Independent service centers are the most affordable today, ready to provide the client with a wide range of services.
Independent car service is a company that is officially registered. Independent service stations pay taxes, hire professional specialists to carry out repair, it is the main difference from garage services.
This category of car services is very diverse and covers autotechnical centers of various directions. The list includes small workshops, medium service stations and large enterprises serving personal and business vehicles.
Such service centers are opened by the former owners of garage service stations, having decided to give their own business legal status. Often the founders of independent service stations are employees of dealer companies.
Advantages and disadvantages
The cost of private car service compared with the garage center, will be higher. Such a workshop can offer the customer quality services due to production facilities, modern equipment and the availability of qualified personnel. These service stations provide a guarantee for all services rendered. It has its own service for the supply of spare parts.
Independent service stations have several advantages in front of dealerships:
- Wide nomenclature of services provided. In an independent workshop, the client will be offered several types and options for repair, while dealers will have the only alternative to replace parts
- Opportunity to install a non-original spare part which significantly saves money of the car owner
- Reasonable prices. In a dealership, the cost of services is often overstated due to a recognizable brand
Independent service stations are slightly inferior to dealers in quality in some points. But customers of service centers can save money when buying non-original parts. Cooperation of service stations with importers without intermediaries permits to establish constant uninterrupted supply of spare parts needed by customers.
You should remember that the use of corporate car service stations will deprive the car warranty which gives the manufacturer. When the warranty period of the car is not yet finished, this kind of car service will not be suitable for the car owner.
If the car owner priority is low maintenance cost, availability of warranty, professionalism, then you can use the services of an independent workshop.
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