As a repeat customer, I would like to share my recent - Tom Provenza
As a repeat customer, I would like to share my recent experience with the purchase of a new Bronco. I ordered it back in November, and it way finally built in late April. Before it shipped, I talked to John and his sales mgmt., team to request that the dealership did NOT drill holes in the front bumper fascia to install the front tag bracket. They stated they would try to handle that request, and apparently, within hours of the unit coming off the truck, someone drilled the holes and installed the bracket, even though no other PDI steps appeared to be completed. Upon inspection of the vehicle, I observed a minor paint blemish that was not caught at the factory that even had a piece of metal in it. Randy worked it out with the body shop to address that. Part of the order included a DIO trailer hitch. This requires bolting the hitch on, as well as using FDRS to learn in a new trailer module on the CAN bus. I was told that that the body shop was going to install this as well. Earl coordinated this for me as I also had his team swap out the factory wheels for some other take-offs. When I came to pickup the vehicle, I asked Earl if the body shop had actually programmed the trailer module, so he walked over and was told that it was. I also inspected (so I thought) the paint blemish repair, and although not perfect, I was willing to live with it. The following Saturday, I hooked up a small trailer, and sure enough, the lights did not work, and the Sync4 system did not acknowledge the trailer. I worked it out with Earl to bring it back, and he had one of his guys do the necessary FDRS work that the body shop did not do correctly. Apparently subbing this work to the body shop instead of the service team did not save the dealership any money after all. Fast forward another week or so (today), I took the Bronco to Performance window tint in Annapolis to tint the side windows and install PPF on the lower rockers/doors. Before starting the PPF, they observed the poor refinish of the passenger side door that was performed during the blemish repair to include what looks to be paint or clear coat runs on the entire length of the lower side of the door panel (I had missed this due to the sunlight, and how low it was on the door). They didn't even want to put the PPF on because of this. I returned back to the body shop and pointed this out to them, and agreed to take care of it. So I will be dropping it off again next week. It is frustrating that a simple blemish that I would have been OK if they has used touch up paint to repair, has now impacted the finish on the entire door. So needless to say, I am quite disappointed in the performance of the body shop and its impact on a vehicle I was really looking forward to taking delivery of. That said, I am still a dedicated customer of Koons Annapolis and always enjoy working with Randy (have a couple additional fleet deals in the works), as well as Earl & Mike M. in service.
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