{"id":457514,"date":"2010-03-22T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003530"},"modified":"2010-03-21T21:11:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T01:11:21","slug":"to-save-on-car-repairs-ask-dealership-for-referrals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/457514","title":{"rendered":"To Save On Car Repairs, Ask Dealership For Referrals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Peter has stumbled on a way to save big money on car repairs: ask the dealer to refer you to their go-to mechanics, schedule an appointment with the source and tell ’em who sentcha. He says the technique has slashed his car repair bills:<\/p>\n

A little while ago, a mailbox hit my Honda and — in a separate incident — a pipe in a parking garage scratched up the door. Since I wanted to get the dents and scratches fixed without involving my insurance company, I took my car to some body shops and was given an exorbitant quote. So I contacted the Honda dealer that sold me the car and he gave me the contact of the guy that does the dealership’s body work. I contacted that guy and told him that the Honda dealer gave me his number, and he gave me a quote that was half the price of the other body shops!<\/p>\n

Recently my Honda was broken into and the window smashed. Since the window installation shop didn’t do tinting, I contacted the dealership to see what tinting shop they used. When the guy at the tint shop gave me a quote on tinting my window, he gave me a price less than half of what he advertised because the dealer referred me!<\/p>\n

So my trick for getting discount body\/non-mechanical work? Use the same shops the dealer uses and mention that you are a reference!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What do you do to save money on car repairs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peter has stumbled on a way to save big money on car repairs: ask the dealer to refer you to their go-to mechanics, schedule an appointment with the source and tell ’em who sentcha. He says the technique has slashed his car repair bills: A little while ago, a mailbox hit my Honda and — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4514,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}