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Car-On Auto Sales

Ottawa, ON

3.6
690 Reviews

1700 Cyrville Rd

Ottawa, ON

K1B 3L8

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690 Reviews of Car-On Auto Sales

July 12, 2014

Very Happy Customer ! We purchased a car at Car-On a few years back and last week we brought our second vehicle with them. The fact that we returned to them indicates supe More

by nancy.hetu
Customer Service
Quality Of Work
Friendliness
Price
Recommend Dealer
Yes
Employees Worked With
Mario Brunet, Ken Iselmoe
Jul 14, 2014 -

Car-On Auto Sales responded

Thank you so much Nancy for your wonderful review. You're right, we do try to portray one big happy family because it's true, we are!! We hope you are enjoying your Dodge Caravan and you know to give us a call if you have any questions!!! :)

July 07, 2014

My first Cadillac My last cheap used car died and I was determined to get a better, newer replacement. I found Car-On while on the way to another place. I browsed the More

by bonemar
Customer Service
Friendliness
Price
Quality Of Work
Recommend Dealer
Yes
Employees Worked With
Richard Brault
Jul 08, 2014 -

Car-On Auto Sales responded

Hi Mark! Thank you so much for your review. We are happy to hear that you are cruising in style with a beautiful SRX. Love the color too!!

July 01, 2014

"We would like to send our thanks for nothing to all staff" "We would like to send our thanks for nothing to all staff at Car on for wasting our family time" Do not trust anyone at Car on specially the tech More

by iameduardodiver
Customer Service
Friendliness
Price
Quality Of Work
Recommend Dealer
No
Employees Worked With
Richard Brault
Jul 16, 2014 -

Car-On Auto Sales responded

Hi Eddie, We are very sorry to hear about this as we pride ourselves on our customer service and good experiences with the Car-On team. Our service manager will be in contact with you. Thank you

June 16, 2014

Great Experience, #1 While browsing the web I linked to Car-On Auto Sales from another site, the online inventory and pricing got me interested. My wife and I decided t More

by PierreRenaud
Customer Service
Friendliness
Price
Quality Of Work
Recommend Dealer
Yes
Employees Worked With
Ken Iselmoe
June 05, 2014

Thieves nothing but thieves! If I could give this place no stars I would! My husband and I decided we wanted to get a second car. We found the model we were interested in on there More

by MelissaD1138
Customer Service
Quality Of Work
Friendliness
Price
Recommend Dealer
No
Employees Worked With
We dealt with three different employees.
Jun 27, 2014 -

Car-On Auto Sales responded

Hello Melissa, We had the opportunity to read your review and we are sorry to hear about your negative vehicle buying experience. Treating customers in the fashion you describe is not how we built our business and reputation, and how we’ve grown over the past 30 years. We would like to take the time to apologize as well as explain our understanding of the events that took place and our response to them. On June 9 2013, you came to our dealership, examined, test drove, and eventually made an offer to buy a Volkswagen GTI on 3 conditions: 1.Replace 1 air breather component 2.Provide extra key & fob 3.Replace window tint as the one on the vehicle was not suitable for you The deal was presented to management by the salesperson; management reviewed your 3 conditions and accepted your offer. (Part 1)

Jun 27, 2014 -

Car-On Auto Sales responded

Our salesperson then introduced you to our business manager and he prepared the financial end of this deal. As this was a Sunday and all the banks were closed, the payment quoted to you was based on an estimated interest rate of 8.9%. You were quoted payments of $195.74 bi-weekly. I have to assume that this payment made sense to you as you agreed to a delivery date of Friday June 14 2013 at 4:30PM, signed a bill of sale, and left a $500 deposit firming up the contract. The next morning, Monday June 10th, your information was sent to Royal Bank for approval and a rate request was approved at a lower interest rate. Mr Brault called you later that day and informed you that the bank had authorized a rate of 5.98%, and a bi-weekly payment of $178.58. The payment and rate was in fact lower than what you had agreed on the bill of sale. Your payment dropped (not increased) by $17.16, which is where we fail to understand this being “double your budget.” Nothing in the conversation between Mr. Brault and yourself led us to think that the vehicle was not going to be delivered so we proceeded to schedule and prepare the vehicle for you. In preparation for upcoming delivery that Friday afternoon, the window tint was sent out and done, the air breather component was ordered from Volkswagen and a second key was purchased and programmed. (Part 2)

Jun 27, 2014 -

Car-On Auto Sales responded

In reading the notes in the file, on Thursday of that week you came to the dealership and requested for your deposit to be refunded due to no longer being able to afford the insurance. Later in the conversation with our sales manager, you told us that it wasn’t really the insurance cost, but that you bought another GTI at another dealership, who quoted you a lower payment. You were explained that, in light of the signed agreement with our dealership and the work that had been done on the vehicle on your behalf, we would consider cancelling the contract but that the deposit would likely not be refunded because we had already spent more than your deposit in preparing the vehicle to suit your needs (i.e.:tinted windows, extra key, air breather component) Despite the fact that you had signed a contract we were, at this point, prepared to cancel the agreement. However, because we were out more than $500 in doing the modifications and purchased the extra things you wanted, we felt it was only fair that we not refund the deposit. (Part 3)

Jun 27, 2014 -

Car-On Auto Sales responded

With this said, we do understand you being upset about losing the $500, but hope you understand that we did not steal your money or profit from this situation. We only recovered our costs as a result of you not following through on your agreement. We value all feedback, good or bad, as it is the only way to improve our business. As a result of this situation, we have since implemented an extra step in our sales process that should eliminate these situations and result in a more transparent transaction between our customers and ourselves. We once again apologize for your negative experience with us. (Pat 4-End)

June 05, 2014

Used vehicle purchase My wife and I recently purchased a car from Car-Auto. After viewing vehicles online we found that Car-On always had a good selection of vehicles and More

by BruceGilchrist
Customer Service
Quality Of Work
Friendliness
Price
Recommend Dealer
Yes
Employees Worked With
Mario Brunet
May 28, 2014

Excellent experience! Would I recommend the crew at Car-on? Absolutely! When you can go to the dealership, look at the first person that seems to work there, get taken car More

by Redwookie
Customer Service
Friendliness
Price
Quality Of Work
Recommend Dealer
Yes
Employees Worked With
Richard Brault
May 25, 2014

What great service.. I can't believe the great service we received at car-on. It was fast and the staff members were all great and very friendly. We drove 9 hours to go More

by ChantalDan72
Customer Service
Friendliness
Price
Quality Of Work
Recommend Dealer
Yes
May 21, 2014

My experience I was not looking to buy a new car but when I went to Car-On Auto Sales for a convertible car I fell in love with this beautiful Mitsubishi Eclipse an More

by lstlouis
Customer Service
Friendliness
Price
Quality Of Work
Recommend Dealer
Yes
Employees Worked With
Richard Brault
May 20, 2014

not impressed I don't know where to begin with these people! There service is slow and the technicians are a bunch of hackers, 3 days to replace a bcm and when I as More

by Darren's wolof
Customer Service
Friendliness
Price
Quality Of Work
Recommend Dealer
No
May 30, 2014 -

Car-On Auto Sales responded

Dear Mr Godel, I have read your review and wish to apologize on behalf of our service department for not living up to your expectations however after reading your review I feel compelled to clarify a few things. When you purchased your MazdaB4000 from us in October of 2012 it had 117,000 km. You also purchased a 4 yr/80,000km comprehensive extended warranty for the sum of $3799. The only obligation on your part was to follow your vehicle’s maintenance schedule which includes having oil changes performed at a minimum every 6,000km or 3 months. In the first 18 months of owning the truck, you have been in our service department a total of 3 times, twice for oil changes (March 2013 @ 128,753km and February 2014 @ 160,533km) and 1 time in March of 2014 for tie rods, bearings & stabilizer links (covered under warranty). On April 9th, you brought your vehicle in to us for a “no start” problem. Our technicians diagnosed the problem and found a defective BCM (Body Control Module) which caused a constant power draw, draining your battery and ultimately making your vehicle either difficult or impossible to start. The cost to replace the BCM was paid for by the warranty company but also requires the vehicle to go to a factory Mazda dealership once its installed to re-flash (re-program) the BCM to current software version compatible with your 2008 truck. We contacted our affiliated Mazda dealership (Performance Mazda in Orleans) and they could not get your truck into their schedule for another 2 weeks. Although the vehicle does start and run, it will not run properly if the BCM is not re-programmed, hence the note on the keys “do not drive”. You opted to pick-up and drive your truck before it had been re-programmed and that was your prerogative

May 30, 2014 -

Car-On Auto Sales responded

On April 16th, the vehicle was towed to our shop with a complaint of “loud engine noise”. We inspected the vehicle and diagnosed the problem as a failed timing belt tensioner. We prepared an estimate and submitted it to the warranty company for approval. The warranty company ultimately decides what gets authorized to repair and not us, the repair facility. We don’t make any money when the warranty company disallows a request for repair so we always work on behalf of our customers to get their claim approved. At the warranty company’s request, you were asked to provide proof that you had done the minimum maintenance during the time you owned the truck (close to 50,000km). We had 2 of the oil change receipts in our system as those had been done by us, but the rest of the oil changes were your responsibility. A few days later, you provided us with copies of oil change bills which we promptly sent to the warranty company. Upon reviewing what you submitted, the appraiser deemed that all but 1 of the bills (Oil Changers at 153,718km) were “fraudulent”. They all came from the same garage and although they had different dates and mileages, they all had the same invoice number. The warranty company denied your claim for falsifying invoices. You were not able to prove that you had changed your oil in over 50,000km. End of story…it’s that simple. Mr. Godel, as much as I empathize with your situation, you have, by your own actions in neglecting to service your vehicle properly, put yourself in this situation and are now trying to lay the blame on Car-On for your predicament.

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