No matter who you are, where you are. No matter how desperate you are for a vehicle. NEVER, DO NOT, DON'T LOOK AT, DON'T even THINK ABOUT getting a vehicle from JD Byrider. Here is my experience
I'm 26 years old and this is the very first car I brought. I had to my knowledge no credit, etc.
So I went to JD Byriders in Glen Burnie, MD on April 4, 2009. First of all, their car selection is EXTREMELY Limited. They try to stick you in the vehicle that THEY want you to have.
In my case, my salesman told me that my car had new tires, which when I left there and showed the car to my uncle it turned out that all of the 4 tires were Different in brand and name and one of the tires had no tread.
Next, the windows when you roll them up all the way, they make a noise like they are going to come right out of the socket.
There was NO window cleaner in the holder under the hood, so I brought some and put it in only to find out that, my window cleaner spray things don't work!!!
Next the inside piece on my drivers side door keeps coming off.
On the drivers side, there is something that has tore the carpet and it is sticking out by where you rest your other foot while you are driving.
The backseat is not secured down and theres nothing to secure it down with, they just took the seat foam or whatever they use for seats, covered it and sat it on the back where the back seat is.
They gave me a carfax on the vehicle said that it doesn't leak has never been in an accident, etc. FACT: It rained two days after I got the car, there is a leak on the front passenger side that causes the floor to get wet, and there is a leak in the trunk from the tubing.
Also, when you accelerate in the car from 20-50 there is literally and physically a vibration in the acceleration foot pedal.
I hadn't had the car for 2 days when all of this happend. How much of it is covered under my 36, 000 mile or 36 month warrenty. NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING AT ALL.
When I called my salesperson, he told me to call the customer repair number, and blatantly didn't car about any issue that I was having with the car
The manager called me after I gave them a bad review over the phone stating that he wanted me to be happy and that the good thing about all of this was that it could be fixed. WELL excuse me, would you be happy if you brought a car and not even 48 hours your car fell apart and YOU have all of the out of pocket expenses that need to pay for it?
Pricing & Financing. - The listed price that they have for the USED 2004 Ford car WITH 87890 miles already on it, that I got is $11, 995 after financing, the total I am paying for the car is $18, 649.
WAIT, but ur not done yet. PAYMENTS. Are NOT once a month, but a PAYMENT comes out of EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOUR PAYCHECKS UNTIL THE VEHICLE IS PAYED OFF.
Your payments BEGIN the VERY NEXT PAYDAY that you get FOLLOWING your purchase of the vehicle. You have NO Grace period. If you are even 1 Day Late - They WILL REPOSSESS YOUR CAR.
Now when you make a payment - IF YOU PAY BY PHONE, you have an additonal $5 dollar fee, everytime you pay by phone. So that's $5 dollar extra fee, 2 times per month which is $10, 10 x 12 months in a year is $120. 120x the 4 years you'll be paying that car off is an additional $480 SIMPLY to MAKE A CAR PAYMENT.
Your Payment PER PAYCHECK will rounded off be $200. PER PAY CHECK.
What's covered under your warrenty- BARELY ANYTHING. Not your cd player, Not your transmission, NOT your sensors, NOT your hoses, Not your componets, Not your axle shocks or springs, Not your control module, Not your gaskets, motor mout, NOt your catalytic converter, ETC NONE OF THAT.
Papers & Signing & Closing - I really didn't understand what I was signing when I went through this, but after showing the papers to my uncle, he was sooo furious.
They video tape you signing papers is what they call your closing. You sign saying that you waive your right to take them to court and a hearing. They make you sign a paper saying that you inspected the vehicle, They make you sign a paper saying that you will not relcoate out of state until the vehicle is payed off, that the vehicle cannot be sold, etc.
Here is where they got me, when I signed the document stating : "I understand that I have been provided the opportunityh to have the vehicle inspected by someone else and to drive and inspect the vehicle myself. I am not relying on any representations or oral statments of employees or agents of J.D Byrider in marking my decision to purchase the vehicle.".
I can't trade the car in, I can't sell it, and they aren't going to fix it. So I'm stuck.
Lastly my cousin checked the Kelly Blue Book Value for the car, and it is UNDER $3000.
Don't go to J.D Byriders. You'll get a junk car, and You'll lose your money, and they'll screw up your bank account like they did mine and then tell YOU to work it out with your bank.
Including their CNAC financers - when I called the manager about them screwing up my bank account from taking payments out automatically, he didn't care, infact he transeferred me to someone else!!!
DON'T BUY FROM J.D BYRIDER ITS A SCAM AND A RIP OFF.