12/9/2022 Previous review
Took my vehicle in to get oil changed, inspected + emissions (Located at 1700 Quentin Rd, Lebanon, PA). While dropping it off, asked if they could do inspection first, then emissions - figuring if the vehicle didn't pass inspection, didn't want to waste money on the emission testing. Was told it was PA law that emissions testing had to be done before inspection. Whatever, no big deal - I learned something new today.
Fun starts when location never called to notify me of an emissions problem. ODB2 sensor wasn't jiving with their scanner, so it couldn't get a reading. By default, the car fails emission - could be a legitimate reason, or a blown fuse causing a power disruption in ODB sensor. Was told I would need to take vehicle to a different garage that does diagnostic testing - Mavis couldn't do it. I'm annoyed, but OK.
When my wife goes in to get the car so we can take it to the other garage, the cashier said to his supervisor - in front of my wife - "her husband is the one that was asking about the emissions. I bet he knew something about it." Cashier then says to my wife "here's your keys - maybe you can find a garage to push it through inspection."
I've been going to Mavis for about 5 years, took both of my vehicles there, never had a problem. After today, I WILL NEVER TAKE MY VEHICLES BACK TO MAVIS.
If you're going to talk bad about your customers, at least do it after they walk out the door.
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Business owner information
Mavis T.
Business Owner
12/10/2022
We're sorry, Nick. Our crews priority is your complete satisfaction! When you can, please contact our consumer solutions department at 914-984-2500 option #2 and we would appreciate the opportunity to speak with you.
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So I responded to Mavis' Corporate request, and spoke to a very nice representative who apologized profusely for the conduct at the store, she said it never should've happened. Before hanging up she said if there was anything that they could ever do, feel free to call them.
After two days, I decided to ask for a refund for my emissions test, since I wouldn't be going back. The nice representative said that it would have to be approved by the regional manager, and that they would call me within 24 hours. It is now 12/23 and I still haven't heard from Tyler, the regional manager.
UPDATE
12/23 16:30
I am writing this after taking my vehicle to have diagnostics run on the OBD, and they had no problem connecting to my unit. Said emissions passed with flying colors. So Mavis is the one that screwed up, but yet I still had to pay for it. I'M GOING TO REITERATE - DO NOT TAKE YOUR VEHICLE TO MAVIS.
UPDATE:
12/27/2022 10:00
Picked up car from other garage, spoke with technician who worked on my car - reiterated that their scanner had absolutely no problems connecting to my vehicle. It was either a Mavis technician problem or a Mavis equipment problem.
Called Mavis again (3rd time), the representative was adamant that I was told by 3 different people that emission testing had to be done before the inspection. I agreed with her, and I was ok with that. I was not ok with with Mavis failing my car's emission testing because of a mistake on their part. The rep offered to contact Tyler, the regional manager, to see if we could rectify the issue. After the rep was done speaking with him, she relayed that Tyler would be contacting the store and they would be in contact to fix said problem, that Tyler was tired of dealing with the back and forth with this problem - yes, you read that right.
So now I wait. I'll give the store 1 week to contact me until I call corporate back. We'll see how it goes.
UPDATE:
12/28/22 13:13
Still no contact from store. I'll update again tomorrow.
UPDATE
12/29/22 13:14
Still no contact from Quentin Rd Mavis Store or Regional Manager Tyler.
Decided to add previous review so reader could see entire saga that has thus unfolded. Also added location so that customer can decide how to interact with location. Also thinking of emailing review to CEO and every other company email I can find so I can be sure management is OK with how their customer/former customers are treated. read more