Motorpoint Birtley Reviews Summary

Category: Used car dealer

Address: Durham Road Trading Estate, Birtley, Chester-le-Street DH3 2BQ, United Kingdom

Phone: +441912837864

Rating: 4.3
based on 199 reviews.

Customer Service

Pros:

  • "salesman didn't push but assisted in my decision making."
  • "The staff were all friendly and courteous."
  • "Paul was an absolute god send and couldn't do enough for me, not pushy in any way and pulled out all stops!"
  • "Good service from start to finish."
  • "Had a nice walk around to look at the cars spoke to a love young man in the pitch called Ben extremely friendly and helpful with great knowledge of cars wasn't pushy was just great to speak to someone who I didn't have to seek out myself."
  • "Absolutely brilliant staff, couldn't do enough for me personally."
  • "Excellent customer service from start to finish but my only criticism is that they could of been slightly more organised when collecting the vehicle."

Cons:

  • "Absolute disgrace of customer service therefore I will be taking my business elsewhere and I recommend others to do the same."
  • "Very disappointed with service."
  • "Horrendous to say the least...management the worst iv worked with..BULLYING all the time."
  • "Completely put us off as he didn't look very approachable."
  • "I have never encountered such a rude person in my life."
  • "Pressure sales. Car on display with a flat battery and staff knew nothing about the model."
  • "I wasn't approached by any member of staff at any point during what must've been an hour spent there."

Pricing and Value

Pros:

  • "Got my ideal car for a very reasonable price."
  • "Motorpoint is definitely the cheapest around and I can't believe the car only had 5k miles when I bought it."
  • "The car was as expected immaculate and at just £15,699 a real bargain."
  • "Bought my new ford fiesta from here this afternoon. Great car, low miles and pretty much brand new, and for an amazing price!"
  • "found a car we liked and loved it, i checked around dealers websites to find the car was over 2000 cheaper than anywhere else."
  • "Car was a great price with low mileage and great condition."
  • "I could not believe how quick it was to find the car I was looking for at an excellent price."

Cons:

  • "Pity about their admin fee on top of the advertised price."
  • "They refused to replace a cracked rear O/S light cluster to my Ford Ranger which had clearly happened prior to me taking delivery."
  • "The whole experience left us so so disappointed that I was lied to online about the car having service history when it hadn’t."
  • "Shame on you Motorpoint for letting a customer down."
  • "Unfortunately less than a year down the line I had a non fault accident which was not my fault and the vehicle was declared a total loss, the 'Motor Point Asset Protection' did not cover any negative equity."
  • "Recently bought new Toyota car from Birtley and upon picking it up noticed only 1 key to be told the 2nd one could be sorted through warranty NOT TRUE."
  • "Very disappointing to discover the car we were collecting had covered nearly three times as many miles as it was advertised as having."

Facilities and Environment

Pros:

  • "The premise were very clean and modern and even free supplies of coffee were provided."
  • "We visited just for a general look at cars. Plenty of customer parking spaces available."
  • "The toilets were immaculately clean."
  • "We had plenty of free coffee and it's gorgeous."

Cons:

  • "Absolutely useless. Car was delivered very late, stank of tobacco, got scratches."
  • "Cars in the showroom are locked, you must ask for keys to look inside if you wish. Very strange! Or should I say pushy tactics to get the salesman over!"
  • "The lot, which was ankle deep in water in places so I was soaked completely by the end of it."
  • "Called in yesterday, as a potential repeat customer. Deeply disappointed, asked to look at a hybrid car, it was flat."

After Sales and Support

Pros:

  • "Had a minor mechanical problem appear on the day I bought my car. I could have returned the car under the 14 day money back guarantee, however they got it booked into the specialist and main dealer to sort the problem, without any bother."
  • "The after sales support from Gina was brilliant and very quick to get us in the car."
  • "Also James who quickly sorted out another small problem we had."
  • "The handover specialist Aidan was again outstanding in his customer service."

Cons:

  • "I spoke to the dealer and they didn't want to know."
  • "Lost our first game of the premier league season due to these lot delaying things so much we didn’t have our player of the season."
  • "Totally unacceptable after-sales service."
  • "AWFUL AFTER CARE NOT INTERESTED IF CAR IS FAULTY AFTER SOLD."
  • "Not told the car we bought was a hire car, now faced with a £5000 repair bill and a warranty not worth the paper it's printed on."
  • "No way will I purchase another car from Motorpoint."
  • "Very poor service from the service department manager work away and can be away quite a while tried to get a tool kit for boot of my car as when they sold car to me it was missing eventually got the photos to him and now wont reply to my emails."

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