My recent experience @ Lexus dealership
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Our RX was due for 5000 mile service. I didn't think it was a big deal, so I had my wife drop it off the dealer near her work place. Later that week, I was washing the vehicle and noticed that they did not rotate the wheels for her. I saw some oil marks on one of the wheels, but they did not rotate. You may wonder how I knew. I love the 7-spoke wheels so much that I actually knew specific location of each wheel. I called back, left a voicemail for the service guy ask him to call back. No phone call returned after three days. I called again and left another voicemail. No phone call returned after a few more days. We decided to call the manager of the service department. My wife gave him a call. No phone call returned after a few days. I called him and left him a voicemail. We finally got a call back from him. He offered to come out to personally pick up the car for her. I refused to let them drive the car and wanted to bring it in. They did the rotation for us. Tire rotation is not that big of a deal. They might have forgotten to do it, or maybe the tech guy intentionally skipped it. Either way, why didn't they return our calls sooner? I started to wonder if they even did the oil change for us. They lost my trust, and I will not return for other services or recommend this dealership to our friends. I don't want to put their name up here, but I thought I'd share the experience with you guys. If you are in Northern California and want to know if this is your local dealer, PM me.
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Our RX was due for 5000 mile service. I didn't think it was a big deal, so I had my wife drop it off the dealer near her work place. Later that week, I was washing the vehicle and noticed that they did not rotate the wheels for her. I saw some oil marks on one of the wheels, but they did not rotate. You may wonder how I knew. I love the 7-spoke wheels so much that I actually knew specific location of each wheel. I called back, left a voicemail for the service guy ask him to call back. No phone call returned after three days. I called again and left another voicemail. No phone call returned after a few more days. We decided to call the manager of the service department. My wife gave him a call. No phone call returned after a few days. I called him and left him a voicemail. We finally got a call back from him. He offered to come out to personally pick up the car for her. I refused to let them drive the car and wanted to bring it in. They did the rotation for us. Tire rotation is not that big of a deal. They might have forgotten to do it, or maybe the tech guy intentionally skipped it. Either way, why didn't they return our calls sooner? I started to wonder if they even did the oil change for us. They lost my trust, and I will not return for other services or recommend this dealership to our friends. I don't want to put their name up here, but I thought I'd share the experience with you guys. If you are in Northern California and want to know if this is your local dealer, PM me.
So far I did not have any issue with dealers here in Houston.
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Similar experience, but from BMW.
Had a 528e, got nailed for the $130.00 oil "service". About a week later the battery dies. Bring it in they say "Oh, your battery water was low and you burnt out one of the cells.". Point to the oil change service and which says they check the battery water level. Bottom line, got a new battery at their expense.....
Lexus isn't the only one that "skips" stuff - ALWAYS CHECK if you can..
-Ken
Had a 528e, got nailed for the $130.00 oil "service". About a week later the battery dies. Bring it in they say "Oh, your battery water was low and you burnt out one of the cells.". Point to the oil change service and which says they check the battery water level. Bottom line, got a new battery at their expense.....
Lexus isn't the only one that "skips" stuff - ALWAYS CHECK if you can..
-Ken
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You can always leave them a nice comment on the letter you get from Lexus about your service. The dealer seems to be more concerned about getting Excellent ratings accross the board. Than what your service was like.
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I've been known to take a jeweler's file and put a indexing nick in critical bolt heads before having the car serviced for the first time. You'd be amazed at how much is never touched. Haven't had that experience with my Lexus dealer . . . yet.
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I do my rotations so I have not had issues like yours. But years ago, had similar issues mentioned.
It is pathetic that people try to get away with this. It truly reflects on the dealership and to a ceratin extent the Brand. So, it is always a good idea to call the Lexus Customer Relations number when things like this happen.
I really suggest to call the number. This is our only way to make sure that rotten eggs are taken off the basket. We pay for the experience, for the most part, don't we? If it leaves a bad taste in the mouth...then it should have been money not spent.
It is pathetic that people try to get away with this. It truly reflects on the dealership and to a ceratin extent the Brand. So, it is always a good idea to call the Lexus Customer Relations number when things like this happen.
I really suggest to call the number. This is our only way to make sure that rotten eggs are taken off the basket. We pay for the experience, for the most part, don't we? If it leaves a bad taste in the mouth...then it should have been money not spent.
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I don't really believe your story that you left two voicemail and they did not return your call after a few days. I've been to two different Lexus dealers in my area and both have been very good (not great) and when I call them I don't think I've ever even gone to voicemail, it's always been an actual person picking up after a few rings.
If you really had this bad an experience with your dealer, then I would say time to find a new dealer in your area. They can't be that hard to find, I have three within 15 miles of where I live.
If you really had this bad an experience with your dealer, then I would say time to find a new dealer in your area. They can't be that hard to find, I have three within 15 miles of where I live.
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Are you calling him a liar? I, on the other hand, think even stranger things can and did happen. There is the law of outliers, and Lexus service is no difference. There are always a few different people out there.
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I do my rotations so I have not had issues like yours. But years ago, had similar issues mentioned.
It is pathetic that people try to get away with this. It truly reflects on the dealership and to a ceratin extent the Brand. So, it is always a good idea to call the Lexus Customer Relations number when things like this happen.
I really suggest to call the number. This is our only way to make sure that rotten eggs are taken off the basket. We pay for the experience, for the most part, don't we? If it leaves a bad taste in the mouth...then it should have been money not spent.
It is pathetic that people try to get away with this. It truly reflects on the dealership and to a ceratin extent the Brand. So, it is always a good idea to call the Lexus Customer Relations number when things like this happen.
I really suggest to call the number. This is our only way to make sure that rotten eggs are taken off the basket. We pay for the experience, for the most part, don't we? If it leaves a bad taste in the mouth...then it should have been money not spent.
BTW, I have a question. If I remember correctly, when we rotate tires, the R front goes to the L back and the L front goes to the R back. Is it not correct? Is there anything that makes the RX tires different? They just swapped the front with the back. All the tires stay on the same side. Thanks.
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BTW, I have a question. If I remember correctly, when we rotate tires, the R front goes to the L back and the L front goes to the R back. Is it not correct? Is there anything that makes the RX tires different? They just swapped the front with the back. All the tires stay on the same side. Thanks.
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We are in LA lower Alabama and the only dealer that is with in 150 miles of this town thinks they are doing you something special just to let you make an appointment to go to the service department. Forget trying to call a service writer and talking to him on the phone its voice mail only and a day or two later they may call back or not. This store still does not understand that good service will bring people back in and there crap will keep me in a Toyota dealer ship for all work.
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After they rotated the tires, I felt like the vehicle pulled to one side or the other while driving on the freeway, but didn't have time to bring it in for a check. Last week I brought it in (a different dealership) to check out the wind noise. While there, I mentioned about the drifting. They checked and felt the same as I did. They had to rotate the tires again. This time they cross-rotated them. And it did fix the drifting. The advisor said due to uni-direction of the RX tires, the other dealership was supposed to verify if the vehicle drifts after rotation. They can not just simply rotate.
I thought I'd share it with you guys in case you run into this problem.
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Not all Dealers are created equal.....