Tyler Kuyper

Review of Autobarn Mazda - Evanston,IL

This has been hands down the worst dealership I ha...

This has been hands down the worst dealership I have ever seen. I'll start from the beginning of this journey.

First, the dealership was the only one within hundreds of miles that had a 2014+ mazda 3 HB mt for sale for a reasonable price which was awesome. I was really excited to snag one and drive it as much as possible. I got there and we went for a test drive, the car is exactly what I wanted (It's awesome!). So I began the financing and this took a bit of time but no big deal. This is when the first minor thing struck. it took them another 2 hours after I finished financing to even get the vehicle to me.. I spent a total of 5 hours in their dealership to buy a car..I had never bought a car in Illinois or from a dealership before so I assumed it was normal. After going to a dealership with a work buddy and him being in and out of the dealership on lunch hour it seems a lot less normal.

I was also told that the dealership would handle all the registration and paperwork to get the car title transferred and the plates to me. It was great to have someone else handle this for once since I was used to buying second hand from private sellers and usually did it on my own. As it turns out this dealership is fairly incompetent at the paperwork as it took them a little over 5 months to finally get the title transferred (this was after multiple calls from me to them, the bank that serviced my loan, and a final complaint to secretary of state) in that time I received 1 and only 1 call from the dealership after I made a complaint to secretary of state updating me on the progress. In which she said it should be 7-14 days and they will overnight me the plates the minute they get them (haven't heard a thing since and that was sept 17... 7-14 days is close to 45 right?).

I finally got a call from the bank(not the dealership) that they received my title finally and they would overnight it to me. so now here I am with a dealership that has been just dreadful to work with and I am stuck paying for all the fees to get my vehicle registered ($214 if the dealership reads this and gives a damn) plus my plates went to the wrong county and I will have to pay to get the new ones ($10 again if anyone gives a damn).

so please for the love of god do not ever let this dealership do the title paperwork.

I will be putting one final complaint in to secretary of state and then never dealing with this dealership again and I hope they lose their license to sell cars.