How far will you have to drive for service on your Chrysler product??

I'm sure you can get it repaired at a local garage if it's out of
warranty, But if it's under warranty you will want to have the repair
done by a Chrysler dealer.
How far will you have to drive to have a covered repair done? How will
you get home? How will you get back to the dealer to pick up the
repaired vehicle?
Back to the older Chrysler product. I'm sure there's going to be
problems with having parts shipped to a local garage since they can no
longer run over to the dealer parts department. And of course the
shipping cost will be added to the repair.
I can't see how the company will survive these conditions.
Since this is a Chrysler newsgroup, I stuck to Chrysler. But the same
problems will be there for GM vehicle owners.

 

Why buy a Chrysler when you can get a Honda, Toyota, Nissan or Ford?

 

As i former Chrysler owner for over 20 years, i'm felling sorry for
owners of these cars and trucks, IMO i think that some owners of
Chrysler product will switch to orher brands that are not having
prolems.
what Chrysler & GM is doing is making it a whole lot better for these
other brands, with a lot of GM & Chrysler dealers gone the more other
brands will have to sell and service.
Toyota and Honda will be laughing all the way to the banks and loving
it,
Thank you GM & Chrysler for giving me more work as well as more $$$$$.
UMMM UMMM

 

Where I live we're spoiled by too many dealers.
That does give me a choice of where to get Chrysler maintenance and
parts, which often isn't the closest Chrysler dealer.
BTW we have 3 Chrysler dealers within a 15 minute drive, with many more
on a 30 minute drive.
Hopefully each reasonably sized town/city retains one dealer.

 

Toyota and Honda have fewer dealers than the D-2, Nissan far fewer.
I'm sure after dropping dealers the D-2 will still have more dealers
than T or H.

 

Yes if a Chrysler owner is having problems requiring a dealer and a
dealer isn't nearby they will obviously look into other makes.
Fortunately our Chrysler cars seldom have a problem and regular service
is handled by a number of local small garages.
When buying a new car a nearby dealer is a given, why buy a vehicle when
you have to travel more than 20 or so minutes for a dealer?

Yes Ford, Toyota & Honda will be happy, but many other makes won't be
affected as they have very slim dealer networks.

 

it's worse for gm parts so far we have not had any problems but told we will
be gm is shuttiing down for 2 months and so are the suppliers
here in michigan word went out last week to folks i know whom build parts
for gm as major layoffs start
support michigan buy american

 

it's not what gm and chrysler are doing to customers it's obamas ill fated
near sighted plan thats doing it welcome to socialism

As i former Chrysler owner for over 20 years, i'm felling sorry for
owners of these cars and trucks, IMO i think that some owners of
Chrysler product will switch to orher brands that are not having
prolems.
what Chrysler & GM is doing is making it a whole lot better for these
other brands, with a lot of GM & Chrysler dealers gone the more other
brands will have to sell and service.
Toyota and Honda will be laughing all the way to the banks and loving
it,
Thank you GM & Chrysler for giving me more work as well as more $$$$$.
UMMM UMMM

 

According to one of the national TV news outfits, Toyota has 1600 dealers
in the US. GM has 7000 in the US. Lot's of room to cut lots of dealers
and still have more than twice Toyota has. Don't know how many Chrysler
had overall but probably many more than Toyota.

 

Because I "don't want THEM!". I don't want a Kia, Hyundai, etc.
either. My family has driven Chrysler products since before WWII, and
we like them. I currently have two: a restored 1941 Windsor 4 door
sedan, and my wife drives a 2007 Dodge Caliber



"What do you mean there's no movie?"

 

Because all of the above except Ford suck rocks, and because I (mostly)
prefer Chrysler's lineup to Ford's. Definitely Dodges are far better
trucks right now, until Ford gets the Navistar 6.0/6.4 diesel disaster
ironed out. The Fusion is the most appealing Ford to me, but only
because the Avenger/Sebring is so un-appealing.

I don't get all the stupidity about "you won't be able to get service!
Waaah waaah waahhh." Even if Chrysler folds completely, *someone* is
going to buy the assets and keep car production going in some form
(possibly multiple forms), and that includes service. Many of the
dealers that are being cut loose from the franchise system may elect to
stay in business as independents, but aside from that only a very few
were cut loose in areas where there isn't ANOTHER Chrysler dealer within
a few miles. In my town, ONE dealer was cut loose (and its generally
regarded as one of the worst dealerships of any brand in the area)
leaving "merely" FOUR other Dodge, Jeep, or Chrysler dealerships!

 

Steve,
I agree with you on Ford products(also GM). I prefer to drive
Chrysler products, my family has always driven them even before WWII(I
have a restored 1941 Windsor 4 door now). My wife's 2007 Caliber is
great! We got back from a 1500 mile round trip, with air and going 70
and got 31-33 mpg.
I have to disagree with you ont he Avenger/Sebring, I think that they
are nice cars, much different looking than all the Japanese/Korean,
etc. same size models. We counted a lot of them on the highway during
our trip, and the Dodge Ram was the most counted truck that we saw!





"What do you mean there's no movie?"

 

Well... opinions are very individual. My wife saw a current-production
Sebring the other day and she said, "THAT is the Sebring! It looks just
like any Honda!"

To my eye, its much more generic than the Sebrings of 5 or especially 10
years ago.