If you're running a shop in the midwest and you're not stocking Dexron VI on the shelf, you're losing money on every GM transmission job that walks through the door. Not because you're doing anything wrong — but because the time your tech spends waiting on a parts run, and the margin you surrender buying three quarts at a time from the jobber at retail, compounds across every job every week. Here's the margin reality on a typical GM fluid service. A 6L80 pan drop takes 5–6 quarts of Dexron VI. At retail from a parts store, Dexron VI runs roughly $8–$10 per quart. Case pricing from a quality supplier drops that to $5–$6 per quart. On one job, the difference is $15–$20. On 10 GM fluid services per month — a conservative number for any shop doing general repair in Silverado country — that's $150–$200 per month in recovered margin from one product line. Before you account for the labor time saved by not pulling a tech off a lift to make a parts run.
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