Run, don't walk away from this dealer The sales person, Kam, very friendly and was a good experience until came time to pay for the car I had decided to buy. I put about a 1/3rd down and I told them wanted to pay the balance within 5-10 days as needed to move some money around to pay for it. They would not hold a check for a few days until I called them with OK to deposit. Said I had to go ahead and fill out all the finance papers. anyway. Told them I had sold some stock and needed it to settle so could move the money into my checking account and that takes 4-5 days, had sold the stock on Monday Went back 3 days later to pay it off and was told I could not as they had sent the paperwork to the bank, but THEY COULD NOT TELL ME WHICH BANK IT WENT TO, so I could go there and pay it off a 70 mile one way trip wasted. Still waiting for them to tell me which bank and where to pay it off. Bought it Tuesday night tried to pay off Friday morning, Was told they would contact me as soon as they knew where it went. That was Fri morning , is now Tuesday afternoon still no word. They kept touting the fact it was a "certified used car" and had to pass a rigorous inspection process one of the reasons I bought the car and passed on another identical car with 10,000 fewer miles at the same price. The last paper the finance person gave me was an "as is" no warranty, then he said had a 60 day warranty. A Certified preowned VW Warranty carries a 2 year-24,000 mile warranty. So I was misled, PROBABLY MY BAD FOR NOT ASKING ENOUGH QUESTIONS. Their certified is NOT VW CERTIFIED, so beware of this little item My next car will be from Dave Smith who will hold a check for a few days, and are just as friendly and easy to deal with as Auto Nation, They did hold a check for 3 days until I called them ok to deposit, they are willing to go a little farther than Auto Nation is to make a customer happy. Auto Nation's excuse is they are to big, so guess they are so big they don't need my business anymore. Every negative review the GM says to call him on this forum and gives his number. Number is for the computer directory , not personal at all. have left voicemail, get no return call, so evidently not very interested in taking care of problems, like hoping nobody will call him, same for finance dept. Here it is a week later ad I still don't know where I can payoff the car. Timeline Nov 15, Fri Tue night Purchased car put $6500 down on a 14,997 VW Passat Nov 18 Fri Morning tried to pay it off was told I could not as paperwork already sent to the bank. They immediately send all paperwork out as they are so big. Was told they would send me an email with bank info I could go to and pay it off . As they didn't know where it went, Hard to believe that. No way they don't know where it went Nov 21, Monday night still have not ben notified. Nov 22 Tue morning, tried to call the GM who has posted his number posted on Facebook review page. Get a computer asking how to direct my call. Finally get connected to the voice mail for the GM that says he is out of the office Nov 17 through Nov 20 and he will be back Monday Nov 21, so leave my number and waiting for a call back. It Looks like he post his number on Facebook to try and make it look like he cares and hopes nobody try's to call him Nov 22 Tue Afternoon try to call finance dept told only one person there and he was busy, left voice mail message again. Nov 23, still no return call from GM or Finance , so giving up and posting this review. 5 star rating went down to a 1 star, (no star) in one week for lack of customer service, honesty , and lack of communication, so again run , don't walk away.. Dec 13 Follow up: received a call about 10 minutes after posting above. Don't know if was a result of posting, or giving the receptionist a hard time about phone calls not returned and no body to talk to. Today Dec 13 was the first day was able to pay off the car at the credit union. Autonation was in such a hurry to dump the paper, Credit Union had to return it to them the first time because paperwork was not complete. Credit Union funded the Loan on Dec 13. I paid it off Dec 13. and ended up paying an extra $32 for the privilege. Made 3 trips to Spokane and paid off on 3rd trip. after several phone calls to see if they had received the paperwork and funded the loan. The Diesel buyback however was smooth and easy to do and had the funds in my account on Tuesday Morning after doing the paperwork on Saturday Dec 10. Purchase was not dependent upon completion of the buy back as had the funds to independently pay off the Passat Purchase to replace the Diesel Jetta TDI.
Charles Martin
Nov 23, 2016
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