- Report: #1511725
Complaint Review: Dimmitt Chevrolet - Clearwater FL
Reported By:
MannyJV -
Clearwater, FL, United States
Submitted:
Updated:
-
Author Confirmed
Why?
Dimmitt Chevrolet
25485 US Hwy 19 N, Clearwater, FL Clearwater, 33763 FL, United States
Phone:
(727) 791-1818
Web:
https://www.dimmittchevrolet.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=gmb_website&utm_
Categories:
Business Rating:
(0)
Tell us has your experience with this business or person been good?
Dimmitt Chevrolet sold me a defective vehicle, caused more damage during repairs, and charged me for warranty work in Clearwater FL
It hadn't even been 8 months and I've paid $3200 for repairing the brake system that failed me while driving on US-19. I get it back from them and now the AC is blowing hot air on the driver's side and throwing a code for loss of refrigerant pressure. Convenient that these things suddenly appear after I purchase the vehicle and then have it repaired. I swore off Ford a long time ago, and now I'm swearing off Chevy. Never again.
I was planning on buying a truck soon, and now I'm going to wait for one of the electric ones that aren't Ford or GM to hit the market. The "Big 3" auto makers have ripped people off for too long, I hope the EV revolution puts them out of business. GM should have never been bailed out. My wife's Hyundai, Kia, and Toyota never had issues like this. Done! Update: So I took the vehicle somewhere other than the dealership, and they told me that refrigerant was low.
They added dye and used a UV lamp, as well as a tool to detect leaks by pressure, and they said that they could detect no leak whatsoever. They even checked again a few days later (I waited until Monday to pick it up) and could find no leak and it was holding pressure. The mechanic told me that the leak is so small that it is undetectable, or someone deliberately removed the refrigerant... I asked why someone would do such a thing. His reply was, "to cost you more money." Hmmmm.....
Update: I've been going to Ferman Chevrolet for all my other needs. Worth the extra drive! They actually gave me a military discount to fix the AC that Dimmitt broke, and I didn't even ask for it! I don't even know how they knew I'm a vet. Anyway, while I was there getting part of the drive battery replaced I did some research. I found out that almost $2,500 of the brake modulator repair should have been covered by the Voltec hybrid warranty! So I went to Dimmitt to tell them they're idiots, and they agreed! However, a year had passed and they told me to screw myself and take it up with Chevy.
It took me 3 weeks of fighting with Chevy (and showing them their own warranty) before a refund was finally approved. If you look online, this is not the only case of this happening. Tell me how the Chevy Volt has been around for 10 years and the dealerships and corporate lackeys still aren't educated in their warranty!?! Or, is it by design? Either way, this Volt will be my last GM vehicle, despite Ferman being worlds better than Dimmitt. I'm about to drop 70K on a new truck, and I'm glad GM won't receive a dime! PS: I have a friend who had purchased cars and had them serviced at Dimmitt Chevrolet for decades, now she drives a Hyundai. She hates Dimmitt.
1 Updates & Rebuttals
Irv
United StatesFord or Chevrolet Are NOT The Problem. It’s YOUR CHOICE of these SLIME BALL CAR DEALERS!
#2Consumer Comment
Wed, December 08, 2021
YOU didn’t do your research, did you? Is it part of your life to choose merchants who show their hand in advance HONESTY and INTEGRITY are NOT part of their operation??? Let’s look at this Dimmit place. Buy a car there and they add close to $1250 in BOGUS, ADD-ON, PHONY FEES. Then you talk about how great Ferman is. Their website will tell you they add close of $1000 in BOGUS, ADD-ON, PHONY FEES.
Their scam works like this: They place a FAKE PRICE on a car to DECEIVE you into thinking it’s such a great bargain. They MAKE UP FOR IT by contrived BOGUS FEES with official sounding names to further DECEIVE the public! Do you really want to do business with scum like this? Is it any wonder they pulled this horse manure on you? It’s THEIR WAY OF LIFE! If this is non-warranty work, why in the world are you even considering going to a car dealer where YOU will be price gouged, treated like excrement and having unskilled parts changers (in place of real mechanics), touch your car???
The FRAUD and DECEPTION which lives like maggots on garbage is now in the shop. Get yourself an independent mechanic who has their own shop. You don’t need to be treated like this nor do you need to be constantly looking over your back to see who’s going to stab you with their knives of deception and dishonesty! A great independent shop has much better prices, fully skilled, real mechanics with many, many years of experience and ownership which will treat you with respect rather than a "MARK” for the next scam.
Don’t ever, ever again go to a dealership for non-warranty work. Not now or ever again. You deserve much, much better than wallowing in the stench of that low class of operation with an on-going smell which you will never get rid of=FACT!
