WOW I AM SO DISGUSTED.
I bought my car from this dealership. They gave me free oil changes so I continued to bring it there only for services/maintenance, although I wasn't throughly happy with my purchasing experience.
I have a 2019 Ford Edge. It is common knowledge to the service staff and mechanics that the transmission fluid must be flushed every 30,000 miles. It is part of the maintenance package they give the cars at 35,000 miles. I have paper work which states I asked them to give me this service package when I went in for my routine oil change. I assumed they did everything they were supposed to. I assumed wrong. Not once did they ever flush my transmission fluid. At about 60,000 miles my car begins to lurch. At this point the entire staff has changed in the service department. Everyone that worked there must have been fired. The new service manager Drew is SCUM.
I brought my car in complaining of lurching at 61,000 miles. I had an appointment at 9am. I sat there until noon. They had driven my car around back and done nothing. I told them I needed to pick my daughter up in an hour from school. They said it needed a transmission flush it would take an hour. I said great so we have time. Drew said "no I don't like to rush my mechanics you'll have to bring it back." So I left. Being a single mom and extremely busy with work and having already missed several days of work at this point trying to diagnose what was wrong with my car (at this point I didn't realize that they had never ever touched the transmission fluid), I didn't have the chance to come back in for a while.
The second time I bring my car in to flush the transmission, they keep my car from 10am and don't call me back until about 5pm. Drew informs me that my Torque converter celenoid is bad and it needs replaced, it will cost $2000 he tells me.
When I go in to pick the car up I ask him how did he determine this was the issue? He says he ran a scope. I asked him did you flush the transmission fluid as I asked you to do? He said no it didn't need a transmission flush. I ask him to pull up all my paperwork and print it out. I ask him "has my transmission fluid ever been flushed?" He looks at my records he say "no it's never been flushed." I asked why? He says "you've never asked for it." I said "it's included in the package at the 35,000 mile maintenance, it should have been done then. The users guide for this car says you have to flush the transmission every 30,000 miles." He continues to argue with me and try to tell me I'm wrong. He tells me to call Ford customer care and get them to pay for my repairs.
I spend another month and a half trying to call customer care, and other mechanics and asking all around about what to do because now I'm throughly freaked out thinking I need this expensive repair done. Finally a friend said she had a similar experience and she went and flushed her transmission and her car has been fine ever since. So I called up redwood Ford for the 3rd time to ask them to flush my transmission. This time I sat behind my car in the bay the entire time to ensure that they did in-fact flush my transmission.
When the mechanic was done doing his job he showed me the transmission fluid it was BLACK. He told me it had clearly never been changed and he didn't understand why, that it was part of the 35,000 mile maintenance package.
I brought this up to Drew as I paid. I asked him, so what happens if something goes wrong with my transmission due to the shops negligence to maintenance of my car? He tried to tell me that not flushing the transmission fluid on time wouldn't negatively affect my car.
I also pointed out to him that I had a tire pressure sensor fault alarm going off on my dash. He tried to tell me that my tires were just getting deflated. I said no that's not what's going on. He continued to try to tell me I was wrong and there was nothing to fix. I said so you're telling me that you're not going to fix this problem on my car? He said "you know what Allison this is the second time you've come in here and been arguementative, I think it's time you find a different dealership."
Wow this service manager Drew is SCUM!! He tried to get me to replace the torque converter celenoid unnecessarily, he tried to tell me my car didn't need a transmission flush when it did! I got the transmission flushed and it's fine! He knowingly allowed me to drive in my car unsafely! I am a single mother with a 4 year old daughter! He has put me and my daughters life in danger by not being an honest person and trying to rip me off.
The owner of this dealership should be ashamed for allowing someone like this be a manager for him. This man should be fired! Absolutely disgusting. And then to tell me I'm being argumentative when I am in fact standing up for myself and proving him 100% WRONG. There is no excuse for this. read more