I am very disappointed with the dealership. - Sophia
I am very disappointed with the dealership. I trusted the dealership with my 2017 rogue but last year when I purchased the Altima it has been one problem after the other. On 4 separate occasions I brought the Altima for oil change, but each time the technicians did not update the service reminder in the car and they also didn’t put updated mileage stickers with the next service due dates. I complained each time hoping things would change but no the situation continued. The most recent experience was on January 24th of this year when i took my car again for service and the same thing happened. I then called to speak with one of the managers Debbie but she wasn’t available when I called. Natalie was the person that answered the phone, when I tried to explain that I wanted to speak with Debbie regarding the issue that I had with the last oil change because there was no updated sticker in the car and that a car service reminder message kept popping up on the dashboard in my car. Natalie cut me right off and said she was also a manager I can explain to her what I wanted to speak with Debbie. This caught me off guard because I wasn’t expecting it and I just said okay. I started telling her what the issue was and she basically trashed what I had said and very rudely told me that mistakes do happen and that I should stop complaining because they hire apprentices who are not experienced, they are the ones who made that mistake. I reminded her that this is the 4th time this is happening and I am concerned. Without any remorse or apology, Natalie then said give me your address and I will send you the sticker in the mail mistakes do happen and she hurriedly dismissed me from the phone. I had chills down my spine as I never expected such a bad reaction from an employee to a customer. I then contacted Dan to complain about the ill-treatment I had received from Natalie but he listened and asked me to bring back the car and he was going to make sure that the issue was resolved. With the 3 previous incidents I had complained to Dan each time as well, so he was well aware of the background and empathized with me. I did not take my car back to the delearship because I know that nothing was going to be done differently since this had been the 4th time the same thing happened. So last week I received a sticker in the mail from the dealership as Natalie had promised. The sticker has the updated next service date of January 24th, 2024. I could not believe my eyes when I saw that, so today I texted Dan and told him about the sticker and I even sent a picture of the sticker. This is very bad customer service, I will not be taking my car back to that dealership again, I will look elsewhere. The rudeness of employees like Natalie chases customers away, it is important to understand that if you are serving customers you don’t bring your personal misery to work and take it on customers. This behavior is unacceptable. In the message I sent to Dan today I told him that the dealership is charging customers regular fees on services for substandard services performed by unqualified and unsupervised apprenticeship students who don’t know yet how the work is done putting unsuspecting customers like me at risk. I have written this review as feedback especially to Natalie and the dealership and also warn other customers of what is happening at the dealership right now with the apprenticeship students messing up customers’ vehicles. I am not trying to discourage anyone from going to Kitchener Nissan, but I am just informing others of my experience with the dealership and who knows it could be your experience as well tomorrow. I am definitely escalating the matter to Nissan Canada to investigate this and stop it before worse things happen to customers after their vehicles are messed up by the students. I have requested to Dan that I would like to speak with the owner of the dealership, I will wait and see if the owner will contact me.
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