I took my car to be serviced (unknown maintenance light). When I checked in (12:20p), they said it…read morewould take 1:15. I told them I hadn't eaten yet, but I could wait until then (1:35p). Five minutes later, they explained what they recommended to be done. I selected the items I wanted done and went back to the waiting area. No indication that anything selected was going to take extra time.
About 10 minutes later (12:35p), I had some questions, so I went back to ask the tech. That's when I discovered he had left for his lunch break. A coworker helped me get the answers, so I sat back in the waiting area until 1:35p. At 1:50p, thinking the tech would be back from lunch, I went back to see how things were going. The problem was the tech was still not back. I asked his coworkers how much longer my car was gonna be. They told me it would be another 20 minutes.
When no one came to get me by 2 PM (I was really getting hungry), I went looking for my tech again. He was still out to lunch and the coworkers said my vehicle was still being worked on, with no specific time given. I checked again at 2:30p. My service tech was still gone (it was now a 2-hour lunch break) and all anyone could tell me is my "vehicle was still being worked on."
When no one had called for me by 3 PM and the tech had not returned, I went to the cashier station and asked to speak with the service or general managers. After about 10 minutes, the service manager appeared and asked me to come back to their office. I told them everything that had been going on. They looked on their system and saw my vehicle was still being worked on. They called back to the service bay to see how much longer it was going to be. They told me "35 minutes!" They then tried to admonish "me" for not knowing that the items that I had chosen would take "a couple of extra hours." I explained that they shouldn't expect customers to know their business and realize the items would add 2 more hours to the time quote given. When I asked them if it was normal for their service techs to take 2-hour lunches, they said that the tech "probably saw how long it was going to take my car to be done and he went to lunch as long as he could until my car was done." I asked them, "If he knew it was going to take that long, why didn't he tell 'me' so I could've at least gone home and gotten some lunch? Is that the way everyone there does business?"
I told them their customer service was terrible and I was not happy! I was disappointed with the manager, because they tried to make the whole thing "my" fault, despite their tech giving me a time estimate, never updating it, and disappearing for over 2 hours! It sounds to me like the management there needs some remedial training on how to "treat customers right!" I find it ironic that all their marketing says how well they treat their customers, yet when they don't, they don't even recognize it!
By the time my car was finished, I had waited 3 hours. When I checked out with the cashier (the cashiers were very friendly, understanding, and treated me very respectfully), they told me my car was waiting outside with the key in the ignition. I walked outside, where the car was supposed to be, only to find that it was nowhere in sight. It was "not" waiting outside. One of the coworkers made an extra effort to go find it. After a quick search, he disappeared back inside the building. Suddenly, someone drove up with my car. They were driving right past me, so I waved them down. The driver asked if it was my car and I told him it was, showing him my paperwork. I told him everyone said the car would be waiting for me outside, and wondered why he was still driving it around. He told me he "likes to test drive cars after they come out of the service bay" (that's fine, but everyone thought that that had already been done). To me, it was just another wasted 5 minutes of waiting around, wondering where my car was when everyone was telling me otherwise.
All in all, this whole ordeal was one big hassle! This organization is disorganized, does not value its customers, and does not live up to its marketing!. I feel like I was just an inconvenience to them, especially when I spoke up and asked what was going on once I realized what they were telling me was not true. Instead of being there for 1:15, like I was promised, it took 3 hours! Had I known, I could have gone home and gotten something to eat (they provide shuttle service when you have a long wait). Instead, they made everything convenient for them; not me, the paying customer! I'm sure there are other Toyota dealers out there who treat you better than I got treated today!
