I was involved in a rear-end accident on August 15, 2017. My insurance company stated that this collision center was their preferred repair shop, and the only one in a forty mile radius of Toledo, Ohio.
I took the vehicle in and they sent pictures and a report to my insurance company. Once the insurance company had approved the work, I took the vehicle back and they began the work.
The car was finished about 10 days later. Instead of calling my cell phone to let me know the car was ready, they called the house and left a message. This resulted in my not being able to get the car until 5 minutes before the place was supposed to close. They didn't have me look at the vehicle until after I had signed over the insurance checks. Immediately, I noticed that the paint in the rear did not match the paint on the rest of the vehicle. My car is gray with small silver flecks. The back end, which they had repainted, had flecks that reflected rainbow colors like blue and green. Also, the bumper was darker gray than the rest of the vehicle, and the underside of the trunk lid was painted flat black. I asked Tony to come out and look at this. He started making excuses. He told me a lot of companies don't paint the inside of the trunk, and have a darker bumper. I told him my car had the underside of the trunk painted, and the bumper was the same color. Then he insisted that if I pulled the vehicle out into the light, so the light was shining evenly on both the front and back of the car, it would make the metallic flake look right. It didn't. I refused to take the car.
After another ten days spent repainting the vehicle, they called me again to say it was ready. I went to pick it up. I was so focused on the previous issues, that I didn't notice the front end of my vehicle. As I was driving home, I noticed that there were rusty brown speckles all over my windshield. When I got home, I walked around the vehicle and realized these speckles were on my windshield, my hood, my headlights, even my grill in the front of my vehicle.
I took the vehicle back on Monday, as it was already fairly late in the day on Friday when I had gotten the vehicle back. This time I dealt with a female (sorry, can't remember her name), but she started saying it looked like tar, that I must have driven through some fresh tar. I hadn't driven through any tar, and there hadn't been any tar when I dropped the vehicle off three weeks earlier, but she started scraping some of the stuff off with her fingernails. She asked me to come back the next day so the detailer could work on it.
I brought it back the next day, and the detailer worked on it for 45 minutes, while I sat in their hot waiting room. When I got the vehicle back, it was better, but there are still speckles on my hood, on my windshield, and on my grill.
Since then, I have taken it to a different body shop. They had to do about $1000 more work to it, because the rear body panel underneath the quarter panel was still dented, so when Whitney's put my car together, the trunk lid was lower than the rear quarter panel, and the rear taillight was not aligned with the trunk edge. Furthermore, the trunk gasket did not meet up with the rear bumper. There was also a chunk missing from the rebar in the back that was caught by the new body shop.
I could say more, but let this be a warning. They had my car for three weeks, they had to fix it twice, and then I had to have someone else fix it. Very shoddy workmanship. I've never seen such a bad repair. read more