Where to start with Automaxx?
In summary, this has been the worst car buying experience I have ever had. Here are the details.
About a year ago we purchased vehicle from Automaxx in Orem. We came and test drove the car and looked it over to see the few flaws it had on the surface. We decided to purchase the car. We discussed with the salesman the flaws that we noticed and that if they would repair them, that we would purchase the car that day. They said "you can either take $XXX (slightly more than the cost of a new part) and fix it yourself or we can fix it for you at our professional mechanic shop with NEW parts." We opted to have them repair it because they reassured us that it would be done professionally and with NEW Parts.
Well we buy the car, bring it back to get the part replaced. They have it for about twice as long as they SAID they would. The day comes to pick up the car. Turns out not only did they NOT fix the car, their "professional mechanic" had actually broken SEVERAL other pieces of the car while trying to install the new piece. Literally like he had just shoved a flat head screwdriver in between plastic parts and started prying. Also, the parts they put in were CLEARLY from a junk car that had been sitting somewhere forever. The rubber seals on the part were absolutely trashed and it did not function correctly.
Their solution to this problem? "well we have to pay our mechanic, so we can't give you the amount we originally discussed at the time of the sale" So in other words, "We would rather put our hack mechanic in front of our customers" They said "we can let him try again" to which I OBVIOUSLY replied "no way in hell" because he clearly didn't know what what he was doing the first time.
Also of note that during the time between purchasing the car and bringing it back to get the first part replaced, we had a check engine light come on for a turbocharger deficiency. Little did they know that I knew what part caused that and got underneath the car and marked the part with a paint marker. Well when I picked up the car and found the terrible job that was done on the first part, naturally I checked to see if they had replaced the part that they SAID they had replaced to get rid of that check light. Surprise, it was still the original part. The literally cleared the code and said they fixed it in hopes that it would not come back til after our "warranty" was up.
So this is where the story gets even worse unfortunately.
Throughout our time owning the car I obviously had to fix all the problems that the car had when purchasing it myself, as well as all the broken parts that their mechanic had destroyed. Well the time comes to sell the car because while at least now the car is solid, the whole experience had left a sour taste in our mouth.
Well I have an individual interested in the car asks for a carfax report. At the time or purchase, we were shown a detailed report on the car and I looked it over throughly. No fed flags at all on the car fax they showed us the day of the purchase. Well, I pull a car fax report myself this month and find out that not CLEARLY they had falsified their report they showed us. I found out that the car had been in a serious accident several years ago (accident reported and logged in the carfax in 2014), and that the car is listed as having "structural damage". ALSO that once Automaxx had received the car into their inventory a few months before our purchase, that they had the turbocharger looked at and were told by the dealership that it needed replaced. So in other words, they just deleted the code and put it for sale rather than fix the car that the KNEW what issue it had.
I can't even describe how livid I am with all the falsifying they did, their hack mechanic work, and quite frankly just their overall ethics of the entire sale. Automaxx knowingly cheated us out of what will end up being THOUSANDS of dollars of value of our car due to repairs and lost value due to the falsified car fax report. Never EVER buy anything from them without having it professionally looked at by a third party (if they'll let you, which I doubt they will) and pull a car fax report yourself, do not trust theirs. read more