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Old 04-29-2025, 08:53 AM   #215
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Originally Posted by MisterMarauder View Post
I can't speak for your dealership, but the dealerships around me only allow the techs who are trained on the Corvettes/Camaros to service them.
What I did to make sure I find a proper place was I took our nondescript SUV to service departments to see how they treat it, then ordered my Camaro from a dealership when I saw that they were conscientious even about a mundane oil change in a GM SUV.

The truth, though, is that I also got lucky in that the service manager was an absolutely upstanding guy, who then only allowed their senior Corvette tech to work on my Camaro. I had a fantastic experience there, they treated me like royalty and I never had any issue whenever the car was in one of their service bays. They lifted it properly, triple-checking their lift arms before hoisting, never scratched or marred the paint even accidentally and so on. Mistakes were honestly admitted and immediately corrected on their dime (for example, once they stripped a single control arm bolt when replacing front brake ducts, and then they bought and installed a new control arm free of charge).

Heck, when I told them the car was no longer stock, not only did they not refuse to work on it, they actually took turns in praising the mods... this tech even cleaned up my wheel hubs, always checked everything whenever they saw the car, and never padded the bill.

So there definitely are gems out there, one just needs to find them.
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