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In my experience all ***best*** machincs/specialist/tradespeople sooner or later go off on their own and start working for themselves. Law of labour market coupled with avoidance of corporate bullsh1t that Audi is full to brim.

I trust Audi when I buy parts from them but I don't trust them doing work on my car. Why? No attention to detail. They are time bound when they do work. Same applies to independent garages. One can only deliver quality without rush. I'll go over-philosophical and say that you can't create/build 'proper stuff' in commercial world paradigm. Because right level of quality is prohibitively expensive if you calculate hours needed to deliver it.

My interest of car owner to get best possible quality are not aligned with interests of Audi dealers who are interested in maximising revenues and margins. Hence I try to do as much as possible by myself. It takes weeks, months, but quality I get is not comparable.

If I ever meet someone who can and willing to deliver quality I need I do everything I can to maintain relationship and keep that person happy to cooperate. These people are very rare and finding them is tough job.


>> For car parts I either go to TPS or ebay really...

Ranj, how can I open account with TPS as private person? I tried several times, but couldn't do that.