Our dealership (GM) shops the chain stores and the mom&pops shops every quarter to see what they charge for routine services such as oil change, tire rotations, alignments etc......
What we learned is we are in line with our prices with the others. Some were cheaper ($7 largest difference) and some were more ($4) than us.

By having your vehicle routinely serviced at the dealership can help you down the road if an issue arises and you're beyond warranty coverage. GM downloads every night the repair orders we create and stores them in their data base for when a customer/dealer requests assistance from GM. We provide the VIN and they (GM) can pull up the vehicle history. If they see there is not a service history you'll (the customer) be asked to provide service records. Most cannot provide all records and GM may say "sucks to be you" and will deny any assistance.

Now if GM sees you have had your vehicle serviced on the regular they will want to help and may cover all or the highest part of the repair (of labor or parts) or a percentage of the total repair depending on the issue.

Bottom line is this:
If you can't afford paying a few more dollars to have the dealership service your vehicle then don't come asking for help and maybe consider buying a vehicle you can afford to maintain. :)

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Posted by Yournamegoeshere

Louisiana

Member since Feb 2024

173 posts

Posted on 5/9/24 at 7:09 am to partsman103

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If you can't afford paying a few more dollars to have the dealership service your vehicle then don't come asking for help

I agree to a point. Majority of people don’t take care of their vehicles, but some do. I grew up running around a GM dealer. I watched the service manager and dealer owner go above and beyond for the ones GM was trying to screw over. Unfortunately that little mom and pop dealer got closed during the bankruptcy, so now we’ve gotta settle for a bigger dealership, and all they wanna do is give you the run around. I’ve had way too many arguments with the service manager who doesn’t know a damn thing. Her dad owns the place. She just works there. Anyways…

Another thing is I knew an older man who had a 6.0 Ford bone stock. It started having problems. Ford tried to deny his warranty because they couldn’t prove what oil he used. I called that bluff also. I had every record of every oil change he did and the oil was Motorcraft 10W30. If you look up the Ford recommendations, it’s anywhere from 5w30 to 15w40. In fact, Ford had a class action lawsuit against them because they had so many claims with the 6.0 and denied warranty for “not using the right oil”. You can’t tell people you’ve gotta use Motorcraft oil. It’s just gotta meet the manufacturer specs. Brand don’t mean shite. Give me a break…

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Posted by slacker130

Your mom

Member since Jul 2010

8083 posts

Posted on 5/9/24 at 7:15 am to partsman103

quote:
Bottom line is this:
If you can't afford paying a few more dollars to have the dealership service your vehicle then don't come asking for help and maybe consider buying a vehicle you can afford to maintain. :)

I had 4 years of free oil changes on my truck. The only place that touched my truck was the dealership I bought it from.

Well, after the last dealership oil change, I figured I'd do one myself, because I wanted to replace a plastic filter housing that was stock, with the aluminum OEM housing upgrade.

So, I crawl under my truck and it's missing skid plate bolts! So the dealership sucks as bad as any freaking jiffy lube in my eyes.

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