My service experience with Victor Ford for my 2021 F150 was awful. I knew my vehicle would be out of service for quite some time since it would barely got it to the dealership, so I asked my appointed contact person, Matt Wandall the service manager, about rental cars through the dealership, and he said they didn't provide them at that dealership. I called Ford customer service and they explained that I was able to be reimbursed for a rental car, and that sometimes the dealership would be able to help me find a rental car company and location. I called Matt back and he told me that he had never heard of Ford doing this for anyone. I called the customer service line back, and they were surprised to hear that I was told that. They called Matt while I was on the line. That time he told us that maybe he had heard of that, but that his dealership never did it and he didn't have any experience with that and couldn't help. On a different day, after I again questioned the customer service line, they contacted Matt again, and he explained that his dealership did in fact do this, and provided the with the name and location of a rental car company they worked with.
After my truck was diagnosed, it was discovered that I needed a new long block. I asked Matt what the cause was of the damage in the old engine, and he said he had no idea and wouldn't have any idea, and that I would never know. Matt was clearly put out by this conversation, and said that there was absolutely no guarantee that they found all the problems, but that they were going to fix the damage they saw. When I asked more details about what was being repaired, he told me it would fix the problem, but didn't know how to explain the repairs to someone like me who isn't mechanical. Matt was able to tell me some, he was not sure on a few (specifically, he didn't know if valve covers, headers, and exhaust manifolds were included in a long block.) I asked for a timeline on the repairs so I could plan for not having my truck, and Matt told me that he had no way of giving me any sort of timeline at all, other than parts should be in in about a week, but didn't know anything else at all.
After the parts arrived, I asked again about a timeline, and Matt told me that it would be done when it was done. He couldn't be more specific because there was so much work to be done.
When picking up my truck, I pulled out and found the sunroof not working. I turned around and found Matt. His response was simply to take the key from my hand and tell me that they'd try to look at it tomorrow. I said that I didn't have a car to even get home, and he said, "Well, I don't have any, as I am sure by now you are already aware." He gave my key back and told me that then I could schedule something tomorrow when the service department was back open, but couldn't guarantee it would even be looked at the next day. He told me, "Well, we didn't break the sunroof. The only thing we did was fix the engine. This isn't our fault." I asked to see the manager, and he pointed through a set of doors and said he is somewhere back there and that his name was Chris. He then went back to talking with the two other people that were standing next to him.
After working with Chris, the general manager, I asked him what could have caused this, and he said that when an engine block is replaced, the cab of the truck is removed from the chassis for easy access. In the process of hooking things back up, features need to be reprogrammed and it's most likely that someone didn't program the sunroof to work. Therefore, despite Matt's statement that there was no way it was the dealerships fault because they only worked on the engine, it looks like this was the fault of the dealership.
I will now drive past Victor Ford, about 5 minutes from my house, to a dealership 30 minutes away for any further service. Honesty, respect, and integrity are important in any service environment, and clearly Victor Ford doesn't find those things to be valuable since Matt is running the service department. read more