Re: Do I have to get it serviced where I bought it?

From: Andy Levy (andylevy@bigfoot.com)
Date: Sun Feb 06 2000 - 17:26:26 EST


My father had better luck on service for his '93 Chevy conversion van
with his "local" dealer than the one he bought from.

However, I've had better luck (on the one service visit, stupid foglight
switch) with the dealer I bought from than the local one. Which sucks,
because I bought the truck 140 miles from here.

david zavetsky wrote:
>
> Agreed. By law (the waranty), you can take your truck to any Didge dealer....
>
> However, they dont have to like it! What I mean by that:
>
> I recently had my 98 Chevy Malibu in to a local dealer (not who I bought it
> from) for a warranty item. They covered that ok......there was no way
> they could get out of it....however, on a second item, because there was a
> technicality, they decided not to take care of it.
>
> I called GM to see what could be done, they sided with the dealer...GM also
> gave me the advice of "Usually if youy take your car to the same dealer you
> bought it from for regular service they are more likely to want to help you
> out.".......
>
> Uh huh.
>
> Like many of you, I do most of my own service....oil, tuneup, rotate tires,
> etc......So what that means is that I am being penalized for not paying
> them $50.00 to rotate my tires every 5k miles......I havent found a dealer
> yet that is worth their weight in salt.....
>
> At 05:03 PM 2/4/00 EST, you wrote:
> >You may take your truck to any dealer for warranty or any other repairs.
> >
> >
> 1992 Dodge Dakota V8 3.90's
> 1987 Honda Shadow VT1100C

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-andy

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