Cate S.
What a horrendous experience
What a horrendous experience. On my first call, Danny assured my repair would begin once the estimate was done. At intake/drop off, I sat in seat showing dashboard alarms and steering wheel as my primary concerns - minimal body damage. I checked in at 1 week - 'it's in the paint shop' .... 2 weeks, 'it's in the paint shop' ... 3 weeks later.... 'missing parts...' After almost 4 weeks, 'ready.' I start it up and the all alarms are still going off! Lots of scrambling, computer interrogation and resets, 'all fixed.' I start to drive out and realize the steering wheel is still skewed to 11 o'clock! Response? 'Looks like it needs alignment....' Off to an outside mechanic to replace a bent wheel arm and realignment. 'Ready' again. Apparently, there've been a lot of test drives - my quarter tank is on fumes. Straight to gas station and the gas nozzle won't go in. Blocked. (Damage was at left rear tire below gas tank.) Back, again to 'charmed' again by the rude and sarcastic Danny who passive aggressively delays my request for manager contact information by wandering around the office from room to room, fiddling with the printer etc. When I ask if she could just write the number on a piece of paper, she snarls she is not at my 'beckon call,' scribbles on a post-it and shoves it at me. By now the incompetent manager Joseph is back at my truck saying, 'never saw that before.' He comes back later and tells me it's full of ice. Who knows how these clowns managed to get water into my gas fuel access and then freeze it. His solution? 'We'll just put a heat gun on it.' When I questioned, 'Heat gun... gas tank?' he snarked, 'we know what we're doing!' Really? My truck disappears again, later to return with Joseph's dismissive report that he used an awl to dig the ice out.... Once Caliber had my truck captive, I got nothing but sarcasm, impatience and rude dismissive behaviors on top of incompetence. No acknowledgements or apologies ever for incredibly poor service. I later spoke to a mechanic friend who asked if was a different local Caliber shop he had suspicions about. When I said, 'Owings' he said - 'Oh, even worse.' AVOID CALIBER AT ALL COSTS EVEN IF YOUR INSURANCE COMPANY SENDS YOU THERE. YOU HAVE A CHOICE AND CALIBER IS NOT A GOOD ONE...BE WARNED.

