Most Service Managers know their warranty labor rate by heart. Far fewer know whether that number is actually right. Nobody at the manufacturer is going to volunteer to fix it for you, so it’s completely possible to run a tight, well-managed service department and still be underpaid on every warranty repair order you write. The […]
Thomas Hall
In-House vs. Outsourced Warranty Claims Processing: Which actually costs your dealership more?
On paper, keeping warranty claims in-house looks like the economical choice, you pay one salary and the work gets done. But that math only holds if your admin never gets sick, never takes vacation, never quits, never falls behind, and never miscodes a claim. In a real service department, all of those happen, and each […]
Common Reasons Warranty Claims Get Denied (and How to Avoid Them)
Every warranty claim your dealership submits is one small mistake away from a denial. A missing tech punch time. The wrong op code. A service tech that doesn’t match the job. Individually, these look like nothing. To a manufacturer, any one of them is enough to reject the claim outright, and now that repair order […]
