After reading the reviews for Austin Affordable Autos, I thought I better write one too. I drove onto the lot, had exactly what I was going to spend for a down payment in my pocket, and a good idea of what I was looking for. The salesman, Robert, came out to greet me after about ten minutes and my wife and I were looking at a beat up Piece of junk of a Chevy pick-up. It wasn't having a very good time on the test drive, smoking, and lurching, not to mention the interior was horrible. Robert was telling us that the truck was in sad shape, and it needed a lot of work. I moved away from it as we parked it. My wife went looking around the lot and we found a GREAT Dodge Dakota, right in our price range, perfect bed, super clean interior and even had a good cd player. Yet they had to jump it to get it started, and jump it to keep it running, meaning a new battery. They actually made a deal with us to fix the entire exhaust system after a subtle hint that we would look elsewhere. Did I mention it was either the exhaust or the rear window that they would fix, not both? Anyway, they did the repairs on the truck for us, I picked it up a couple days later. A week later we took the truck to California. It was the best running truck I have ever driven. Did awesome in the snow in December, both in Vancouver and Portland. To date it hasn't let me down not once. And as far as Austin's customer service, they have been pretty cool with us. Our payments are made on time, the truck is running great and its getting ready for a trip to Colorado in March. I expect the trip to go well. thank you Austin's for helping us add the tuck to our family.
Pros: They have a lot of cars to pick from, and they are affordable.
Cons: You get what you pay for, and that's the bottom line cause Stone Cold said so!!
more