See above.
Description of Work: I purchased my 2006 Ford Escape Hybrid used in 2007 from Andy Mohr Ford. My car had cut out in the middle of traffic with a warning light saying that the "motor" was overheating after having been driven over 30 miles several times. ''Motor" refers to the electric hybrid side of the car as opposed to the engine which runs on gas. In researching the problem online, I found that the consensus was that this was a classic sign of the coolant pump for the hybrid battery failing. I had already spent $1300.00 that month for two repairs. The first one I had no problem with, but I thought is was very strange that the car threw a brake caliper as I was driving away from the dealership after having had the tires rotated. Now two weeks later, I told the service rep what was happening, that I thought it might be the coolant pump and I was going to drive through the mountains from Indianapolis to Ft. Lee, VA the next week with my granddaughter and didn't want anything to go wrong. I had the funds to pay for a new coolant pump and was prepared to wait all day if necessary. About an hour later, the service person said that my car was ready. At seeing my surprise, he said that the coolant was just low, that they had topped it off, and would only charge me $42.00 for 1/2 hour labor. I was too shocked at the time to ask why the coolant was low. On Wednesday, 8/3, while driving through West Virginia on the way to Ft. Lee, the car started cutting out while I was doing 65 mph(the speed limit). This means the car would suddenly lose power and a light came on telling me that "it is safe to stop". Luckily, there were no semis behind me when this happened. I called Andy Mohr's service dept in a panic, because they had supposedly fixed the problem. Since I had given them most of my money for repairs, I wanted their assurance that they would help me through this since they had been supposed to fix the problem. They disavowed any responsibility for my problems and offered no help except to give me the phone number for Ford Customer service for the location of the nearest Ford dealer. I managed to get to a Ford dealer in Beckley, WV whose only hybrid mechanic was on vacation until Monday. I had no way to get the car to another dealer in another town. That dealer arranged for a rental car for me to allow me to get to Ft. Lee that night so that my granddaughter could go to her boyfriend's graduation from Army specialty school the next morning. The only two they had left were a Ford Flex and an Impala. The Impala was less expensive. We spent one extra night in eastern Virginia and tried to get back to Beckley in time to get a smaller, cheaper rental. Unfortunately, we didn't get to Beckley until the rental office closed for the day requiring us to spend the night in a hotel. The next morning, the rental company had nothing else to give me, so I drove the kids back to Indianapolis, slept in my own bed one night and drove back to Beckley the next day spending that night in a hotel. On Monday morning, I was at the dealer's at 7:30 and the car was fixed by 11:00, diagnosis: failure of the coolant pump. When I got back to Indianapolis, Andy Mohr Ford coincidentally sent an email asking me to join some kind of happy customer group. I replied that not only would I not join, but I would never have use any Andy Mohr company or buy a Ford again. A customer service rep named Debbie Patterson contacted me and asked me to call. She was very nice and listened to my sad tale patiently. I scanned and emailed the receipt from the Beckley dealer to her. I told her what my costs were: a. two nights in hotels @$100.00 each night(the cheapest I could find); b. $140.00 for gas taking the kids back to Indy and returning to Beckley; c. $45.00 for loss of fuel efficiency while in VA (the hybrid gets 32 mpg); d. $373 for car rental; e. $85 for food between Beckley and Indy; f. $53.33 x 24 hours of my lost time driving and missed work. Oh, yes-the $42.00 they originally charged me for "fixing" my car. I didn't hear anything for another 8 days and sent off a disgusted email to Ms. Patterson. She replied saying that the head mechanic had been on vacation that week. An email later that day said that the notes on my "service" said that they couldn't replicate the conditions I was complaining about and in noting that the coolant was low, just topped it off. The mechanic also said that he didn't have the advantage of the Beckley mechanic in seeing my vehicle right after the problem happened. The Beckley mechanic didn't see my vehicle until five days after the it happened as my car sat not moving in Beckley from 6 Wednesday until Monday morning! Although I have emailed Ms. Patterson twice since then, I have received no more communication from Andy Mohr Ford. Also, three people from the Beckley dealership called me to make sure that I made it home OK, but even though I called them in a panic, no one from Andy Mohr called to see if I had made it to safety. I had to use my mortgage payment and borrow from my grandchildren for the extra expenses. I don't want the cost of the coolant pump back as I would have had to pay that anyway, but I do want the extra costs. Hybrids are a pain to work on and, because they were really busy the day I took my car in, I think they just didn't want to take the time to find out what was wrong, jumping on the simplest solution at hand.