Manufacturers want their dealerships to be the ONLY one allowed with access to repair their cars- yet the dealerships no longer have techs that can diagnose. When a car gets beyond 5 years old corrosion and age mandate the ability to track down and troubleshoot. Instead they fire the parts cannon and make the customer pay knowing very well the root cause may not have been identified and fixed.
All too true.
Techs are getting worse and worse. And that's at over $100 an hour. Then the O.E.s don't want us to have access to parts and info to do it ourselves. Just a bad situation all the way around.
Here in this rural area, we fortunately have a very good independent who is the go-to on domestic vehicles over 3 or 4 years old. At that point, there is more aftermarket support and information floating around than with the brand new stuff.
Then there's this:
