BMW Flat Rate Manual

[bluehills2002]

Some  recent posts discussed how long it should take to drop a front subframe. That caused me to look at the flat rate manual that came with my blue binders, I’ve never really looked at it before. Interesting to see the level of German precision. So the next time you are wondering how long your shop is going to spend on a particular job, you can ask them what their “efficiency rating” is.  That should get you a blank stare!

[2002iii]

Oooooh I've never even seen one of those and I have multiple blue books. Would it be possible to scan and upload a pdf version of the whole book?

[BarneyT]

That’s the book that lead me to learn how to work on my car, 35 plus years ago a mechanic named Donnie was able to bill me 9 hours of mechanics hours in only 6 hours of real time...

[bluehills2002]

Wow Barney, not even the lawyers have figured that trick out.  I knew the Germans were way ahead.  I’ll scan it in someday, they are odd sized pages so it would take some time.