Not a nice dealership!
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Racer
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Not a nice dealership!
I was told by the service department of Robert Chevrolet in Hicksville, NY to go back to the dealer I bought the car from if I had any possible warranty items. First time for me. I’ve brought other cars there without a question to do regular & warranty repairs. I purchased a 2019 grandsport out of state. I am concern about the paint on the barrels of the chrome rims didn’t look right. Just wanted them to look. They made jokes and said sorry. Has anyone experienced this?
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Oct 9, 2018, 10:17 AM
Drifting
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I was told by the service department of Robert Chevrolet in Hicksville, NY to go back to the dealer I bought the car from if I had any possible warranty items. First time for me. I’ve brought other cars there without a question to do regular & warranty repairs. I purchased a 2019 grandsport out of state. I am concern about the paint on the barrels of the chrome rims didn’t look right. Just wanted them to look. They made jokes and said sorry. Has anyone experienced this?
Call GM and tell them about your experience and see what they say.
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Sadly it does happen. Take it as a sign to use a different dealer for any repair work you need done, not just on the Vette. And you might want to let the GM of the dealership know about your experience. Most dealerships have some form of feedback system that you can post to to share your thoughts.
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I was told by the service department of Robert Chevrolet in Hicksville, NY to go back to the dealer I bought the car from if I had any possible warranty items. First time for me. I’ve brought other cars there without a question to do regular & warranty repairs. I purchased a 2019 grandsport out of state. I am concern about the paint on the barrels of the chrome rims didn’t look right. Just wanted them to look. They made jokes and said sorry. Has anyone experienced this?
Call GM and tell them about your experience and see what they say.
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Maybe Robert Chevrolet does not have a corvette tech on board as a result of not selling any vettes and does not want to get involved with servicing vettes. Regardless they could have handled the situation in a much better manner.
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Hi,
Try Huntington Chevrolet. First question to me when I brought in the car was "Did you buy the car from us?" (I purchased from Kerbeck). My first thought was "uh-oh", then then they proceeded to treat me really well.
Let us know how it works out - we need to vote with our feet and $$ when it comes to dealers.
Regards,
J
Try Huntington Chevrolet. First question to me when I brought in the car was "Did you buy the car from us?" (I purchased from Kerbeck). My first thought was "uh-oh", then then they proceeded to treat me really well.
Let us know how it works out - we need to vote with our feet and $$ when it comes to dealers.
Regards,
J
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I bought a 2004 form Kerbeck. My local dealer would not service the car. They sued Kerbeck around the same time because we are close to Carlisle and Kerbeck was at the show selling cars in the "local territory".
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I was told by the service department of Robert Chevrolet in Hicksville, NY to go back to the dealer I bought the car from if I had any possible warranty items. First time for me. I’ve brought other cars there without a question to do regular & warranty repairs. I purchased a 2019 grandsport out of state. I am concern about the paint on the barrels of the chrome rims didn’t look right. Just wanted them to look. They made jokes and said sorry. Has anyone experienced this?
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As a dealer, I did not condone refusing service. You gain nothing by doing so. On the other hand I have done it. You run into extremely obnoxious owners, customers with unreasonable demands, and customers who want to walk through your store telling everyone how they got a better price somewhere else and bought it there all the while waiting for their car to be serviced. As a customer, I would certainly not want my vehicle worked on by someone the factory had to convince to do so.
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Sometimes for different reasons, local dealers cannot sell me a Corvette, although I always try them first. The reasons are varied, but the last new one I bought was simply because they did not have enough allocation and I wanted to order my new car. Their lead time was 13 weeks compared 6 weeks, which I got in Richardson, about a 1.5 hour drive away.The dealer in Richardson has a high allocation because they sell a lot of Corvettes. Both of the dealers offered to allowed me use supplier pricing, but I did not want to go Vetteless during the summer. My local dealer has welcomed my service business so far. They are a sponsor of our Corvette Club so I really wanted to buy from them.
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Time to personally make an appointment to talk with whomever actually runs the place... and, if you want to have fun with it, bring your lawyer with you to the meeting. Trust me on this one, hehehe.
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So you really think you are going to intimidate the dealer by bringing an attorney? These are guys with multi-million dollar investments and an attorney on retainer. Sure... you will leave him quaking in his boots!
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In this day, you not only still have choices (of dealers, as some recommended above) you can also "rate" this dealer on dealerrater.com. And yelp, and other places, too. As to contacting GM directly, it's a waste of your time----they'll use a series of "platitudes" to string you along, and do little. If you hear a phrase similar to this, you'll know you've wasted your minutes in a lifetime: "dealers are not directly controlled by us; they're independently-owned."
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Wow, you've bought cars from them, and they won't service a GM car that you didn't. What a load of crap. Like the others have said, talk with the GM of the dealership, and ask him/her if that is their philosophy also. However if it were me, whatever answer I got I would let the GM know I wouldn't let them work on it anyway after the Service Writer acted like a dick. And as "AORoads" advised it would be a good idea to tell everyone what happened by way of reviews on the sites he mentioned.
I also a lucky one in that regard. Two dealership close, and both said they would be happy to help my in anyway.
I also a lucky one in that regard. Two dealership close, and both said they would be happy to help my in anyway.
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Chalk it up to experience and move on.
No sense staying frustrated and upset when in the end there is little that can be done to remedy the situation.
GM will do nothing for you.
No sense staying frustrated and upset when in the end there is little that can be done to remedy the situation.
GM will do nothing for you.
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Hi Anthony s,
Who at Robert Chevrolet in Hicksville, New York, was it that said to you the dealership will not work on your Corvette that is currently under warranty?
Was it a service writer?
Was it the Service Manager?Was it the dealership Operations Manager?
Was it the General Manager over the whole dealership?
.
Who at Robert Chevrolet in Hicksville, New York, was it that said to you the dealership will not work on your Corvette that is currently under warranty?
Was it a service writer?
Was it the Service Manager?Was it the dealership Operations Manager?
Was it the General Manager over the whole dealership?
.