Phillips Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram

Received an offer for my current vehicle in the mail. Came in to trade in my vehicle and purchase another model. Inquired online to verify the price of the new vehicle prior to coming to the dealership. Came in to trade in my vehicle and purchase another model. Inquired online to verify the price of the new vehicle prior to coming to the dealership. Offer for my trade was the same that I received in the mail and the Internet pricing was consistent as well. Was able to purchase custom Jeep accessories as well. They have a good stock since they partner with the Ocala Jeep Club locally. Very friendly service in a new dealership. I would recommend this store to others. More

I have bought many cars in my life and i am going to buy many more, but I will NEVER buy another car from Phillips Chrysler. I looked at a car they had advertised, it was a 2001 Volkswagen Passat with 49,00 many more, but I will NEVER buy another car from Phillips Chrysler. I looked at a car they had advertised, it was a 2001 Volkswagen Passat with 49,000 miles. It looked real good. They said it was checked over and was in mint condition. I got sucked in and bought it. When the salesman was helping me load my belongings into it, the glove compartment door fell off and onto the floor. When I went to put some items in the trunk, I found that the latch was broken and the trunk lid would not lock. This is mint condition I asked the salesman. There is no way on earth this car was checked out by their service dept. That wasn't the best part. I took it home and drove it to work the next morning, it was about 38 degrees that morning and guess what...NO HEAT! I drove it to the dealer and told them what a lemon I was sold and they said they would fix everything. When they found out that the heater core was going to cost $3000.00 they said they weren't going to fix it. Not once did I speak to a manager, they ran my sales person around like a monkey to try to pacify my anger at them. They have a slogan at this dealership..."Don't leave till you see Steve"! Steve being Steve Treadway the general manager. I never saw Steve, he must have been hiding from me. Liars one and all. Anyway, they decided it would be good practice to trade me out of that bomb and put me in another car. That "trade out" cost me another $2500.00 above and beyond what they already robbed me for. It was a 2004 Chrysler Pacifica. Another mint condition, checked out by service beauty. All started well and I thought I was set. I then made the mistake of going back and buying a brand new Dodge Dart from them for my wife. Then 1 week after buying the Dart, the Pacifica started to go south. I found a lake under my front passenger mat. Then the tire service system light started going on and off and the finale was the transmission would not shift into the overdrive gear. It rumbled like a hungry bear and just wouldn't shift. I brought it back and they told me it would cost me $95.00 to diagnose the problems, then who knows how much more money they would drain from my wallet! I said no way and goodbye to that dealership. I only wish this had happened before I bought the new car. I would never have given them my business for the Dart. I was a returning customer and they treated me like dirt. Their used cars are the worst and they do not do what they say they do to them before they hit the lot. All they do is an oil change a detail and check the lights. If you are looking for a good reliable used car PLEASE don't go to Phillips. All I got from them was a loss of $5500.00 for 2 lemons. I was especially disappointed at the management that didn't speak to me once during this entire fiasco. They will never see me again and I will do my best to keep anyone else from buying a car there. I will not even have the new car service there, I will bring it to another Dodge dealer. Nice going Steve! More

I wasn't at all impressed with the treatment we got at Phillips. We stopped at their lot to look at trucks, and pulled up in front of the building. Neither of the guys standing by the front door welcom at Phillips. We stopped at their lot to look at trucks, and pulled up in front of the building. Neither of the guys standing by the front door welcomed us, or offered to help. I don't enjoy having a salesman follow me around, so at first I didn't mind their inattentiveness. We walked around the lot and no one approached us. Odd, but still not an issue. We couldn't find the truck we were looking for (a base model Ram Express, with manual windows and locks), so we went inside to see if they might have one at another lot. The salesman inside didn't seem to know what to do, and said that the sales manager would have to check their stock. He made it seem like this was an inconvenience, but eventually went and asked. He came back and said that the Ram Express didn't come with manual windows and lock. We told him that they most certainly do, and that we had just seen one at another lot earlier that day. He then responded that if we liked the truck was saw elsewhere, then we should probably "go for that one". We took his advice and left; we won't be going back anytime soon. More

Because this review is so negative, I would prefer to leave out specific names of individuals involved, but because it's a required field, I guess I have to. Quick Summary: What took four (4!) days a leave out specific names of individuals involved, but because it's a required field, I guess I have to. Quick Summary: What took four (4!) days at Phillips and eventually failed to sell me a new Jeep that I didn't want took three (3) hours at Bill Bryan and got me exactly what I wanted. Phillips stonewalled and passed me around from salesman to salesman because the margins on a Jeep are so low, no one wanted to sell one to me. Juicy Details: I went in to Phillips looking for a new Jeep. I was on the lot for almost half an hour, left for a while, then returned and no one ever came to help. Eventually a salesman did jog out of the building exclaiming his surprise that I had not been assisted. This is the man I would "work" with for the next several days which would, eventually, end without a car. Initially, this guy seemed like a straight-shooter, if a little lazy and uniformed about the product, but I worked with him. He tried to sell me a black Jeep, which I didn't want. Insisting it was a great deal because it was the last 2012 (it was a 2013, and therefor everything he said about it was either a lie or simple ignorance), we took a test drive and I told him I would return the next day to move the deal forward. I wanted a specific color and package and he said it would be no problem to find it and do a dealer trade. Great. I did not want to black one. No problem. The next day I came back and no one could find the salesman. They called him. They called his cell. After I had been milling around the lot for half an hour, he came jogging up, saying that he had been "busy." We went to his office to do some paperwork on my trade in. He muttered something about someone trying to steal his deal--friendly guys. When they took my car to value the trade-in, this is where the insanity really began. A salesman drove it, screaming across the lot (it's a sports car). Then had a mother and daughter looking for a new car get in it! It was my car! They were trying to sell a car they didn't own. I was shocked. I was also terrified when they took it out onto the open road. God knows what they did to it. Back in the office, the salesman I had been working with for days was frantic because some facet of a deal more important than mine had fallen through and he said, "Do you mind if I give you to someone else to work with?" And he handed me off to the worst kind of salesman imaginable. A greasy little high-pressure sleaze that knew nothing about what I wanted. Indeed, he had been told that I was looking for the black Jeep they had on the lot and had been trying to push on me for days. In fact, they had already done a lot of paperwork to try to push me in that direction. I saw this guy literally sprint out into the lot to outrun another salesman and descend on a potential buyer. I had also heard him tell an old man that there was "0-interest for 72 months" on all the cars on the lot. That was a straightforward bait-and-switch lie. The internet exists. Smartphones are right there telling the truth while these guys lie through their teeth. Someday, they will have to learn that they have to stop with these tactics. He said, "We are gonna put you in a beautiful black Wrangler today!" I cringed. He offered an obscenely low amount for my trade in. I told him that even in the worst of condition it would be worth more. He said in his odd accent, "Where you get these numbers? The Kelly Blue Book?" I said yes. He said "The professionals like me we no use the Kelly Blue Book." You don't? Don't you use a combination of all the valuations to come up with a fair price? He said "We know the right price because we are the professionals." Infuriated, I walked out. That night I wrote an email to the salesman and the sales manager explaining how bad my experience had been. The salesman wrote back in an unpunctuated pigin English that he would make it right. The sales manager wrote back with another slurry of unfounded numbers and promises. He said "Come back and we can put you in that black Jeep tomorrow." Last I checked, the black Jeep was still sitting in the lot. The one I wanted came from Bill Bryan and it's sitting in my driveway. More

Purchased used car from dealership and have not received paperwork (delivered vehicle) and promised help with issues with car and have not yet heard back- will keep you posted. So far not very promising. paperwork (delivered vehicle) and promised help with issues with car and have not yet heard back- will keep you posted. So far not very promising. More