We purchased a 2022 Cadillac Escalade, brand new, and so - kgriner
We purchased a 2022 Cadillac Escalade, brand new, and so far this has been our horrible experience.
First off, we want to give a huge shoutout to Barbara and the Finance team for being so responsive and catering. Unfortunately, that has been the only positive experience at Arrowhead Cadillac.
We have only owned the vehicle for less than six months and so far the following issues have occurred; the door handle has come off, the front bumper clips broke leaving my bumper flailing in the wind chipping the paint, the leather gear shifter ripped, and the splash guard in the passenger front tire was missing screws and every time we got onto the interstate my car made a noise similar to flatulence. And no….I’m not making this up.
We purchased the warranty so we weren’t too worried about it, except we should’ve been because the customer service has been awful. We have owned foreign luxury cars most of our lives and are not used to this kind of poor treatment… which is shocking because we paid the most for our Escalade. Our service advisor, Bora, has been absolutely awful. When we went to follow up with her supervisor, (the Director of the service department) Steve, in person he was fantastic however over email or phone calls we have gotten no response in 3 weeks.
Here is our story (in which I fully intend on forwarding to Cadillac customer service, social media, and heck I even found a Cadillac customer service PO Box that I’m going to print this out to and send to with our information on it).
First off, let me state that during the buying process we were informed that the dealer would either come and pick up our car or we would get a rental. There are never rentals available so almost always you have to rely on them to come pick it up. We have an appointment tomorrow and Bora canceled our pick up so now we have to drive it in. Little does she know we fully intend on talking to the GM while we are there.
We bought the Escalade knowing that the gear shifter was broken, and that repair actually went pretty smoothly. We had also driven on the interstate that weekend and noticed a sound coming from the wheel well and when we went to look some of the screws were missing so Bora’s team replaced them. When our parents were in town, I went to open the door and the doorhandle literally came out of the door and was hanging there by a thread. We called Bora to get it in and she did and we also requested that she check all of the other doors to make sure that the handles were secure. During the process of them checking the other doors, they felt the need to take out and uninstall my $600 Nuna car seat and toss it in the back of my SUV. Honestly, it looked like they wiped the floor with it it was so filthy dirty. Bora promised that it would be reinstalled but they delivered the car with a dirty car seat in the back and when we called Bora to talk about it she never called us back.
Then a few weeks later we noticed that the front bumper looked like it was coming off on both sides of the vehicle. We called Bora and she got us in to look at the vehicle. She stated that the clips for the bumper had broken and that it was going to be a couple weeks before they could get the proper clips in. A couple weeks went by we hadn’t heard anything so we called Bora and she said that unfortunately the technician that works on our car is going to be out on vacation and wouldn’t be able to fix our vehicle for two additional weeks. So at this point our bumper has been flailing in the wind for a month and in the process some of the paint was chipped off. So I want to say a month or more later we finally get the vehicle in and she fixed bumper clips but didn’t address the paint issue. Instead, when the bumper was tucked in (because you couldn’t see it anymore) she just chose to ignore it and ignore inquiries regarding the paint chips. At this point we were very upset and decided to pay Cadillac a visit in person. When we arrived at the dealership we were directed to talk to Steve who runs the service department. He was excellent at listening to our concerns and told us that he would deal with our issues from there on out. Well, we noticed the same thing happening to the back bumper and emailed him and called him numerous times and have not received a response in three weeks. I even sent video via email. Tomorrow we have a scheduled service for oil but again, for some reason Bora is still our service provider and she canceled our pick up service so now we have to drop it off in which we are going to take the liberty to talk to the GM in the morning.
We are transplants from out of state and don’t have a lot of support here so we really rely on our vehicles. Our Lexus RX that had 90,000 miles on it never had as many problems as our Escalade has….and when it went in for regular services we always got rental cars so we could go about our day not having to plan around people to come pick it up and drop it off. I can safely say that my husband and I will never be purchasing a Cadillac or an American car for that sake in the foreseeable future due to the poor customer service we have endured.
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