Worst VW service experience EVER! I have had my bug for 7 years, always going to a VW dealership to service my bug, never had such bad experience. it started well with Don to do a regular maintenance and also told them that my passenger headlights seems on and off from time to time, so want them to check it out. When picking up my car, they told me the bracket for the headlight is not holding its right, they have TIGHTEN it and if it still an issue, they need to replace it. Fine. I am okay with it. Immediately next evening, as I turned on my headlights, I noticed that the high beams are always on regardless if I turn on or off the switch. Called VW service back the next day, and dropped off my car for them to check. Got a call this morning, telling me that they need to 1) change the bracket and 2) continue with diagnosis.
First of all, I have hard time understanding a passenger side light bracket is affecting both high beams to be on. maybe it is just me not understanding, fine.
Secondly, they are telling me that replacing the bracket might not fix the issue as there might be electrical failure. There was never any issues with my bug before they touched the light, and if there is electrical failure, to me, it might be caused by them tightening the bracket. They would not admit that was possible. Then the service admin starts to twist the story about "oh, all we did is pull out the light and put it back in", WHAT HAPPENED TO TIGHTEN BRACKET PART??
Thirdly, he started to tell me that this was the first time they worked on my bug, they had never seen my car before. This could be from previous repair. I HAVE ALWAYS serviced my bug in a VW dealership in Greater Vancouver. To me, it is VW I am recognizing. They should not be pushing responsibilities to another dealership. Additionally, this OpenRoad VW is a brand new dealership just opened last year. There are millions of cars they have never seen or worked on cuz they didn't exist until last year. SO they cannot use that excuse to push away responsibilities. SO REMEMBER! IF OTHER DEALERSHIPs HAVE TOUCHED YOUR CAR, DO NOT GO TO THIS DEALERSHIP!
Then, he started by saying they advised me to replace the bracket when they worked on my car. Yes, they did so when I picked up the car AFTER THEY TIGHTENED THE BRACKET. I was never told to make a decision of tightening it or replace it. Then he said they did me a favor. I appreciate it, I did. However, if this favor caused problems, then they should be owning up to it.
I am not an engineer, or technician. Logically I have hard time understanding the technical issues here. All I am asking is them owning up to their potential mistakes. Stop BS their customers and stop pushing away potential responsibilities. The conversation would have been much easier if they agree that they might have caused something. End of the day, $180+tax replacing a bracket is not an issue for me, the problem here is I do not feel good at being bullshit to, lied to, played around, and asked me to pay for other people's mistake.
There is absolutely no customer service or honest work here with this dealership. read more