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Old 04-27-2016, 12:35 PM   #14
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I had an awful experience with them. Have gone into great depth on it before in another thread. Short of the long, I had an issue with my transmission (There's a TSB for it) brought the TSB in, had video of it happening, took a tech on a test drive, etc. Had all my shit together for it. They blamed it on me driving the car improperly as well as the mods on my car (cat back, coils and wheels) They refused to work on my car because the mods were causing the problem (Even though I had gotten a brand new, bone stock car on the lot to do the exact same thing). I got in touch with Corporate, took me a long, long time. And ultimately, they caved.

I was treated like absolute shit by the service manager there. Probably due to my attitude of "There's a problem here, it's wide spread, I fall within the VIN range and there's a valid TSB. I'm not going to stop bugging you until you flash the new TCM logic for me". I wasted a lot of time during that process, and it genuinely made me want to get rid of the car. Thank you very much for that, Guelph Toyota, I'll always remember that, and in the future, when friends and family of mine want to go to you to buy their new car, or get their service done, I'll be sure to steer them somewhere else. Not to mention the one tech I dealt with during the diagnostic drive flat out said "You don't know how to drive the car". You're also an idiot who knew so very little about the car, it took all I could do to not let you know that.

Then, it took them almost 2.5 hours to do an oil change and a recall thing for me. I had already rectified the recall on my own, so really, all the had to do was check to see if one plug was connected, then do whatever paperwork there was to do and send me on my way.

Sorry, guess I'm still very bitter about that experience.

I don't know if Heffner is better, but they're not Guelph, so that's good enough for me. I suppose Cambridge may be a bit closer for me, but we'll cross that bridge when we get there.
Flip side in London:
Took my car in in September and showed them the TSB for the window freezing and door stripping issues. My vin was included in the TSBs and I told them I understood that it was not a recall but would like to have it done before it started freezing outside. They said no problem and ordered the parts. Two weeks latter they called and said the parts were in and I could bring it around any time. Dropped by a couple of days later and 45 minutes later drove away with al new window stripping, guides and switches. They also filled my windshield washer tank and checked all the fluid levels for no charge.
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