Tomball is the original Keating Dealership (Aggieland Chevy, Mercedes, Hyundai, CS Nissan, Port Lavaca etc) you're not getting out of there without some add on. Keating also owns the GPS company that they won't sell a vehicle without.
I've bought three vehicles from Henson in Madisonville (prior to them selling) and had good luck. Also bought a new truck from Joe Meyers after going to look at a used truck. Used truck had been smoked in and I said no deal, salesman felt terrible as he didn't know and tried to find me a similar used truck. I found a similar new truck listed in Austin for about $2,500 more than the used (but 9k off sticker), handed him a $20 bill and said thanks for being honest, go get lunch on me but the wife and I have to leave as we had prior obligations. We stopped to eat lunch and he starts blowing up my phone. I kindly text him that we were eating and I'd call him afterwards. When I called he said he and the manager had found a truck identical to the Austin one at another dealer (Tomball) and would match that Austin's price and transfer it in. It took about a week but he kept his word and I got a new truck for a hell of a deal as the Austin listing had every rebate known to man applied to it that I didn't qualify for. When I went to buy my next truck I called him but he's now selling Land Rovers.
There is a salesman at CS ford is still waiting on me to come back to sign papers on the truck I'm driving now (that I bought from Team) because he refused to take the GPS and a tire warranty off of the quote. This truck was the easiest buy I've ever made. I'd left CS Ford the evening before laughing at the salesman's brazenness and found an almost identical truck but it actually had two features I really wanted that the CS truck didn't (roof lights and bed lights). Clicked the link on Teams website to have a salesman contact me. About 30 minutes later (7:30am) I get a call, says yes truck is here. I said I've got xx for a trade in and I want $38,500, I'm willing to pay $61 for your truck, finance it for this long with this much down….he replies that all sounds fair to me, let me verify the numbers and I'll call you back. Calls me back about 8:05 and says "if your credit score is as good as you say it is it's a done deal". I went to pick it up around 3, he comes out and takes my keys and I go to finance. Thought it was going to be a fight in that office, guy hands me a sheet of paper and says would you like any of these options (gap, oil changes, ext warr) I say no thanks, so he says sign decline under them, then hands me the finance slip and it was a full 1.5% lower than any term I'd seen and he said your credit wasn't what you thought.
Bottom line is a vehicle is a tool and they don't make just one of them. I'd try Team, Bud Cross or Henson before I would ever walk into a Keating dealership.
