Service is pretty well GONE

Been to several dealers over Recalls or Warranty work and can unequivocally state there is NO Service departments worth their salt anymore.  Are a few independent garages that I do trust for work I Cannot perform as not going to buy Thousands of Dollars in repair Tech Equipment that obsoletes as fast as the machines.  Know all too many cannot get tractors, trucks, cars repaired as not enough staff, machines sitting, in barns or in dealer yards.

Had a small local shop do some work for me - part of it on brakes and then fuel pump problem - got the bill on that and when problem started - pump was close to $400 but part that got me was dropping the fuel tank - said had to drain it first so syphoned it out into containers 30 gallons - dropped tank new pump and poured fuel back into tank . 
 2 hours labor on removing fuel and putting it back $250 - new straps to mount tank $60 and 1.5 hours for dropping tank and reinstall $180 
I told them since bed of truck had rust hole just cut opening into bed to replace pump as fuel lines I had replaced a while back with high pressure hose .


Edited by Coke-in-MN - 04 Jul 2026 at 8:07pm