extended warranty?? -- follow up

[Lee Levitt]

Eliot,

If you're still in the Boston area, you should go introduce 
yourself to Dave at Central Service Garage, in Natick. He's been 
taking care of my Audis for 10 years, and my cars overall for 20. 
A gem of a mechanic. Highly trustworthy and reasonably priced. 
Frequently fast too!

Lee

"Eliot Sennett" <emsennett at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks to everyone who took the time to reply to my post, and 
> thanks for
> providing such thorough and useful feedback. Based on that 
> feedback and some
> additional conversations, I've decided to self-insure. I'm 
> confident in the
> car, and am going to take the risk that over the next four years 
> it'll cost
> me less than $5,400. Now all I have to do is determine whether to 
> have the
> dealer perform all the x5,000 mile checks or just go to a 
> qualified Audi
> mechanic to do the important stuff - which seems to be oil/fluid 
> changes and
> a lot of inspections - presumably for less than an average of 
> $700 per
> visit.