I have been going to this dealership for 30+ years. - Dave
I have been going to this dealership for 30+ years. I'm still driving the car I bought there 23 years ago with 485+K and they've done all the major servicing. The engine and transmission are still in good shape. When it comes to service and reliability, that record speaks for both the quality of the dealership's service department from 1990 to about 2022 and the vehicle. Five stars for that.
26 October 2024: In my opinion, the mechanics there are competent, but I have no respect for the current sales department management and don't think much of the current service department front end staff, some of whom seem to think the customer is now responsible for ordering their own parts.
My partner was interested in purchasing a new Subaru. We thought things were going well; we test drove the models we were interested in, took the time to compare the specs, got an initial estimate of the vehicle's cost, made an appointment for a trade-in appraisal and returned the day after the appraisal.
First warning: the sales department failed to communicate with the service department and the 9:00 appointment I made for the vehicle appraisal was basically cancelled, to be replaced with an estimate of the amount we "might" get and the promise that this wouldn't happen again. It was pretty much unnecessary because they have 15 years of service records on that vehicle and a walkaround and a drive through the parking lot should have sufficed, but whatever. My time is unimportant, apparently.
We were in the middle of negotiations with a salesperson who had to seek an answer for almost every question we had from either the finance manager or the sales manager. We were actually going to make a purchase and went out to take a final look at the one available car. We were not sure on one issue, and that was the colour of the car. Not a big deal, except that when you're spending $50K on a new car, you can surely get what you want. Our alternatives were, apparently, take this one or wait months, and we've seen from other one-star reviews that their promises of delivery five months in the future can evaporate. All we took was 15 minutes to have that conversation and were ready to buy. When we returned, the salesperson told us it had just been sold. We feel for her, as she did do her best to get us the information we needed.
She lost a sale due to the unfair and dishonourable conduct of her sales and finance managers when they made the conscious decision not to notify us that there was someone else in the dealership interested in the same vehicle. One wouldn't look at me when I confronted them in the sales office, and the other said "Well, you told us you didn't like the colour, so what are we supposed to do?"
Buddy, you knew what you were supposed to do; you were at the salesperson's desk when we asked for a few minutes and you said to go ahead, and you knew at the time that another deal was in process, of course. We surely had earned at least that level of respect because of our definite overall interest in the vehicle and the fact that we had done in excess of $150K sales and service business over the years.
But thanks, Eric and Philip, you helped us dodge a bullet as post-sales service and trade-in valuation seems to be an issue identified by other reviewers on Google Reviews. It'll be a long cold winter if you were actually truthful in saying your next delivery is five months out and all you have is overpriced trade-ins.
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