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Advance Auto Parts to Close All California Locations
The auto supply retailer plans to shutter 136 stores by the end of March amid sluggish demand.
Advance Auto Parts to Close All California Locations | The Epoch Times
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Roanoke’s Advance Auto has been a major success! But, Change is impacting the business in a Big way!
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Self-service is changing the do-it-yourself auto service activity. Spark plugs get changed every 100,000 miles, oil 10,000 miles, grease fittings 10,000 miles, transmission fluid 50,000 miles. And vehicle owners are less prone to do-it-yourself service on more complex and intimating systems.
Also the vehicle engine-transmission are designed for diagnosis by plug-in computer equipment integral to the dealer service.
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All reflective of the New John Deere that doesn’t allow farmers to service their tractors but instead sends ‘transporters’ out to ‘bring-in’ the tractors for dealer service and repair with dealer-only diagnostics and repair parts.
Deere sued by FTC over farmers’ right to repair equipment | Agriculture Dive
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These changes are impacting the secondary market for service and repair and are phasing-out the local repair-guy and parts stores.
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Students graduating from high-school automotive programs must now compete for brand-focused advance training or be relegated to oil-change chain shops.
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The change to hybrid and electric vehicles are magnifying the changes to a whole new level of technology, skill and training and available parts.
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Henry’s Made a Lady Out of Lizzie (1928)
It’s not the old ‘tin can’ that we once knew!
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