San Tan Ford
About us
Financing available. Cost is determined by the job. Additional phone numbers - (888) 304-3853, (888) 273-2614. Additional business hours - Mon-Sat 7:00 AM-3:00 PM & Mon-Fri 8:00 AM-6:00 PM; Sat 8:00 AM-3:00 PM.
Business highlights
Services we offer
Auto parts, accessories, new cars, sells & repairing.
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Day 1. When I dropped it off they told me they would call when they had looked at it. They did offer me a ride to work and picked me up, but didn't ever call. I had to find the server writer to find out what as going on. They hadn't looked at it yet.
Day 2. They didn't call until the end of the day to let me know that they were looking at it off and on, but weren't having much luck.
Day 3. Finally call with a diagnosis at the end of the day...melted Catilytic converters. They weren't sure if replacing them would solve the problem though and didn't have any idea about how to test if it would. Instead they wanted to charge me another $250 to remove the valve covers and do a manual compression test. At this point I was tired of waiting and dealing with the incompetence, so I told them I would just pay the $99 diagnosis fee and take it.
Day 4. I took my truck to another shop and the mechanic, was able to do a simple test (removed some O2 sensors on the exhaust) within 2 hours to determine that the blocked exhaust was the problem and the truck would perform normally once that blockage was removed. They also noted that they could see evidence of an old coolant leak into the exhaust that had probably caused the problem with the cats. This coolant leak was repaired by San Tan Ford about 6 months back, but their tech never made that connection after looking at it for 2 days.
By the way...when I was at San Tan Ford for the coolant leak repair it took a week because the tech ruined the gasket as he was putting it on the first time and had to redo the work.
Up until this incident, I preferred taking my vehicles to the dealer for service, as they weren't much more expensive than other places, but like the fact they knew everything about the vehicles.
I called the dealer and explained the wobbling issue and their position was, basically, oh well, too bad, not our fault. There was no offer to fix it, look at it, or any other compromise on the situation. They steadfastly refused to take any responsibility for the problem! This is when they lost me as a customer forever.
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