I have had a genuinely mixed and ultimately frustrating experience with Bob Tomes Ford's body shop…read moreand service department on my 2025 Ford Bronco Sport.
For context, I bought my car from this dealership in August 2025, and that is the only reason I went to them for these repairs. I wanted to keep the work with the dealer I purchased from.
The first repair (November 2025) to my bumper and hatch, due to being rearended, was good and quality work. But even then, that visit took roughly 59 days. So, while yes, I was happy with the final result, the process itself was slow and hard to stay informed on.
From there it just went downhill. I took my car in for a broken windshield, which resulted in needing the A-pillar on my driver's side and the windshield replaced. This windshield replacement took about 16 days...not too long. But when I picked up my car on April 24th 2026, I immediately found that my center console was broken and would not close/latch. I reached out to Andrew, the service advisor, and he took responsibility, telling me to come back and he would fix it...once they got the part in. Then the same day, I realized that all of my personal belongings were not in my car. I reached BACK out to Andrew, and he told me to come back in, again to see what was missing and if they could find it. I did right before they closed, he made a list of what I was missing and told me he would reach out if they found it. He reached out that evening right before they closed to let me know they found it in a different customer's vehicle. Eventually, my belongings were returned to me, but it was one more thing to deal with.
From there, about mid-May 2026, I noticed that my front passenger floor well was pooling with liquid. My carpet was ruined and reeked of Mildew. As I park my car in a parking garage overnight and weekends, I knew it was not weather related. After doing some research, we figured that it was related to the AC drain so we took it to the Bob Tomes Service Center. The service advisor, Lance, took my car in but was very dismissive and had a negative attitude towards us. Days later he updated me that my car had been sent over to the collision center, because they assumed that the flooding was due to the windshield replacement that was completed there a month or so in advance. Both the service center and the collision center were going back and forth on who held responsibility for a day or so.
Once my car was over at the collision center again, I struggled to get any updates out of the advisor. It took me multiple times to finally get an acknowledgment that the flooding was due to the previous work that the collision shop had done. Even then, I was told the car would be "put back together" and did not receive a full reason for WHY the flooding was happening or what they were going to do to prevent it in the future. Luckily while they had my car for this, they DID fix the center console.
Once I picked up my car (7/13/2026) from the flooding repair/drainage issue, the car was returned to me, yet again, with another piece broken. An interior trim came loose and fell off while I was driving. It was an easy pop back on, but the service advisor noted that it may be compromised, and I should come back (AGAIN) for them to put a new piece on.
To their credit, both the AC drainage repair and center console were fixed at NO cost to me. But the pattern is the real problem. The slow turnaround, poor communication, dismissive service experience and a car REPEATEDLY coming back with something new that was wrong with it. A customer should be able to leave content, with a completely fixed car and not have to worry about something going wrong or be broken upon pickup...
Ultimately, I would urge customers to truly inspect their vehicle thoroughly at EVERY pickup and to get ANY findings about the cause of a problem IN WRITING.
