Toyota Camry: How to complain against a Toyota body shop?

Gee Id hate to have you for a customer, you are pain in the ass. They
offered to fix it instead you go on a complaining spree, you are not
very smart. By the way genious the BBB could care less of your rant.
Well now that youve waisted all that time and pissed off your nice
dealer really bad either you go back to him hiding your ugly face .
Or waiste some more time. Oh false advertising, what kind of idiot
are you. So they screwed up. they are offering to fix it , RIGHT. But
now if you bring it back to the dealer you call a fraud. Well , if I
was him , Id be sure to fix you.

Why not give them another chance --- explain to body shop manager what they
did wrong -- that it is new car and you expect it to look new. I'd mention
it to the new car sales manager or owner too. Take some pictures before and
after. Doubt you'll have much luck getting them to pay to have it doen again
at another shop.

Mjj12 wrote: 
This is an independent store, talk to the stores general manager or owner.

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 19:10:23 -0600 (CST), net (mark
Ransley) wrote:
 

Keep in mind that:
1. They had a customer service rep assigned to the job.
He was required to inspect the car after the job. But he
just dumped the car with new defects on me. I asked at
another reputable Toyota body shop and they told me there
was no way a customer service rep with any degree of
experience could not notice that. Simply put, the original
body shop just wanted to dump crap on me.
2. I talked to so called manager. The guy does not have
any credibility as a manager and he is a total failure as
a manager. His written brochure promises something that does
not exist. He did not show any signs of dismay at the sloppy
job, His employees do whatever they want to screw up
the customer. This is a dysfunctinal organization. You do not
give another chance to such an organziation. Its structure is
totally broken.
3. The manager offered to "fix" the work but I verified what he
told me at another reputable Toyota body shop. He basically
offered me to improve the cosmetics and not provide quality
fixes. I am afraid that he will make more damages to the car.
The customer service rep at another body shop noticed just after
a few seconds pieces of trash painted in, an outline of the
original paint chip that proved that only a quicky thin paint
job was applied, places with uneven paint, etc, in addition to
the most visible defects like rough and clumsy oversprays
and clumsy attempts to clean it up before dumping them on me.
The so called manager at the original body shop pretended not
to see all the signs of incompetent work proving that he just
wanted to dump another sloppy job on me.
I cannot give the car back to the same body shop. It would
be an insult to any common sense.

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 20:21:57 -0500, "Wolfgang"
<net> wrote:
 

I talked to the so called manager and so called service director at
the dealership. I sent them the pictures too. Although they offered
to "fix" the defects, they had no clue
about quality work. Their answers showed they just want to dump
another crappy work on me. I tried to contact the owner many
times but this SOB never answers my calls or faxes.

You have no legal rights, since he offered to fix it for you. You have
little experience. There is no faud there, let them fix it and go on
with life. Quit being so difficult.

com (Mjj12) wrote in message news:<news.adelphia.net>...
 

Some people are simply incapable of doing quality work -- even if
they're trying.
I've often taken heart by recognizing that these people have to live
with themselves though you're just involved with them temporarily.
If all you say is true, they've taken a simple paint chip, and turned
it into something far worse.
It seems clear to me, that they're not going to pay for you to go
somewhere else for body work, and you can't go back there.
The new car is a major investment.
Just take it elsewhere and be glad you discovered the true natture of
that dealer with something simple like a paint chip.

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 04:34:46 GMT, someone who calls themselves
com (Mjj12) wrote:
 

Call your local television station or newspaper's consumer reporter
or ombudsman, and let them call the owner. (The local version of
having a "60 Minutes" reporter and camera crew show up on their
doorstep.)

Or pay a few bucks for a consultation and let a local lawyer send
him a polite "I've been retained to solve this problem - we can do it
the nice way, or the not nice way, your choice...?" letter. One of
those two methods will get their attention, and maybe some action.

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