Where do I begin? - Croton auto review
Where do I begin? I vowed never to come back here after an issue servicing my car a few years ago. So let's start with my most recent interaction.
For the record I've only ever had issues with the service dept. I purchased a new car from them.in 2015 with zero issues. I recently purchased another dodge, not from them, a few months ago and that vehicle had an error message saying to bring it to authorized dealer. I called croton and explained i needed to come in because of this error message on my uconnect box. The woman in the service dept. then told me they couldn't service my vehicle because "they were too busy servicing THEIR OWN customers vehicles." Baffled I said I am a customer since 2015 and that shouldn't matter! She proceeded to question me " then why didn't I buy this one from them as well?" I told her that's not her concern she said "then I should bring it back to that dealership and have them service the vehicle" I explained that dealership is in Maryland she scoffed put me on hold to see what she could do and gave me a service date over a month away. This interaction solidified why I will not ever go back for any reason.
(2nd occurrence) As many dodge durango owners know, rain water seeps into the brake lights causing them to burn out, a problem that should be addressed in a recall but I digress. My 2015 being under warranty at the time, I requested they replace it, they did after I had to call Chrysler to complain about Crotons refusal, eventually they did replace it...it happened again about 1 1/2 years later, that part now being under its own service warranty, I went to croton to fix and reluctantly they did. Which now warranties that part all over again and of course the issue repeated and I brought it back to have it repaired which the manager told me he wouldn't do it again even though it's under warranty. Lucky for him the issued hadn't reoccured.
The following experience is the one that made me vow never to bring it to this place again:
I brought my 2015 in for routine oil and tire rotation. They called me after taking several hours to do asking me if I had recently had work on wheels/tires. Yes about a year before I had 4 new tires put on. Woman said they previous tire shop did something wrong (couldn't tell me what it was) and they had to bore a hole in my rim in order to get wheel off... WHAT? I rushed to the dealership only to get multiple conflicting stories and had I not been car savvy person they would have gotten over on me or someone less knowledgeable about cars. They tried to bill me hundreds of dollars, they destroyed my rim and in fact scratched another rim! Long story short the mechanic didn't put the tire not on properly and cross treaded it. AFTER having rotated the tires. They tried to tell me it was already like that which made no sense because then you're telling me he was able to get it off initially, noticed the problem, rotated the tires and then put the same bolt on with the same nut?! Which you then had to bore out the rim to remove and then replace properly? After catching them in their lies and several weeks of going back and forth. They were forced to repair the scratched rim, replace the other bored out rim and replace the bolt THEY destroy. Listen mistakes happen that's fine but when you try to be dishonest and get over on customers you're a bad business! When your employees are rude to customers, your a bad business, when you consistently doing these bad business practices...guess what! YOUR A BAD BUSINESS!
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