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    Motor Werks Auto Group

    2.2 (57 reviews)
    Closed 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
    Updated 3 months ago

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    If I could give them a no star review I would. Shady AF!! In April we bought our son his car for his graduation from college. Our 2nd purchase from them. Down payment as gift and he pays the rest. Clean car, single owner and maintained by them. Looked like the perfect fit. It came with a 6 mo, 6000 mile warranty. The car was driven 1006 miles before we noticed after a drive the car would smoke. Appeared to be a valve cover gasket with a drip the would hit the exhaust manifold and burn off. Oil level reads fine, no warning lights. Called them and my dealer put me in touch with the service dept. They advised me they need to diagnose the problem and submit it to the warranty company. I would have to pay for a tow. They also advised I would not be covered as in the "breakdown clause" gaskets are not covered although technically the car is not broken down. Talked with my dealer again who agreed it has to be diagnosed in order to submit it and I need to get it in. I confirmed the "warranty" is good at any BMW dealer or ASE shop. I have a BMW dealer a mile from the house safe enough to drive it there with no worry. My diagnosis was spot on. No only did they find that but advised it needs a belt and recomends brakes. OVER $4000 worth of work. The car was 15K. They also confirmed the warranty denied the claim. Warranty is not worth the paper it is printed on!!! And although my dealer said Motor Werks would make it right in the end today I was informed "I'm on my own for the bill." I have had quite a few cars in my life and never have had anything major fail with only 55K miles on it. BMW should be embarrassed. I should have looked here first and seen the overall majority of the reviews are 1 star. Mark it up to tuition and a costly lesson learned. Motor Werks has zero reputability and no honor in the products they sell. Proof in documents provided below.

    For the first time ever , I was LIED to and treated with DISHONESTY at Motorwerks. On Monday 08/14/23 I spoke w Honda service advisor Evans as I knew the 100k service is expensive and wanted to know the cost . He told me 833.57. At no time did he tell me there would be a 3% service charge for paying by credit card. I made an appt for Wednesday 08/16/23. When I dropped the car off he did not tell me they would be charging more than 833.57 and again no mention of a 3% service charge for paying by credit card. My first clue should have been only one other car in the service area at 7am when I arrived. One usually has to wait as its always been very busy first thing in the morning. After and only after the work had been performed was I told about a 3% service charge for credits cards and to my shock a higher price than what was quoted on Monday. Most people don't have 800.00+ dollars laying around . Had I been told this upfront , I would have waited til I had the cash. So basically my choices were to wait 4 weeks for the cash and have no car or pay their 3% fee . It was like having my car held hostage. In the end my bill was 885.54 after a quote of 833.57 . 51.97 higher than the original quote , and had they applied the 10% coupon (83.33 more off ) for a total difference of 135.30 ! It is slippery slope when dealerships lie to a customer. What else have they lied to me about ? Did they really do the services they billed me for ? Did they do them correctly ? I DO NOT TRUST THEM anymore. I've been coming here for over 20years and was never lied to or cheated before today. A web search after picking up my car explained everything. They are UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP. I WILL NEVER BRING MY CAR HERE AGAIN.

    when the car was purchased
    Darrick B.

    On September 23, 2021 I purchased a S550 from Motor Werks of Barrington, that following weekend I tried to active the MBRACE service and after 5 calls over 3 days it was determined that I needed to bring the car in to be programmed. It was at that moment my NIGHTMARE began. While there for service they damaged my bumper. You will notice on the 3 pictures attached, that when the car was purchased it had NO damage to the bumper. The car is garage kept so there's not opportunity for the bumper to be damaged, when your service dept returned the vehicle to me the first thing I noticed when walking to it was that the front license place was crooked. This caused me to take a closer look. It was at that point I discovered that damage to the bumper. When I pointed out this damage to Stephen, he replied we take videos of every car when it comes in to note any damage. My reply was GREAT! LETS ROLL TAPE!!, surprise surprise, the video on showed the sides and back of the vehicle! The front of the vehicle "somehow" got deleted, when I complained to my sales rep BRIAN he walked down with me and spoke to Stephen who replied "don't worry we'll make it right! I drove the car home because I didn't have time to leave it, that weekend it got cold out and now I discovered that the HEAT also doesn't work! I know it's a USED VEHICLE, but you would think in my paying $40,000 that there would be a expectation that the heat would work. When I mentioned this to Stephen he replied "It was intermittent" I'm no master mechanic but I do know if the heater core (which needed to be replaced) was bad it would just be bad and NOT Intermittent. I paid the $662 but wasn't happy about it! When I asked him if he saw the repairs to the bumper he replied that he sent me a photo. I told him I never received a photo, and showed him the text he sent advising me the car was ready. He then said you have to open the link to see the photo. (how would I know to do that and that a photo was attached?) when I opened the photo, MUCH TO MY DISMAY it looked like Sh.t and I told him exactly that! His reply was "Well it's looks better that it did".

    Amin Smith
    Stephen C.

    I called Amin Smith, the financial services manager at Motor Werks Auto Group, on 4 occasions leaving messages in hopes of signing up a few extended warranty vehicle contracts. He never returned any of my calls. If this is how Amin Smith treats new sales, then I'd hate to see how he treats customers with actual issues.

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