Volkswagen Pasadena

Volkswagen Pasadena
130 North Sierra Madre Boulevard
Pasadena, California 91107
(626) 577-0300

Manufacturer: Volkswagen


Most Reviewed Employees
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Dealership Amenities
Drive-In Service
Shuttle Service
Customer Lounge Area
Cable TV
Free Coffee
Free Drinks
Free WiFi

Hours of Operation
Sales/Showroom

Monday: 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM

Tuesday: 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM

Wednesday: 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM

Thursday: 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM

Friday: 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM

Saturday: 9:00 AM - 8:00 PM

Sunday: 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM


Service

Monday: 6:00 AM - 10:00 PM

Tuesday: 6:00 AM - 10:00 PM

Wednesday: 6:00 AM - 10:00 PM

Thursday: 6:00 AM - 10:00 PM

Friday: 6:00 AM - 10:00 PM

Saturday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Sunday: Closed


Parts

Monday: 6:00 AM - 10:00 PM

Tuesday: 6:00 AM - 10:00 PM

Wednesday: 6:00 AM - 10:00 PM

Thursday: 6:00 AM - 10:00 PM

Friday: 6:00 AM - 10:00 PM

Saturday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Sunday: Closed

Twenty-Four Month Rating: 3.1/5
13 Reviews
Volkswagen Pasadena

Overall Score: 3 Star Rating3.1



About Volkswagen Pasadena
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gceniceros
3/27/2012 9:58:52 AM

Overall Score: 5 Star Rating   5.0  

Reason for Visit: Sales (New)

I recommend this dealer: Yes

Employee(s) Dealt With: JOSHEPH CAMPOS, JOHN COOK, JASMINE FAVELA

My Review of Volkswagen Pasadena:
One word "Outstanding" Pasadena VW was great from the start!! After having a horrible experiance at Bozzani VW in Covina, I decided to come to Pasadena VW.

I received a phone call from Jasmine Favela to follow up on my inquiry I had submitted via the internet. She was very helpful over the phone and advised she would be have a sales man contact me regarding the VW Jetta GLI I was interested in. No more than a couple hours later I received a phone call from Joseph Campos who was very nice and helpfull with all of my questions. He was on very prompt with follow calls. I later made an appointment with him for the following morning to take a test drive and make the deal happen. From the time i walked into Pasadena Volkswagen i was treated with respect!!! He introduced himself and before anything took me out to take a test drive to make sure the car was a fit. Sure enough i fell in love with the VW JETTA GLI. No pressure or pushing me to get the car, he asked what i thought. I said lets make this happen!!!

I was introduced to the Sales Manager John Cook, very nice gentleman by the way. He stated he would be helping along the way and working with Joseph Campos to seal the deal. Both Joseph Campos and John Cook were a great help and knew what they were talking about. After submitting my application, instead of having to wait around for my approval. Joseph gave me a tour of Pasadena Volkswagen and introduced me to Service, Cashier and advised me of everything need to know about VW Pasadena.

Once i was done with that little tour, I received the approval and off to financing to sign all my paper work! It was a very quick process!! Once i was done with that Joseph walked me out to swap all my personal belongings from my old car into the NEW VW JETTA GLI :)

Total time at the dealership, 2 hours which went by really fast!!!

Thank you PASADENA VW
Five Stars *****

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tl.kim104
1/30/2012 5:33:10 PM

Overall Score: 1 Star Rating   1.4  

Reason for Visit: Sales (New)

I recommend this dealer: No

Employee(s) Dealt With: Vic, and other managers.

My Review of Volkswagen Pasadena:
Volkswagen Pasadena has had and in my opinion, will always have a terrible reputation. This has been the worst experience with purchasing a new vehicle that I have ever had in my life. There were a total of 2 competent employees by the name of "Peter" and "Josh". All of the rest are either liars or hagglers. My experience had started when I had come off of active duty military orders, my lease on my GTI was expiring and I had to have a new car. After hours of bargaining, the employee that I was working with, (Vic) and his manager, had promised that they would take care of my GTI's wear and tear issues if I was willing to drive off the lot with another car today. I had thought it was a great deal, and now...I am learning otherwise. My insurance payments have not gone through, nor have they been made and whenever I call to see what is going on, I am always given the same run around. "Let me check up on it and call you right back." Needless to say, I have never once received a return call or a status. The finance guy (Kevin) is completely condescending and rude if you deny the extra packages (which don't even help you at the end of your lease anyway apparently) and treats you with the utmost disrespect and also the same way with his co-workers. It's even worst that the managers are the ones who promote lying to the customer as well. I will not stop at fighting for my insurance claim, I will also be fighting to have these people replaced, because the fact of the matter is, that none of these people respect the customer at all. I will conclude this review by saying this. To my brothers and sisters serving in the United States Armed Forces, if these people at the dealership will not treat you with the respect that you deserve...imagine how they are treating the people who's freedoms that we defend.

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mamawkat
6/26/2011 11:41:17 PM

Overall Score: 5 Star Rating   5.0  

Reason for Visit: Service

I recommend this dealer: Yes

Employee(s) Dealt With: Mike

My Review of Volkswagen Pasadena:
I don't know about all the other reviews about this place, but my experiences here has been nothing but great. Ive worked with almost everyone in the service department here, I usually go to Mike, he is great everytime, and Norm is great too. Ive never had problems with scheduling, sometimes, I just go in on a whim and get my car serviced right away. They always wash my car, have wireless in the lounge, and a tv if I decide to wait. I bought my Jetta here, and bring it to be serviced. Ive never been ripped off, and in fact, they have fixed things in my car for me just out of courtesy! I have nothing bad to say about this place from my numerous visits here.

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MikeWest
3/8/2011 5:24:11 PM

Overall Score: 1 Star Rating   1.0  

Reason for Visit: Sales (New)

I recommend this dealer: No

Employee(s) Dealt With: Mike

My Review of Volkswagen Pasadena:
I went to buy a car from there but the sales people and the managers were so dishonest. They say oh let me introduce you to my manager, oh let me introduce you to my other manager, suddenly you will have like 3-4 people around you harassing you and being so unprofessional, I do not know how VW America gave them the license to sell Volkswagen, it gives such a bad name to the company. I obviously left and bought my car from some one else. Every site I have visited about dealership reviews this dealership has the worst one I can not believe how Volkswagen had not canceled their license!!!!

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Jayy
7/6/2007 12:07:42 AM

Overall Score: 1 Star Rating   1.0  

Reason for Visit: Service

I recommend this dealer: No

Employee(s) Dealt With: NORMAN

My Review of Volkswagen Pasadena:
This has got to be the WORST VW dealership I've experienced. I was confronted (yes, confronted...not greeted.) by this guy NORMAN...what a condescending character. I was there for the first time for an oil change, and he started selling me services that I didn't need. After I told him that I already had my scheduled services done elsewhere and didn't want anything else to be performed other than the oil change, his attitude got worse. Then he told it'll cost me $92 for the oil change. WHAT? $92 for an oil change? I've taken my car to many VW dealerships in the Los Angeles County for oil changes and they all cost between $38-$45. Not until I asked him several times why it cost that much that he told me that they use synthetic oil, which was not necessary for my car. I asked him what was the price for the regular oil. He pulled out a seemingly price list and viewed it with secrecy. He told me it'll cost $68 for the regular oil. As a customer, why would I believe anyone that hides their prices from me and expect me to pay any random price that he pulls out of his *SS?

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rocky2
5/5/2007 5:57:59 PM

Overall Score: 1 Star Rating   1.0  

Reason for Visit: Service

I recommend this dealer: No

Employee(s) Dealt With:

My Review of Volkswagen Pasadena:
I would not recommend this company to even my worst enemy and I have not even been to their dealership, live in Ohio, and from my telephone experience with them, think they must be crooks. We have a mentally challenged 34-year son for whom I am legal guardian since he is over 21. This company left a telephone message for him asking him to call back at 1-800-560-5800. Since I am legally required to handle his business affairs I called and asked who I was speaking to. They refused to tell me. I asked what company this was to be sure I had reached the number left on our answering machine. They said Volkswagon of Pasadenia which was the name of the company left. I asked why my son was being harrassed (three messages left) and I was given the biggest run-around ever. I was told by a George Ruiz that I should be in a mental institution. I was told by a Janice who claimed to be the Office Manager that no one called. I was told by a Roger Clemmons that it must have been a wrong number. I asked him "How could someone call our number in Ohio, ask for my son John specifically giving our last name (which to our knowledge there are only 16 in the entire US as it is so unusual) and not be correct. He only laughed. I was hung up on over 15 times by various individuals in trying to get to the bottom of this harrassment. Our son's identity had been stolen and someone has used his name to get credit and we get bills that our not ours. I wanted to be sure this was not another one. Volkswagon of Pasadena aka TransOcean Volkswagon obviously is one of most diabolical companies in the Volkswagon organization and really should be investigated as they would not deny that they hire illegal aliens.

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PasadenaGirl
1/23/2007 4:34:59 PM

Overall Score: 4 Star Rating   4.2  

Reason for Visit: Service

I recommend this dealer: Yes

Employee(s) Dealt With: George

My Review of Volkswagen Pasadena:
After reading all these bad reviews, I will have to be more vigilant in verifying my future service records. Overall, my experiences with Trans Ocean has been good, though I've had a couple of unresolved issues with my Jetta: right front passenger window still opens and shuts uncontrollably even after it was serviced free for some defect; my ABS light still flashes on and off, even after the guys "fixed" it. However, I mostly go in for my free oil changes and scheduled maintenance, and everyone is cordial. My favorite employees there are "George," as well as the old guy who shuttles me to work. I can say that a couple of employees do give off a sense of attitude. Besides that, they have always been on time, if not early on their delivery promise. I need that as a busy working mom.

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vwuser
5/16/2006 6:08:00 PM

Overall Score: 1 Star Rating   1.0  

Reason for Visit: Service

I recommend this dealer: No

Employee(s) Dealt With:

My Review of Volkswagen Pasadena:
I always trusted them with the maintenance of my passat since I bought it in 2002, because they seem to be nice people when you talk to them. But I just learned that you can't always trust people who are apparently nice. I took my car there for 40,000 mile maintenance; they included a lot of items that needs to be replaced and cleaned, which ended costing me about $900. This doesn't include the problem they found out: my CV boots need to be replaced because there are holes on them which will cost about extra $550. I asked the person if this should be covered under warranty(I'm still under warranty mileage and period), she told me no, it's tear and wear like breaks, NOT Covered. I said I would need to think about it. I asked different mechanics who quoted me much lower price, around $200-300. Before having any jobs done, I called VW Pasadena again just to confirm that if I have this job done by a non-dealer mechanic, it would not affect my warranty. I talked to a different person at the service department, and I asked again if it should be covered under warranty, this time the person said it should be if it's natural wear instead of caused by an accident. So I asked to talk to their service manager. Their service manager first tried to cover it by saying that it could be caused by running over a box on the road, etc, so that's why their advisor said it's not covered under warranty the first time. I told him that I never had an accident or have the car towed. He finally agreed that probably it's natural cause and should be covered under warranty. So I took my car there and they fixed it for free. The next day when I was filing my maintenance records, I found that during my 40,000 mile maintenance, they recommended and preformed throttle body cleaning which they did the same during my 35,000 maintenance. So I called a couple of dealers and asked how often this should be done. The answer I got is that it should be cleaned every 20,000 to 50,000 miles depending on the driving habit and gas type used. So I took the paperwork back to them again, the service manager couldn't give any explanation, beside their service advisor overlooked it. He had to agree to refund me the money they charged me for it last time.

I escalated this issue to their service director, and asked him if the part is not dirty, why their technician recommended cleaning it. He said, they recommended it based on the mileage, which normally should be cleaned around every 30, 000 miles, that's why they recommended it when I had 35,000 and 40,000 miles, and their service advisor didn't check the record which shows that it has been done at 35,000 maintenance. Basically they only said sorry that their staff overlooked it.

Then my question would be, 1. The technician only recommended it because it's about time, not really because the throttle body was dirty and needed to be cleaned. 2. Did the technician really cleaned the throttle body as they claimed on record, because it should be pretty clean since it was cleaned only 3 months ago.

I found these out after double and triple checking, I can’t imagine how many times I was ripped off during the years I always trusted them.

I would never recommend anyone to use their service, because they simply not honest people.

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bones
2/21/2006 7:26:21 PM

Overall Score: 1 Star Rating   1.0  

Reason for Visit: Service

I recommend this dealer: No

Employee(s) Dealt With: Donna

My Review of Volkswagen Pasadena:
I recently went in for an oil change and was shocked to find out they had doubled the price since the last time I was there. No joke: $90 for an oil change. Can you say "bend over"?
Then again, why should I be surprised? The service dept at Transocean has done nothing but give outrageous, bloated estimates for the last 3 years.
The day I purchased my used Passat from Transocean they installed an aftermarket battery in the vehicle (I have the invoice to prove it). Volkswagon's manual clearly states this may cuase problems. And it it did. 2 years later my ABS light started blinking. Brought it in to get it checked and it turned out there was wire misfire between the battery and the ABS computer, rendering it useless. Price of repare: $2000. And this was a "dealer-only" repair. How convenient.
Transocean took no responsiblity for the misfire despite the fact that it was directly related to the faulty battery that they installed. After haggling back and forth and talking to the manager I was able to get a VW battery installed at no cost. The $2000 repair was recently reduced to $1300. Still outrageous.
I have contacted VW of America with my complaint. It remains unresolved to date.

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Heraclitus
12/23/2005 5:34:45 PM

Overall Score: 2 Star Rating   1.8  

Reason for Visit: Service

I recommend this dealer: No

Employee(s) Dealt With: Norman

My Review of Volkswagen Pasadena:
I bought my car here through the Costco "hassle-free" type program and worked directly with the sales manager on the sale. I had a very good experience with him. (As a side note, the interaction I first had was with a floor salesman was not so good. He was a bit pushy and “slick.” He quoted me a price for a CD player extra that was several hundred dollars too high, which I discovered when the sales manager --not knowing about this previous interaction-- gave me a different price.)

However, I would never go back here now because I refuse to deal with the service department again. I last went in for for a recall repair to the electrical switch for the hazar lights and an oil change. (I happen to have a coupon for free oil changes that was provided to me by the sales manager because my family had bought cars here three separate times. No more though, my mother got her most recent Volkswagen in Glendale and has been happier with that relationship.) Norman, the service mgr, looked at a supposed notation on my service record from 10 months prior regarding the timing belt. He came out and listened to my engine and said that he could hear that the swing-arm tensioner for the timing belt was binding, and that could cause wear and early failure of the timing belt. He said that he WOULD NOT take my car in for the oil change unless I agreed to a $500 repair to the timing-belt tensioner! …because he did not want to be responsible if it broke while at their shop.

My timing belt had less than 20k miles on it (I had it changed by another, more honest mechanic.) There are still no unusual sounds coming from my engine. I have had this checked out by another mechanic who found no issues. I have continued to drive my car around without incident.

I would not buy another Volkswagen here because I do not want to have to deal with the service department ever again. I am going to forego my free oil changes and pay for them somewhere else because I really do not trust those guys at all now.

As I indicated, this is not the first incident I have had with them. Another memorable time my “check engine” light came on and I brought it in to them according to the manual. It turned out that the cap to the gas tank was not screwed on tight enough. They charged me $80 to tighten my gas cap!

If necessary I would suggest you deal with George in service, and stay the hell away from Norman. But regardless, to me it seems apparent that this place is not being run with an emphasis on integrity in their customer service.

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