🤝 List of honest dealerships for Ford Maverick buyers

[glpuckett]

Hello all,

After seeing story after story of our fellow forum members being screwed over by dishonest, trashy dealers, I've decided we should put together lists of positive, honest dealership experiences. The kinds of dealerships that provide you with a decent experience, and sell you the truck you asked for at MSRP.

Hopefully this will be a helpful resource to people struggling to find a decent deal, while also rewarding the honest business practices of respectable dealerships by convincing more people to go through them.

Here's mine, the Larry H. Miller dealership located in Draper/Sandy Utah. If you live in Utah, or in the neighboring states, and are having a hard time, go through these people. No markups on customer orders, they're willing to work with you to the best of their ability.

Some context, we missed the order bank cutoff because we were told they opened in October, not September by a dealership employee, an honest mistake. We reached out to them, explaining our situation, they promised if a customer canceled their order, they'd contact us first thing.

Fast forward about a month, and we got the call. An area 51 XLT hybrid with optional extras like Co-pilot 360/BLIS. We were there within the hour. Out the door, with Utah's notoriously aggressive sales tax, it was about 28k.

This dealership chain has an excellent reputation, and they've been a joy to deal with on the several occasions we've conducted business with them in the past. If you're still searching for a maverick, these are your people.

This would be really useful if it were in a Spreadsheet sorted by State

For me, I've told my story... so in short I've never liked dealerships and have avoided them for decades. When the Maverick was announced I was relatively quick in interviewing for a dealership to go to back in June 2021.

Bottom line, I've been thrilled with my selection:

Tuttle Click Ford Lincoln Irvine, CA
Sales person: Brandon Hill - In the early days Ford kept everyone in the dark including the sales department!
Service Manager: Sean Osborne - He's the star for me. Once you purchase your car you never see your sales person again, but you do need "Service" i.e. recalls, updates, scheduled maintenance, incidentals and loaner cars. He is the one that has changed my mind about dealerships or at least this dealership!

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[sprubs]

Ordered 9/16 took delivery 3/9 Payed MSRP + 27 for title. No Dealers fees

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[JX77]

Daystar Ford in Garrettsville Ohio. It's a small dealership but I got my XLT hybrid in about 14 months (10/21 original order date). They did everything by the book, no issues with re-up my order, adding or deleting options. When the truck came I got the Ford price protection and a $750 student discount. The dealer fee was $250. They filled the tank, I took delivery with 11 miles on the odo. My only complaint is they removed the film on the radio screen that says "To be removed by customer only"!

 

[72Maverick]

I bought my Maverick at Homer Skelton Ford, Olive Branch MS. Great experience (other than the wait) They honored price protection from 2021 order. $500 doc fee was the only add on. Good honest people working there.

 

[rightmuch]

Hello all,

After seeing story after story of our fellow forum members being screwed over by dishonest, trashy dealers, I've decided we should put together lists of positive, honest dealership experiences. The kinds of dealerships that provide you with a decent experience, and sell you the truck you asked for at MSRP.

Hopefully this will be a helpful resource to people struggling to find a decent deal, while also rewarding the honest business practices of respectable dealerships by convincing more people to go through them.

Here's mine, the Larry H. Miller dealership located in Draper/Sandy Utah. If you live in Utah, or in the neighboring states, and are having a hard time, go through these people. No markups on customer orders, they're willing to work with you to the best of their ability.

Some context, we missed the order bank cutoff because we were told they opened in October, not September by a dealership employee, an honest mistake. We reached out to them, explaining our situation, they promised if a customer canceled their order, they'd contact us first thing.

Fast forward about a month, and we got the call. An area 51 XLT hybrid with optional extras like Co-pilot 360/BLIS. We were there within the hour. Out the door, with Utah's notoriously aggressive sales tax, it was about 28k.

This dealership chain has an excellent reputation, and they've been a joy to deal with on the several occasions we've conducted business with them in the past. If you're still searching for a maverick, these are your people.

Apple Ford, Danville VA. Best dealership I've ever purchased from. No deposit, MSRP, kept me informed. Benji Powell, GM.

 

[lsudelts]

Cazenave Motors
Vacherie, LA
Zero add ons or mark ups. They even honored my X-Plan.

 

[Scupking]

Family Ford of Enfield CT was fantastic!! Best dealer experience I have ever had! Billy the sales manager is awesome!

 

[Iron Mike]

GRESHAM FORD in Gresham Oregon. No BS, no mark-ups, just MSRP and no add-on's. David Miller is the sales manager and is excellent to work with. Picked up my Lariat hybrid on 3/29, one day after it arrived. In and out in just over an hour. They even let me put $3,000 on my credit card so I could get a few reward points.

 

[DannyP]

Hunt Ford in Franklin Kentucky. Great to work with. See Lexi for Maverick. Honored MSRP with no problems along with Z-plan and private offer. Actually got the truck for $500 less than original signed agreement.

Same experience here, Lexi took care of me too. Hunt Ford in Franklin KY is great to deal with.

 

[MavChris]

Suburban Ford of Sterling Heights. Joe Franzoni. Ordered in Jan of 22. Took delivery in Jan of 23. Applied x plan pricing when ordered. Took delivery for price that was quoted on DORA when ordered. Only additional cost was a $150 document fee when taking delivery. Straight forward process and no BS what so ever.

 

[OneAlienBoi]

This would be really useful if it were in a Spreadsheet sorted by State

For me, I've told my story... so in short I've never liked dealerships and have avoided them for decades. When the Maverick was announced I was relatively quick in interviewing for a dealership to go to back in June 2021.

Bottom line, I've been thrilled with my selection:

Tuttle Click Ford Lincoln Irvine, CA
Sales person: Brandon Hill - In the early days Ford kept everyone in the dark including the sales department!
Service Manager: Sean Osborne - He's the star for me. Once you purchase your car you never see your sales person again, but you do need "Service" i.e. recalls, updates, scheduled maintenance, incidentals and loaner cars. He is the one that has changed my mind about dealerships or at least this dealership!

Yeah, I was thinking of a Google doc with state by state categorization. It could be opened for everyone to edit so new dealerships could be added, or so dealerships that were found to be less than ideal could be amended with the opportunity to make additional comments. I, and/or someone else could have a saved copy of the original list just to make sure no-one could delete all the info, or do anything odd with it.

 

[Ron43]

Miller Motors Burlington Wisconsin, My order AWD , XLT , Fx4 , Luxury Package Non Hybrid, took 13 Months they stayed in touch every other month and price didn’t change a penny 31k with 12yr 120k miles warranty but my wife does get a Ford discount through her work. Sticker was 34k.

 

[cedarhillbilly]

out of the way in rural western Pa, Titusville Ford has been a great bunch of people to work with. easy to get service appointments. They often rely on me to hip them to recalls and TSBs but their always willing to do what I ask and answer me frankly.

 

[MPier]

Serra Ford (formerly Holzer) in Farmington Hills, MI. Will and Max were great to work with on my first and are working on my second now.

 

[BlueSnake77]

Van Bortel Ford in East Rochester, NY.
Ask for Paul Bowers

At the time, they did Invoice pricing, which is under MSRP. They honored it. They do COVP and Price protection correctly. No pressure for dealer ad-ons. Sent me multiple email updates along the way. Service department is great too.

Same experience. Got my Maverick from them last year. No bs or dealer add ons.
Seamus Bolin was my salesman.

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