In New York City it’s a giant ball, in Prescott it’s a cowboy boot. Yes, this year is the first annual Prescott Boot Drop at the Palace.
The boot will be illuminated with LED lights and lowered from a 40-foot flagpole at the Palace Building in downtown Prescott. There will be two boot drops — one at 10 p.m. for the kids and one at midnight for the grown ups.
Prime Auto and RV Repair wants you to know that we are here for you when trouble strikes. We want everyone to have a safe and Happy New Year! Call us 24/7 for all your car, suv and rv repairs.
When you are at the Prescott Boot Drop, be safe and have fun!
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/arizonaliving/articles/2011/12/24/20111224arizona-celebrations-prescott-now-theres-boot-drop.html#ixzz1hlSe494b
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Our Service Truck Is An Auto Repair Shop on Wheels!
Prime Auto and RV offers a full mobile mechanic service. Car won’t start? Stranded on the side of the road? Can’t take off work? Don’t want to deal with the hassle of dropping your vehicle off at the shop? Or just want to enjoy the comfort of having you vehicle repaired or maintenance at your own home. Keep our number handy. We serve all of Yavapai County and no mobile service is too small or large for us to handle.
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Do you love to travel and explore different places? Planning to travel with your family throughout the United States? Many of the adventure trekkers for years have been considering motor homes as their primary vehicle for long term traveling.
Before you purchase an RV or motor home, do some leg work. Research, and a pre-purchase inspection from a specialized mechanic, will provide you with years of headache free motoring.
On the most basic, motor homes are also known as RVs, or recreational vehicles. As the name implies, motor homes are ideal for recreational travel. They are originally designed by the Winnebago industries, who has dominated the market for many years, providing families and groups with temporary living quarters for camping, travel, or other recreational use.
Perhaps what makes motor homes easily identifiable, is that they come permanently attached to a self-propelled motor vehicle chassis which is actually one of the most integral parts of the completed automobile.
There are three major types of motor homes: the Class A, Class B, and Class C motor homes. To learn more about these types, consider the following details:
1. Class A Motor coach – The Class A type of motor home is recognized as a medium or largish van that is completely coach built. The term “coach built” here refers to a vehicle that has noting of the original van bodywork or exterior of a cab.
It is either constructed on the truck chassis that is used commercially, a commercial bus chassis or that which is specifically designed for motor vehicle. Usually, the Class A motor homes sized from 26 to 45 feet.
2. Class B Campervan – This type is designed and built with the use of a conventional van. It is often identified with a raised roof that is often attached or has been added to the van.
Also, the Class B Campervan sometimes features a low profile back body, no wonder that it is sometimes called as a low profile motor home. In terms of sizes, the Class B type of motor homes comes in sizes ranging from 19 to 24 feet.
3. Class C Motor Home – This final class is usually built on a truck chassis. It highlights an attached cab portion that is typically van based. However, the Class C motor home can also be built on pickup truck or even a large truck, also known as freightliner. Its size may vary from 17 to 34 feet.
Regardless of their classes, motor homes are generally easy to drive. If you are currently planning to buy a motor home, then see Eric, at Prime Auto and RV. Be sure to get a full inspection before you buy any used motor home.
Don’t get stuck on the road, but if you do, Prime Auto and RV Mobil mechanic service will come to any location in the Prescott Valley area to inspect or repair your RV. Call Today! 928-899-8486 RV Repair
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Number One:
Not confirming the concern. Confirming an auto repair concern is a basic diagnostic principle frequently overlooked. To fix a problem, the first thing one must do is recognize it.
Number Two:
Insufficient Road Testing. The importance of a thorough road test (even for an oil change) is well documented in automotive training manuals. Yet, many technicians consider driving the vehicle into the shop good enough.
Number Three:
Misdiagnosing. For the above reasons and a multitude of others, your vehicle is misdiagnosed more often than not. Mechanics will spend hours chasing the wrong problem, wasting your time and money.
Number Four:
Throwing parts at a problem. To compensate for lack of skills, mechanics often just throw parts at the problem in the hope of getting lucky. It’s common to hear mechanics say I replaced this, this, this, and that, and the problem’s still not fixed. This goes right back to mistake number one: confirm the problem with diagnostics, then proceed.
Number Five:
Not addressing primary concerns first. Technicians often spend an inordinate amount of time looking for easy sells that will fatten their paychecks. There’s nothing wrong with this provided there’s no charge for the inspection, it doesn’t conflict with your time, and the upsell suggestions are valid (they’re frequently not). However, this type of free inspection and the subsequent upselling too often overshadows the primary concern. So…what’s wrong with my car?
Number Six:
Overconfidence. Too often unqualified technicians get in over their heads. Rather than defer to a more experienced technician or facility, they often keep going and do more harm. How’s it go…The road to hell is paved with good intentions?
Number Seven:
Taking shortcuts. In the ongoing effort to beat the clock, technicians will create a host of problems: breaking parts, snapping bolts, short circuiting sensitive electronics. Refer to Auto Repair: How Can They Screw Up an Oil Change for a great discussion.
Number Eight:
Poor Repairs. Whether through incompetence or laziness, mechanics frequently don’t do repairs correctly. It’s often sloppy work. Forgotten bolts, parts not lined up correctly, or components not re-installed properly are common. It gets worse with computer repairs: incorrect software programming, coding, and resynchronization protocols are just a few.
Number Nine:
Not confirming repairs. After a repair is complete, it’s important to re-check to ensure that the problem is indeed fixed. Too often parts are thrown in and the car is pulled out only to pull in another victim.
Number Ten:
Making a mess. If the above nine mistakes weren’t bad enough, there are now greasy fingerprints on the hood and steering wheel, and two big greasy boot marks on the carpet.
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“It’s all about beating the clock.” This quote comes from a wise old service manager, advising me on how to maximize my income as a flat-rate technician. If you have ever wondered why your car or RV didn’t get fixed correctly, or all your concerns weren’t addressed, you can blame, in part, the flat-rate pay structure.
Flat-rate simply means that your mechanic is paid a flat fee for a particular repair, regardless of how long the repair actually takes. In other words, if your car needs a water pump, which pays two hours of labor, and the mechanic completes the job in one hour, he gets paid for two.
In theory, this can work to your advantage. If the job takes longer, you still only pay the “predetermined” labor amount. In THEORY, not reality!
The flat-rate pay structure is designed to drive productivity. It’s very effective. The flat-rate pay system encourages technicians to work hard and fast, but it does not promote quality.
In terms of getting your car fixed correctly, the flat-rate pay structure has disastrous effects. Flat-rate technicians are constantly looking for shortcuts to beat the clock in order to maximize the number of hours they bill. Experienced flat-rate technicians can bill anywhere from 16 to 50 hours in an 8 hour day.
It’s these shortcuts and the breakneck speed at which flat rate technicians work that result in some of the most idiotic mistakes. In the rapid-fire pace of a shop I’ve witnessed technicians start engines with no oil. I’ve seen transmissions dropped, smashing into little pieces onto the shop floor. And I’ve seen cars driven right through bay doors—all in the name of “beating the clock.”
Flat-rate technicians can get quite elaborate with shortcuts. My favorite was the implementation of an 6-foot-long 2-by-4, which was placed under the engine for support while a motor mount was removed. It made a job predetermined to take 1.5 hours achievable in twenty minutes. A win-win, right? The technician makes extra money; you get your car back faster.
Actually, in many cases the placement of this 2-by-4 damaged the oil pan. Moreover, it caused the car, your car, to balance precariously 6 feet in the air, while the technician manipulated the car lift to access your engine mount.
This tactic was abruptly discontinued when a technician’s 2-by-4 snapped causing the car to crash nose down onto the concrete floor.
Sometimes the shortcuts create very subtle disturbances, which create problems overtime. A quick example: a vehicle had its transmission serviced with a new filter, gasket, and fluid. During the procedure, the technician was able to save time by bending the transmission dipstick tube slightly, in order to get the transmission pan out faster. The vehicle was reassembled, and the technician re-bent the tube back into place and off it went—no worries….
Six months later, the vehicle returned with an intermittent misfire. The engine wasn’t running on all cylinders. After extensive diagnostics, it was discovered that the transmission dipstick tube had chaffed through the engine harness, intermittently grounding out an injector. Hmm, that’s strange. Don’t usually see that.
The high-speed environment and the subsequent shortcuts illustrate the devastating effects of the flat-rate, sales-driven pay structure on the quality of car repairs.
No wonder even an oil change gets screwed up!
The poor quality of work encouraged by the flat rate pay structure is disconcerting enough. Unfortunately, it doesn’t stop here. The negative effects of flat-rate get exponentially worse, as it opens “wide” the door to rip you off!
Don’t Get Ripped Off…Call Prime Auto and RV Today! 928-899-8486