Types of service stations: independent car service
The most affordable services today are independent car services, ready to provide the client with a fairly wide range of their services.
Independent car service – an enterprise that is officially registered. Independent service stations pay taxes, hire professional specialists to carry out repair work, and this is their main difference from garage services.
This category of car services is very multifaceted and covers auto tech centres of different orientation. The list includes small workshops, medium-sized car services and large enterprises that serve personal and company vehicles.
The category is very multifaceted and encompasses car centres of various kinds.
These service stations are opened by former owners of garage car services, having decided to give their own business a legal status. Often the founders of independent service stations are employees of dealership companies.
Often the founders of independent service stations are employees of dealership companies.
Pros and cons
The cost of service in an independent service station, compared to a garage, will be higher. Such service can offer the client quality services due to production facilities, modern equipment and availability of qualified personnel. Such car services give a guarantee for all services rendered. It has its own service for the supply of spare parts.
Independent service stations have several advantages over dealerships:
- A wide nomenclature list of services provided. In an independent service station the client will be offered several types and variants of repair, while at dealers the alternative will be replacement of parts;
- The ability to put a non-original spare part, which significantly saves money of the car owner;
- Affordable prices. In the dealership the cost of services is overestimated often because of the recognisable brand.
On some points, independent service stations are slightly inferior to dealers in quality. But clients of services can save money when buying non-original parts. The co-operation of service stations with importers without intermediaries allows to establish a constant uninterrupted supply of spare parts necessary for customers.
All the parts needed by customers are delivered to the service stations without intermediaries.
It should be remembered that using the services of independent service stations will deprive the car of the warranty, which is given by the manufacturer. When the warranty period of the car is not yet over, this type of car service is not suitable for the owner.
If the car owner's priorities are: low price of service, availability of warranty, professionalism, then it is possible to resort to the services of an independent service station.
