops. Showrooms operate at quite reasonable margins and if you are good at bargaining you may get amazing deals at the showroom. I wanted to talk about workshops and my experiences and observations at workshops. Everyone is emotionally attached to their vehicle, and just like religion it’s the business of fear. A vast majority of people do not know how an engine functions; they just want that their vehicle should function without any problem. This where the workshop people step in and exploit your fear and emotion. The service advisor will suggest n number additional things that MUST (according to...