A 1 star sales experience, turned into a 5 star rating, honest review, please read!
Here is a nice long review, wanted to be honest and as accurate as possible starting from the beginning. I live in Austin, TX and inquired about a car for sale at their dealership via a phone call. I was promptly setup talking with a knowledgeable sales guy, he described the car in detail as much as he could over the phone, and I was very interested, so we setup a meeting and I actually decided to put a deposit down on the car before I drove the 3 plus hours, so they couldn't sell it in the meantime. I get there and I loved the car, it had a few issues, but I brought those issues to the attention of my sales guy. I will say he tried to brush them off with typical sales guy rederic, "car is priced accordingly" etc. Well I wasnt having that, it was missing a advertised component, and I spoke with a manager and they reduced the price. My experience with the sales people there overall would have just warranted a 1 to 2 star rating to be honest. They weren't interested in haggling, which is fine, the price on the car was already pretty good, but my sales guy wasnt giving me much attention and I definitely felt rushed out of the door. Like I said a 1 or 2 star sales experience.
I ended up purchasing the car and subsequently drove it back to Austin the same day. Approximately 40 miles down the road, the check engine light on the car came on, I decided I would just drive it home and deal with it on Monday, it being the weekend and all. I was thinking whatever it was the warranty would surely cover it. So I take the car in to a local shop on Monday evening. That same afternoon, I got an email from Emmons asking how was my experience, so I replied and told them how my check engine light had come on and I was having it looked at already. I promptly got a call back from my sales guy, saying once they figured out what the problem was to give him a call back. Which was nice, but at that time I wasn't sure exactly what it was going to cover. About 2 hours later I got a call from Gary Emmons himself, he explained sometimes these things happen when people reset the codes before they trade in the vehicle and his guys dont always have time to drive the car to complete the drive cycle. He then told me that any and all repairs needed to get the check engine light off would be covered directly by the dealership. Man did that set my mind at ease, but this was also just the beginning. I finally found out from the shop doing the repairs that the issue was a modified exhaust system, someone had installed 02 sensors in the proper location, the shop I was at was not equipped to handle custom exhaust work, so after discussing with Mr. Emmons himself, he pointed me in the direction of an exhaust shop he trusted in Austin, after being told he couldnt do the work needed at his shop, Gary and I decided that the best choice would be to take it to a performance shop to have the car tuned, still covered by him. I was pretty amazed, at this point I would have been hung out to dry by 90% of the dealerships out there, so it felt great that he had me covered. So I was told the car was safe to drive as is, and I decided to drive it up to Dallas for the weekend, on my way back, the car starts to overheat and make funny noises, I pull over and there is coolant all over the engine bay. I immediately called Mr. Emmons and he told me, and this is the truly amazing part most people cant believe when I tell it. Find a place to park it, hide the key, he will have it towed back to Houston, he will cover the repairs to what we had assumed was a water pump at that point, then take it to a performance shop he trusted in the area and have it delivered back to me. He also offered to cover a rental car in the meantime, or whatever I needed to get home, so I took an uber 1.5 hours and was reimbursed for it by Thursday of the next week via a check in the mail. I was only out about an hour of my time when it was all said and done. So it turned out that a cooling fan had broken apart and ruptured the radiator. Mr. Emmons still covered all these repairs, after it was sent to the performance shop, the dealership drove it a few hundred miles to assure there were no other issues with the car, they also addressed some concerns I had planned to have fixed on my own at a later date, such as the brakes squeaking, the headliner would come loose sometimes and the keyless go system I had complained about to the sales guy earlier in the story. Although it turns out the car never had it to begin with, they ended up having a second key made for me instead. Gary personally inspected the car for me and made sure everything was perfect before sending it back to me. Upon receiving it back in Austin, turns out they forgot to send one of the keys, which was then overnighted to me via fed ex. Overall what could have been the worst car buying experience of my life was amazing! read more