To clarify few personal points of view first before going to details
1. I believe that review is the place to share experiences with anyone who is looking for dealship services before make your decision where to spend your hard earned money, to get the product and service your money deserves, so I will share ALL FACTS happened to me, decision is yours.
2. I consider myself as loyal customer with high tolerance, which means if I am happy with one product or service, i will stay with it, even something went wrong, I am willing to give second chance to correct, since we all make mistakes in our life or work, as long as willing to improve and not repeating same mistakes.
3. To prove the point, I have my Lexus services done in this dealship, Lexus side, in the past SEVEN years, inculding parts and services, all happy experience. Because of those good experences, I bronght my Toyota RAV4 into this dealship, Toyota side, for service, even there is Toyota dealship in my city, I drove 40km to Kitchener, simply because I assumed at same dealership, the level of service will be the same. The FACTs proved I was terribly wrong.
Here are the facts for your refence:
1. My car has noise on back end, so I bring it into this dealership on Apr. 13, 2017 for inspection of issue, after 4 hours, I got report, comments as following:
"Went on road test at city speeds, heard rattling sound intermitanly, inpsected on hoist, found muffler heat shield has fallan down, rec replacing heat shield"
"Inspected found muffler is leaking, rec replacing muffler note-viscous coupler has been leaking, both rear axel seals are leaking, and front diff is slightly leaking, rec realcing coupler, both rear seals and change diff fluids"
2. To address the FACT at this point, I PAID $123.17 for the inspection by certified technician. Estimation is about $2,000. The cost is high, but I trusted the professional recommandations, so I booked appointment to fix the car. The earliest appointment is May 2nd. Because they want to keep it with same technician, I understand the responsibility part, so the only thing can sacrifice it's customer's time! "your time is valuable for us!" Anyways, So I dropped the car off May 1sst evening, so won't impact any available time for technician.
3. To address another FACT here, I did NOT declined ANY recommandation for repair.
4. So I picked up on May 3, paid $1841.04 for ALL recommanded repairs, to mention the FACT again, ALL repairs as recommanded.
5. After picked up the car on May 3rd, we can still hear noise from rear side, not as bad as before, intermittenly! We try between both of us without radio and windows down, busy and quiet places, just to be 100% sure, after confirmed the noise, So we brought the car back in May 25
6. On May 26, service rep called me indicated:" rear wheel bearing is making noise!" the total cost is about $590
7. To address FACTS here again:
a. I PAID for professional inspection, and this issue not indicated on report!
b. I didn't decline any recommanded repairs
c. NO phone calls to inform me more issues found during repair
d. After repair, any dealership or mechanic will drive the car to ensure fix properly
e. NO recommandation when I picked up the car to inform me more repair needed
f. I found the issue right after picked up the car and confirmed by technician later, I am just end user, not pro.
8. With explained all of my concerns to service rep, he said:" I will bring your concerns to service mamager and assistant service manager, you should receive a call from them on Monday", this was May 26, Friday!
9. Same time, He asked me:"do you still want to fix the issue?" I said:"Yes, I can't drive a car with issue all over the place!"
10. The FACT is, I have NOT receive ANY phone call from neither one from the service department.
11. On May 29, when I follow up with service rep, he said:" I did discuss this issue with our service manager and assistant manager, we believe that our repair is accurate!".
12. When I follow up with the service rep on May 30, the part still not at dealship yet, I have no car to drive for 6 days now, considering working couple, kids club, weekend activites!
13. So I can't afford neither time or money for this game, I picked up my car to get it fixed properly somewhere else, on May 30, I picked up my car, when I drove back to home, the noise even louder, especially when engine starts and stop, slowly run over speed bumper, I recorded the noise for my record.
14. When I picked up the car, to be fair, the service rep said sorry, I don't blame him, since he is the middle person between technician, manager and customer, he can't make a decision how to fix the car or what to do without approval. He also said: "I put our service manager and assistant service phone number on the report, if you like to give them a call!"
I said:"As a customer, I bring money into your door, I done my part, if they don't care to call dispointed customer, why should I call to begging them takin read more