AutoSuccess

JUNE 23, 2025

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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Used Cars Software Mechanic Management 52

CATI

MARCH 20, 2025

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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AutoSuccess

JULY 17, 2024

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.

Vehicle 52

Vehicle Software Mechanic Management 52

AutoSuccess

JANUARY 18, 2024

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.

Used Cars 52

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AutoSuccess

JUNE 6, 2024

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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Software Management Used Cars Vehicle 52

AutoSuccess

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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.

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AutoSuccess

MAY 4, 2024

in reconditioning mechanical parts and labor costs, and the scan takes less than 60 seconds. New VIN-scan tools that integrate with reconditioning software can provide deep, rich mechanical systems data and accurate reconditioning parts and labor costs for the vehicle make, model and year.

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