dealership service

[Greg Schilhab <gschil@orthomed.org>]

>>I strongly urge you NOT to take your car to this dealer for anything,
>>I don't know for sure if they are jerks or not, 
>
>	.... or, as per *my* wonderful experience, you can spend months forming an
>elaborate relationship with your small local VW shop and JUST when you
>finally start to trust them.... they GET YOU.  Bastards.  :@
>
>			Jason the disappointed.

I got my mounts and timing belt done at the dealer and the mechanic was 
competent and the price was more than fair. I stood beside him for 3 
hours to watch since it was the first time he's touched my car-he has an 
85 GTI which he races and so he knows and appreciates older VWs. It was 
apparent after a few hours that he was knew A1s forward and backward (a 5 
year VW apprenticeship probably didnt hurt either). Ifg your 
circumstances dont allow you to fix it yourself, bring it in and watch'em 
a few times _and_ know how the job is supposed to go down. I'm sure that 
14 bay dealer also has plenty of A3 digifunk gurus who couldnt care less 
about an 88 scirocco and would royally screw up the same job, so its 
entirely your responsibility to find the right person. The nightmares 
I've experienced were exclusively from idiot independent mechanics who 
know shit or were outright criminals. There's no guarantee, but at least 
at a dealership you're less likely to encounter morons, since you need 
certain minimum qualifications (which are pretty rigorous) to be employed 
there. 

greg
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