TL:DR. Avoid service dept at all costs. Poor work quality. Non communicative service advisors. Full review: Very shoddy service work. Keep in mind, Sales sells the first car, But Service sells the rest. If there isn't a change to their service dept quality, they wont be able to sell second vehicles to anyone. This isn't a one time issue. I've given them 3 strikes. For background I was a service advisor and manager for 15 years. Service techs leaving tools in my vehicle, not replacing all fasteners. Doing shoddy work. Leaving fasteners undone and loose. Poor cleanup after working on it. Not filling oil to the correct level. Leaving dirty smudges inside the Jeep. Not resetting the oil life monitor, Cutting/breaking accessory wires and not repairing them, disconnecting the battery and not tightening the cables back up properly, Incorrectly reconnecting my air horn, ad nauseum. Evidently for the job, they had to disconnect my accessory lights and air horn. Fine. However, the tech must not have marked which wires went where, because my horn and a set of lights were not re-connected properly. To the point one negative wire was connected to the positive battery terminal. It's bad that you have to go over your vehicle and fix what they leave undone and clean up their messes. Before my most recent repair, a tech left a 10mm socket in my engine bay during service. The rattle noise was unsettling, but once I found what it was, easily remedied. I returned it during this repair, set in the cupholder with instructions to have the tech take it back. Still left in my cupholder when I picked my vehicle up. Attention to detail and quality work is not their strong suit. Getting an advisor to call you takes an act of god. I generally like to work with 1 person, for ease. I had it towed in and sent an email to Jaycee. Evidently she was off work, so it got passed to another advisor Duell. Duell didn't bother to call , I had to call them for a status and ETA. In general, The advisors there don't seem particularly well versed in customer service. My Jeep was in for 12 days. I did not received calls as promised and had to call them for most of the updates. Even the service manager failed to call as promised. I ended up getting Jeep corporate customer care involved. Between advisors and techs being off work, rarely did anyone know what was going on. If you're taking time off, then the rest of the team needs updated on what work is in process, customer expectations, etc. It's not difficult. If you say you're going to call in the morning, then call even if you don't know anything. It's just good business and your customers aren't wondering what's going on. Or upgrade to the 21st century and send a text. My service contract (extended warranty) states I'm to get a rental or loaner vehicle. When I bought it from them, I was told they have loaners on hand. Well for me they didn't. I was lied to by the service manager who said he tried to call me 5 times in one day on Friday 9/29/23(When it's a miracle just to actually get a call) to let me know they had one. They sent it out to another person on Monday afternoon. Didn't bother to try calling me on Saturday when their service department is open, or on Monday morning. Which is why I believe he lied. When it was finally finished, I called ahead to let the advisor Duell know when I would be there. I asked for a copy of my paperwork as was assured I'd get it. 45 minutes of waiting for my Jeep to get "washed", and watching the advisors talk and horse around I was then told that their warranty person had to fill out codes and I'd get a copy by email. So no paperwork and more time wasted. Stay away from this dealership's service department at all costs. Unless you have the experience and desire to double check everything they do. Don Vance Jeep, and by extension their Ford dealership have lost all sales from us and our family. Not to mention anyone else I can talk to. As this is the time of year I like to purchase a new vehicle, I won't be making the drive...
Read moreCame here and purchased a new 2017 ram 3500 dually the customer service was good they were really helpful when buying the vehicle, but within a month I had found out that there was a defective transmission pump on the transmission the truck was a month old and had 10,000 miles on it I was on my way to Oregon and it happened in Nebraska the check engine light came on so I pulled over stayed in North Platte Nebraska for the night and the next morning found a dealership ticket there they found out what the problem was within an hour and a half or two they were wanting to dig into the transmission to find a problem well I asked if it was OK to make it home and have my home dealership “Don Vance Jeep and Chrysler” fix the truck and they okayed it. So I drove home thinking that hey my dealership where I bought my vehicle will help me with my issue instead I fight with them for five months and I talk to their service manager Nathan well let me rephrase that I try talking to him because he was never able to actually talk to me and once I did get a chance to talk to him he kind of laughed in my face when I told him the issues of what the vehicle was going through as I was prior told by the dealership In Nebraska after I’ve had enough and fighting with them for five months trying to get the vehicle fixed I finally called Chrysler and had them send me to Youngblood Jeep RAM and Chrysler located in Springfield MO so I took my vehicle there on a Thursday evening I got an answer of what was wrong with the vehicle and what we are going to try to do with it the day after so I couldn’t understand why it took Don Vance Chrysler and ram five months to find the issue and still not find it and I take it to Youngblood Jeep RAM and Chrysler and they find out the issue so quickly and got it resolved fairly quick, I would not recommend buying from Don Vance or getting your vehicle fixed there The service rep Dakota was really nice and he actually tried to help me out but the service manager seemed like he was careless so please do yourself a favor and go to Youngblood they have extremely good customer service and I guy I’m dealing with is very very involved with what’s going on with my vehicle so I’m just here to say that Some common courtesy and some compassion towards your customer goes along way. Plus the business I do we change trucks every couple years or so and right now they just lost three customers because of the issue they did not resolve I just want to leave it on this and out everybody have a good da Plus the business I do we change trucks every couple years or so and right now they just lost three customers because of the issue they did not resolve I just want to leave it on this and out everybody have a good...
Read moreBe very careful when pricing a new vehicle from this dealer. Very deceptive and dishonest in their pricing.
I inquired about a 2024 RAM 1500 Laramie that I saw on their website. It has some hail damage to it, so they as a dealer have a dealer discount of $17,929. They are also showing rebates of $4,500 from RAM for a total discount of $22,429.00. That is a good discount, but keep in mind it has hail damage. I approached them about the RAM rebate as with this being a 2024 model, the rebate from RAM should be a standalone 15% off MSRP. On this particular truck, with an MSRP of $72,415, that would be a rebate from RAM of $10,862.25. If you couple that with the dealer discount, they should be honoring a sale price of $43,624.
When I approached them, they acted like they didn't know anything about the 15% off MSRP. That is a "national" rebate on the 2024 model years. They even asked me if I had read the disclosures and if I had to qualify for it. Really...you're the RAM dealer. You should know this already. Everyone qualifies for the `15% off MSRP from RAM.
Regardless, once I brought it to their attention, all of a sudden I am being told that it didn't matter if I took the $4,500 rebate from RAM (showing on their website), or the 15% off MSRP (that they had no clue about), the sale price of the truck would be the same. Seriously??? How can that be when the 15% off MSRP rebate would equate to a discount of $10,862.25 vs. the $4,500 rebate showing on your website. I can tell you how...because all they would do is lower the dealer discount to cover the additional discount on the 15% off rebate. It should not matter to them what the rebates from RAM are. Their dealer discount should be the same regardless of what the incentive is from RAM.
This is simply a dealerships shady pricing strategy. Their own salesman and Managers aren't qualified enough to even know what rebates they should be showing on a vehicle, and then when they are called out on it by someone who shouldn't know more than they do, but does, they decide they can change the numbers to their advantage.
I would steer clear of this dealership if you are looking for an honest dealership to do business with. They are...
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