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My Toyota experience

Uzer is coming to the twin cities in December.  Sometime in late December.  It will be damn cold then but his presence will warm things up I am sure.  looking forward to his visit.

In other miscellaneous things that i did today i got my car serviced.  This is another thing off my head.  I can relax for another 3000 miles.  But can you imagine I called my Toyota dealer to set up an appointment with him for an oil change and he told me that he doesn't have synthetic oil in his inventory and if i wanted synthetic oil then i had to provide it myself.  I mean this is just ridiculous.  Maplewood Toyota boasts to be the number one dealer in the state.  But i have been less than satisfied with their dealings with me.

When i bought the car the dealer didn't mention anything about the resurfacing that this car needed for working in harsh climates like that of my city.  When the whole deal was done and dusted then they charged me an extra sum for all that resurfacing.

They never provided me with any satisfactory after sale service.  They never offered me the car in my choice of colors.  During the whole process the only emphasis was on money and how my dealer is not going to bargain on anything at all.

So all in all i didn't have a great experience with Maplewood Toyota.  On the contrary one of my colleagues has bought his car from another Toyota dealer in the area and he is very satisfied with his dealer who has been fair in his dealings with him.

I would therefore not recommend Maplewood Toyota to any new customers.  I bought my car from them because the Honda dealer in Maplewood is even worse in his attitude towards new customers.  He is rude and disrespectful.  Anyway I was in urgent need of a car then and i had no means to travel around and shop at different dealerships.

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