Sorry, Norman Mitsubishi. I know you wanted - and in fact, asked me for - a positive review that first night. You pushed trying to show yourself as better or attempting to stand out from Big Red. Even snapped a pic of me and my fiance after we finished the deal in front of our car. Smiles and promises. And a lot of lies.
Full disclosure - management has changed since, and I have had a positive experience with Mary T? As the crooks who worked with us the first night, late September, had just come in when we arrived (we got the spiel about how they were new management and that Lackey 1 enjoyed working with Seller and Financer (I believe one of their names was Hunter), after terrible prior management.
In a nutshell, we were there for at least three hours, well into the evening. Came for a Cruze we saw online. It wasn't there. Bait and switched to a more expensive car. First mistake - we came at night and weren't able to fully examine the hail damage. Lackey 1 (who still works there, as of my last visit in late October), outright said he had no idea about the car he was giving us a test drive in and his only contribution was to make us noxious with his smell and inability to answer questions.
My fiance made them literally change their math, after which the Seller apologized for being out of it/not good with numbers that night. This math didn't stop the financer from raising the interest rate by 1%, of which he said was small and didn't matter.
During the dealer process, he tried to sell us further on the car seeing that we had questions. We even had people listening in as we spoke with them on the phone. They weren't clear about the trim. They said the car hadn't been out of state. We pushed. "Oh, looks like actually..." it was out of state, sold via auction. We'd find out from the DMV that it was actually a rental vehicle. They said no damage or anything like that, showing us a (useless, in retrospect) Carfax.
They misled us about the service agreement. Second mistake. We should have made them wait until midnight to read every. last. line. Especially when they misrepresented what was detailed. Even if the financer's "wife called" to see where he was. They pull multiple sources to check our credit (would get multiple mailings from other banks detailing this as time went on, which is fine), which was good enough to get us mediocre financing - that's fine. But then they tried to tie good financing to how much add-ons we received.
Right as we were signing, Dealer 1 came in to tell us looks like their might be some hail damage we should know about. Huh. They just insisted it "wasn't reported" and that we didn't have to worry about it because we could come in during the next hail storm and have it fixed then.
We got car. First night we had it, the passenger mirror breaks off. We luckily see Dealer and Seller and have them get it fixed. They order the part. Well, we'd find out, no they didn't (too bad, because they weren't there anymore when we would come in later to repair it - this is where Mary was helpful, showing that it was at least marked that we were owed that part). I also tell them to detail the car (done poorly) and that it would be really nice if we had, you know, a little oil in there since it was almost depleted. We were told a variety of other lies, received more unsolicited bad-mouthing about Big Red Norman, and more of the same.
We get a call a small time later, asking us to come in and fill some papers out. We do, and ask about the hail damage again (I had this conversation on a phone, too). Note there are now multiple times - maybe three? - where we have asked them about the hail damage and they say they have it covered, that it won't be on us. We had in recording. We didn't know about the damage when we bought the car and were, in fact, mislead about the state of the car. Third mistake. Get everything in writing.
Not enough room for full review, but basically we return and see new management. Lackey 1 pretends like he didn't hear any promises. New mgr Mary is helpful but we still go through a new Financer who says we don't understand when we say we can get same service agreement without $200 deductible and being overcharged $1000 (their comish, perhaps) for a product not from a scam company.
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