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I forwarded this to a customer/friend of mine who a service manager at a dealership here in Va. His response, I believe, shows the other side on the coin. To wit; I didn’t know there was a law stating you had to take your car to a dealership. Isn’t that what the freedom of information act was all about? The information is out there,its available its just not free. or in some (not all) cases not cheep. The equipment and training is extremely expensive to repair these cars correctly. That's what I believe is driving this. Your mom&Pops repair facility does not want to fix the problems that take highly skilled tech's and sophisticated equipment to repair the systems on these cars that the government or consumers demand be placed on them. How many people you know would choose a car with the options in safety ,comfort,entertainment,and information available just 20 years ago compared to what on today's cars. New cars are truly amazing. Technology isn’t cheep. Take it to the dealer, is just a way of saying,I’m not interested in investing the time and money in my business to make the repairs necessary to fix your car. Not that that's a bad thing. It makes very good business science. The big difference is that the dealership has no choice but to invest in the tools,equipment and training placed on them by the manufacture or loose the franchise. HUGE BUCKS!!! All this and I haven’t even mentioned WARRANTY REPAIRS. or the part that we have to compete with all the aftermarket shops for the work that is easy and profitable. Do you know why we mess with tire sells. Its not for the very low profit made on them. lets face it, we cant compete with the tire stores prices and make a decent profit . So its more of a lost leader. The real reason is that 70% of the people have there car serviced at the place they buy their tires. We are competing for that business just like them. Tire stores do not want to repair the hard stuff. Sorry, didn’t mean to rant. I just found it completely ridiculous! Thanks for asking! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Pell" <mjp...@prostreetcar.com> To: "ChevelleList" <chevelle-list@chevelles.net> Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2009 5:59:43 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [Chevelle-list] [Fwd: Right to Repair (auto service)] Something to consider that's near and dear to most of us. http://www.righttorepair.org/landing/ -- -- Check out my webpage at http://www.ProStreetCar.com Hoosier State Chevelle Assoc ( http://www.IndianaChevelles.com ) #6
