Aklim, you are baseing the whole industry on your personal experience. In my experience, the Dealer tries harder to push their own parts (which usually costs more anyway) than indies do. The tech working on your car at a GM dealer might be the same tech who was working at a Ford dealer a few months ago, and a different dealer or independent shop before that. The quality of techs at dealerships around here is not all that great. The only thing the dealers have going for them in their advantage is information on newer vehicles. Usually by the time a vehicle is out of warranty, the indies have the same info available to them.

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