Hello auto fish, any recommendations on good, reliable mechanics or shops in Austin who can work on foreign cars? I have a 2019 Alfa Romeo Giulia and it's under warranty but wanted someone reasonable and trustworthy to do minor maintenance and repairs as needed. Plan to make them primary once warranties run out.

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Lakeway has a greater shop - I think it’s called Dr Beemer or something. They do German cars so idk about Alfa

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Northwest imports is excellent if you’re on the north side! They’ve done excellent work for me and my family on BMWs Audis and Mercedes. Idk if they do work on Chryslers though.

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Chrysler is still alive?

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Is it a Quadrofrommagio?

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This is further proof that Alfa fans are funny and interesting people. Good luck with the QV, recently test drove a 4c and it blew my mind

Get a quote https://www.giuliaforums.com/threads/extended-warranty.54033/

I second this. I have a 2017 and bought the extended warranty. Haven’t used it yet since the standard warranty just ran out this month but when my sunroof broke under warranty, it was almost 2K to fix

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I would have it serviced at the dealership until the warranty runs out. Few reasons:

They will document the maintenance, any warranty claim and there is no question you had oil changes done on time by factory auth service center

Service bulletins come out for cars all the time that you may not know about, they address these when it’s in

They hook it up to the OEM computer and scan it; no matter what an independent shop tells you they are not able to do this.

You can have it serviced for normal maintenance at an independent or do it yourself - just make sure they/you do all the things / know what it consists of.

Paying a bit more for the dealer service imo is insurance if anything goes wrong later they have all the records and ownership over the work to date.

I am a huge fan of independents and use them, but only when a vehicle I have that was new is out of warranty.

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