Buyer beware Gateway Car Connection

Waterloo IL

Description

Just a word of caution to those looking at this place for a truck. They have nice clean trucks but obviously don't go through them like they suggest. I bought a 2005 with 117xxx miles and it was clean and rust free. ran fine and I did all the checks I know how to do and looked at everything I knew to look for. noticed am oil leak so I called and took it back. Anthony was nice said they would look into it. The leak was supposed to be clogged PCV valve and it does appear that was fixed. In the time they had it they also said there was a fault code for the transmission and that they fixed it and wanted me to be happy with the purchase. Seemed nice enough although I had just filled up the truck for roughly $85.00 and they ran all the fuel out and said I would need to fill it to make it home. Hmm, really. Well it seemed to run & shift fine till a few weeks ago ( only had the truck about a month) then it decided not to shift at all. Took it to my local guy and he found the problem and asked me if it had been looked at recently. Said there were all sorts of codes ( he gave me a list of about 9 ) and said somebody had been in there messing around. well $350 bucks later it is fixed with bad selonoid and a service. now the AC seems to be acting up. WTF. If it were me I would run it down to a local station and have it plugged in and let them tell you what is all wrong. Don't get me wrong, you pay top dollar for one of these in good shape with no rust but i think people also getthe impression ( or at least I did) that at that price it has been looked thoughrly and would be ready for many trouble free miles. guess there is a reason they come with NO Warrenty!