[Shotimes] Interesting...porting the intake

[Ron Porter]

Labor rates for dealers are pretty much the same in a given area, and it
doesn't matter whether they sell Saturns or BMWs or Porsches. Get all
maintenance work for you SHO done at a dealer, and the BMW or Porsche starts
looking pretty cheap by comparison!

There are private garages for alternatives, and from what I've seen the
private garages that do German or other import work are pretty damn good.

Why would anyone get an alignment done vat a dealer? Doesn't matter what you
own, it's gonna cost you.

Ron Porter 

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Neno Albert
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 6:16 PM
To: Christian Andretta; shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Interesting...porting the intake


Christian

Nope, I believe that Jaguar is just another Jaguar. I'm not saying all
imports are insane when it
comes to maintenance, but a lot of them are. You might find it dumb to bitch
about model coding,
but I'm sure you wouldn't like it much if you took your Mercedes to a shop
and didn't care to pay
$185 at a dealer for an alignment, but were left with no choice. Unless, of
course, you have a
inside connection with a Benz dealer tech who can give you the "decoding"
for their gibberish. If
that doesn't have anything to do with maintenance, I don't know what does. I
personally prefer to
align my cars twice a year. That either breaks down to $130~ at a good shop
or well over $300 at a
dealer. 

Neno
--- Christian Andretta <passport@optonline.net> wrote:
> So is that Jaguar (or Jag-u-are as they pronounce it on stupid radio
> commercials) just really another Ford with poor engineering?  Gimme a
break
> bitching about model coding has nothing to do with the performance and
> quality of a vehicle.  Yes it can be argued that maintenance is more
> expensive and parts are dealer specific.  I am not assuming that all
> imported vehicles are better.  Merely that some are and that one should
buy
> a vehicle that suits them by using (IMO) country of origin/manufacture as
> the last criterion.  Let me say this, I like my SHO, the idea, the
quality,
> the price and performance out of the box.  It could have and should have
> been refined though, afterall I have a 99 (not a real SHO some of you will
> say)  and they had 10 years to get it right.  Of course they still dropped
> the ball.
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