“If the testing individual made $30 an hour, his salary and benefits would probably run around $2 grand per week. You should be able to get the testing done in three days, four days max.”
Your estimates are drastically under actual testing costs.
Test equipment and computers initial costs: $100k
Two people to setup for test including time to study new design and produce procedures: 160 hrs * $30 = $5k
Three test runs with each configuration: $4k
Test results evaluations: $5k
Independent Q/A of test results: $20k.
I hate to break it to you, but I can get my vehicle tested with the top equipment there is, that costs easily that much altogether, by paying a one time fee of about $700 dollars for seven years. It’s called a maintenance contract.
I’m not sure you have smog tests in your state, but the equipment costs about $40,000 dollars from what I hear, and I pay something like $37.50 for the test.
The padding done in your estimate is extensive. No thanks. It doesn’t take that much effort.
Test the vehicle with the device. Test the vehicle without the device. Is there a difference or not?