Gm Announces Free Maintenance!

[Joe Marconi]

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[phynny]

GM has announced it will offer free maintenance on all new cars sold. No doubt other car companies will follow. We need to watch this real close, we have discussed this before: How do you comptete with free?

 

Here's a link to the article:

 

http://dealer-communications.com/news/free-maintenance-offered-by-gm-on-2014-models/?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_campaign=Fixed+Ops+ENL+6-10-13

 

 

Figures... I drove by a Hyundai dealership the other day and noticed they now have a 200k warranty so this is no surprise. We rarely do any maintenance work on vehicles less than 2 years old so it won't affect us. I do firmly believe that the insane warranties being offered these days is killing the dealerships. I just had a dealership (Hyundai actually) ask me if I knew of any good techs looking for work. He said they've had adds out for months and only received 2 resumes and they were both garbage. Who really wants to try and make a living off of warranty work time? I expect soon we'll see dealerships subbing out the works to local shops.

 

Charles