C1 – Secrets of Success
JANUARY 3, 2025
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The C&H Motor Parts team is ready to find the right parts and provide the right service at the right price.
C&H Motor Parts
Odin Rasco Senior staff writer
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Placerville business beaten for longevity by only the oldest spots in the county, C&H Motor Parts has been in operation for 90 years. Such a long run of success is immediately impressive,
and that impressiveness only grows when one considers that cars themselves have only been available for the masses just over 110 or so years. How, then, does a business so long in the tooth keep its doors open and its customers
happy? Operations Manager Jim Johnson, who has been with the business for 40 years, puts it down to C&H’s classic approach to customer service. “Over the years, we have this one-on-one service with people, and we have staff that will
go to the manuals, the parts catalogues, and find what they’re looking for, even if it might take longer,” Johnson explained. “That’s a kind of service that a lot of places used to give in the ‘60s or ‘70s, but now most places don’t provide that.”
A novel concept nowadays, C&H doesn’t limit themselves on what they stock, if they know there are customers who need it. Though the sign outside says motor parts, C&H also provides work gear that construction
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