How does towing work?

If I have a AAA membership, and my car breaks down at night, I can have them
tow my car to a shop or my dealer. I've never needed to have my car towed, so
I don't know how this works. If my car breaks down at night, and I have it
towed to a shop/dealer who has already closed, do I just leave my car there?
Do I put a note on the windshield explaining why my car is there? And will
the tow truck also take me back home?

The tow-truck drivers know which shops stay open late.

Nowadays, it takes a fully-equipped professional to *optimize* a
vehicle's performance.

It does NOT take a pro, to do basic inspections that will AVOID a
show-stopping "breakdown."

I think most folks over in the auto groups would agree with me that, if
you religiously follow the manufacturer's stated maintenance
timetables, you will never have a "breakdown".

The most profitable organizations, are the most careful about
maintenance.

Maintenance *is* the frugal path.

wrote

> The tow-truck drivers know which shops stay open late.

> Nowadays, it takes a fully-equipped professional
> to *optimize* a vehicle's performance.

Bull**** with most faults.

> It does NOT take a pro, to do basic inspections
> that will AVOID a show-stopping "breakdown."

They cant be completely avoided.

> I think most folks over in the auto groups would agree with me that,
> if you religiously follow the manufacturer's stated maintenance
> timetables, you will never have a "breakdown".

Mindless pig ignorant drivel.

> The most profitable organizations, are the most careful about maintenance.

More mindless pig ignorant drivel.

> Maintenance *is* the frugal path.

Depends on whether you over do that completely, stupid.

> wrote in message
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> The tow-truck drivers know which shops stay open late.
>
> Nowadays, it takes a fully-equipped professional to *optimize* a
> vehicle's performance.
>
> It does NOT take a pro, to do basic inspections that will AVOID a
> show-stopping "breakdown."
>
> I think most folks over in the auto groups would agree with me that, if
> you religiously follow the manufacturer's stated maintenance
> timetables, you will never have a "breakdown".
>
> The most profitable organizations, are the most careful about
> maintenance.
>
> Maintenance *is* the frugal path.
>


I totally disagree with your statement "if you religiously follow the
manufacturer's stated maintenance timetables, you will never have a
"breakdown"."

While you will lessen your chance of a breakdown, you will *never eliminate*
your breakdowns due to a faulty part.

I think that any mechanic (excluding shadetree) will agree with my
statement.

I repair multi-million dollar pieces of equipment for a living, and while
our parent company says that we do too much preventative maintenance, we go
with the manufacturers recommended schedules (actually sometimes we go
beyond) for the PM's. We still have breakdowns almost every day. During
production, when the machinery is down, we are talking thousands of dollars
per minute that we are down. Downtime, or the lack of, is *very* important
to us at work.

C. Massey wrote:
> We still have breakdowns almost every day.

maybe the machines are being used beyond their design parameters.


or maybe the repairs and maintenance aren't being done very well!

> wrote in message
oups.com...
> C. Massey wrote:
>> We still have breakdowns almost every day.
>
> maybe the machines are being used beyond their design parameters.
>


Actually, we don't use our machinery to it's capabilities, so I guess that
idea is ruled out...


>
> or maybe the repairs and maintenance aren't being done very well!
>


Funny, we have other plants in our industry from all over the country call
and ask us questions on our maintenance program and ask for advice. We have
had people fly in and "join us" for a training crash course.

Maybe when I said breakdowns almost everyday, I should have stated that most
of them are minor and many of those minor repairs can be made with the
equipment running. We do have major breakdowns from time to time, and those
could take 3 shifts working around the clock 3 to 4 days to finish the
repairs as long as we have the parts that are needed or have them available
to be Fed Ex'ed in.

On 18 Jul 2005 03:49:27 -0700,
wrote:

>C. Massey wrote:
>> We still have breakdowns almost every day.
>
> maybe the machines are being used beyond their design parameters.
>
>
> or maybe the repairs and maintenance aren't being done very well!


Or maybe it was a dumb statement to make in the first place.

"Bob Ward" > wrote in message
...
> On 18 Jul 2005 03:49:27 -0700,
> wrote:
>
>>C. Massey wrote:
>>> We still have breakdowns almost every day.
>>
>> maybe the machines are being used beyond their design parameters.
>>
>>
>> or maybe the repairs and maintenance aren't being done very well!
>
>
> Or maybe it was a dumb statement to make in the first place.
>
>


Bobby... are you ALWAYS negative?

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:32:20 GMT, "C. Massey" >
wrote:

>
> wrote in message
roups.com...
>> The tow-truck drivers know which shops stay open late.
>>
>> Nowadays, it takes a fully-equipped professional to *optimize* a
>> vehicle's performance.
>>
>> It does NOT take a pro, to do basic inspections that will AVOID a
>> show-stopping "breakdown."
>>
>> I think most folks over in the auto groups would agree with me that, if
>> you religiously follow the manufacturer's stated maintenance
>> timetables, you will never have a "breakdown".
>>
>> The most profitable organizations, are the most careful about
>> maintenance.
>>
>> Maintenance *is* the frugal path.
>>
>
>
>I totally disagree with your statement "if you religiously follow the
>manufacturer's stated maintenance timetables, you will never have a
>"breakdown"."
>
>While you will lessen your chance of a breakdown, you will *never eliminate*
>your breakdowns due to a faulty part.
>

Totally agree. I had a 4runner that was well maintained and it broke
down on the road when the starter failed without any warning.

Therefore best to say "almost never" breakdown.

wrote:
> The tow-truck drivers know which shops stay open late.
>
> Nowadays, it takes a fully-equipped professional to *optimize* a
> vehicle's performance.
>
> It does NOT take a pro, to do basic inspections that will AVOID a
> show-stopping "breakdown."
>
> I think most folks over in the auto groups would agree with me that, if
> you religiously follow the manufacturer's stated maintenance
> timetables, you will never have a "breakdown".


Impossible and here is an example. I keep my vehicles well maintained. I
was driving at highway speed on the Interstate on a busy Friday
afternoon when the engine simply stopped. Fortunately I was in the far
left lane so I was able to coast off the road without cutting thru
traffic. I had the car towed in to the garage. It started and ran OK.
The computer did not have any stored codes. They eventually found a
failing crankshaft position sensor.



>
> The most profitable organizations, are the most careful about
> maintenance.
>
> Maintenance *is* the frugal path.
>