Filing a complaint against manager Stephen J. Every time I bring in my vehicle at this dealership I notice a new employee has manhandled my car. Once I witness an elderly person with a mechanical smock approaching my vehicle to drive the car to the garage station in the back, this elderly man has large sharp nails like a woman, as he opened my vehicle door his nails scratched my door panel.
This is the dealer where I bought my Volvo originally from located at Hassel Volvo of Huntington, 345 West Jericho Turnpike, Huntington, NY 11743. This is the only dealer I made my yearly round of maintenance schedule since 2006. I could not travel farther or trust another dealer on long island fearing the same shenanigan will be practice with a different dealer. The year I was contemplating which car should I buy from but Hassel of Volvo advertisements said and I quote “buy a car from us with hassle free”?
The garage area is in the back of the facility, a valet attendant brings my car from the back parking lot to the front; this particular individual is a male Spanish decent damaged my car in so many ways I can’t figure out why and what is his vendetta towards me. The driver seat has been obliterated due to constantly punching and striking the seat so many times after every visit to the shop. All this happens while I waited in the lobby of the shop. Once this obese Spanish has become more blatantly brazen at another interval he damaged the driver side by denting a small hole in the outer parameter of the door panel. At that time I complained and the dealer repaired the incident with no charge.
Not only the parking attendant has sabotaged my vehicle but also someone inside the garage area a mechanics, I don’t know how many are involved? Gradually as time pass by I find newer damages to my vehicle. Nobody uses or drives my car except me. Many damages are not in plain view but hidden inside the vehicles structure. Once I was cleaning the interior rug surface with a vacuum and I had to move the seat recliner all the way forward, to my amazement I found another damage part of my vehicle someone has used a sharp object to cut my vinyl’s cloth about two inch deep. I complain they promise and they eventually rescind their word. Another example listening to my radio playing music the sound from the speakers section resonate is distorted after visiting the shop for repair. Someone has punctured a hole in the speaker section that is why the sound becomes vibrates. Also I find many black smudge in and around the linen cloth of the interior of the vehicle what happen they stop wearing disposable gloves in order to save money?
I am beginning to see an old pattern and it has awaking me from a stupor, I notice service department check-in my vehicle and someone drive the car to the back parking lot and it just sits idle there, after a couple of hours waiting they will bring my vehicle up front from a washed and cleaned but no mechanical repairs has been done. I don’t have any knowledge about automobile mechanical engineer so when the service manager says the problem has been solved I am going to take his word for it. After I leave the service area the noise from the engine is still present.
How and why the service department sabotaged my vehicle so they can siphon more money from me. The vehicle computer chip was altered first and then a mechanical service personal has loosen the mechanical belts on my car, if mechanical failure occurs it would not register on my dash-board. For almost two and half years I been complaining about an odor sipping out from the engine, in order to mask the original source someone placed a small pieces of plastic nylon on the engine and when the engine heats up the nylon would melt and releases an odor similar to an engine failure. I also would explain to the service clerk beside the smell I heard a noise that was not there before, again they would say the same thing “it nothing there or we repair the problem” which they never do.
So after returning from my six month vacation in 2011 I took my car in at Hassel of Volvo for mechanical failure on the road. Steve J. Ran a diagnostic check and in conclusion he estimated that my car needs two replacement parts (enclosed copy of the document). The total cost for the two parts including labor and taxes amount to around fifteen hundred dollars.
I rented a vehicle from across the street, returned the next day and wouldn’t cha know it my car is still parked in the back parking lot nothing has been done. I wanted to cancel my repair service at first but Steve refuse to return my vehicle and we had a loud argument than I said “show me the two parts you order yesterday” Steve had no answer and that’s when I exploded in a rage, I demanded my car back but before he handed my vehicle key he force me to pay $129.00 for diagnostic check.
I took my car to another state, for another diagnostic check and in conclusion my vehicle only needed a new battery and the total cost was less than three hundred dollars. One problem solved now I wanted to be sure about my preceding suspicions about the smell sipping from the engine I took the car to Volvo of Stamford in Connecticut. I was correct the engine had a failure and it was not registering on the dash-board the engine needed replacement with two tensioner belts. This was not a normal of wear and tear; in fact this was incapacitated by the mechanic’s from Hassel of Volvo in New York to exponentially deteriorate the vehicle value. As I was double-checking the new part on the internet I stumble upon a new data from Volvo recalls, it turns-out the parts Steve J. Was issuing me was in fact a free of charge due to Manufacturers recalls.
Do you now understand why no one trusts a mechanics anymore? I feel sorry for the owner of the establishment because people like this are allowed to have a position by chasing good customers away.
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