Beware of high charges and terrible…
Beware of high charges and terrible sales team
I have recently had my Seat Alhambra serviced at your premises, and even though i thought the service was expensive for what it was, i was even more astonished when the health check which you carried out on my car totaled just over £900.00 to have all the "supposed" faults corrected by your company.
How can you justify your prices? for instance, you quoted £162.00 to top up the air conditioning, even though it is working fine. My local garage charges £50.00. You quoted £416.00 for the front suspension bush to be replaced, again i had this done at my local garage for £79.00. You quoted £234.00 to replace each tyre, a local tyre company quoted £124.00 per tyre fitted. You quoted £437.00 for front brake discs, when my local garage said there was absolutely nothing wrong with them. You also quoted me £424.00 to replace the front and rear brake pads, i have had them checked at my local garage and they do not need replacing. It seems to me that you are over charging your customers, with extortionate prices which are simply not justified, hoping that some of your customers who are less knowledgeable with the mechanics of the car will pay up. On another note a few days after this service, i was contacted by another member of your team, who, trying to sell me a newer (2018) Seat Alhambra. First of all it was very difficult to understand what he was saying. He told me the car, which was an excellence had all the extras i would need. We eventually agreed to come down for a talk and my wife and i were there for 1.1/2 hours and the Alhambra he was trying to sell me did NOT have all the extras he told me it had on the phone. When i queried him about this, he informed me it was a different car, and if i wanted to pay more money i could have the car with all the extras. I feel i was brought down to your premises on false pretenses and wasted 1.1/2 hours of my time.
This is the worst experience from a car dealership i have ever had.Head office has contacted me and told me that the Seat dealers are a franchise and can charge what they like.
June 3, 2019
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