Avoid having your Volvo serviced here. - bw
Avoid having your Volvo serviced here. After buying a 2021 XC90 from this dealership, I've had several questionable servicing appointments. The first was a routine oil change, which left my wife stranded on the freeway 15 minutes after picking the vehicle up because something was not replaced correctly causing the vehicle to dump the entire contents of the oil tank on the highway. Mistakes happen, I get it, so we continued using them, the most recent of which spending almost $2K on a 15K routine maintenance inspection. The latest, however, has lead me to be an advertisement for avoiding this dealership. A "Start/Stop" light warning light recently appeared on my dash. Had I done a simple google search I could have avoided all of this and just replaced the auxiliary battery myself for $150 and 15 minutes. Instead we took it to Volvo Bellevue to tell us about the warning light (nothing else was requested, signed for etc.) An hour later we get a $2250 inspection report - $1K to replace the battery and $1200 to replace front brake pads and rotors. When speaking with the advisor, he/Volvo were unaware that these same front rotors they wanted to replace were just replaced BY THEM 2 years earlier (12K miles) because they were faulty. When I reminded the advisor of this, he said "oh, well, yeah they probably don't need to be replaced then." Just a pad replacement for front axle would be $600, I was told. I declined all service, then was told I owed them $350 for putting a voltage meter to my battery to tell me it needed replacing. I asked to speak to a manager, we played phone tag, and the last conversation was with a service desk person who said the manager and "all other servicing reps" are busy with the afternoon rush and would call me back - hours later no call. 5 hours later an invoice is sent for $350, which equates to 1 hour of labor ($310/hr) to put a voltage meter to the battery. Finally get a call from the manager who tells me my wife was told by the advisor that there would be a $310 (excl tax) inspection fee - my wife says that never happened. I'm inclined to believe my wife. So we paid the $350 to get my car back exactly as I dropped it off a couple hours earlier. Consider another servicing shop - there are a couple nearby that specialize in Volvo that get spectacular reviews (Europa), which is where I'll be headed in the future.
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