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Pat McGrath Chevyland

Cedar Rapids, IA

4.6
804 Reviews

1600 51st Street NE

Cedar Rapids, IA

52402

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November 04, 2010

I will start by saying I have been contemplating buying a new or used vehicle for quite some time. I bought my first "newer" vehicle from this dealer 12 years ago and 2 yrs. later decided to upgrade. The fir More

by Middleagecritic
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Recommend Dealer
Yes
Employees Worked With
Brent O' Donnell, sales, and Tim in financing
Mar 12, 2011 -

Pat McGrath Chevyland responded

Thanks for the business and for taking the time to leave us some feedback. It sounds like everything went well and I will make sure that Brent gets your message as well. If you need anything do not hesitate to contact us. 319-393-6300

June 22, 2010

I went to the Westdale Used Car Superstore & Pat Mcgrath Chevyland. Everyone there are a bunch of vultures that don't care about there customers what so ever. I had a horrible experience with them and they More

by amberburkhart92
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Recommend Dealer
No
Employees Worked With
Austin Schug & Gavin Mcgrath
Mar 12, 2011 -

Pat McGrath Chevyland responded

Hi Amber, Thanks for posting this review and I would like to speak with you personally and see what can be done to help you out. Since I was not involved with your first visit I do not know the details but I am willing to help out. My direct number is 319-393-6300 ext 285 and my name is Cory Hosch.

Mar 12, 2011 -

Pat McGrath Chevyland responded

Hi Amber, It is terrible to hear about your experience and I would like to speak with you personally and see what can be done to help you out. Since I was not involved with your first visit I do not know the details but I am willing to help out. My direct number is 319-393-6300 ext 285 and my name is Cory Hosch. Was this for the Westdale Used Car Superstore or Pat McGrath Chevyland, just want to make sure that I am aware of the dealership you spoke with exactly and to see if this review is on the correct page.

May 28, 2011 -

Pat McGrath Chevyland responded

Hello AmberBurkhart92, we were hoping to reach you again in regards to your time spent at our dealerships. Our dealerships do take all comments and concerns seriously and our management staff would like to find out more in order to improve the car buying experience for all of our customers. It sounds like this may have something to do with an auto loan or approval process and if so we would certainly want to know. The approval process can be a very stressful process for some buyers and for us as well. Since we are not the bank lending you the money, we are limited on what we can do to make everything work out. If this has nothing to do with your experience here, then let us know that as well. To start with you can contact our Internet Sales Director, Cory Hosch at chosch@mcgrathauto.com and we can begin there.

April 15, 2010

Stay away from these guys. They sold us a lemon! The day we took the vehicle off the lot, we had window and sun roof issues. The window was taken back 2 differnt times, the sun roof was sent to be fixed a c More

by tdoff
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Recommend Dealer
No
Employees Worked With
cant remember the names
Mar 12, 2011 -

Pat McGrath Chevyland responded

Thanks for posting this review and I would like to speak with you personally and see what can be done to help you out. Since I was not involved with your first visit I do not know the details but I am willing to help out. My direct number is 319-393-6300 ext 285 and my name is Cory Hosch.

Mar 12, 2011 -

Pat McGrath Chevyland responded

We never like to hear about upset customers so if there is anything that we can do please contact me personally. My name is Cory Hosch and my direct number is 319-393-6300 ext 285. I was not involved with your account when you were in but I will certainly look into it and see if there is anything that I can do.

May 28, 2011 -

Pat McGrath Chevyland responded

We were hoping to get a chance to speak with you in regards to your concern and have been unable to reach you through this system. If you have any free time feel free to email Cory Hosch at chosch@mcgrathauto.com and we can begin to investigate this for you. There seems to be a little confusion on this account and we would just like to confirm your information. No matter what we will certainly look into this in much greater detail for you if you choose to contact us. We want your experience to be as pleasant as possible and when dealing with used cars there is always a risk that it is not exactly what you expect it to be, but we are always willing to help out. All of our cars are fully inspected and we will work with any customer complaint within reason. From the sounds of it, we were willing to look at your car a few times even, unfortunately we were unable to solve the problem based on your comments. In regards to pricing, all of our vehicles are priced according to local market conditions, if they were not, then customers would not purchase them of course. Just like we would not expect you to buy a car if you felt you were paying too much. In regards to the interest rate, that is determined by the lending institution that we can use for you and the rate is based off of the buyers credit history. If for any reason you ever feel the rate is too high at a dealership, do not hesitate to compare the rate with what your own bank can offer. Buying a car itself can be a stressful process, and when things go wrong it can get even worse. Based on your experience, if that all happened and our dealership in know way offered to help out, then I completely understand your frustration and hopefully I will be able to assist in some way. Email me anytime and I can begin to research this for you.

February 20, 2010

I called and set up an appointment to look over a vehicle I called and set up an appointment to look over a vehicle I had seen in one of their ads.The vehicle looked good and test drove fine but the price w More

by Bodog
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Recommend Dealer
No
Employees Worked With
Do not remember
Feb 23, 2010 -

Pat McGrath Chevyland responded

Hello, This is Cory Hosch getting back to you from McGrath Auto and I am the Internet Sales Director here. I was going through some of our sites and came across this message and wanted to check in right away. It sounds like your last trip here was horrible and that is never good to hear. So I wanted to contact you in order to find out who you generally speak with and who you spoke with the last time that you were in. This is in order to discuss it with the staff involved and determine why something like this would have happended. I take concerns like this very serious and never want behavior like this to continue. You can contact me through this system or directly at chosch@mcgrathauto.com or 319-393-6300 ext 285

Mar 01, 2010 -

Pat McGrath Chevyland responded

Hi Bodog, Last week I sent a message or two and just wanted to make sure that you were able to access them. Please reply when you get a chance, Cory Hosch, McGrath Auto, 319-393-6300 ext 285.

Mar 05, 2010 -

Bodog responded

Why should I help you investigate the conduct of your sales team, you wasted more than enough of my time that day in question,I'm still very disappointed that we were treated in such a manner.

Mar 05, 2010 -

Pat McGrath Chevyland responded

I understand if you do not want to reply with more details. Your time is valuable and from the sounds of it we used up enough of it. With something like this though I really do like to find out what upset a customer so much and see what could have been done to prevent that from happening. Trying to improve customer service is something that should not be ignored though and I have been in your position before and have had my comments fall on deaf ears. If someone is actaully willing to listen to my issues when something like this I find it grateful and for the better good of the consumers, business involved and employee's. If you are not interested in discussing it thoug I do understand and by no means will push the issue any further. Cory Hosch, chosch@mcgrathauto.com, 319-393-6300

Apr 13, 2010 -

Pat McGrath Chevyland responded

It is terrible to hear about all of this and we wish we could have discussed it with you or had been notified. In any case we do take concerns like this serious and will discuss them with our staff in order to keep our customer service at the high levels that has helped to keep us in business for almost 60 years and one of the busiest dealer groups in the state of Iowa. In regards to the pricing it appears there is some confusion there. After entering the accurate details into kbb.com it appears that we are a little over kbb retail value, about $500 over. Keep in mind that not all guides match. For example if you look up the exact same info on a site like NADA we are priced under retail value. The books and guides will vary and we price our vehicles according to current market conditions which has allowed us to sell a lot of vehicles to thousands of happy customers. In regards to the financing, we do have banks that will offer credit to all buyers. In cases where there is poor credit history or an issue of the buyer paying off their debt, the banks do take a little longer in those cases. They are going to make sure that they know all of the details and they are doing everything possible to make sure that the loan works for the customer and that they are going to get their investment back. If this was not explained in enough detail that is unfortunate and we will discuss it with our staff as mentioned above. If you would like to discuss this in more detail do not hesitate to contact us at 319-393-6300 or email sales@mcgrathauto.com. As much as we try, we know it is not possible to keep every person, out of the thousands that we talk to, 100% pleased with every detail. Buying a car is a big purchase and it is easy for customers to get emotional when dealing with such a large purchase. What we can do though 100% of the time though, is hear out those concerns and take them all serious and use them to keep our current and future customers as please and satisfied as possible.

September 12, 2009

Working with Joe and Andy was a great experience. I have purchased many vehicles and this ranks as one of the best experiences - definitely will be back. Most of the "leg work" was taken care of in advance More

by docneyman
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Yes
Employees Worked With
Joe Naughton, Andy Burns
September 09, 2009

pat mcgrath Chevyland is great to work with. We had purchased a new 09 Silverado and did not leave the lot until Joe Naughton was sure we new everything about our truck! I will refer anyone to Pat Mcgr More

by koplins3
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Recommend Dealer
Yes
Employees Worked With
Joe naughton Cory Hosch, Justin, ashley and a few others.
August 28, 2009

Andy gave us the information we needed to complete the transaction. He was very friendly at all times, and even stuck with us through the awful setup of our Onstar account. The overall experience was ok More

by user124
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Yes
Employees Worked With
Andy Burns
August 27, 2009

i bought a new silverado from nate carcraft in cedar rapids iow and had the best buying experience.nate was very helpful in finding the truck that i was looking for and was very patient whe n it took a More

by dns68
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Yes
Employees Worked With
nate carcraft
August 26, 2009

everyone was very helpful and very understanding of the reason why we wanted a new truck, we went for a test drive, was very informative of the features of the truck, we had some mechanical problems with t More

by ruth byrd
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Yes
Employees Worked With
andy shuller lindsey mcgrath
August 26, 2009

I have given Pat McGrath a well deserved great rating. Nate Cracraft, my salesperson, went above and beyond finding me exactly what I wanted. I was looking for a 2010 Equinox, but also wanted to take adv More

by zaforsyt
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Recommend Dealer
Yes
Employees Worked With
Nathan Cracraft, Justin Rozinek
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