This is going to be a long one. I was recently tal...
This is going to be a long one. I was recently talking with my dad and he was telling me how he went to get something done on his truck and ended up with a lot more problems then solutions, now this was not at a ford dealership but it reminded me of the struggle and pain I went through as a new car owner.
It was July 2017, and I owned a 2007 Ford Mustang which completely checked out, no issues, no problems, and I loved it. In July I received a recall notice for the driver side airbag and me being the naive new driver reacted as such, " oh i should get this fixed right away". I take my car down and they have my car for about an hour and they told me it would have taken three but I just assumed they wanted to get out quick due to it being a Friday Night. I go back to the dealership Holmes Tuttle and get in my car with the paperwork and everything set. I start it and plug my phone into the aux like I always did and the stock radio would not recognize that my phone was plugged in so I went back inside to have another appointment to have my radio checked. I come back that Monday and drop my car off again and I sit and wait this time in their waiting area and an hour goes by and I get my car back. I get in to check the radio and still not working and now my A/C is not working either. But clearly they were using it because the vents were all open and the knobs were all moved from how I left them. I also notice a scratch in the passenger door which they did admit to doing. I go a whole week with this scratched door, no A/C and no aux radio. I then head back to drop my car off and they tell me it will take a week to repaint the door and I am not old enough to borrow a rental car so I was clearly upset. I spoke to I believe he was a manager by the name of Daniel Mendez and although he may or may not remember me; I remember him. He talked down to me and acted as if I did not know what I was talking about. Although they admitted to the door, they did not admit to the A/C or radio claiming that it was just an odd occurrence, a coincidence that it happened while the vehicle was in their possession. A week has passed now and I was about to receive my car hoping that maybe they fixed my A/C and radio as well as my door but I was incorrect. Frustrated by the matter of this I once again spoke to Mr. Mendez and he took my car and checked everything in it with his diagnostic team. I am stuck at Holmes Tuttle once again from I believe 9AM to 4PM. After all this time he comes up to me and says well the A/C is fried and the part to replace the piece would be including labor just under $1000 and as for the radio we are not sure what has happened but fixing the stock radio would cost $500 so it would be a better idea to go aftermarket. At this point I'm done with my Holmes Tuttle experience and leave and vow never to come back after a total of 6 visits. I went to Audio Express and paid $343 for an aftermarket radio and the A/C was still not working. I go a full year without A/C because I did not have the money nor patience to let Holmes Tuttle touch my car again.
Finally, a full year has passed of going to other places to find the fix and none of them working along with the summer heat, I cracked. Driving every day in 105 degree heat with no A/C causes a lot of issues and health related concerns so in August of 2018 I drove my car back to Holmes Tuttle. Defeated as I was I went to the service center and asked to check my A/C because it was not working and they found the same problem that Mendez had told me a year ago and I paid the estimated $1000 to get this fixed. I hope if anyone reads this they can sympathize with me on the journey I went on with this dealership. Don't ever expect to see me at your location again.
-Dylan J Campbell