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Urgent Action Required: Leverage ‘Right Now’ Data for Group Used Car Planning

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Group used-car directors can struggle to assimilate the used car performance data delivered monthly by their various rooftops. The used car market has evolved into a crucial revenue stream encompassing parts, service, finance and insurance. One step in this strategy is to use advanced VIN scan technology.

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Making Margin in Challenging Times

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Consider these actions to reduce market risks to used car profitability. Appraisals As you evaluate potential trades and walk private-party purchases and auction cars, use your good sense, but be humble and back that estimate with a VIN scan. Speed repair approvals between the recon department and the used car manager.

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How to Manage a Busy Task List After Auto Parts Training

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Whether working in a dealership, warehouse, or parts supply store, Automotive Parts Specialists must keep up with inventory, handle orders, and ensure that mechanics receive the right parts on time. This career requires a deep understanding of vehicle technology, inventory software, and logistics.

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New Book from Rapid Recon’s McGinn Charts Course for Easing GMs’ Burden

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The latest book from Rapid Recon founder Dennis McGinn, “ASPIRE to Predictable,” outlines ways the dealership reconditioning software company brings predictability to a general manager’s day. This problem has been – and continues to be — a challenge for used car profitability, particularly regarding mechanical repairs.

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Sales and Fixed Ops Collaboration Critical in Vehicle Reconditioning

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Inter-departmental cooperation is more importance than ever, so here we provide actionable strategies for improving communication and efficiency, and highlight the benefits of using reconditioning software designed from a fixed ops perspective. Using handheld devices for early detection can bridge this gap.

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The Good Fight Against a Rising Tide

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If you want to manage inventory holding costs and bolster your earnings per share, consider how your used car reconditioning operates. Cars get sale-ready within three to five days of acquisition. You’re buying the wrong cars if this isn’t consistently happening. When recon is run well, it is dialed in and efficient.

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Rapid Recon, Velocity Automotive Close the Trade Appraisal Gap

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It provides appraisers VIN-specific, mechanical, and electrical system appraisal “X-ray” diagnostics and accurate, not estimated, reconditioning costs for the make, model, and year of the vehicle. Increase profits from parts, customer-pay services, and used cars. Eliminate chargebacks to sales.