Point taken, and as another anecdote my rig appeared to never have had the front driveshaft lubed in 100k+ miles of maintenance at the same dealer before I bought it.
But the tech given the job of a head gasket change won’t be one of the low-level guys doing oil changes and driveline lubes. The nature of the work usually means it’ll be the far more experienced people with at least something of a history successfully doing more complex jobs.
As I said, it’s still an unknown. And yes there is a huge difference between a trusted independent over some shady crew running out of an apartment complex shadeport. But the dealer doing this job at least suggests they didn’t try to lowball the job.. the previous owner would pony up when needed. That’s generally a good sign for a rig someone would be looking at buying used.
