Donny Carlson
12-18-2005, 08:48 PM
The worst part of trading in my 2003 Mercury Marauder was losing two of the best service techs I've known -- and two good friends -- Scott Levine and Jason Adams at Team Ford in Marietta, GA. Scott and Jason did all the service work and most of the mods for my MM over the past two years, and I looked forward to going over there to hang out with them as they worked on my car. Team Ford (part of Auto Nation, a chain of dealerships that includes Team Chevrolet in the Atlanta area) is very mod friendly, has an in house Dynojet. It's common to see high performance cars of all makes there, though honestly, this is a Ford house and most of them are Fords.
Scott is one of only 3,000 Senior Master Techs for Ford and used to work for Steeda down in Florida.
Scott and Jason are good friends, as I said, and I know the service manager, have sat at breakfast with him and "the boys" before heading over to the dealership.
Saturday was the monthly Atlanta Breakfast Club, and particpants usually go over to Team to see whose car is getting worked on that day -- what mod is being done. I was happy to see that Scott and Jason were there so I could show them the SSR.
Scott has done all my oil changes, Team uses both Mobil 1 or Royal Purple, so I decided to go ahead with the oil change here, had the SSR added to their maintenance computer. The only hitch was their system couldn't cross reference to the proper oil filter (accorind to the book over at AutoZone, there is a Motorcraft filter that fits), so I used a K&N I had on hand. This was the first opportunity I had to look at her underside on a lift.
Scott gave the SSR his blessing, that goodness. Looks like I will continue to have oil changes and light maintenance done at Team. I'll just go to Chevy for warantee work, looks like I'll drive up to Team Chevrolet in Northport to check them out. I do have a Birmingham fall back dealer for emergency warranty work. Also, Scott's going to handle mod work on the SSR, except of course exhaust, which will be the Toddster's jusidiction. Then the time comes to put on the Hotchkis anti-sway bars, gears, etc.. Scott's gonna don it. I do have to carry it to MTI racing up the street for tuning, as Aric doesn't have GM capability.
Here are some shots:
Scott Levine putting my SSR on the lift:
http://www.mercurymarauder.net/showcase/files/1/1/3/6/DSC00286.JPG
http://www.mercurymarauder.net/showcase/files/1/1/3/6/DSC00287.JPG
Scott is one of only 3,000 Senior Master Techs for Ford and used to work for Steeda down in Florida.
Scott and Jason are good friends, as I said, and I know the service manager, have sat at breakfast with him and "the boys" before heading over to the dealership.
Saturday was the monthly Atlanta Breakfast Club, and particpants usually go over to Team to see whose car is getting worked on that day -- what mod is being done. I was happy to see that Scott and Jason were there so I could show them the SSR.
Scott has done all my oil changes, Team uses both Mobil 1 or Royal Purple, so I decided to go ahead with the oil change here, had the SSR added to their maintenance computer. The only hitch was their system couldn't cross reference to the proper oil filter (accorind to the book over at AutoZone, there is a Motorcraft filter that fits), so I used a K&N I had on hand. This was the first opportunity I had to look at her underside on a lift.
Scott gave the SSR his blessing, that goodness. Looks like I will continue to have oil changes and light maintenance done at Team. I'll just go to Chevy for warantee work, looks like I'll drive up to Team Chevrolet in Northport to check them out. I do have a Birmingham fall back dealer for emergency warranty work. Also, Scott's going to handle mod work on the SSR, except of course exhaust, which will be the Toddster's jusidiction. Then the time comes to put on the Hotchkis anti-sway bars, gears, etc.. Scott's gonna don it. I do have to carry it to MTI racing up the street for tuning, as Aric doesn't have GM capability.
Here are some shots:
Scott Levine putting my SSR on the lift:
http://www.mercurymarauder.net/showcase/files/1/1/3/6/DSC00286.JPG
http://www.mercurymarauder.net/showcase/files/1/1/3/6/DSC00287.JPG