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Well I am a bit biased, but then again I am a factory trained Rover technician with ten years in the company. I would challenge any of you to tackle some of the work that comes into my facility. I had to laugh when I read the "Seems to me that anyone that can work on a gas engine should be able to work on any gas engine?".
Well maybe back in 1956 this was partially true but not in 2006!!
Specializing in one product is difficult enough. Think about the changes Rover has gone through in the past six years. We went from working on a primitive pushrod v8 to the latest BMW technology and the latest Jaguar technology. Next year we will be getting Volvo technology in the freelander!! All these platforms have nothing in common with one another. Just being able to work as a technician on ONE make requires a lot of training and skill. Automotive technology changes every year and our job changes every year. Would you feel comfortable having your foot doctor work on your heart? They are both doctors correct? They work on only two models (male and female) correct?
As far as the cost of the dealership goes. You are paying for specialists with the best resources available to service your vehicle. Remember that the technicians don't set the price for service and they are also forced to work under the manufacture's bogus warranty times that only benefit the manufacturer. The price you pay is not what the technician gets for pay...period! Try feeding your families with the pay you get from doing a freelander, Range Rover, Discovery engine or transmission and you guys will be eating a can of beans everynight if your lucky. Diagnostic time----Whats that???
Have any of you ever been misdiagnosed by one of your doctors. Have they ever prescribed something that didn't fix your problem. Have you ever analyzed the cost of going to your doctor.Yet you still look at them as gods and hero's. I can tell all of you one thing. The cost of servicing your ever increasingly complicated vehicles is not going to go down in the future. Vehicles are difficult to work on and it is not a field where a person can learn one job and keep up rather easily with changing procedures (i.e. carpenter, electrician, plumber, mason, welder). This is why technicians are leaving the field and putting there skills into other fields which are more profitable and where the models don't change as fast. Maybe they are all becoming doctors?