excellent points. I go to wreckers, and to a local garage for work I can't
do myself on my '89 Ford. However, when I used to take long vacations I
used the dealership or a national service chain to take advantage of the wide
geographical warranty coverage.

"Ted Mittelstaedt" ) writes:

> The problem, William, is that dealer service departments generally work on
> late-model cars not older cars, because they get all the warranty work. So
> while they may be very competent with 5 year old or younger cars, they
> are not with older ones. In fact, the independents are generally more
> competent
> with older cars. In addition, the car manufacturers regularly obsolete
> parts and
> it is not uncommon to bring a 10 year old or older vehicle into a dealership
> and
> have them tell you the parts aren't available anymore, or that you have to
> buy
> an entire subsystem to get one part out of it, or some such.

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