Dropped my car off on a Friday. I gave them simple instructions, and was told to give those instruction directly to the mechanic. I told them to order a new wiper motor and wiper arms and put them in, because the circuit board on the motor had gotten water in it and the wipers and pisser fluid were randomly turning on and off - mostly on. I wanted the motor replaced because even though the water would dry up, the circuit board would corrode so I just wanted it all replaced. The wiper arms I wanted replaced because replacing the wiper arms was the only way to get new keyway inserts that align the wipers and maintain traction so they don't strip. I had lost them in the grass when I initially tried this repair myself before it just got too cold to bother with. The mechanic insisted that I did not need the keyways and the wipers would not strip, based on his own experience replacing wiper arms. I said Ok, fine, just replace the motor then. He said "..if that's the problem" so I reiterated that it was indeed the problem, so just replace it. So, back inside we go, where there is a brief discussion about when they can get to it. The guy who mans the computer and phone said probably by Wednesday and the mechanic says he might be able to look at it on Saturday. Wednesday rolls around and I call them and they haven't even ordered the part yet. I am told it should be there by Friday. I call Friday and they tell me it still isn't done, and the mechanic is at the doctor or in the hospital or something. I ask if he is the only mechanic at the entire dealership, knowing full well he is not, and they give me some song and dance about the mechanic who diagnoses the problem is the one who has to fix it. Firstly, there was no diagnosis, I assigned them a task with no troubleshooting or diagnosis involved in it. Second, this is anything but a customer service oriented policy (if it's even real) that results in huge delays for the customer so it is a terrible business decision. Finally, WHAT A HUGE RED FLAG THIS IS. I can only imagine how many times their incompetent mechanics totally f@#&ed up someone's car and then tried to blame it on someone else who worked on it, before Baldwin Ford finally had to institute the policy to prevent these occurrences. It does not speak well to their staff's ability at all. ANyways, I remind them that they are in fact open on Saturday, but I am told the mechanic who is working on my car except for the fact he hasn't touched the damn thing Does Not Work Saturdays. The previous week he had said quite the opposite. You've got to be kidding me. The phone and computer guy tells me there are notes in the system that my wipers work fine, and I have to explain for the 3rd or 4th time why they didn't work and why I wanted it replaced, which ends with him telling me it will be done Monday. Monday rolls around, and guess what? It's not done! The parts are still not there. I ask some questions about how parts get ordered in an attempt to find some inkling of accountability for this outrageous continued delay, but apparently that is a foreign concept at Baldwin Ford. I am told that it will be done Tuesday "if the parts come in". At this point I am now forced to consider the possibility that they have somehow damaged my car, driven it off a cliff, or lost it entirely and are now just stalling. I plan on driving by there after hours and scouring their lot for my car, until I remember that I DON'T HAVE A CAR, and I HAVE NOT HAD A CAR FOR WELL OVER A WEEK NOW, so I won't be driving anywhere.Tuesday rolls around and they tell me my car is actually fixed, after 11 days. I show up, and pay the amount what was agreed upon by a much younger version of myself in the distant past. This is the ONLY reason it's not a 1 star review, because they didn't try to increase the price and the actual labor was under $100. But wait, there's more! Phone and computer guy tells me that my battery died and they had to jump it to work on it, but they won't reveal to me why my battery died. Phone and computer guy could just admit it's because it sat without being started for over a week, but again, accountability is a foreign concept at Baldwin Ford. He tells me he might have to jump it again and sure enough when I go outside, he is. They couldn't even take the time to run it for 10 minutes before I got there, apparently blissfully unaware of the optics of a customer seeing them jumping what used to be a perfectly good battery so I can finely drive off their godforsaken lot. I test out the wipers and the pisser fluid because for some reason my windshield looks like someone tried to wipe it down with a used diaper, AND THEY DIDN'T EVEN HAVE THE DECENCY TO TOP OFF MY PISSER FLUID. My mind is blown, and I'm already writing this review in my head at that point. AFTER ALL OF THIS, I realize that one of my wipers is REALLY crooked... it's off by several inches. WTF.
Don't ever take your car to these people. I mean, like, wow. read more