My history with your company is one that reads horribly. I came to you for get my rear end fixed, and was returned a car with a trunk trunk and tail lights that were visible misaligned, so much so that it was a bit insulting that you tried to give it to me in such condition. I returned it, and got it back with a leak in the trunk so severe, that it left a pool; a pool large enough to nearly ruin the camera that is kept there. The man who presented himself as the owner said it was because you didn't do a seam seal.
After a bit of fuss, a representative told me to drop off the vehicle. He said that if I get there when you open, I'll have it back when you close; that he would leave my car out so that I can access it with my spare, and we would be done. When I got there, my car was no where to be found, and you were closed. After much more fuss, I found that you were unable to compete the work as quickly as you said, but no one bothered to tell me anything about it. I had to take to Facebook to get an immediate answer. The man who presented himself as the owner got me a rental car the next morning, and allowed me to keep it for the next 3 days as you more properly did the repair.
After this, I had damage done to my vehicle. It was another case where payment was no issue. I had a choice to go to the most convenient place (Classic Collision), or find another place to go to. I choice you because there is no way you'd drop the ball like you had before, and there was no way that you'd do it twice to the same person. I was incorrect. I came to you for an estimate. Someone came out, took photos of damage and the VIN, asked who the insurance company was, who the agent was, and said I was all taken care of.
Months go by, and I hear nothing from all parties. I called insurance agent and he said he had never gotten an email. I call you, and get no answer. I press zero, leave a message, and wait a month for no reply. I call again, and do the same thing, only to get no response. The next month (January), I call and get an answer. Nothing had been done. The secretary makes the comment that it's her boss, Jeff, who did the estimate, and who had not done what he said he would. How is this acceptable? And if it's leadership dropping the ball, how am I to believe the culture of the company is?
My last call resulting in an email being sent, without the photos that you should know to include (damage and VIN). Did you call and ask me for the photos? No. You sent it anyway. The insurance agent had to ask me for it. What's going on with the communication? Is my time it valuable to you? Are you lax because insurance is paying for the repairs? Do you expect me to just lay down on shoddy workmanship and suspect practices because my money isn't being spent?
Even now my taillight is out (it had been going in and out since the repair, but I can't prove it's your fault so I let it go). I only bring it up not because I want you to look at it, but because I want you to understand that I have a legitimate fear that if you are tasked with the repair, it will only result in a failure of something else.
Let me make this 100% clear. I am only allowing you to finish this work because we are so far in, and I should not (and will not) take another day off to get an estimate and start this process over after 9 months of fighting. Should anything ever happen to my car again, I will not be using any of your locations, and I will very publicly advise others to follow my lead. read more