Rowe Auburn Motor Sales

Reason for Visit: Service

I recommend this dealer: Yes

My Review of Rowe Auburn Motor Sales:
I took my Expedition in to have the wheel bearings and brakes fixed. They fixed the wheel bearings (that lasted about two months) and didn't bother to check the brakes. My check engine light was on and they said it was because I needed a new gas cap. Ha! I didn't buy that one. They reset the engine light (for a mere $75) and off I went. A week later, I was stranded in Portland with a busted brake line! It cost me $100 to have it towed. Went to another mechanic (should have gone there to begin with but the Ford promise of greatness drew me in). He told me that my brake line was indeed busted and I was leaking brake fluid everywhere. He said I didn't need a gas cap. I needed a new sensor in the transmission. Also, my wheel bearings weren't touched. When I contacted the Service Manager, I was told it was my problem and that they did the job they were supposed to do...$1800 later...I got bupkiss!!!!!! DO NOT DO BUSINESS AT ALL WITH THIS COMPANY. THEY ARE HORRIBLE!!!!!

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Reason for Visit: Service

I recommend this dealer: No

My Review of Rowe Auburn Motor Sales:
I took my car (2003 Jetta) to Rowe Auburn in 2004. The main purpose was to get a state inspection sticker and an alignment. I accidentally locked my glove box, which had my registration in it, which meant the sticker couldn't be issued. This would normally not be a huge problem, but I worked about an hour away from the stealership, so it was difficult to get there to fix the problem. I made arrangements to leave work early and was assured that an inspection tech would be there until a certain time. Also while I was on the phone with them, they tried to sell me a filter replacement package for about $150. However, the filters they were replacing were only worth about $40, and didn't take much time to replace! I passed on the service upsell because I had recently changed all the filters myself, and I really didn't want anyone else touching my engine compartment.

Anyway, I got to the stealership, and found that even though I got there about 30 minutes before the tech was supposed to leave, he was already gone. I was not happy and I made sure that the service staff know about my unhappiness. Of course I was met with blank, "we don't care" stares. I paid for my alignment and left the building. When I got into my car, I started it up. When I let my foot off the clutch, suddenly the car lurched forward and came about 2 inches from hitting a VW Beetle that was parked in front of it. The reason for this? The moron that parked it threw it in first gear. I *always* put the car in Neutral and put the emergency brake on when I park it. Apparently the techs there don't do the same thing. Probably my fault for not checking first, but I assumed they would maybe park it the same way they found it. I guess that's too much to ask though, silly me. I was so angry at this point, I didn't know what to do. It would have been lovely if I actually did hit the Beetle. That would have made the day just great. As it is, this happened almost 3 years ago now and I still want to hurt people just thinking about it.

But, the bottom line is - don't go to Rowe Auburn. It's a bad service department, and they couldn't care less about the customer. I do most of my own repairs, but for the odd time I have needed VW work done, go to Cy's foreign auto in Lewiston. They'll do it right.

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Reason for Visit: Service

I recommend this dealer: No

My Review of Rowe Auburn Motor Sales:
The service department is slow. Everytime something is "fixed" it really isn't. Or something else breaks right after the fix. The prices are high and I'm convinced that they find problems that don't exist. This was vefired when I took my vehicle to another mechanic after getting an estimate from Rowe. He told me that the "problems" they found did for the most part not exist. There estimate of around 700 dollars was fixed by my neighborhood mechanic for under $100.

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