Ripoff Report Needs Your Help!
X  |  CLOSE
Report: #782

Complaint Review: AAMCO Transmission # 18572 - Pasadena, Texas Texas

  • Submitted:
  • Updated:
  • Reported By: Pasadena TX
  • Author Not Confirmed What's this?
  • Why?
  • AAMCO Transmission # 18572 2610 South Shaver St. Pasadena, Texas, Texas U.S.A.

AAMCO Ruined My Car and Then Had It Towed From My Home ! ! ! !

Show customers why they should trust your business over your competitors...

Is this
Report about YOU
listed on other sites?
Those sites steal
Ripoff Report's
content.
We can get those
removed for you!
Find out more here.
How to fix
Ripoff Report
If your business is
willing to make a
commitment to
customer satisfaction
Click here now..

I took my 1990 GEO Prism to AAMCO for a free estimate on 9-27-99 at 11:00 a.m. after noticing a few drops of transmission fluid on my driveway. The car had been running great for over five years. I just wanted the transmission checked to see what was causing this minor leak. The manager, Mark Sullivan, told me he would call me later in the day with the estimate and had an employee drive me home. I called at 1:30, 2:30 and 3:30 and the car had not been looked at. At 5:30 Mark Sullivan called me and said it would be the next day before he could look at the car. I left my car at AAMCO overnight and the the next day, 09-28-99, Mark Sullivan called me at 10:30 a.m. and said it would cost $1415.00 to repair my car. I told Mark that was outrageous, that my car was running fine, and that I would be there shortly to pick up it up. He told me my car had been taken apart and I was told he did not know when they would be able to put it back together. I said I had to have my car that day. Mark Sullivan told me I really should let them do the repairs while they had it apart. I said no. I would get another estimate. When I arrived to get my car it was still in pieces and I had to wait an hour and a half for it to be ready. Finally at 5:45 the car was put back together, but Mark Sullivan would not let me test drive my car. HE TOOK ME for a short test drive around the parking lot in my car and then DEMANDED a $325.00 REASSEMBLY fee before I could have my keys. It was "rush-rush-rush". "Hurry up! Pay me! Sign here and here and here if you want your car back". Faced with another day without a car I wrote a check to AAMCO and was also forced to sign their contract in three different places. (All this for a "free estimate"). As I got in my car Mark closed the business for the day and almost beat me out of the parking lot. By now it was after 6:15 p.m. and the weather was getting bad. As I was driving home I stopped at a traffic light a few blocks from AAMCO and my transmission siezed up in the middle of the road and everything on my car quit working. My car would not go in to forward or reverse and it was smoking and there was a distinct smell like it was burning up. It was raining and getting dark. There was no one at AAMCO to call so I had to have it towed to another shop and was told the transmission had burned up from lack of fluid. Either due to a SCAM, thinking I would be back for repairs, or negligence, or retaliation because I wanted to get another estimate and would not pay their outrageous fee for a simple gasket leak, AAMCO did not put fluid in my transmission after it was reassembled. Mark Sullivan, being an employed Manager of AAMCO and suppossed expert at transmission repair had to know the fluid had been left out. I am certain Mark knew what was happening when he took me for a test drive and demanded payment. AAMCO and any employees that put my car back together must have deliberately left the fluid out. Certainly the Manager, Mark Sullivan, knew something was not right when HE TEST DROVE the car after it was reassembled. My car had absolutely no mechanical problems before I went to AAMCO for my "free estimate". But the story does not end here, in fact it is just beginning. I stopped payment on my check to AAMCO for their bogus reassembly fee and began daily protest beside their business on 9-30-99. AAMCO put out signs saying I was a "crazy lady". The manager, Mark Sullivan, confronted me and said I was "taking food off of his table". He also threatened to sue me for slander. He ended the confrontation by making obscene hand gestures at me and storming back to AAMCO. I had to pay $1845.00 at another transmission shop to have the transmission replaced that AAMCO caused to burnup. The car was repaired satisfactorily within a few days. In fact, I was parking it near AAMCO during my daily demonstrations in front of their business. I called the AAMCO International Customer Service department and spoke to Barbara (1-800 523-0401, ext. 322). She made no effort to assist me. After reading other stories it is obvious she is just a corporate flunky with no interest in truly helping a dis- satisfied customer. Particularly if it goes against AAMCO's SCAM of 100% customer satisfaction. When it became obvious to them that I was not going to quit protesting they responded by having my car TOWED FROM MY HOME for stopping payment of the fraudulent $325.00 reassembly fee. My car was in my driveway on October 6 around 5:30 p.m. when we began hearing this awful squealling sound. By the time we got outside the wrecker driver had towed my car about seventy five yards down the street with the emergency brake on. He assured me this did not damage the vehicle (right!) but he would not release it from his tow truck. I did get pictures and did call the police but under Texas law AAMCO had the right to file a lein on the vehicle because of the stop payment for mechanical repairs. What is not in the law is that the towing actually has little to do with the stop payment. AAMCO and Mark Sullivan know they are wrong. They know they tried to SCAM me and are doing anything possible to prevent my daily demonstrations in front of AAMCO #18572. Due to their lack of professionalism and fraudulent business practices they have resorted to personal attacks on me to prevent me from protesting against their business. As of today, 10-10-99 my "free estimate" has cost me: $1845.00 for replacement of a transmission that was working great before AAMCO took it apart without authorization, and left fluid out when they reassembled it. $ 94.72 to rent a car after AAMCO towed my car. $25.00 stop payment fee. The way it stands right now I am going to have to pay $325.00, plus $60.00 towing fee, plus whatever the daily storage fee is (probably $10 or $15 dollars per day). All this because of an AAMCO RIP-OFF that ruined my car. Then had it towed from my home because of stopping payment of their fraudulent reassmbly fee. All this in a futile effort to stop me from demonstrating in front of their business. $1845.00 $ 325.00 $ 94.72 $ 25.00 $ 70.00 $ 80.00 _________ $2439.72 plus legal fees,plus time and emotional distress, plus personal expenses and inconvenience from being without a car due to AAMCO's fraudulent business practices. I am seeking help from anyone who has had a similar experience. I welcome anyone to join me with my daily picketing at AAMCO #18572, 2610 S. Shaver St., Pasadena, TX 77502. Or call Mark Sullivan at (713) 946-0286 and ask him what kind of businessman he is. If Mark is not there ask for Tim. Tell them what you think of AAMCO. AAMCO ruined my car and then had it towed after I got it repaired somewhere else. This is truly a RIP-OFF. At the very least don't let the same thing happen to you! Please Help! Luedene email: haus@ev1.net

Click here to read other Rip Off Reports on Aamco Transmissions

This report was posted on Ripoff Report on 10/06/1999 12:00 AM and is a permanent record located here: https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/aamco-transmission-18572/pasadena-texas-texas-77502/aamco-ruined-my-car-and-then-had-it-towed-from-my-home-782. The posting time indicated is Arizona local time. Arizona does not observe daylight savings so the post time may be Mountain or Pacific depending on the time of year. Ripoff Report has an exclusive license to this report. It may not be copied without the written permission of Ripoff Report. READ: Foreign websites steal our content

Search for additional reports

If you would like to see more Rip-off Reports on this company/individual, search here:

Report & Rebuttal
Respond to this report!
What's this?
Also a victim?
What's this?
Repair Your Reputation!
What's this?
Featured Reports

Advertisers above have met our
strict standards for business conduct.

X
What do hackers,
questionable attorneys and
fake court orders have in common?
...Dishonest Reputation Management Investigates Reputation Repair
Free speech rights compromised

WATCH News
Segment Now