QOTD: Would You Have The Dealer Come To You For Service?

by Tim Healey

Published: September 12th, 2025

qotd would you have the dealer come to you for service

Today's podcast was all about a company that is helping dealers bring mobile service and repair to the customer.

So imagine -- your car needs an oil change and tire rotation. The dealer comes out and does the work right there in the driveway -- they even find a way to lift the car for the tire rotation.

Would you do it? How much would any potential cost above and beyond taking the car to the dealership for service matter to you?

Or is it too weird? Maybe you don't want a tech at your house or the HOA has a rule against it.

Either way, you know what to do. Sound off below.

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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VoGo on Sep 16, 2025

ICE problems.

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- Normie on Sep 16, 2025
  
  Absolutely. Old school problems that prevent driving are ICE problems.
  Problems that kill you because your car thought a cross-wise semi trailer was a highway sign are EV problems.
  
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- VoGo on Sep 17, 2025
  
  Sightlines, it looks like you don't know the difference between EV and AV. One is a drivetrain, the other is a vehicle controlled by artificial intelligence. It's important that you understand the difference.
  
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ToolGuy™ on Sep 29, 2025

Hey I listened to this episode of the TTAC Podcast and it was pretty interesting.

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Slavuta Das Kia Visionhttps://www.kia.com/us/en/kia-collective/vision/designing-the-next-chapter.html
FreedMike …or maybe Kia actually looked at the thing and said, “my word, that thing is ugly and no one is going to buy it, never mind what it runs on”…
Probert Over 30,000,000 EVs have been sold this year. Many in America, sadly for your thesis. Whether the US wishes to participate in this tech moving forward, or not, others are. In essence we have ceded the world to China in this regard, and in yet another field we will be relegated to second rate moribundity. Happy days!!!!Oh - South Korea has halted billions in investment in the US. Investment that could have employed thousands of Americans. Good times!!!!Oh - last year some 4 million people died prematurely from fossil fuel pollution. Party on!!!!!
Fred Granted there must be thousands of parts in a car. I'm sure they are designing cars with computers and use a MRP system, so it's all documented. Do a querey and pull it up. Unless you they want to hide something.