In a nutshell, the service department at this place is totally incompetent and does not provide the services they are supposed to.
I've had the displeasure of dealing with Spradley Ford on three different occasions over the past year. All three of my encounters with them were in a service and not a sales capacity. The first time, I scheduled an appointment online with them, received a confirmation e-mail but when I showed up on time to my appointment, they looked at me like I was from Mars and said they didn't do scheduled appointments for maintenance. When I showed them my confirmation e-mail they rolled their eyes and said "I guess we can squeeze you in." Yeah, like it's totally my fault that you don't know your own business. The second time, again for maintenance later that year, and pretty much the exact same scenario happens. The most recent time I've done business with them I tried to call them to schedule an appointment for maintenance because again according to their website, you can do that. I called once, called again later that day and left a voice mail. 2 days later I had not received a call back. So I went online to schedule an appointment (which I didn't want to do since they seemed to have a hard time with it the previous times). They had changed their interface and scheduling screen on the webpage and at the end of it it says "an associate will contact you within 24 hrs to set up your appointment." 2 days later, and I still hadn't heard anything.
At this point I would have just said screw it, but I have a Ford Premium Maintenance package where I basically get free maintenance at Ford services centers because I paid for this package up front when I purchased the vehicle. I call one more time and FINALLY reach a person who goes, "oh, you don't need an appointment for maintenance, just bring it by." At this point I give up on the appointment, drop off my car before I go into work and take their shuttle to my office. I would give them a star for their shuttle service, but everything else they've done is so horribly unprofessional they honestly don't deserve it in the long run.
Anyway, so I return to get my car at the end of the day and they hand me a bill. I'm like "wait a minute, when I dropped this off I stated that this is under a Ford Premium Maintenance plan that comes with XYZ. They look at me like I'm from Mars and go "Oh....uh.....ok let's see what we can do." Finally they don't charge me for something I wasn't supposed to charged for. But that being said, I'm 90% certain they didn't perform the services detailed in that maintenance plan because the wheels are still squeaky even though the car was just serviced. Also, their car wash was down so no clean car for me this time.
So my choice is either pay nothing and deal with people that don't know what they're doing and don't provide what you need or pay something and hope that someplace else is better. I honestly think I'll just drive 45 minutes out of my way to go to another Ford service center. read more