I really hate writing scathing reviews. I much prefer writing more positive ones whenever I can. This one is definitely not positive, and I've put off writing it for well over a year in order to see if things would change. They haven't.
I used to take my car for service to Gresham Chrysler and was very pleased with their service dept. But sadly, they closed, so I took my minivan to Gresham Dodge, just up the road.
Unlike my previous dealer, Gresham Dodge does NOT take appointments. You go in and you take your chances. You could have a two hour wait, or a half day wait, depending on how busy they were. Minus one star.
Parking is very limited. But no biggie. I'd park my car, walk into the service department, and up to one of the two service desks. I was not greeted with the same kind of welcoming friendliness with which I'd always been greeted at Gresham Chrysler. And woe to me if either service guy was on the phone, because if they were, I would stand there without even a wave of greeting. There have been times when I've just stood there for ten minutes, waiting for some kind of acknowledgement or a smile, or something. Both guys would just keep talking as if I weren't even there. Minus another star.
If I were lucky, I'd be told that it'd take about an hour and a half to get my car done. Because they don't take appointments so I had to wait in line. At Gresham Chrysler I'd make an appointment and without fail was in and out of there in no more than 45 minutes! But okay, an hour an a half. I'd wait in their waiting room. Not very big, but reasonable. I can handle that.
The only problem was that my car was rarely done in that amount of time. Nobody would come and tell me what was going on. And if I went back out to the service desks to find out how much longer again, the guys were pretty well always on the phone and you guessed it, I'd just stand there as if I were invisible. It bordered on downright rudeness. Minus another star. I get my car's oil changed every 3000 miles, so I was there several times a year and it was always the same.
But the thing that made me vow never to go back was the time that while I was waiting and waiting for my car to get lubed (talking with two other customers who'd been waiting for HOURS), when the service guy came in and told me they'd found some problems and that he needed to get an estimate for what needed to be done. He said it'd take 20 minutes and that he'd be back then. Okay, I can wait.
Twenty minutes passed. Then thirty. Then fifty. No sign of the service guy. So I walked out to his desk to find out what was going on. You guessed it. He was on the phone. And guess what else? He didn't even acknowledge my presence, and I can guarantee you I didn't have my invisibility cloak on. I pointed to my watch. No response except that he shuffled a few papers around. I went back to the waiting room. Minus yet another star.
The other customers in the waiting room were mad. They'd been getting the same runaround that I'd been getting. One guy said he'd only stopped to get his car lubed there was because he was in town, but he could guarantee that he'd never be back.
Finally, approximately twenty minutes or so after I'd gone out to the service bay, the service guy came in with a long list of things that needed to be done to my car, which added up to, are you ready? Over $1300 worth of repairs! All listed on my lube/oil sheet. I told him I wasn't prepared to get that done so could he please just check me out. I was very polite. I walked over to the cashier, who was extremely friendly, and the only person in the service department who treated me with any kind of courtesy whatsoever.
Guess what? I waited at her window for over ten minutes for my paperwork so that she could check me out! Finally I asked her if I could walk over and get it because by now I'd been there almost three hours. She said she'd do it, and did.
Now here's the clincher. Because I was concerned about the list of "necessary" repairs that I'd been given, I made an appointment with Cleveland Auto Repair (see my 5-star reviews for that business!) to have them go over my car and see if, in fact, those repairs needed to be done. I was willing to pay them to have it checked out. And guess what? I bet you already have. Not a single one of those items on the list that the people at Gresham Dodge had given me needed to be done! Not one! Minus every single remaining star that I could remove.
Cleveland Auto Repair saved me over thirteen hundred dollars!
I was so mad that at that point I vowed I would never return to Gresham Dodge, and I haven't. It's 15 minutes from where I live, but I gladly drive all the way to Vancouver to Dick Hannah Chrysler (see my review) to get my car lubed.
Zero stars if I could for Gresham Dodge service dept. I gave you more than a year of chances but you blew it. Big time. read more