Last week I had the worst customer service that I have EVER experienced, and my support of this organization is completely gone. I drive a 2014 Chevy Cruze that is still covered under the drive train warranty because it only has 83,000 miles on it. Over the past month or so, I have noticed it shifting slightly harder into and out of gear around 30 mph. This caught my attention and I wanted to have it addressed because transmission work is expensive and I wanted to have it covered under warranty, if possible. I made an appointment for Monday November 26. I dropped my car off late on Sunday November 25 and put my keys in the overnight slot. I was down in the area on Monday morning (7am) so I stopped in to explain my additional concerns with my vehicle because it was too much to write on the bottom of the envelope that I put my keys in. I knew that they had to diagnose the problem and that diagnosis is a time intensive process, but I expected to receive an update at some point throughout the day. By 3pm on Monday, I had not heard anything back from Larry (the service advisor that I had spoken too). I decided to call them because I needed to find out if I should make ride arrangements for Tuesday or if I would have my car back. I was informed that they would likely not be able to finish the diagnosis on Monday because the "transmission guy (as they called him)" had just finished the diagnosis he was working on all morning. I was totally understanding of this delay and willing to wait because I wanted my car to be thoroughly diagnosed so that the full problem was discovered and resolved. Around 4:30pm on Monday, I received a call saying that they had found the problem and it was under warranty still, but they had to order the transmission control module and could not get the part in until Thursday. While this issue was under warranty, they were unable to issue a loaner car until the warranty work was being performed, per corporate. I was given the option to pick up my car and drive it, but they needed it back for first thing Thursday morning. However, my work schedule did not allow for me to get there during their hours to get my car. I understand that my lack of vehicle on Monday-Wednesday was a result of conflicting schedules.
I gave the shop a call on Wednesday to find out when I could pick up a loaner vehicle on Thursday since the warranty work would be started. I was told by Larry that my vehicle would be done by the end of day on Thursday and that the loaner would need to be returned as soon as my car was done. I was aware that the loaners need returned as soon as the work is done, but he felt the need to tell me this with an attitude. I had to work on Thursday and with my car set to be done by the end of the day, I decided not to bother utilizing the loaner car that should have been guaranteed because the work being done was all under warranty. My reasoning for this was I worked all day on Thursday 8am-6:45pm, so why get a loaner car just to have it sit at my employer all day. I heard nothing from Larry all day on Thursday, so I assumed that no news meant that my car was still set to be done by the end of the day and I could pick it up when I got off work. I gave Larry a call at around 4pm to get a status update, and he told me that they didn't even know what the problem with my vehicle was. I reminded him that they had diagnosed it and it was the transmission control module. Then he remembered, and he told me that my car HADN'T BEEN STARTED! Why was this not communicated to me? Why would it be the customer's responsibility to make sure that things were operating on schedule? As soon as they realized that it would not be done on Thursday, they should have called me so that I could make additional arrangements. So Thursday evening when it became apparent I was going to be without a vehicle again, I asked about getting a loaner car for Friday. I was previously told that a loaner would be available for me to pick up on Thursday, so I assumed this would be an easy process. But Larry said "It never came back. The other customers with warranty work were here first and ahead of you. I have a transmission and two motors being replaced." First of all, as the customer, I do not care about the other customers or the workload that is tying up the loaners. As the customer that is not my problem, the problem I was facing was being out of a vehicle and working with a company that does not value their customers enough to communicate delays in completion. I asked to speak with the manager at this point, and Larry would not put the manager on the phone because "the manager is who answered the phone and put me on". I was out of a vehicle on that day as well because Apple Chevy did not communicate the delay in service to me, and by the time that I called them I was unable to get to Enterprise in time to pick up the rental car. read more