Beware of certified used vehicle sceames!!!
I purchased a 97 Toyota CAmry from Fremont Toyota in the summer of 99. Within 4 days my CERTIFIED USED VEHICLE was dead. I lost all power and my battery was dead.
After a couple hours of my new car being in the shop, I was told I could come pick up my car. They said a fuse burnt out.
When my car would die, all of these things would take place..
Lost power to all windows, power locks, and over drive.
All my gauges went out, as well as my lighter.
My airbag warning light would come on, as well as servic engine soon.
And finally, my battery would die.
In a period of 2 years this very same FUSE blew at least 8 times. Most of the time i would be getting in my car to go to work and find it dead. Once it died while i was at a stop light. The final straw, was when i was doing 70 on a upgrade in the middle lane of a 3 way freeway - DEAD STOP - I thank God im alive.
The service department was never any help. They insisted that it was a simple fuse, and then some relay switch. I tried for SEVERSL months to get them to find the source of the FUSE and RELAY SWITCH going out.
There response everytime was that i would need to pay for the 8 hours of diagnostics needed to my electrical system, and IF it was covered under my warrenty when they found the problem, I would be reimbersed.
I bought the vehicle in Fremont, and lived in Auburn - 126 miles away. However no other Toyota dealership would service my car. The Service manager at Auburn Toyota actually said that he would not "touch this car" and told me to tow it to Fremont Toyota.
I was able to obtain vehicle records from Auburn Toyota that proved the Camry had the EXACT SAME PROBLEM before Fremont Toyota sold it to me as a CERTIFIED USED VEHICLE - Fraud!
Fremont Toyota still refused to help even when shown the paperwork and threatend with legal action. Basically I was told to trade it in and get a new car.
With my car dead at the shop and 126 miles from home and my job, I had no other choice.
To top it off, The 2000 Silverado i purchased from Fremont Toyota had no oil in the engine - Found this out after i got home. All Fremont Toyota could say about this was, you should have checked the fluids before you bought the truck.
I will never do business with toyota again.
To give you one more example of how much TOyota cares about their customers... THEY RESOLD MY OLD CAMRY AT AUCTION - WITH OUT IT BEING FIXED!
I hope that no one dies when the car comes to a DEAD STOP in the middle of the freeway: (
Learn from my mistake, stay away from Fremont Toyota.
And for Auburn Toyota,
My Camry was towed. 09 of a mile to their dealership, by a company the service guy told me to use. They billed my warrenty company the max amount allowed for a tow - $50.00. I called the same tow company two weeks later, and asked them how much it would cost to have my vehicle towed from the same place to the dealership, and they quoted me $20.00.
I now take all my business to Cheverolet dealerships and friends.
Katherine Ventura
Katherine
Bay Point, California
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