I was a satisfied RightWay customer for about a week before I started seeing big problems with their service. Rightway is unwilling to assist their customers once they get the signature from them, and this point was proven to me multiple times in my first year of owning a vehicle purchased from them.
I purchased my car in December of 2012 from RightWay in Roseville, MI; a 2003 Saturn L200.
A week later, I explained to them the remote lock of the L200 was faulty even after replacing the battery. Rightway told me it was my problem and to take care of it myself. Then, my turn signal stalk in my dashboard fried only a few months later and was again informed it's my problem.
I was unable to properly test the A/C due to weather conditions when I purchased the vehicle in December. Found out the hard way that the A/C never worked upon purchase, and would need recharging the first summer I used the vehicle. I was advised that this issue was my problem to resolve as well.
The supposed 'extended warranty' they talk you into doesn't seem to cover anything that could actually go wrong with the vehicle (my warranty was still technically in effect when multiple repairs needed to be completed, all of which I was forced to pay for out of pocket) and only ultimately served to cost me more money than it was worth.
Another problem is that their vehicles are overpriced compared to their competitors - my Saturn L200 from 2003 cost $19,000.00 in 2012 at 90K miles.
They begin hounding you with phone calls to get you into a different vehicle after two years of payments. I humored them with a single visit and quickly realized they wanted to sell me more of the same: high-priced, high-mileage vehicles, and so I finally walked away for good.
While I understand that part of the L200's costs were due to interest rates on a bad credit score, they were still trying to price-gouge me on cars with the same (or greater) mileage 3 years later, after my credit score had improved by 200-or-so points.
In the end, a water leak fried a wiring harness on my vehicle in early 2016, effectively totaling it when I still owed $1,400.00 on the vehicle. Luckily, I was able to roll the remaining debt into the lease of a brand new vehicle from Buff Whelan Chevrolet, a dealer I highly recommend at this time.
Summary: I was very lucky to be able to maintain maintenance on my vehicle on top of paying $500.00 a month between insurance and car payments. It was a massive burden on my life for three years to keep this up and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
I imagine some people who end up in an accident, or are simply unlucky and wind up buying a car that needs a lot of work end up even worse off than before they had obtained a car from RightWay.
RightWay Automotive disguises itself as a compassionate dealership that will get anyone driving, but their ulterior motive in my experience is to prey upon people who are down on their luck and ensure they stay down, so they have to continue buying into RightWay's high-interest car loans.
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