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Ill keep this as short as I can, and to the facts,...

Ill keep this as short as I can, and to the facts, they speak for themselves.
I purchased a brand new 16 Silverado LTZ Z71, the day I bought the truck I noticed some black dots on the paint, and scratched door molding on the drivers side. I was told they will order the molding and its no problem. They tried that day to clean the black dots off, all they did was clean a few around the driver door, and leave scuff and squirrel marks in the paint, Strike 1. 18 days later, sales finally told me my parts were in, and I scheduled an appointment, took a day off of work, and came in. The parts were never ordered, and I had to reschedule, huge inconvenience, strike 2. 15 days later I finally had the parts replaced on the truck, only to find a huge, deep scratch down the side of my drivers side doors, and nothing done about the dots. It looks 10x worse now than when I dropped it off. Strike 3. Now I have to trust they will fix the deep scratch correctly when they couldn't even change 2 trim pieces correctly. They admitted they do not have a dedicated body shop, which makes me even more skeptical to trust their service. I am between a rock and a hard place, with a deeply scratched, 4 week old truck.
Also, one of the other service consultants told me that the black dots is a common problem recently as they had their parking lot resprayed and over spray got onto the cars. This makes sense as they are EVERYWHERE on my brand new trucks paint. It honestly looks terrible.

BE VERY CAUTIOUS BUYING FROM Patriot, you may be buying a car with black parking lot tar over spray on the paint, and service who will only scratch the hell out of your clear coat in attempts to fix it.

____ Update: 10-11-16____

I'm improving the rating to 2 stars from one star. The reason I am improving the rating is that the dealer did attempt to make everything right, and in most cases did. The truck needed to have both driver side doors completely repainted by an outside shop. To their credit, the paint job and work done there was good, and I am happy with them. I will be leaving their shop 5 stars. The reason I am not giving more than 2 stars is that my truck now has 1800 miles on it, and has already been into a bodyshop and had major work / paint done due to a dealer caused scratch. The dealer did clean most of the black dots and over spray off the truck, but there are still some in areas (not a big deal, and I can finish from here) however they completely skipped the roof. Guess nobody sees this, but I did as soon as I got the truck home. This not the right way to do things, and hopefully this was not intentional. Lastly, and this is probably only an issue for me, but there are now rotary polisher swirls in the clear coat. Ill be hand polishing the entire truck to remove these, not many people know how to use that tool properly, so after everything else, I will let this slide as well and be happy this is over.

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