dbltap wrote:
> "John Horner" <jthorner@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:NV8Dg.79$Z1.37@trnddc03...
>> Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>> I'm willing to pay a little more for work I can trust.
>>> Then why not go to Honda Dealer ? All work is warranteed for 1 year.
>>>
>>> Lynn
>>>
>>>
>> Because some dealers are good and some are bad. Also, turnover at a
>> dealer is sometimes high and you don't really know who will be working on
>> your car.
>>
>> Another problem with dealers is that you have to talk to an relatively
>> uninformed person, the "service writer" and rarely speak with the actual
>> mechanic. Find a good independent specialist and you can communicate
>> directly with the owner and/or mechanics.
>>
>> Good independents are well worth supporting when you have one available.
>>
>> John
>>
> John you are correct when you say when you have one available.
>
> However just from my consumer point of view since I am not connected with
> the industry, I see that in the next ten years the indy shop will become as
> rare as the white rhino in Africa.
>
> With the enormous cost of new diagnostic equipment and highly specialized
> and ever changing skills needed to service more and more technologically
> sophisticated electronics and advanced power plants (read hybrid and the
> hydrogen fuel cell) there will be no chance for the small indy shop to
> survive. I don't think that a shop can make a go of it even as a brake shop.
> At some point the manufacturers will devise a brake system that is so
> reliant on electronics that you will need a dealer out of necessity to do
> the service.
>
> I am not saying which is better, but just stating what I see as the future
> of auto service.
>
>
the future of auto service is specialists to whom the dealer contracts
out. this already happens with body work, audio install, glass, air
conditioning, tires/alignment, injection, etc. there's absolutely no
reason a consumer shouldn't work with those specialists direct.
motorcycle dealers are already there - last dealer i visited did minor
tune-up's, brakes, etc., but contracted everything else out.