The worst car purchasing exprience in my entire life.
Please, please, activate your brain and NEVER even consider buying a car from this automobile "broker."
All this dealership does is purchase cars from auctions, having very little knowledge on the history of the vehicles that they purchase. Then they send the purchased vehicles to their automobile repair shop which is in the back of their dealership and they make a very lame attempt of making the vehicle "look good" enough to sell. Touch up paint here and there but not any other type of repair.
They take pictures of their vehicles for sale and absolutely avoid taking any photos of all of the damage that their vehicles actually have inside and out. They avoid photographing any of the damage to their cars and then when a buyer shows up, the buyer is shocked by how beat up and "driven into the ground" the vehicle actually is.
I drove from Dallas to this dealer's location in the Austin area on July 3rd, only to be shocked by the horrible condition of the vehicles that were posted online and that I was interested in.
One of the cars that I was interested in was a Ford Escape with less than 65,000 miles. The pictures on their website did not show a single scratch, dent or broken interior that this car had. In actuality, there were dozens of scratched, worn and stained interior and exterior surfaces of this car. Every single seat in the vehicle- both front and back was stained and/or had holes in it.
The vehicle had broken and scratched interorior pieces, ruined seats front and back as well as sub-par body work done on both the front and back of the vehicle from the 3 accidents that it had been in, despite the CarFax report stating that the vehicle had only been in 2 minor- moderate accidents with no frame damage.
When driving the car at speeds above 55 mph, the car vibrated violently and when making a left hand turn, a loud thumping noise occurred that was so bad, that it drowned out the conversation that I had with the mechanic that I had hired to inspect this vehicle.
When I was finished test driving this vehicle, I walked into the dealership office and mentioned to the son of the owner that I was concerned about a number of things, but especially, the loud thumping sound whenever I made a left-had turn in the vehicle. Upon hearing this, the owner (father) who was on a phone call literally jumped out of his chair and screamed at me that their was nothing wrong with this car.
Just so that I wouldn't grab this cockroach of a man by the throat and crush his wind pipe. I placed the keys of the vehicle on the desk and walked out.
Just one other note, this dealer knew that I was coming from the Dallas area to look at this car on July 3rd, however the interior of the car was so caked by mud, that because it was raining on the day that I test drove the car, my jeans and my shirt ended up being caked with mud due to getting wet from the rain and then sitting in this vehicle. The interior of the car was absolutely filthy as well as being all of the seats being scratched, torn and ripped. read more