I bought a Mazda 3 in early November from Crystal Auto Mall. About 2 weeks after buying my car, I hit a curb near my home. I quickly thought of my tire and wheel coverage and was so thankful that I decided to go with it. I called up Crystal Auto Mall for a service appointment and described the situation. They fit me in the same night. When I brought my car in, I was told that the rim, tire and wheel were fine; it was simply the hubcap that was an aesthetic issue that could be dealt with at a later time. On my way home, I stopped at a local garage owned by a family friend who I asked to check it out. He mentioned that rim was dented and was surprised I had not gotten a flat tire yet driving there. I then took my car to Open Road of Morristown Mazda, they could not have been nicer, and it is because of them that I would ever consider buying a Mazda again. They took my car in, having to order parts, and sent me out with a nice rental car for no charge. They mentioned to me that they had to go through leaps and bounds to find my tire and wheel coverage, and reached out to Richard Perafan and Crystal Auto Mall 5 times before every talking with someone. They finally reached someone when they told the receptionist to put the phone down and get someone to speak to him. I felt horrible, but was impressed they did the leg work and did not throw it into my lap.
Of course, not too long after I received a Service survey. Appropriately, I answered every question truthfully, and that was that I was displeased with my service as there was damage to my rim that they seemed to not have the time for. I received a call from Catherine (I believe that was her name), who was the most pleasant person I was ever in contact with at Crystal Auto Mall. She wanted to rectify my bad service experience with a full detail, inside and out, of my car and added on a Carbon Air Filter as well.
Hesitantly, in late April, I went back to Crystal Auto Mall for my first scheduled service.
I dropped my car off and explained to them that I would be able to leave it there for most of the day, as I had other transportation and did not have to work that day. About an hour and a half later, my car was ready.
I pulled in to get my car, and it was still dirty. I went back inside and asked to speak with a manager. After ten minutes for "Mike" to come and help me, Kelly, who told me she was a manager, offered to help me. I explained to her the entire situation, and how detailing my car was already trying to rectify a previous terrible service experience. She was seemingly apologetic. I showed her my car, and her words exactly were "Those are just water spots". So I took her around my car and told her that my car was barely wiped down and was only quickly vacuumed on the inside. Kelly finally agreed with me that it had not been detailed; she apologized and asked me if I had some more time for them to detail it. This added to my frustration, as I had already explained that I had ample time and could leave my car there. Twenty minutes later, my car was run through the car wash, water spots and all. Kelly brought me back to my car, and said "What happened to your mirror?" I explained to her that I had brought it through a car wash and the side view mirror had fallen off, and a plastic clip had broken off, I simply thought it was a flaw of the car and was able to pop it back on with no issue. She just said to me "Well, it's not there now." Kelly even asked one of the Valet gentleman "The mirror wasn't there when you brought the car in, right?" I knew, for a fact, that it had been there prior to Kelly driving it back into the car wash because I look at the mirror every time I get in and out of the car, I especially knew it was there because I was walking around the whole car, with her, showing her how it had not been detailed. Kelly simply said, we can order another one and paint it for you but it would take a while. Beyond frustrated, I got in my car, and pulled around to the front and called Mauricio, my salesman. In tears and a bit of rage, I explained to him the whole situation and he came out to meet me. He asked me to drive my car up to the service department, and he went inside. About 5 minutes later, Mauricio and Christian, came out HOLDING THE SIDEVIEW MIRROR. I was flabbergasted, I could not believe it, I would not have been mad if the side view mirror fell off, but the fact that Kelly lied to me, essentially forced another employee to lie for her, and not even come out and have the decency to apologize or say anything to me was infuriating.
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