North Central Ford / Rockwall, Texas

Rating: ★

Auto Repair & Service, New Car Dealers, Used Car Dealers

Address: 1819 N Central Expy, Rockwall

Postal code: 75080

Phone: (972) 231-3491

At 46 years of age, I have to state this has been my worst buying experience ever. As a disabled veteran, and Pastor starting a non-profit to assist formerly incarcerated individuals to find work, I needed a minivan to transport these individuals. As a nonprofit, I had little money to make mistakes. I chose not to purchase anything from the smaller side dealers and thought it would be worth the little extra to purc... view morehase from a larger reputable dealer. I search for months in the greater Houston area. Not finding much I branched out to the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. I saw a Ford Windstar that caught my eye at North Central. I talked extensively with the salesperson over the phone about the vehicle for about two weeks. With assurance I was informed that this is the vehicle to buy. I then flew to Dallas to purchase the vehicle. I inspected the vehicle to the best of my mechanical ability and noticed the radiator resevoir was horribly brown. The sales person brought a mechanic over who took the vehicle into service but returned shortly and stated it just needed flushing. The sales person took me to autozone and I purchased the product for which the mechanic flushed the system. During the paperwork process, I was brought into the office to sign the finance paperwork. I asked them why have I been waiting for over four hours when I had already been financed with my credit union. They informed that their financing was better. IT WAS NOT! I then informed them I wasn`t here to finance but to buy. I found out later that autodealers often get points or kickbacks of some sort for financing customers. Not sure about that. I finally left NCF to drive the 4 hours back to Houston at about 7 in the eve (6 hours after initially arriving). An hour into the drive, the entire brake light system turned on so I immediately pulled over and called the salesperson and asked if I should return. He eventually called me back and said the mechanic said it would reset after turning the vehicle off. It did so I preceded to Houston whereby the lights came on again. A week later the vehicle severely overheated. Taking it to a mechanic to get the over heating and the braking system examined, he informed me the head gasket was blown, the radiator was corroded and possible water pump. I notified NCF for which they offered 500.00 on a 1200.00 overheating problem and nothing on the brakes (another 1157.00). I got the complete intake system done along with a new radiator but could not afford the water pump. The vehicle continued to overheat when the ac was turned on so I decided to then take it to Joey Meyers Ford. They said the water pump was failing and needed to be replaced. While Joey Meyers Ford really tried hard to work with me to repair the vehicle at little gain to them, I just couldn`t afford it any longer. I then called NCF and offered to return the vehicle and get something else. They said it was after the 3 day return policy and couldn`t accept it for which I said "I would have returned it when I was an hour outside of Dallas if it wasn`t for the salesperson telling me it`s ok" They did apologize but said it`s a used vehicle but agreed to give me 1000.00 for the van and sell me something else. That deal would have left me 4000.00 in the hold as I still owed 2300 for the van not to mention another eight hour drive to turn it in to them. After much regret, and needing to move on, I sold it to a mechanic taking a 3000.00 (total) loss and delaying moving forward with our nonprofit. This has been a major nightmare. I agree it was a used 3600.00 vehicle and NEVER expected it would drive or perform like a new ford, however I would have thought that such a reputable dealership would allow their rep to be tarnished for what amounted to so much for me but, but literally pennies for them.

kenhar / 11/22/2012

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