Do you take your Beetle to the VW dealership for service?

[e&m_ghia]

We never took our Ghia in to a VW dealer for service… But some of the techs at a local VW dealer "volunteered" to do the state-mandated inspection when we at their car show last fall. They did fine even though they failed us - they noticed that the tail-lights weren't wired correctly, which previous inspections hadn't... (This turned out to be an issue of the terminals on a defective wire harness, provided by PO. Pretty trivial for us to fix ourselves, and a bit safer to drive now, than it was then.)

We're not going back there for service, but thought that was pretty cool, and showed some insight. Other garages around here are stumped, for instance, just trying to figure out where the lift-points are… (It was almost comical trying to explain the lift-points to a half-dozen tech's arguing among themselves, during a tire change a while back.)

On dealerships: We take our Subies to a local Subaru dealer. They may be expensive, but this place is honest - and way cheaper than paying for repairs that we don't need, or installation of the wrong parts when something is needed… But I wouldn't necessarily generalize this experience to any other dealer out there…

[mark tucker]

I went to manufactures "tech" schools. for the most part it is a attendance thing that gets you the patch and certificate. and the more techs that have patches/certs the more the dealer gets paid in warranty money, so the dealers send anybody they can... even the detail guys. they dont detail worth a shit ...so....do you want them working on somethen???