Originally Posted by
patentcad
The dealer stepped up and did the right thing in as timely a fashion as could have been expected. Car runs like new. And having a brand new factory fresh alternator (a new Chevy part, not a re-build) on a 7 year old car is not a bad thing, that's a component that does tend to break, particularly on cars that don't get driven every day.
...by the time you sell that car, the dealer will probably have so much of your money that the alternator costs will be chump change. That looks like the sort of machine you want factory trained mechanics to work on, or some specialist guy who costs even more.
The dealer mechs are worth it just because they get all the updated service bulletins on particular idiosyncratic problems.