UPDATE at the bottom.
Last August we bought a certified preowned 2015 Ford Fusion with low miles and all the bells and whistles you could ever want at a great price. Unfortunately this great price has been the only thing that's been great in our dealings with Parrish.
Here's a little background on us. My grandmother is the one who purchased the car. Neither of us are experienced car buyers and hope we can trust the salesman and dealership. This hasn't been the case.
Here's everything that's gone wrong in eight months:
-a couple days after the purchase I noticed there was no oil change sticker on the car and checked the oil life feature. It said there was only 6% oil life. The dealer hasn't changed the oil in the car for way over 10,000 miles. They stated that the car would've been okay, but were so kind that they replaced it for free.
-Not to long after as we were driving down the road one of the tires popped completely and we had to get it towed. The back tires had NO tread and once again, after all the commotion they did actually replace them for free, but didn't warn us the other two were in awful condition as well. Not to long after, it cost $500 to replace the other two tires.
-One morning we went to go out somewhere and the power steering would not work. When we called the dealer, they had no idea what the problem could be and did little to help. After looking up the power steering in the manual (which has been more helpful then the dealership) and it stated that sometimes the power steering may not work... and that you could try restarting it (which seems like a dumb flaw for a new car to have).
-We went in for a regular service (oil change probably) and the technician came out with the bill. They'd built on a $200-$300 addition to "replace the transmission fluid." When we refused to pay because we'd never heard of the service, he became rude and visibly upset. He'd already opened everything up to do the service and had to put it back, and lost out on the pay. We looked the service up in the manual and it stated it was only needed every 150,000 miles. At the time we only had about 40,000 miles.
-Once again, the power steering stopped working tonight but this time it was forty five minutes from home and we had to get it towed (by triple A) home. It's sitting in the driveway now wasting space.
This is quite a record after owning a 2005 Buick LeSabre for 12 years and having no problems. We won't be dealing with Parrish or Ford again.
Update:
Not sure what changed, but our last exchange regarding the power steering was much better. We heard they got a new service manager so maybe that's caused the positive shift. They towed the car to the dealer and even brought it back for free (well under the extended warranty). Everything seems to be working fine. Hopefully this is the last of the car trouble. read more