Encinitas Ford

On my way home to El Cajon after buying it, the low oil pressure light came on and stayed continually on for over an hour. I had my other mechanic in John Hines check it out and found out the headlight ass pressure light came on and stayed continually on for over an hour. I had my other mechanic in John Hines check it out and found out the headlight assembly was broken as well as other parts that they had told me they did a 150 check point inspection and everything was fine. I was thinking if they check their cars like this, I know I am not the only one who was sold a lemon. I bought because my family and I needed an Suv and we were leaving out of town the next weekend. I had to really push to get a rental from them but they put me in a 4 people car instead of a bigger car like a SUV that I bought from them so my vacation was ruined. They kept my car for days and when I drove it home from picking it up again, they didn't fix the light cause it came back on again. They advised me to take it to another shop in San Diego. The owner of the shop told me to take it in on a friday and this time the dealer refused to pay for a rental so I tried to have them work on it before the end of the day. when it came so near to their shop closing, I had to get another ride to go pick it up because they didn't work on it at all, but they left my car smelling like cigarettes. They next week I took it in, I filled up my gas tank before I dropped it off and checked the milage right before I got off at their shop and left it with the manager. I called the manager after 4 hours and he told me to call the shop cause he wasn't there, he was only there when he received my car. I called the shop and spoke to the other manager and told me he didn't know the status but to call the 1st manager again. I told them they seem like they don't know what they are doing because both of them are telling me to call each other. I needed my car back before closing because I won't have a rental from the dealer for the weekend. I kept calling to check the status they told me it should have only taken 3-4 hours but they took all day and they went to test drive it again. I called and was told the driver was drive testing it for another hour now and then I can pick it up at 5:30pm. When I picked it up, my gas tank was low, about $25-$30 less used up, but the miles that were driven were only 22 miles from when I dropped it off. I know with that info, they stole my gas from my tank because 22 miles wouldn't have caused my gas to be too low as is was. Overall, dealing with the dealership finance rep, service manager and the san diego shop they referred me to, It was very stressful and wished I had never got my car from them. I would never recommend this dealer at all to anyone that I took off any Encinitas Ford license plates from my Tahoe already to not advertise for them. This was just part of my experience of me getting my car fixed. I tried to work with Eric trying to get the warranty taken off my loan. The first time I asked him was 4 days after getting my suv because my bank was giving me a better and cheaper warranty and lower apr of 6.48%. He never told me there were other paper work needed to be filled out. Since it was my first car purchase, I was new to it all. I kept calling the warranty to check if I can cancel the next day after I let him know and they told me only the dealer can cancel so I tried to speak to him to cancel it. I faxed in the paperwork he told me was needed to cancel in the beginning of Oct and tried calling the warranty company to check if the dealer had canceled and they kept saying no, so finally I got back to Eric and he told me "they dropped the ball and never sent it, but He would put a rush on it" on Oct 15. He knew my bank was waiting for them to cancel so Wachovia can receive the payoff check since Sep when I first told him to cancel but I am thinking that he never wanted me to cancel due to he gets paid too for selling it and that's why he wasn't so helpful. I had told him Oct 21 was the last day my bank had given me to be able to take over the loan. Then from there on, I had to deal with another person named Sharon and explain why I had the urgency of them paying off Wachovia by Oct 21. She told me they have to wait for century to send them a check of the difference, but when I spoke to century service, all the reps I spoke to told me they don't receive money, it's the dealer who got a check from Wachovia to pay off the car with warranty. The dealer once receiving confirmation from Century serv that it was canceled, the dealer writes the check of what the warranty costs and send it to wachovia to pay part of the loan. So Sharon lied to me. After I called her back to confirm what all the reps in Century Service had told me, she said that is not true and to change the subject, she said she sees the check on her desk that she got on Tuesday 10/20 but she was off on 10/21. My bank had given me an extra day to make sure Wachovia received a Encinitas Ford's check until 10/22 and because of all these mistakes encinitas ford reps made, it made me lose the chance of being able to have an APR of 6.48% with my bank and got stuck with Wachovia's 14.99%. Other Buyers beware. If you still plan to buy from them, be sure to use your own bank first. I was going with a Credit Union and the lowest was California Coast. Make sure that Eric doesn't foward the paperwork right away even if you tell him you are going with another bank because he will do it right away but according to my bank, it's because he gets paid to foward it first then the credit union can pay off the other bank. More

I brought my vehicle in for service and when they did not have the correct part to fix a warranty item and could not complete the work in one day, I asked how I was going to get to work and around town, they have the correct part to fix a warranty item and could not complete the work in one day, I asked how I was going to get to work and around town, they said i could come and pick the car up and then drop it back off when the part came in. No mention of giving me a loaner or renting me a car. So I asked them if they could loan me a car, to which they replied NO. Simply put!<br><br>Now that is FORD Customer Service or what? More