If I could give negative stars, I would. I had a new transmission put in under warranty on my 2012 Genesis in late September and got it back around the 12th of October. That went very well, actually. The service loaner was a new Mazda 3, and although it was small, it was great. Upon getting my car back, the service tech Brandon Dugan admitted that there was some RPM fluctuation upon shifting, but it should smooth out after driving a little bit as the computer learns the shift points. It failed to smooth out by the next day, and I even noticed there was a noise on downshifts from 5th to 4th gear. I called up my service advisor, and he agreed to meet up the next Monday to hear it. Upon meeting, he witnessed and admitted to both issues, and we agreed to call on Wednesday to see what his supervisor suggested. I called as instructed, and he hadn't spoken to his manager yet because they were very busy, but he was very quick to sweep me under the rug saying things like "it'll be very hard to find out where that noise is coming from, and I cannot guarantee that your car is going to shift perfect 100% of the time." Problem is: it's a new transmission. It should be as near to perfect as humanly possible. Having that noise on downshifts and the RPM fluctuation every time I drive it is unacceptable. He said his manager would call me back by the end of the day, yet I never received a call. I waited about a week before sending a letter articulating my issues to the GM of the dealership. That letter fell on deaf ears, so I went to corporate. I worked with a rep out of California with Hyundai by the name of Walisha. She attempted to set up a service appointment with the dealership 4 separate times over the course of 5 weeks by calling in and talking to a service advisor, to which she was told they would absolutely reach out to me. They never did. Finally, she tried emailing the GM directly as a last resort. It failed as well. She then transferred my claim to a rep out of their regional corporate office in Texas by the name of Joanna. She was able to finally get them to schedule a service appointment in about 4 business days. I dropped off my car on Tuesday, December 20th, and they were going to have a tech from corporate come out to test my car the next day. Fast forward to Friday, January 6th. I called at 2pm because, after 2 and a half weeks, I had heard NOTHING about my car. Brandon was of course busy, so I was told he would call me back to give me an update. As usual, he didn't. Here we sit on Wednesday, January 11th, and I took time out of my day to personally go up there to see what the status of my car was. I talked to Sara, the director of customer relations, where I was told that my car had cleared their tests and "nothing was found wrong" and that I would have to take it up with the dealership that I purchased the car through. So, they had my car for 3 weeks after testing it only to tell me there was "nothing that they could find wrong". How long would they have had it if I hadn't physically gone up there to inquire about it? Sara was very nice, but there was nothing they could do. Not only that, but they couldn't even produce a service ticket because "a rep from their dealership didn't perform the service, a corporate tech did". I was presented a ridiculous piece of paper that only had my year, make and model as well as a half cut off screen grab of the tech's software that showed some shift points. Even if it was something the average customer could read, it still didn't show many data points such as speeds, gears, etc. There was no dates, mileage in and out, service tech names, etc. I drove my car for a couple hours, and wouldn't you know it, there is still an intermittent issue with RPM fluctuation on shifts in the higher gears. At this point, I talked to my rep at corporate out of Texas, and she stated that she talked to the regional service director. She said that he claims "an RPM fluctuation is normal". Yeah...no. I have never owned a car that had an RPM spike during shifts that was "normal". All she said she could do was give me info to the Better Business Bureau as if that pay-for-ratings scam outfit could actually do something. I requested that she do her best to get me a real service document from the dealership, but she said that it would have to be from the dealership itself, so we're back to square one since they don't have anything on file since apparently "they can't produce a service document since one of their techs didn't service the car".
The service department of this dealership is a total joke. I wouldn't purchase a car from them if they paid me to. read more