Completely unacceptable. Stay away.
Was in an accident on 22 June. At my insurance company's recommendation, I took my Tahoe to True2Form in Crofton. At first, I was very satisfied, the staff were responsive, easy to work with and willing to answer any questions that I had. The shop looked great, everything seemed to be in order, so I had them place my parts on order, and planned on dropping my truck off once the parts came in. I was quoted 16 calendar days for the repair, the shop said that it was basically a 2 week job, adding in both weekends on either end and accounting for the 4th of July holiday right in the middle. After dropping the truck off and checking for progress, things seemed to be off to a slow start. After a week, nothing really seemed to have been accomplished. Expressing my concerns, the shop said that they had gotten "really slammed" with cars and had too much work. Nothing could happen on my truck until it got on the frame machine, but I was "next in line" and things would get moving.
A week after that (now at the end of the originally quoted 2 weeks) I get a phone call. It wasn't the "Your vehicle is ready" that I was expecting, but a "We'd like to take your truck over to our Gaithersburg location where work can commence right away". I give my assent, and a few days later stop by the Gaithersburg shop to check things out, see the people and generally get a feel for where things stood. The production manager said all the right things, apologized for Crofton's misdeeds and assured me that now that the Tahoe was in his capable hands, everything was going to be OK. Unfortunately, he told me since Crofton did so little to my truck, he would need the whole 2 weeks to get the job done. Grudgingly, I agree and they get to work.
Slowly 2 weeks turns into 3 (which is really 5 weeks, counting the 2 in Crofton), and I'm promised that my vehicle will be ready on Friday. When I speak to someone on the phone Friday afternoon, the news is bad. Very bad. No truck is going to be ready, but I am assured that they will have people working through the weekend and I'll be back on the road on Monday.
At the end of my wits, I decide to take off work on Monday (this is now the 10th of August, into week 6 of our journey) and show up at the shop to see what the "real deal" is. I am appaled. My vehicle, the one that is supposed to have been ready on Friday and then worked through the weekend to be ready on Monday, is a complete mess. No doors installed. No fresh paint. The front end is dismantled, the windshield is missing and everything is sitting outside, covered in dirt and shop dust (inside and out).
I am well and truly amazed that I didn't lose it right there, as livid as I was. I'm told "Wednesday or Thursday". I return home, and contact True2Form's corporate HQ to express my displeasure. I'm almost immediately contacted by all levels of management (including the CEO, whom I spoke with on the phone twice), promising me that they were going to make things right, and that their biggest concern was not rushing the job and turning out a quality product. I'm upset, but my rage is tempered by the fact that I'm virtually certain that I'm going to get back a Tahoe that looks as good as new.
Sadly, I was wrong. I finally was able to get back the Tahoe that Saturday morning. Within 24 hours, I had worked up a laundry list of 18 different items that needed attention. Scratches down to bare metal inside the door frames. Unbelievable wind noise. Bolts not even finger tight. The following Monday, I meet again with folks from the insurance company and True2Form. They agree to make the necessary repairs, which take another week.
Upon return, things still aren't right. There's still enough wind noise that I have to argue with my 4 year old that "No, Mommy's window isn't open, that's just the door making noise". A month after finally getting things back, the door still isn't closing right, and you can see where the welds holding the door hinge to the frame are starting to crack and rust.
I am in the process of working with the insurance company to get another shop to fix the defects in True2Form's workmanship. I have absolutely no faith or confidence in their ability to complete the repair successfully.
As if all of this wasn't enough, at the outset when it looked like things were going to be delayed, True2From offered to pick up my rental car when my insurance coverage ran out after a month. However, when it came time to pay the piper, it took days of phone calls back and forth between True2Form and the rental car company to get someone from True2Form to tell Enterprise that they would be paying and provide them with billing info. Fortunately the folks at Enterprise (Crofton) were awesome to work with and very understanding of my "I can't tell you when I'm going to return the car, and I'm also not planning on paying for it". Another strike against True2Form. read more