Yea, good idea to do some research online too if something goes wrong. You then have some idea about it. I actually look up the "Cost" of the parts.

Once when my car was hit while parked, the hood was totally smashed in and I couldn't open it so I went online and ordered a new hood and had it delivered to my guy. He charged me only $20. to take off the broken one and put the new one on. IF I had asked for someone to get the hood then put it on it would have cost me alot more. If you can get the part already at cost then have it with you installing it takes only a few minutes, unless its some Big Deal.

My cars from now on won't be new ones so going to a dealership is out for me. Even when I had new cars I found that dealerships REALLY were expensive unless it was something under warranty and it was just done for free.

Once I wanted to buy a NEW car. I went to dealership NOT dressed up, just wearing sweats. I had 20 Grand in my pocket CA$H and a 5 year old car to trade in. Because of the way I was dressed and or the fact that I was female, I stood around and watched as the salesmen zeroed in on all the males who walked in. Not one salesperson approached me and I stood around in there for the good part of an hour. I thought that was funny story to tell.