Vehlo Uniting Its Reconditioning Platform Under the RapidRecon Brand Change brings simplification to the dealer experience Vehlo is consolidating its dealer solutions under the RapidRecon brand to create a unified platform. Beginning on October 20, 2026, Velocity Automotive Solutions products, including Recon Velocity, Velocity Engage, Velocity Window Stickers, and Velocity VinSight, will operate exclusively under ...
Down With Downtime: Eliminating Needless Delays Recon time disappears in the gaps between departments, and most dealers never see it. ATR Episode 23 covers how to find that downtime and take it back: start the clock on day zero, build a dedicated recon team, and hold approvals and handoffs to a tighter standard. You’ll also ...
How Much Does Time Cost? Part 2 How much does a day in recon actually cost? Bobby and Josh run a live scenario worksheet for a 150-car store and show what happens to annual gross when average age of inventory drops from 40 days to 35, 30, and 25. Then they get into why installing ...
A consumer searches your online listings – using AI. Her search query: “Tell me all you know about the 2022 Kia Sportage LX listed on Anderson Motors website, and is this car a fair deal? The AI results will certainly be impressive, and often wrong. Having to guess which parts of reported data are true ...
Reduce Turnover and Inspire Long-Term Transformation The biggest need in automotive retail today is leadership’s ability to instill and execute change. While technology investments drive operational improvements, they also cause disruption. How you manage this change shapes ROI, staff resistance and retention, team alignment, and business transformation. For example, installing reconditioning software to improve time-to-line ...
Sales & Service Shake Hands Sales and service are supposed to be on the same team, but at most dealerships the used car relationship rates a 5 out of 10. In episode 21 of All Things Recon, performance consultants Josh and Bobby Wilcox draw on 1,000+ dealership installs to show how recon can repair that ...
With 95% of car buyers beginning their vehicle search online, according to buyer journey platform Invoca, isn’t it imperative that your online used-car marketing does two critical things: Start improving the transparency of your online merchandising by auditing your existing listings for quality and clarity. Focus on image quality and eliminating photo background distractions. Shoppers ...
Reconditioning software did not create profitable used-car operations—disciplined execution did. And in many dealerships today, that discipline is slipping. Dashboards are powerful information tools, but it’s top-down leadership that must be intentional about ongoing improvement. Many dealer groups monitor lagging KPIs, but leading groups monitor the KPIs that improve aging: The surest sign that a ...
The Standard Workflow – Best Practices for Time & Process How long should a car actually sit in recon? On this episode of All Things Recon, Bobby and Josh walk through a real dealership’s workflow step by step and lay out the goal times that add up to a five-day (or better) recon process. If ...
If your used car manager is making aging decisions based on Vehicle Display Page (VDP) activity, they’re behind the eight ball. Though this philosophy is held by many providers of this digital marketing, our experience holds that aging problems start well before VDP page counts start to diminish. The true culprit is time – time ...
Most Common Pitfalls in Recon Small process mistakes can create big delays. In this episode, Bobby Wilcox and Josh Call break down the most common recon pitfalls dealerships face and share practical strategies to improve communication, eliminate bottlenecks, and keep vehicles moving faster at every step. 5 recon mistakes that are costing your dealership days ...
In today’s market, margins are shrinking, expectations are rising and agility is the new competitive weapon, which is why the fastest growing dealerships today don’t act like dealerships. They act like startups that move fast, experiment constantly and make decisions backed by data instead of assumptions. Rethink the Car-Buying Experience The reason is today’s customers. ...