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Her is a perfect example even though its not a Porsche..
I was working on getting my other car (VW golf) ready for the winter and decided to change the front brakes, not scheduled, but I thought it was a wise thing to do as they were not changed for ages..
Pop everything open and notice one of the splash panels has a crack around the mounting point and is close to falling of from one corner.. So I fix it by re-inforcing the mounting point.. Would the dealer of done this? probably not, and the panel would have fallen off and exposed my timing belt and cam gears to salt and slush..
All it took was my time to fix, but since I love all my cars I am more then happy to put in the time, but I doubt the dealer is willing to invest this time without charging, and I doubt the panel would have been brought to my attention as it was not technically broken..
so maybe sometimes it is not always best to buy dealer maintained, but that depends entirely on who was maintaning the car..
Mike
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