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Reconditioning centers
More dealers are building off-site facilities to store and prepare new and used vehicles for sale. Here are some benefits.
- It frees service bays for lucrative customer-pay work.
- It provides faster used-vehicle reconditioning to reduce carrying costs and boost profits.
- It allows for increased parking to stock more inventory.
- It eliminates new-vehicle delivery trucks blocking traffic at the dealership.
In 2014, Northern California dealer Jeremy Cunningham ran out of room in his service departments. He struggled to balance reconditioning of used cars, new-vehicle processing and customer-pay work.
