If you're a trained auto tech, do you go to work for a Toyota dealer?

[Stinky The Clown]

Is that a good course of action?


Note: this is a question with NO second agenda.

[FSogol]

1. Yes, they will have a lot of work. n/t

[tazkcmo]

2. Hell yeah!

Reminds me of my best friend moving to Florida becuase of the yearly hurricane destruction. He's a carpenter.

[stray cat]

3. It depends on if you want a job - if you do yes!

[DrDan]

4. of course - why not

[DainBramaged]

5. Fact, their 'reliability' is a sham

my friends who own a Toyota dealership, OVER 2000 repair orders written each month for 10 techs. And they aren't just oil changes. think about that. Open 6 days a week. About 33 cars each tech each week minimum. And they aren't a giant dealership, they sell about 200 new cars a month even now.

[customerserviceguy]

7. Perhaps people are able to keep their Toyotas longer

than other brands of car. That means they will be in the shop for minor fixes, but won't have to wind up on the scrap heap.

When a car barely outlasts its financing, often the person who just got out of making car payments goes back to the showrooms to buy another one. It means he won't be visiting the repair department for a couple of years.

[DainBramaged]

8. GM owners won't fix shit, and don't abide by maintenance schedules

They will wait until the bank loan is complete, then come in to trade for a new car, expecting top dollar for a car that not only looks like shit, has bald tires and numerous problems, won't stop without effort, has the check engine light on or various noises associated with lack of maintenance. We see it all the time. If they paid attention to the car, it would last as long as the japanese cars...........

[FarCenter]

9. Do people who lease cars maintain them as well as people who buy?

Maybe it has to do with the proportion of customers who lease versus buy for the different manufacturers.

My impression is that GM has emphasized leasing deals.

[DainBramaged]

10. Two years ago GM got out of the leasing business because of bad residuals

they rolled the dice on high residual values and lost when the gas crunch hit. All they sold were guzzlers and huge SUVs.


Now they have NO competitive leases available.

[customerserviceguy]

15. That's a worthwhile observation

And you have a good point. I've picked up used Asian cars that had poor maintenance, and I had to spend a few bucks to get them up to snuff.

However, I have to fault the marketing scheme. American-nameplated dealers have depended on profits from the service area to make up for the lack of them from the showroom. I'd have to say that the American manufacturers have probably done the same, also making money from their lending arms as well.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. You have to wonder how much damage has been done to the brand.

After the recall work is done will they have enough sales to be back to business as usual and maintaining a normal workforce, or will they have to cut back below where they were before the recall?

[Stinky The Clown]

11. Not whining. Just curious ....... an unrec?

Why did this thread get an unrec? It was worthy of neither a rec nor an unrec. It was as innocuous and bland a thread topic as I can imagine.

Can anyone guess?

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. RW trolls

They talk about their unrec games on their forums (which may not be mentioned here).

And they do seem to like you and me too:)

[DainBramaged]

14. me three

fucking gutless basement dwellers

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. If you look at the number of regulars at that basement dweller site

There are two who post most of the crap against DU. And a handful of others who pipe in with comments in agreement.

The 100,000 + here grossly outnumber them. It reminds me of the little kid who kicks the big kid in the shin and runs away laughing while the big kid just stands there dumbfounded.

[DainBramaged]

17. We have more members on in a day than Free Republic gets in a week

and the bottom-feeder website you refer to is simply lower than pond scum and dog shit on your shoe. They are cowards period.


:hi: :hug:

[HopeHoops]

13. Nah, a trained auto tech would be overqualified.