You simply can’t pay a mechanic enough money to care about your equipment as much as you do.
If you could be a fly on the wall at a dealer and hear what the techs say about the customers, watch how the lot jockeys move your hardware around, and witness the BS for yourself… you’d never use a dealer.
Someday I’ll be too old. A couple weeks ago I hurt pretty bad after rolling around with a transmission and transfer case, after installing a clutch in one of my trucks, but it was worth it to get it done right and not have some fool attempting it after a couple bong rips at lunch.
I replaced a transmission mount and fixed a vacuum leak while I was under there too. Then I replaced all the hydraulic master and slave cylinder assembly. Chased the threads on the old bolts, installed new bolts on the exhaust collectors because the old ones were questionable. I probably saved over $1000 in labor.
Maybe a really good private mechanic, a 1 in 100 guy will be that diligent.
But I doubt the senior tech at the dealer is doing the lube jobs. It’s usually the stoned kid.. and he’ll strip your drain plug threads and get fired from 2 more jobs before you ever find out what he did.
If you could be a fly on the wall at a dealer and hear what the techs say about the customers, watch how the lot jockeys move your hardware around, and witness the BS for yourself… you’d never use a dealer.
Someday I’ll be too old. A couple weeks ago I hurt pretty bad after rolling around with a transmission and transfer case, after installing a clutch in one of my trucks, but it was worth it to get it done right and not have some fool attempting it after a couple bong rips at lunch.
I replaced a transmission mount and fixed a vacuum leak while I was under there too. Then I replaced all the hydraulic master and slave cylinder assembly. Chased the threads on the old bolts, installed new bolts on the exhaust collectors because the old ones were questionable. I probably saved over $1000 in labor.
Maybe a really good private mechanic, a 1 in 100 guy will be that diligent.
But I doubt the senior tech at the dealer is doing the lube jobs. It’s usually the stoned kid.. and he’ll strip your drain plug threads and get fired from 2 more jobs before you ever find out what he did.
