This Carstar location has horrible customer service, and the owner is abusive and dishonest! I recently bought a 2017 Camaro ZL1 from Carvana and the front bumper was damaged during transportation, so they agreed to have it replaced through their insurance company, SilverRock. My mistake was not taking heed of the negative reviews, take a look for yourself and you'll see a trend of poor customer service and rude/abusive behavior from the
staff. Despite my instinct telling me something was off, I had limited choices in SilverRock's network so I went ahead and scheduled an appointment to drop my car off.
From the moment I received the estimate until the day I picked my car up, Carstar never provided me with an expected duration for the repairs. They also never called me to keep me updated, I had
to call every few days to find out the status of my car. They will send you an automated text after you drop your car off with a weblink to a portal that is supposed to automatically update you on the
status of your car. Problem being the job page never gets updated and from start to finish my status page always showed "Car Dropped Off" and was never updated. Another problem is when you call
to get an update, half the time they don't answer the phone and always seem to forget to call you back. One particular time when I called, I was told they were in a staff meeting and would get a call back in 5-10 minutes. Well 3 hours later no return call so I had to call them back, and once again try
to find out anything I could on the status of my repairs.
This was a simple job in that the front bumper cover just needed to be replaced and the new one painted. Should have taken 4 days max, and that's being generous. Clearly Carstar is taking on too
much work at this location and customers like myself might as well not even have an appointment if our car is just going to sit for days on end. To this point, my car was done after only a few days, but then I was told by John that it was "in detail" and I had to wait 3+ days for the front bumper to be
buffed and paperwork to be completed! Since the timeline didn't make sense, I started asking questions and on the second day with no status update I was also told over the phone that "even if it was done you cannot legally pick up the vehicle because SilverRock paperwork has not been
completed". Problem is I knew this was not true and that SilverRock had already approved everything that had been done on the car to date. It is also not legal for a shop to hold your vehicle if no balance is due, but when I questioned John about his employee's statement, he screamed at me
and slammed the phone down! At this point, I was wondering if I would need to call the police and report the car stolen to get it back, which has never happened to me in all my years of trusting vehicles to dealerships and repair shops.
After John slammed the phone down and hung up on me, I immediately drove down there to get the car back. Wouldn't you know, only 1 hour after being told it was illegal for me to take possession of my car for at least a few more days, once I was physically onsite demanding my property be
returned, I was miraculously told I could have my car! I was then given an invoice and while I was outside the shop inspecting my car, John was out there with a customer and was very nice to me. I looked over at him and said "thanks John", and in front of the other customer he said "you bet, I'll call you in a little bit and we can discuss the ppf coating". At the time, I knew he was never going to call and was just trying to save face in front of his customers, and sure enough he never called me. The new bumper also does not match the other body panels well, paint blending is subpar at best.
At the end of the day, I urge anyone reading this review to take heed of the other negative reviews for Carstar East Valley and steer clear of them. I was always very polite in my dealings with them, and the fact that John runs his business in such an abusive, dishonest, and unorganized manner is shameful. read more