Auto Nation Honda Review: This review is meant to describe my car buying experience at the AutoNation Honda Dealership, in Des Plaines, IL. To whom it may concern, I purchased a Honda Civic from AutoNation Honda on Saturday, November, 25th. My initial communication with the dealership was online through their website. We settled on a great price via email and verbal communication through Kim, a sales associate at the dealership. The dealership was having its holiday special black Friday sale so we expected the delay in service but we were eventually attended to by our sales person Phil. First, I brought in a Ford F-150 truck for a potential trade, but selling or trading in the truck was not my main purpose at the dealership, just purchasing a reliable Honda Civic. The appraiser at the dealership spent over 90 minutes appraising the truck and crunching the numbers only to come back to me with an extremely low price at $4,5,00 under CarMax's appraisal and $2,500-$3,500 under Muller's Honda dealership in Highland Park, which only took them 10 minutes to get me a better price. The big point here was that if AutoNation had no intention of purchasing my truck I would have appreciated if they didn't waste my time on an already long purchasing experience. I arrived at the dealership around 1 pm and left with my New Honda Civic after closing hours around 7:30 PM. Next, two days later on Monday, November 27th my mechanic looked over my new vehicle only to find an engine oil leak. I reported the leak to my salesman at the dealership and he advised me to bring it in. The service associate Spencer said that it wasn't a big enough of a problem for them to fix or give me a rental car for them to look over. The dealership completely dismissed the problem with my new car. I bought a new vehicle in order to avoid dealing with these problems that shouldn't exist. I drove the car back to my mechanic so that he could look at the car again and it continued to leak oil. My mechanic advised me to return the car if the dealership didn't want to fix the problem. Friday, December 1st after many hours wasted trying to get the dealership to acknowledge and fix the problem, they communicated to me via phone stating that I had to come back to the dealership because they had lost my contract/documents for the car. I asked them to send me the documents via email of what they wanted me to sign but never received anything. I have all the documentation and proof of purchase that I received from the dealership. Next, I received several communications via voicemail and email stating how now they wanted to correct the leak/problem with my new car. To be honest, at this point, confidence and trust have diminished with this dealership. The whole point of this review is to document these events for me, warranty repair, and to others...buyers be aware... caveat emptor.
Carlos Manuel
Dec 12, 2017