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01-06-2010, 09:45 AM | #1 |
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Service Surveys (moved)
Decided to move this to a more popular section to maybe got some opinion. I was getting no love in the maintenance and service section.
What is the point of these surveys you get to fill out? You go to the dealership, then you get an email from the service adviser that day warning you of a survey coming and to fill it our favorably. What if your adviser did a great job, but other spects of the service department are lacking? He tells me, although not all questions partain to him personally, but all effect his well being. Kind of a lot of pressure. If I have issues with my dealer and I can not be honest on a survey rating there performance then what is the point? |
01-06-2010, 09:49 AM | #2 |
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you should absolutely honest with your survey!
there are multiple questions and fields where you can praise your SA but criticize the dealership dont get bullied into writing a good review if you werent satisfied. they try to make you write good surveys because each time they get a bad survey, BMW NA gangs up on them and the dealer gets in trouble. if they get enough bad reviews, the dealer can lose their license to sell the brand
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01-06-2010, 10:01 AM | #3 |
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That is why it is like a double edged sword, if I am honest I have to go back in there and these people are taking care of my car. I don't want any problems. But on the other hand the service sucked and they are asking my opinion and the only way to change things is for people to give honest feedback. I emailed back the SA and explained my situation and told him I will not lie , and let him know my feelings about my visit.
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01-06-2010, 10:03 AM | #4 |
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If you are unsatisfied then tell the SA why, and ask who you should raise your complaints to. They should make it right. They want all 5's on these surveys like you wouldn't believe.
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01-06-2010, 10:06 AM | #5 |
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Unless BMW has changed their methodology the survey results are actually pass/fail. If your SA was great but the technician screwed up, an unfavorable survey will hurt the SA. You also have to distinguish between being unhappy about a BMWNA policy vs. something the Service dept did/did not do.
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01-06-2010, 10:10 AM | #6 |
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Maybe I am overreacting a bit, you guys be the judge. A couple of things, I bought my car brand new a couple weeks ago, a week after ownership I notice my exhaust tips are unaligned. So I decide to call the dealership to make an appointment, I call for over 40 minutes trying to speak to a person, not a machine. I can never get a SA I always directed to voicemails. I finally get a human, they tell me they have just closed, I then proceed to make an appointment for the next day, explaining whats wrong with my car. I show up the next day, they SA looks and says, okay we can't do anything about this today, you are going to have to make an appointment. So,I made an appointment to come in, take time off work to have someone tell me to make an appointment and come in again? That doesn't seem right. Then when I pick the car, they run it through the wash, it comes out, with water spots all over, the car was clean when I brough it in, then they decide to take it in for a wash and don't know how to try it properly. I did not have my absorber so I asked the porter for a towel or something, I said they had none, and he could run it through the wash again if I wished. I said no thanks and left, went home and wash my car. So you tell me if I am overreacting.
I used to have an Infiniti before this and there service was great, I always thought BMW was a step up, guess not. |
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I just did one for my car and I praised the SA really highly because he's great but I asked them to contact me and the contact email wanted to know what was wrong with the dealer and I replied nothing and that the service and especially advisor was great and even mentioned by name how great he was. I then went on to say that the problem is the car and that it is BMWs problem that I cannot stand, to which I have had no reply.
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your SA sounds like he sucks too if he is jerking you around like this, I would have NO problem giving them an awful survey, and i would switch dealers too did you ask them not to wash your car?
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FYI..almost all exhausts on the 335i are slightly misaligned. Now I agree it's crazy to schedule an appoint only to be told you have to re-schedule another one. I would not get worked up over the car wash unless they damage the car. |
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01-06-2010, 12:08 PM | #13 |
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My car came with the BMW Performance Exhaust installed at the port, this is where the problem occurred, the car being wet is not a huge deal, but I did take off work in the middle of the day at 2:00pm for the only appointment to be told, I would have to make an appointment next week and then take off work again. I didn't realize you need a consutation before a service, its not plastic surgery lol
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