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"Responsive to my needs when repairing my"
4 out of 5 stars
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I've always found Swansons to be helpful and quick to respond from a flat battery needing a jump start when they sent an engineer to my home (at no charge). to carrying out a service in a timely fashion. always make you feel that you matter to their business. Not forgetting the free Recovery with your service makes it good value.

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"Lying, thieving bastards."
1 out of 5 stars
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DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY - THEY ARE FRAUDSTERS!! I have reported them to DVSA, VOSA, Trading Standards, Ford, FSA - and this is just the start. They falsely informed me my car needed work to pass the Mot that it did not need. The staff are rude, ignorant and disrespectful. The technicians are incompetent and dishnonest. They do not reply to messages. They will ransack your vehicle and leave it parked in a hazardous location. But they will soon find themselves in court! If you deal with this company you will regret it!

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"5 STARS!"
5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Service

"A complete shambles "
1 out of 5 stars
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I enquired about a vehicle and applied for finance. Great service. Told to reserve the car using the website. Which I did. Unfortunately had to cancel the reservation and contacted them immediately and requested refund. I was then over 5 days given various reasons why they couldn’t refund me immediately, from the managers need to press the green button to unreserve the vehicle to allow refund, To I’ll get the accountant to refund you. Then oh the company who administers the website needs to refund you. I am still waiting my refund. Unless you are 100% going ahead with a purchase , do not use this company or there website, otherwise your deposit will end up in the cosmos like mine.

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"Awful customer service no aftercare"
1 out of 5 stars
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Purchased a car which after 14 months developed an air bag fault. It was allegedly fixed but fault came back not once but twice. They were unable to fix the fault and I was made to feel a burden to them in the end. I still have the email from a so called customer service manager worded very unprofessionally. Paid over £150 in diagnostics which still didn’t resolve issue. All I wanted was to travel with my family in a safe car. £20,000 surely gives you that right, wrong! Swanson in the end we’re not interested in that what so ever and in the end tried to lose the paperwork with took over 7 days to find. Took the fault to a local independent who have fixed the problem and were also shocked at my experience. Would not recommend this company to anyone from my experiences and wouldn’t want anyone to go through what I have been through. Look elsewhere!!

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"Great staff"
5 out of 5 stars
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I live over 250 miles from swansons but Bought my car from them, from start to finish wonderful team who all work together to keep me informed and up to date with my car! I had video calls and extra photos upon request and not once was i in doubt about buying from them....fantastic company

"Best ever "
5 out of 5 stars
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I wish to give 6 ⭐️ unfortunately not ,because I have very good service form Michael, Jason and nick it was very helpful and quick service t,that’s what we said a good customer service.well done.

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"No complaints from me"
4.6 out of 5 stars
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As someone who has worked in the motor trade for over 20 years i know how difficult the job can be of selling used cars, however my 2 experiences of dealing with Swanson Ford have been great, and the 1 small niggle i had with the vehicle was quickly sorted.

"Avoid at all costs"
1 out of 5 stars
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I bought a 2014 car from Swanson Ford 6 weeks ago. From the point of driving away, there were faults with it. These were 'minor' as in the car was still driveable but annoying none the less.... until finally my gearbox went. It was a significant issue as it managed to split my engine cover in the process of breaking. When I took in into the garage they said it would be sent to Exeter for a specialist to look at the gearbox. The next day it was sent and I was told on the Friday morning, the gearbox had been stripped out. What they failed to account for however was that my car had a tracker fitted and the tracker showed the vehicle had been driven Friday afternoon. They had clearly been caught out in their lies so the current stage, I am a week on and my car is no further forward to being fixed. The customer service throughout has been shocking - from the Director to the Service Manager to the Sales Executive. Many occasions I have asked for call backs and been promised I would be called back by certain days//times etc and only on 1 occasion they managed this. Sometimes it would be days later and I would have to call again. I have been sold a pile of rubbish and the dealership goes hand in hand with that. I wish I had known prior to spending that much money so I'm writing this in the hope it stops one person from going in there.

"Kevin Quigg / Arthur Dailey"
2.2 out of 5 stars
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Worst experience in 32 years of motoring. I would never recommend this company, Swanson Select or Swanson Ford or anything else to do with Kevin Quigg. Absolute shambles of a company. What goes around!! Disgusted!! But I won’t forget!!!

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    Newton Retail Park Pottery Road
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