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  • Report:  #1443408

Complaint Review: Motorcars of Lansing

Motorcars of Lansing Lansing Motorcars Sold my daughter a used car that they promised they would repair, and have not Lansing MI

  • Reported By:
    Karen — EAST LANSING United States
  • Submitted:
    Thu, May 17, 2018
  • Updated:
    Fri, May 18, 2018

My daughter bought a 2010 Subaru Outback from Motorcars of Lansing March 5, 2018.     The car came from Canada and we purchased is here in Michigan.  The dashboard warning lights were flashing constantly, and the salesman, who is also a manager promised he would fix it, and anything that was currently wrong with the car, for free.  She took the car back in a couple days later for them to repair it.  When she went to pick it up, after they told her it was fixed, she saw the minute she left the dealership, that it was not fixed at all. 

This has happened 5 or 6 (I lost count) more times in the last two months. She would take time out of her busy schedule to drive it to Lansing, be without a car for days, only to have them blow her off when she contacted them to see if it was ready.  Then she would pick it up to find it was not fixed.

To date the car is still not fixed.

I contacted the dealership about two weeks after she bouight the car and asked to speak with the owner, because the guy who sold her car was not repsonding.  He would simply avoid her when she tried to reach him.  I told them I needed to speak to the owner to resolve this asap and I gave them my phone number and email address.  He never contacted me.  This is after the owner introduced himself to us the day we bought the car and said "If there is anything I can do for you, please let me know."

She took the car in again last week, where it sat for a week.  She went to get it with her father and was told it still was not fixed.  I went online and filed a complainr with both the Better Business Bureau and the Michigan Attorney General's office, and wrote a negative review online, explaining the facts of what happened.  The owner read the review apparently right then while they were at the dealership yesterday.

He told them that WE were being "shady" for writing a negative review of their business. (it should be pointed out the salesman actually texted my daughter asking her to give him a 5 star review, in spite of the fact that he had not upheld his promise to fix the car.  She told him no.)  

The owner then told my 19 year old daughter that they were not going to fix the car for her at all, because of the negative review I had written.  She was so upset she called me crying.

I am at a loss of what to say about this.  I have never witnessed a business treat a paying customer so badly.  I guess at this point we are just going to wait and let the BBB and the attorney general sort it out.

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Perry Mason

United States

You Actually Think The BBB And Their BS iHas Some Power?

#2Consumer Comment

Fri, May 18, 2018

 The FIRST QUESTION is this: Since according to you, your daughter very clearly observed pre-existing problems with this car, why did she buy it? Secondly, you are VERY misinformed about who the BBB-BS is and what they do. The BBB-BS is NOT part of ANY government body. The BBB-BS has ZERO POWER to do anything! The ONLY purpose of the BBB-BS is to SELL their absolutely PHONY ratings to ANY business which wants to BUY one. If a business wants a "A+" PHONY RATING, they BUY it from the BBB-BS. There are people in the BBB-BS operation who are taking a huge RAKE-OFF from the TAKE of the scam. Also, if your daughter bought this as an "as is" purchase, you have absolutely NO CASE! The paperwork your daughter should have read before she signed, disclosed the terms of an "as is" purchase!

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