I am not bashing this dealership in any way, my review is more to the car dealership buying experience in general. Ok, I saw a 2015 GMC Yukon Denali listed at this dealership for sale. I sent an email to inquire about the vehicle and I was also leaving out of town but wanted to secure holding the truck until I got back in town to look at it. I had no fewer than 3 people email me back right away and once or twice in that week that I was away to see if I was still interested in the truck. Well upon my return, I did go and purchase the vehicle. (Billy Brown was my salesman and he was great!).
Ok, so, I had the truck for about a week and found a simple 8oz bottle of fuel injector cleaner (STP) left from my old car so I added it to the gas tank of my new truck. The next day I go out to start the truck and the engine light comes on. Now the thing won't go off and the service department (or used car manager Jamin) says pretty much it's my fault and they can't be responsible for what I added to the car after leaving the lot. Well, excuse me, Sir, but if a little bottle of fuel additive is going to cause that type of malfunction, then more than likely, there is something wrong with it BEFORE you sold it to me, you can just turn off the "check engine" light, somehow I think this is what was done before I bought it. If you know pricing on those types of cars, then it's a damn shame that I paid that much money to have this light constantly on (plus I cannot use my remote start when the check engine light is on....safety feature built in by GM) very frustrating....
Now let me add that the used sales manager (Jamin) did have me bring it back and said they would diagnose it for "free" (does that mean if there is something wrong, you gonna charge me to repair it?). Well as with my luck, the day I took it back to have them run diagnostics, the light goes out before I get there! I still took it back and let them look at it but they said they couldn't really find anything out without the light being on. They did repair some minor things that they had overlooked before the sale that I brought to their attention.
Now get this, that was on 6/17/17, the light came back on again 6/19! I'm frickkin pissed and perplexed all at the same time. What do I do now, I haven't owned this truck a month yet but I paid a pretty penny and all I can see is this "check engine" light that is ruining my enjoyment of this vehicle.
So I'm giving 3 stars because it definitely seems that they say all the right things to get you in the office, treat you great while showing the car and all that, but as soon as you drive that puppy off the lot, you are completely on your own! I've known this about dealerships over my many years, to which this is the only 3rd car in my life that I went to the dealers as opposed to private sellers, I just thought after about 20+ years it was time to give them another try. Boy was I wrong.
So here I am to summarize my rant, I bought truck 5/29/17, check engine light came on 6/4/17, they looked at it 6/17/17 (it went back out on my way to dealership), it came back on 6/19/17. Here I am 6/30/17 and it remains on and for the amount of money spent to buy this truck, I would have thought that they would do more, but when speaking to the used sales manager "after purchase", as opposed to prepurchase, the description and everything was roses, now that I drove it off the lot, he said it's a "used car, it's got a lot of milage on it, yada, yada, yada. Words they definitely weren't using to talk about the truck before purchase.
Other than that, Classic Cadillac is pretty nice, they have a nice waiting area for when your car is getting serviced, they have snacks and water/coffee and tv to watch. I just wish this darn check engine light would go out, because I really like this truck but something in me really feels that they had to know about it beforehand and I can't believe 1 small bottle of fuel injector cleaner is responsible for that light to constantly be on. read more