3 years ago
We've owned a Nissan Quest for a few years now. Th...
We've owned a Nissan Quest for a few years now. That sales and service experience was pretty seamless. Fortunately, that vehicle never had any issues to really challenge the dealer. At least nothing my Wife cared about. Regardless, it's a positive.
Years later, it was time to replace my aging truck and I shopped around at quite a few different dealers. I was looking at everything from GMC, Genesis, Dodge, Nissan, and others. The vehicle I narrowed it down it was a 2018 Nissan Armada.
First, the Sales Experience.
Overall, it was above average. My sales rep and sales manager in particular, spent a considerable amount of time to talk. Both to get to know me personally, who I am, and what I'm looking for in a vehicle. While I wouldn't say I had a negative experience at the other dealers, I felt these folks went above the norm to develop a relationship and show genuine interest in selling a vehicle to a person - not another number on a white board.
Ultimately they were able to help find the exact vehicle I was looking for at a price that was more than reasonable. I've purchased many vehicles over the years; I did my research!
How about Service?
I've yet to have a vehicle where my particular sensitivity to any vehicle-related issue doesn't result in a trip to the deal with a "list." This was sadly, no exception.
There were noises, steering alignment, and other minor issues. Big ones for me was a paint defect/blemish and creaking noises. The latter of which was determined to be "normal" for this vehicle. Disappointing as that was, the paint issue was really the bigger deal. In particular as it required a full repaint - with less than 400 miles.
This is where I've decided to draw a slight distinction from the dealer and Nissan corporate. On the surface, I wasn't happy with the vehicle, and wanted a buyback/replacement. As expected, neither the dealer nor Nissan could/would do anything along those lines. Other than warranty repair the issues that were considered a defect. Regardless of cost to them. Which makes no sense to me. Moving along.
The way dealers work these days is that anything outside of warranty/defect work that's considered abnormal, is passed along to the corporate office to make the call. And they strictly follow what they are obligated to do, under law. In other words, you have to go through the annoying process of potentially countless repairs before you can do anything.
At the end of the day, the Service department was notably friendly, understanding, and reasonably helpful throughout the process. Corporate on the other hand, was friendly, and that's about it. Anything outside of a limited and predefined scope is a waste of time.
Ultimately, the "big issue" was resolved via the body shop without a repaint, and has left me in a better state of mind. I still have issues with creaking noises. When it becomes worse than the "norm," which it will, we'll see what happens!
As this review is focused on Round Rock Nissan - would I buy another vehicle here? At this time, I'd say that'd "I'd definitely keep them in consideration should future vehicle quality meet my expectations. "