This is a warning to anyone buying a new Toyota, - Benzfan84
This is a warning to anyone buying a new Toyota, specifically dealing with this dealership, it's service manager Micheal Menear, and it's GM Brian Schimidt, and also Toyota Canada. In the interest of keeping this short as possible some minor details will have to be left out, but here is the jest of it.
Don't think you will have warranty just because that was promised with the new car sale, my partner a first time car buyer, and new driver purchased a 2022 RAV4 with a weak functioning A/C system. With only 24k km's on it (a cool fall and winter made it not so noticeable at first) and less than a year in they went to get it checked. This dealership said it was overfilled (explains the weak performance as overfilled it will not work properly) and did a simple A/C service of a recovery and recharge, and it worked perfectly. Great except a bill for $427.30 was presented as the only option to get the vehicle back?!? They paid not knowing better and then when I found this out I went to rectify this as it should have been warranty. To sum it up the absolute incompetence and xxxx poor customer service was absurd! Months and many dozens of phone calls to essentially be told to screw off it isn't their problem. Toyota Canada was called with also complete incompetence and lack of proper protocol. Eventually CAMVAP had to arbitrate this issue with a ruling in our favour (of course) and the money was returned, no sorry no xxxx off, nothing from this dealership about the lies, hassle, and lack of customer service at all, except for unkept promises of some store credit to make up for it and the GM fluffing stuff about looking into this more but with not even a return call ever!
So think twice if you own a under warranty Toyota and think they will have your back when an issue needs dealt with. Stand your ground get mechanics to go to bat for you or a lawyer and don't let them bully you.
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