Location of Service: 999 Polk Ave Nashville TN
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Review of Gerber Collision on Polk Avenue, Nashville: Dropped off our RAV4 Hybrid on June 1 and was told the repairs would be completed within 2 weeks. On June 16, I noticed as soon as I drove up to pick up my car that the doors were not flush. You'd think they'd have noticed that! There were also a couple spots on the side of the door where the paint was chipped. John said he'd bring it in the back and it should take 15 minutes to adjust the doors and such. Low and behold, 45 minutes later he comes to get us and tells us there's s slight problem. Now the silver frame above one of the windows is dented. He claims the guy fixing it leaned on it. What?! They're going to order a replacement. Again, for probably the 12th time, I walk around our vehicle. What the heck?! There is now a 4-inch scrape on the bumper! He claims it must have been there prior to bringing it in the back. Uh...no. They'd now have to either replace the bumper and paint it or fix is somehow. He said it'd be up to the manager. As I left our precious baby with him again, he said it'd be ready early the following week. TWO weeks later, we went to pick it up. I noticed the door sill which says RAV4 was over half peeled off. I admit it wasn't perfect prior, yet it wasn't close to as bad as this was now. I looked at pictures they'd taken when I dropped off my car which proves this, although Doug (the manager) thought he was doing me a favor and order me a new one at no cost to me overly stating that "we try to please all our customers and hope for a good review since that's how we get referrals". Nice bribe. The doors still were not flush, and we ended up waiting an hour or so for them to fix them. Before driving away, I noticed my tire was flat. My dashboard light was on stating the tire pressure was low. It was not on prior to brining it to Gerber. The manager, Doug, said he'd take it in back and fill it up. He noticed a nail was in it and was unable to patch it. When I mentioned it must have happened in their care, he adamantly denied it stating that the threads on ALL my tires were worn and sliced into, stating I must drive on gravel a lot. Um, no! Their back lot has gravel. I don't drive anywhere where gravel is. I took it immediately to Beaman and had all the tires inspected. Beaman assured me that no other tire showed any defects. I called numerous times to plead with Gerber to pay for the damaged tire ($290). Doug was sticking by his story, and I believe he said "my boss said we've spent too much on this car already". What?! If the work had been done properly the first time, we'd have had our car in two-weeks time and in perfect condition. If money or time was spent, it clearly was not at fault of us. A couple other things to note... Toyota requires a pre and post scan. I had to ask for this. Both looked identical and a couple things on it puzzled me. I ended up bringing it to another Gerber who ran the scan and cleared what the Polk Avenue Gerber did not. Doug forgot to hand me my guarantee in which I reminded him prior to leaving. My car was filthy. I have leather seats and take exceptional care of my vehicle. I've had it 4 years and have very low mileage on it. It looks brand new. Seeing pictures Gerber took as my car was in their shop, I noticed the seats were not covered. They had some things sitting on my back seat. The doors were off which must have contributed to the filth in my car. Dust absolutely everywhere. Again, I not only had to spend money on a new tire, yet I had to detail my car myself. Quote from them was over $1,000 more than two other places. I only chose them because I was dealing with the person who hit our car's insurance. read more