Volkswagen of Garden Grove

Second car from GG VW, worked with Chris Kelly who was very responsive and understanding of our needs. Love the buying process at GG VW , makes buying a quick process where most can be done remotely. Love the Jetta GLI. VW has a customer for life now

BEWARE The Manager Fred Ward is very contradicting, , a sweet talker, manipulative and overall very unprofessional. Initially,we walked in to turn in my leased vehicle. We already got the inspection done and the quote and knew our numbers through VW Credit. We honestly weren’t even considering getting into another car because of the bad experience we had at the Murrieta VW where we also got taken advantage of. It’s fair to say we had a pretty bad taste in our mouth. We sat down with Fred Ward and Gary Wells, who seemed to be very transparent at first and very convincing by being very empathetic and understanding of what brought us in initially. When I leased my car 3 years ago, Amanda White who used to work there took advantage and never applied the extra 35000 miles I requested, and added a window tint when it was supposed to be added for free. Apparently dealerships are known to do this to cushion their commission. I reached out to VW numerous times during my lease to set up an appointment for my free tint and I got the constant runaround. After numerous attempts to reach them, they avoided me. It felt off, so of course I double checked everything and realized I was charged for an actual tint. I tried to sort the matter with Vw but was told there was nothing they can do. Fred offers to buy the car for 10k when the car payout was a little over 11k with a rebate of 500. Sounds great at first right? We would soak up a little over 1k and get into a new car with payments under 500. WRONG. We did our homework prior and had been taken advantage of twice. We knew how to properly calculate the numbers regardless of their alternative motives. We asked what’s the actual deal added to that and Fred said the rebate of 500 was the refund for the tint for the new deal he was offering. We asked for a full refund for the tint which he said he would make happen as long as it all checks out, not for you to claim the rebate was the refund, which is wrong. Fred charged $14, 574 as the trade buyout instead of the 11k he discussed during our breakdown. We’ve yet seen the due bill for the tint that he claims had an expiration date of 30 days. We saw a paper for 5 seconds before he piled more papers on it. We decide to not go through with the numbers he proposed because it was obvious they were screwing us over and suddenly the demeanor changed. He became irritable, very defensive, and honestly made it impossible. He also initially claimed if we don’t agree on a deal, “no hard feelings.” Also, the liability forms we needed to sign after turning the car in...he responded, “technically I don’t owe you guys anything,” I made it clear we weren’t leaving until we got a receipt and I signed the final turn in paper. He finally gave us the papers. 2 emails. 3 calls to the dealership. Text messages between Gary Wells and all we keep getting is the runaround. “He’s in a meeting.” “He’s not in today.” Through the text messages between Gary Wells, he says he will speak to Fred and then after following up we hear nothing. We finally reach Gary Wells who denies ever speaking to Fred and decided to claim we weren’t speaking to him and that after a few messages it was Chris Kelley who took over the conversation. If that was the truth, why did that person never introduce himself in the messages as Chris...We will call back Monday since he’s coincidentally not in the office. Fred promised us he would have this all figured out the next day at 8am. By Monday, it will have been 5 days. It should not be this difficult to get professional assistance over a matter that is clearly the dealerships fault. It’s clear we probably won’t get the refund because of how they’ve been dealing with this situation. Please take this review seriously. All in all, the new car lease they tried to get us in, with the manipulated numbers, they still were charging us for the car over mileage which was actually 1k over what Vw Credit quoted us. Mind, VW credit said if we get into a new

I have had a long relationship with VW of Garden Grove servicing our family VWs. Their service is top notch and I recently shopped around for a used Golf TDI. I found some online and tested 3 different ones. I am not going to comment too much on other VW dealers, but one gave me a high price with no room for negotiation and I though like they could do a better job prepping the car for sale. The other VW dealer I visited took me for a test drive in a car that lit up with a bunch service lights on the dashboard (including service engine soon) while we were testing it. If this is their idea of 112 point Certified Pre Owned Inspection then I say: No, thank you. I will look elsewhere. So, I thought, why not ask at the place I know from service? I did, and not only they found the right car for me but I also purchased it at the price I was happy with. Not to mention, I had the service I know inspect it and put a 24 month warranty on it. Could I ask for more? Some names to praise here: Jeremy Jones, the sales manager who found the right car for me, Amanda White & Maaz Tousi who handled all the paperwork quickly, and my long time service manager Gene McCoy and his service team. Thanks for taking a good care of us!