Miata Mailing List: October 1996, Message #0135
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   From: "John C. Day" 

Subject: Non-Mazda dealership service

   Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 17:06:42 -0500



For my part, I must admit I didn't even try my local Mazda dealer, so I

can't say that they aren't as good as the folks at my Toyota dealer.



It just happened that we owned a couple of Toyotas and started taking

them there.  Later we bought the Miata, then a Mustang (I know, I know,

but it was too good a deal to pass up), and the Toyota service guys a)

seem to know what they're doing, b) let me in the service area when

they're working on the car, c) do all the stuff Lester Seal wrote in his

post today about oil changes, and d) are open on Saturdays *and*

Sundays.  They just never gave me a reason to try the Mazda place.  



Oh, and, not that it would influence me, but I won a pair of 49er

tickets in a drawing once... :-)



Seriously, though, they're superb.  They've never done anything (I knew

about) wrong to any of my cars, but one time they messed up the timing

belt change on my Dad's Celica (after I recommend he take it there, of

course) and the car died 10 miles from the dealership.  They sent a

truck out to get the car, along with a nice, new loaner Camry, and

brought the car back to him at home when they were done fixing

everything.  They'll have to work hard to get rid of my business.  :-)



W. Jake Jacobs wrote:

> 

> John,

>         Your last post sparks something - Is it true that Toyota

> dealerships take better care of Miata's than do Mazda dealerships (that

> appears to be true here in Sierra Vista as well as in John's neck of the

> woods)?

> 

>                 Cheers - W. Jake



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John C. Day, Gilroy, CA, USA

'90 A, Blue, Blue, Blue

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