Hub Tire Auto Sales

DO NOT TRUST cars.com reviews. My review was taken off there, which explains why there are only 4 and 5 star reviews posted on the site. The following details my experience there, which you can no longer see on cars.com:



I m shocked to see so many good reviews here.....



I m a mid 20 something year old and apparently looked ripe for being taken advantage of. I went to check out a 2008 manual transmission scion tC here to be met with intimidation tactics. I enjoyed the test drive but it felt a little shaky when braking. I asked to take it to my mechanic and was told I could the next day, even though Marc told me most people don t do this (which I find hard to believe). Well I m glad I did. The mechanic found a laundry list of things that needed to be fixed on the car, with the repairs potentially costing $1000. Among the things I remember offhand were 2 lights that needed to be replaced, bad windshield wipers blades (the edges were coming off), and a tire with a leak (had been filled up the day before when I took it for a test drive and was low again). More seriously, and expensive, was the fact that the break rotors and emergency break needed to be fixed/adjusted/replaced. You could pull the emergency break all the way up without getting any resistance whatsoever, and considering e-break = park on a manual, that s a HUGE problem for me.



When I return to the so-called dealership, I find out the car passed inspection from its own auto body shop earlier the same month. How can so many issues go by unnoticed? Are people meant to see the sticker that says the inspection is good until 7/2014 and think nothing is wrong with the car? Marc seemed offended when I said that I either wanted the all the issues fixed or for him to drop the price $1000 so I could have it fixed after purchase. He told me that there couldn t be that many issues since it just passed inspection in his own shop. After that, he told me that someone called who was interested in the car while I had it at the mechanic (which he agreed to let me do the day before) and because it wasn t there a potential sale was blown. Next he attempted to give me a speech about how he wouldn t want me to learn a life lesson the hard way, that he has a good car for a good price and it will sell quickly so I shouldn t pass up a good deal or something like that. To be honest, I stopped listening halfway through. I was born and raised in Brooklyn and momma didn t raise no fool. I went with my brother to get his first used car, and this was before the internet was around and you could look up the car you want within a 100 mile radius of your zip code. I can tell when someone is trying to pull a fast one on me.



After the weekend, I received a call from Marc who asked where I stood on the Scion. I told him I was on the way to a dealership (a real dealership, not an auto body shop) to pick up my new car and I was no longer interested in the Scion. For a little more money, I got a 2009 VW Jetta with half the miles from a dealership. Oh yeah, and when I brought the Jetta to the mechanic and he found an issue, the dealership fixed it without question, and didn t try to strong-arm me. I couldn t be happier with my new car.



I hope anyone willing to settle with a car from this place insists on having it checked by their own unbiased mechanic before considering purchasing it.