8251, Report:
#5831
Posted Date:
Jul 20 2001
Rosen auto sales ..ripoff inferior Auto's, dirty business practices, deceptive liars
To make people award of what Rosen is capable of doing. Rosen on Greenbay Rd in Waukegan sold my fiance an almost new van for $19,000 with only $30. down. (They never gave him a copy of the contract that he signed). The car wasn't running as well as it should have been, so, we retu...
Entity
Rosen Auto Sales
Categories: Auto Dealers
8252, Report:
#5771
Posted Date:
Jul 17 2001
Acura quality not as good as advertised. consumer rip-off
Acura Client Services
Mail Stop 500-2S-2A
1919 Torrance Blvd.
Torrance, CA 90501-2746
Acura, Much Less Than What Was Expected
I bought an Acura Integra LS in 1998 from Jones Acura in Lancaster PA. I purchased this car specifically because the ads all said it was of high qua...
Entity
Acura & Jones Acura
Categories: Auto manufactures
8253, Report:
#5775
Posted Date:
Jul 17 2001
AAmco Transmission Gross Incompetence, Overcharging rip off deceit
Well, it all started when I purchased a used 1988 Pontiac Trans Am GTA last August. Beautiful car, fast, custom black paint and custom brushed aluminum alloy rims. It has a thundering 350 cubic inch V8 with Tuned Port fuel injection and a 5 speed manual transmission with a posi-trac...
Entity
Aamco
Categories: Auto Repair Service
8254, Report:
#5706
Posted Date:
Jul 11 2001
Eastern Auto Wholesale, Lockport Rd, Sanborn NY rip off scum scam artist
My son purchased a 92 Honda Civic from this wonderful guy. Since my son doesn't have credit built up the great guy financed him. As soon as we drove out the drive way it sounded like we were taking off ....of course there was a hole in the pipe.. He fixed it.
A week later we ...
Entity
Eastern Auto Wholesale, Inc.
Categories: Auto Dealers
8255, Report:
#1033979
Posted Date:
Jul 05 2001
Auto Rip Off By Eastern Auto
My son bought a Honda at this wonderful place... the owner made my son take out an extended warranty on the car for $1,000 since he was loaning him the money directly from him since he doesn't have enough credit established.
Well, let me tell you! As soon as we signed the contr...
Entity
Eastern Auto
Categories: Auto Dealers
8256, Report:
#5580
Posted Date:
Jun 28 2001
AAmco transmission crappy work
in march of 2000, i took my 1992 gmc sierra in for service. i paid $1500.00 for what i thought was a brand new transmission. little did i know. one week after i pick up my truck , it is back in the shop. adjusting so they say.
3 weeks later once again in for adjusting. the truck...
Entity
AAMCO
Categories: Auto Repair Service
8257, Report:
#1034232
Posted Date:
Jun 25 2001
Skerdlant's Mobil / Lou Skerdlant mobil auto repair rip off
We towed our 1986 Cougar into the shop. We told them that the problem was the catalytic converter(but not sure which of the 3 was the problem)They said the problem was the EGR valve and cellenoid.
While replacing that we were told the starter went along with the profile ignition...
Entity
Skerdlant's Mobil / Lou Skerdlant
Categories: Auto Repair Service
8258, Report:
#1033644
Posted Date:
May 24 2001
Warning!! TransPlant Transmissions: Never ever, ever, go there. Ruined car and no warranty
Memorial Day, 1997. It began when I brought my 1985 Nissan 300Zx in to Transplant to get it's transmission replaced with a Dyno tested, remanufactured transmission and torque converter. It came with a 2 year, 24,000 mile Nation Wide Warranty. When they took the transmission out, Tim...
Entity
TransPlant Enterprises, owner Steven Vollaro
Categories: Auto Repair Service
8259, Report:
#5110
Posted Date:
May 09 2001
Lythia Sun Valley Ford transmission Rip-off
In June of 1995 I purchased a 1994 Mercury Cougar. During the first year of operation the transmission had to be replaced. Hayward Ford originally sold me the car, and replaced the transmission. However, I have continued to have the automobile serviced at Lithia Sun Valley Ford o...
Entity
Lythia Sun Valley Ford
Categories: Auto Dealer Repairs
8260, Report:
#1751
Posted Date:
May 01 2001
Automotive repair rip off! Mulholland Auto *UPDATE: because of badbusinessbureau.com I was reimbursed my money *UPDATE 5-1
I took my 1987 Nissan Pathfinder to this guy at Mulholland Auto repair to work on my truck because it started running really rough. The guy had my truck all day and called when it was done. I did not drive my truck until the next day, my husband had taken it to the guy and picked ...
Entity
Mulholland Auto
Categories: Auto Repair Service
8261, Report:
#1032080
Posted Date:
Apr 28 2001
MIDAS in Humble Tx are thieves!
So it begins; Having tires put on my car the shop comments the brakes are worn and muffler is really rusty.Not a problem,I say,because midas did those afew years back and I have their'life time warranty'.Well to make it short that replacement warranty was going to cost me over 700 b...
Entity
MIDAS
Categories: Auto Repair Service
8262, Report:
#5006
Posted Date:
Apr 24 2001
Precision Auto car goes in to get one thing fixed, comes out with something else wrong!
On April 13, I took my car to Precision Auto on East Washington St. to have it tuned up and checked out since I had had a (very) few minor problems with it. The person running the shop (Larry) assured me they were capable of handling any repairs it might need. I dropped the car of...
Entity
Precision Auto
Categories: Auto Repair Service
8263, Report:
#1034095
Posted Date:
Apr 22 2001
AAMCO Transmission Indianapolis Indiana
I had (I say had, because since September 5, 2000, AAMCO Transmission at 4016 N. Keystone Ave., Indianapolis, IN has had my van) a 1992 Dodge Caravan.
The biggest mistake of my life was having it taken there. I had it picked up on a flat-bed and transported to the AAMCO since I ...
Entity
AAMCO Transmission Repair
Categories: Auto Repair Service
8264, Report:
#4936
Posted Date:
Apr 16 2001
JUNK CARS !!! - GERMAN UNLIMITED IS THE PLACE
FEB. 01, 2001 - BOUGHT A 1988 MERCEDES BENZ - 300E FROM GERMAN UNLIMITED IN GARDENA, CAL. PAID CASH FOR $ 6,000.00 AND WAS GIVEN 3 MONTHS WARRANTY ON ENGINE & TRANSMISSION ONLY. ALL INFORMATION REGARDING THIS CAR WERE PROVIDED VERBALLY ON THE DATE I PURCHASED THE CAR. WAS ADVISED TH...
Entity
GERMAN UNLITMITED ENT.
Categories: Junk Dealers
8265, Report:
#4606
Posted Date:
Mar 05 2001
Utah Car Dealership Turns Back Odometer on Used Cars and Sells Them As New!
I used to work as a mechanic for one of Utah's most successful new car dealerships in the early days of the dealership. This was in the early late 70's and early 80's. We had a lot of Iranian students with wealthy fathers who would come in and buy new cars on the strength of their f...
Entity
Utah Car Dealership
Categories: Auto Dealers
8266, Report:
#4598
Posted Date:
Mar 04 2001
modern and classic automobile (sell, buy, trade-in) garbage auto ripoff dealer thieves
i bought a car from them for 5389 dollars,which is a used 1995 geo prizm. on that day when i bought this car, i founbd out that the face of the cassette player is missing. so i asked the business owner whether if he had the face or not.he told me yes as a meaning that they had it.so...
Entity
modern and classic automobile
Categories: Auto Dealers
8267, Report:
#4358
Posted Date:
Feb 03 2001
Transmission Repair--How to Advocate and WIN!
I had a transmission serviced a while ago after the gears began slipping at about 66,000 miles on a vehicle that was approx. 3 years old at the time. While the themes were similar to some shared here, I was able to learn some valuable lessons regarding consumer advocacy and conflic...
Entity
Transmission Company
Categories: Auto Repair Service
8268, Report:
#4283
Posted Date:
Jan 26 2001
aamco took me big time * Consumer Advise
I have included what I sent to the aamco customer relations department. If you want or need any more info please contact me. Please let me know if i am way off base. Maybe I am wrong but as a consumer I feel that I never got my $1300 worth of repairs.
I will dispense with the ope...
Entity
aamco
Categories: Auto Repair Service
8269, Report:
#3897
Posted Date:
Jan 26 2001
Camelback Toyota, Inc. Daewoo for Honda Phoenix Rip Off * REBUTTAL Consumer Advocate harsh words for complainant
I brought a Daewoo, Nubria 2000 on October 2 from a very large dealership. I traded in a 1996 Honda Accord that was in very good condition and I gave a $1,500 down cash deposit. My credit is excellent.
The car cost started at $12,665. After leaving the Finance person's office, th...
Entity
Camelback Toyota, Inc.
Categories: Auto Dealers
8270, Report:
#4143
Posted Date:
Jan 07 2001
Bangkok, Thailand Jewellery Scam!
In Bangkok, Thailand there are infinite ways of getting ripped off. We experienced this first hand, and before you read this report, yes we know it sound really obvious, but at the time it is not, be careful.
We were innocently walking down a street in Bangkok, close to Cosan road...
Entity
Standard Gems Export
Categories: Jewelry Stores
8271, Report:
#3804
Posted Date:
Jan 07 2001
Mesatronics TV repair shop ripoff Frank Monteleon & Pete Zachman .. not worth a dam
A tech named Sam came out to the house from Mesatronics. Our complaint with the T.V. was the picture would go black and then come on, at the top it would have swirling colored lines, it was an intermittent problem.. He looked at it for awhile then said he had one like it and knew th...
Entity
Mesatronics TV repair shop
Categories: Television Parts & Services
8272, Report:
#3881
Posted Date:
Jan 07 2001
Auto repair fraud at Palm Beach Linc/Merc in West Palm Beach, FL
Greetings fellow Rip-Off Report readers. It's the car inspector again. I was dispatched by a major automotive extended warranty company to examine the air conditioning system on a 1995 Lincoln Mark 8 at Palm Beach Lincoln Mercury in West Palm Beach, FL.
The dealership had call...
Entity
Palm Beach Lincoln Mercury
Categories: Auto Dealer Repairs
8273, Report:
#3176
Posted Date:
Dec 14 2000
Just Breaks-Auto repair Arlinton, TX- Just Thieves
A copy of a letter written to Just Thieves (I meant Brakes)
I brought my wife's car into above mentioned shop on September 9th because she stated that the brakes began grinding the previous day. Later, I received a call at a little past 1 PM from
Tim who told me that both front ...
Entity
Just Breaks
Categories: Auto Mechanics
8274, Report:
#3952
Posted Date:
Dec 01 2000
Auto Extremes extremely screwed me * UPDATE- Consumer Advocate Advise OR * Picket them if all else fails
I purchased this car over the phone with auto extremes. Of 5560
jimmy carter blvd. the contract date was 1/24/1998. Every thing was done by phone and I was called at my place of employment and told the only car I could get qualified for was a 1995 ford mustang.
I was told they...
Entity
Auto Extremes
Categories: Auto Dealers
8275, Report:
#3941
Posted Date:
Nov 29 2000
AAMCO Transmissions is Shafting customers out of Warranty Work consumer ripoff
Back in 1998 I had my transmission rebuilt at AAMCO transmissions in Boca Raton, FL. I paid an extra 800 dollars for the lifetime warranty. Then in June of this year the tranny started to go again. I thought it would be covered but they pulled some stunt that I didn't have an ann...
Entity
AAMCO Transmissions
Categories: Auto Repair Service