At first, I would say their sales team is very professional and friendly. They understand what customers need and deal accordingly. However the whole experience of buying and servicing a car from them has been worse, stressful and quite literally harassing for us. My family bought 03 cars from them, Evoque, F-pace and a Velar. There is a safety issue in the Velar which neither Range Rover nor the dealership reached out to us to inform that there might be something of concern. We came to know this after risking our lives at 70mph on Turnpike and then when we looked up online, we called them to inquire about it. Nonetheless they said, they can get it fixed. So we drop our car at the dealership on 11Jan2018 and take a loaner. On 15Jan2018, I get a call from their service guy (we don't want to take any names) that everything is fixed. We went there, took our car. We just drove 1 mile and had to return to the dealership as the issue was not fixed at all. The dealership never bothered to check if the issue was resolved. They just replaced the part and gave it to us. We had to take the loaner again and go home. From then onwards I had been calling the service guy almost every other day. He never picks up the phone and never returns the calls. The car has been sitting in their dealership since a month now and no one replies. Finally, I get a call on 08Feb2018 (yes, almost a month later) that the issue is fixed and they offer to drop the car at our home (we live in Baltimore). We said NO. We will pick up our car because we were damn sure they will mess up again. We reach there on 09Feb2018 to pick up our car. When we reached there, the service guy tells us, "well, technically the car is not fixed and there is nothin they can do about it. Range Rover people themselves cannot figure out what's happening. Right now they just made some changes which will block certain functioning of the vehicle and therefore won't cause any problem." I was so angry. Can you believe it, after spending a huge amount on buying the car, all I get is crap, a non-functioning vehicle. I told them, I would like to test drive the car. And not to my surprise the day-light on driver side was NOT working. They did not even bother checking out the car if the car is fully functional or not before giving it to the customer. This is their level of service satisfaction guarantee. They could not even see that the headlights are not working in a brand new car. Also, the car was dirty on the outside AND the inside. WORST SERVICE ever. And the service guy tells me to take it home. I said, I am not that crazy to drive a car without one headlight and I am NOT taking back an undone car. I had to force him to make him understand this. Someone at the dealership (again, not taking names) tells me, "to be honest, I would tell everyone to buy Velar next year, and not now" At first, this means I made a mistake by buying this car now, I should have waited. It was so disheartening to listen to this. Range Rover-Is this the message you want your customers to get-to not buy THE AVANT GARDE RANGE ROVER? Am I wrong in buying this car? If so, I would be glad to get a full refund on the car-a car which was driven just 2000 miles before going in for service for over a month. I took my family to buy cars from them and I swear to god I'm never going to buy even a single thing from them. The car is still in their dealership since 11Jan2018 and I am pretty sure they will mess it again. I am just looking for a way to get out of this mess. May God help me because Range Rover certainly can not.
Sohit Gupta
Feb 11, 2018