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The whole list
26 jobs across seven service areas, plus a pre-season agreement for machinery. Hours are chargeable hours. The labour figure is the rate for where the work happens multiplied by those hours, and parts are separate.
Every figure on this site is an hourly rate multiplied by a number of hours, and both numbers are printed. A workshop hour is $145, an on-site hour is $185, a bench hour is $125 and an after-hours on-site hour is $265. Parts are at cost plus twenty per cent with both figures on the invoice. There is nothing else: no callout fee on top, no shop supplies percentage, no environmental levy.
| Job | Hours | Rate | Turnaround | Labour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical fault diagnosis | ||||
| Electrical fault diagnosis | one to three hours | workshop hour | same day | $145 to $435 |
| Starting circuit diagnosis | one to two hours | workshop hour | same day | $145 to $290 |
| Running-fault circuit diagnosis | two to four hours | workshop hour | one to two days | $290 to $580 |
| Intermittent fault investigation | two to six hours | workshop hour | two to five days | $290 to $870 |
| CAN and LIN network diagnosis | two to five hours | workshop hour | one to three days | $290 to $725 |
| Starting and charging | ||||
| Starting and charging system test | one to two hours | workshop hour | same day | $145 to $290 |
| Parasitic drain test | two to four hours | workshop hour | one to two days | $290 to $580 |
| Dual battery and split charge | three to six hours | workshop hour | one to two days | $435 to $870 |
| Wiring, looms and connectors | ||||
| Harness and connector repair | one to four hours | workshop hour | same day | $145 to $580 |
| Rodent damage repair | two to eight hours | on-site hour | one to three days | $370 to $1,480 |
| Loom section rebuild | five to sixteen hours | workshop hour | three to ten days | $725 to $2,320 |
| Trailer and towing electrics | one to four hours | workshop hour | same day | $145 to $580 |
| Control modules and board-level repair | ||||
| Bench assessment of a control unit | one hour | bench hour | two to four days | $125 |
| Component-level board repair | two to six hours | bench hour | three to seven days | $250 to $750 |
| Module connector and pin repair | one to three hours | bench hour | two to four days | $125 to $375 |
| Truck and commercial electrics | ||||
| 24-volt starting and charging diagnosis | one to three hours | on-site hour | same day | $185 to $555 |
| Trailer wiring and ABS fault tracing | one to four hours | on-site hour | same day | $185 to $740 |
| Body, PTO and auxiliary control faults | two to six hours | on-site hour | one to three days | $370 to $1,110 |
| Agricultural machinery | ||||
| Harvest-season breakdown callout | one to six hours | after-hours on-site hour | same day where we can reach it | $265 to $1,590 |
| Pre-season electrical check | two to three hours | on-site hour | booked in the quiet months | $370 to $555 |
| Monitor, sensor and guidance wiring | two to six hours | workshop hour | one to three days | $290 to $870 |
| Auxiliary installations | ||||
| Fault-finding on equipment somebody else fitted | one to four hours | workshop hour | same day | $145 to $580 |
| Reversing camera and parking sensors | two to five hours | workshop hour | same day | $290 to $725 |
| Work lighting and beacons | two to six hours | workshop hour | same day | $290 to $870 |
| Telematics, trackers and logging device wiring | one to three hours | workshop hour | same day | $145 to $435 |
| Inverters, fridges and auxiliary power | three to eight hours | workshop hour | one to two days | $435 to $1,160 |
The four rates
$145an hour
The vehicle is here and the equipment is already on the bench. Cars and vans are almost always cheaper this way, which is why we will say so on the telephone.
$185an hour
An hour where the equipment travelled. Trucks and machinery are seen where they stand, and travel inside twenty-five miles of Goshen is in this rate rather than added to it.
$125an hour
Electronics work under a microscope, on a control unit that came off the vehicle. The cheapest of the four, because nothing had to move and because the alternative is usually buying a new unit.
$265an hour
Evenings and weekends in harvest, for machinery standing in a field. Published rather than negotiated at the gate at nine at night, which is the only honest way to have this rate.
Service areas
from $145
The fault that three garages could not find: measured on the circuit rather than guessed at from a code, and written down when it is found.
Nobody can work out what is wrong with it.
from $145
Why it will not turn over, why the battery is flat on Monday, and which of the four things in that circuit is actually at fault.
It is on its second new battery and it is still going flat.
from $145
Chafed harnesses, corroded pins, rodent damage and the joins somebody made with a scotch-lock in a hurry three winters ago.
It comes and goes over bumps and nobody can catch it.
from $125
The unit most shops only replace, opened on a bench and repaired at component level — which also means it keeps the programming it already has.
The dealer says the module is not available any more.
from $185
Twenty-four volt starting and charging, trailer wiring and ABS, body and PTO controls, and the lighting that has to work before it moves.
It is off the road and every day it sits is costing me.
from $265
Tractors, combines, balers and sprayers: monitors, sensors, guidance wiring, and the harness that has spent its life in dust, chaff and vibration.
It stopped in the middle of a field and the weather is turning.
from $145
Cameras, work lighting, beacons, trackers, inverters and fridges — fused properly, taken from the right supply, and not spliced into the first wire that had power on it.
We had a camera fitted and now the dash lights up at random.
The one thing bought in advance
Three machines or more at one address, checked between January and April, at a fixed price each. Anything found is quoted before it is done, and the report is written so it can be handed to somebody else.
What it works out at
It is cheaper because the van goes to one address once. It is not a loyalty discount and it is not a discount for buying more, and if it were either of those the arithmetic could not be printed.
Every job starts with one hour of diagnosis, charged at the rate for where it happens. At the end of it you get what was measured and what it costs to put right, in writing, and you are free to take the vehicle away and have somebody else do the work.
Nothing, is the short answer, and it is worth saying at length because in this trade it usually is not true. There is no shop supplies percentage, no environmental levy, no callout fee on top of the on-site hour, no charge for the telephone call, and no diagnostic charge repeated when the repair follows straight on from the hour that found it. Travel inside twenty-five miles is in the on-site rate rather than added to it, and beyond that the road time is charged at the workshop rate rather than the on-site one.
Parts are the one thing that is separate, and they are at what they cost us plus 20 per cent with both figures on the invoice.
You can stop at the end of the diagnostic hour. You pay for the hour, you keep the written note of what was measured, and you are free to take the vehicle and that note anywhere else.
Parts are at cost plus a published percentage. Parts are charged at what they cost us plus twenty per cent, and the invoice shows both numbers. We take no rebate, commission or bonus from any supplier for fitting one brand rather than another, and no manufacturer is named anywhere on this website.
Nothing on this website names a fault on your vehicle. Not the intake, not the articles and not the telephone. A fault named from a description is a guess, and the whole argument for this trade is that a measurement is not a guess.
$145 a workshop hour · $185 on site · agreed before it starts
The symptom check takes about three minutes and gives you a written summary of which circuits would be tested first and why, with the hours and the published rate against each. It is an indicative scope and not a diagnosis — nobody has seen the vehicle — but it is a better opening than a blank contact form. If you would rather skip it, the telephone works.