A sad day for GM -

So it had been 35 years since the last time I purchased a new Chevy. In June of this year the news for GM wasn't very good so I decided to buy a new HHR SS to help the old gas bill and do our part to try and help GM. We had to travel over 100 miles to find a 5 speed but with the local Chevy dealer being only 4 miles from our home, we knew any service or warranty work would be a snap. So yesterday the headline in the local paper read that Bell Motor Company, the second oldest Chevy dealer, after 85 years is closing its' doors.

Just my luck. The nearest dealers now are 30-40 miles away.

Are any of you having to travel that far for service from a dealer?

 

I run about 50 miles to go to the dealer that I bought the car from... not because its the closest, (there are 2 dealers within 5 miles from my house) but because they are the only ones around here that know what they are doing...

 

3 Chevy dealerships within 15 miles of my house. In the '60s there were 2 within r miles my dad worked at one of them.

 

To me that is just damn sad
85 years in business and having to close.

 

I guess I bought mine at the older Chevy dealership in the country, right here in Queens, NY! They haven't seen me back since I bought my SS in early July. Now, after almost 3000 miles I guess I am going for my first service and oil change.

 

There's quite a few dealers within 100 miles, but I haven't had to take mine back to the one 5 miles away in 7400 miles.

 

if gm would stop making cars in 3rd world counties then the cars would be a better quaility and they could up the price and keep the dealers open. man i was SO pissed when i found out my SS was built in mexico. if i wanted a mexican car i would have drove there and bought i NEW 1969 bettle. but now im stuck with 08 mexi-moblie...

 

Except they don't make the Old Beetles anymore.........I have been buying VW's for quite a few years and most were built in Mexico........I have no problem with the Mexican built car Build quality........Besides, if you did your homework before you bought the car you would have known were it was built!!

 

ya ya ya. but it NEVER crossed my mind that i was shopping for a FOREIGN chevy.

 

If it was built in Texas, who do you think would be assembling it? Yep, Mexicans.

And no, I don't believe the quality differs because of where it was built. The people on the line should have very little impact on that. The engineers and accountants decide that part.