ChuckHutton dealerships have a great reputation in Memphis, and Toyota cars are excellent. BUT --
The Chuck Hutton service department has given me a serious run-around, so bad that I called the Toyota Brand Engagement Center 1-800-331-4331.
After nearly dying in heavy traffic on the freeway in rush-hour traffic when my steering stability system failed without warning -- I limped into the dealership where they refused to service the stability problem and gave me the above number. They said they "don't know how to fix steering stability systems". And that it was MY problem. Car is well within warranty -- one year down, two years to go.
I called the national Brand Engagement Center (# above), they assured me repairs would be made AS PER WARRANTY --and after hearing nothing for anyone at Toyota, anywhere, for a week, I called again.
Seems the service department had IGNORED -- simply DID NOT LISTEN -- to what i told them, had refused to service the vehicle, claiming I had an accident -- UNTRUE. And they had no basis WHATEVER to make that claim. Hit nothing, though 18-wheelers were trying to hit my vehicle from both sides with my emergency lights on. On the interstate, trying desperately to keep control of direction of vehicle. I was about to become a Toyota sandwich. And Chuck Hutton service refused to even look at the car.
IT WAS A TERRIFYING experience. I'm 71, in reasonably good health, and not ready to die squashed between two HIGH SPEED 18-wheelers that I tried desperately to avoid.
So NOW -- after a week of the service dept doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING -- Totyota will send a "regional" service guy to look at the problem. And we'll see what happens.
This has been abysmal customer service from Chuck Hutton Toyota. The national Toyota Customer Engagement Center has taken action -- FINALLY.
LOVE the car, HATE the Chuck Hutton service department.
I would add that the rental car dept called me this afternoon at 5 PM -- my "rental" -- WRONG, a loaner car -- was due back today. One Ms Hwang who works there was SCREAMING at me like a veritable BANSHEE about the "rental" car. I told her the service dept had FAILED TO DO to make repairs IN WARRANTY, and she said that "wasn't her department". She was extraordinarily RUDE. I guess Chuck Hutton trains her to behave that way.
NOT THE NICE LADY I MET AT THE DEALERSHIP. A truly abusive person. She SCREAMS at unsuspecting customers. Chuck Hutton Toyota has an endemic problem with its personnel in service and rental/loaner car departments.
Bad communications, bad service, downright PREDATORY service department. Think twice before you deal with Chuck Hutton Toyota.
I love the car Bought from them a year ago next week. 2021 Corolla SE with a 6-speed manual. Just don't want it to kill me anytime soon. I want nothing further to do -- EVER -- with Chuck Hutton Service Department. I could use strong words to describe them, but I won't 'cause Yelp will protect them.
BEWARE OF CHUCK HUTTON TOYOTA Service Department -- even when you speak with them in plain, literate English. They're not people who should be service reps. My experience has been that they are predatory, dishonest.
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