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J H Barkau & Sons Cedarville

Cedarville, IL

4.9
1,102 Reviews
Since 1952, J.H. Barkau & Sons has served the Northern Illinois, Southern Wisconsin stateline area for their automotive needs. We can proudly boast to over 70,000 customers in those years and have had thousands of customers purchase multiple vehicles and generations of families that have allowed us to serve them. When John H. Barkau founded the business, his goal was to bring quality, affordable transportation to the local area. Jim (2nd generation), Rick (3rd generation), and Willie (3rd generation) Barkau have continued in that tradition while expanding our marketplace to be worldwide. We have had vehicles shipped to Russia, Sweden, Australia, Turkey, Mexico and many other locations. We have vehicles purchased by customers in 49 states and commonly have customers fly in to pick up their new vehicles. In all of this, it has been a pleasure for the Barkau family to help fulfill the transportation needs of a varied clientele. J.H. Barkau & Sons has accomplished this feat by continuing to offer quality, hand-picked vehicles at very competitive prices. We believe in offering our customers an incredible selection that is second to none, with over 1100 vehicles available for purchase. We believe in a no pressure sales environment and in quality reconditioning of our inventory selection. Our sales teams at our Cedarville and Freeport stores each have over a century of experience in helping fill the needs of our vast customer base. The funny part is, we remember a lot of you years later and we are genuinely happy to see you. But selling cars is not all that we do. We believe in supporting the local community through donations, Toy Drives, Food Drives and many other local charities and fundraisers. We also run the “Excellerate” program for Aquin Catholic Schools and have facilitated over 113 donated vehicles. That may be part of the reason that we have been voted the “Best In Region” Used Car Dealership for 15 straight years. Great vehicles, great people, great exp
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200 North Stephenson Street

Cedarville, IL

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November 23, 2018

Black Friday Deal Thanks for our new 2019 Jeep!! We were able get the vehicle we wanted with ease. Thank you all that helped with our wonderful experience. We couldn’t More

by jammey78
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November 17, 2018

Great Experience This was a fast easy experience. Tim answered all my questions and was patient with my indecision about what vehicle I wanted to purchase. Tim showed More

by Ckline
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November 08, 2018

Excellent service and polite sales personnel Tim Border was our sales representative he was completely professional and very quick to answer any questions that i had. This was by far the easiest More

by Brandon.gilbert
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Looking forward to seeing again in the future and thank you for the great review!

November 05, 2018

Awesome Painfree Experience Found my new truck online and Tim made the purchase extremely easy! He was super fast at responding to any messages sent and got any information I ne More

by superchevy
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Thank you for making the trip and thank you for the great review!

November 03, 2018

Easy and fun experience. Thanks so much for making our experience of finding the right truck for us so easy. We appreciated the professional and friendly staff as well! More

by Whiteram
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November 01, 2018

SMOOTH PROCESS My wife and I identified a vehicle online and our salesman Tim Border made the transition of trading off our current vehicle to our new one an easy More

by tacountry
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Thank you for recommending us and thank you for the great review!

October 24, 2018

Great Service!!! I reccomend this dealership. I was given fast, friendly service..Nils Sandstrom is very professional and helpful and made this a stress free pleasant More

by Cruzegirl
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October 23, 2018

TIm was an amazing salesman! Everyone at the dealership was so kind and welcoming!Tim was our salesman and he took the time to listen to what my mother wanted in a car to go over More

by Martha2011
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October 19, 2018

Couldn't have been better Nils helped us find the perfect used car in our price range. We noticed a bit of a shudder in the brakes of the car we chose when test driving it; the More

by Escovel
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October 11, 2018

Pleasant Our salesman, Erick, made purchasing our vehicle very stress-free! He didn't try to pressure or up-sell us and listened to what we wanted. More

by reanne
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Erick Santiago
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