Im sure others will follow with this "strong economy".
As much as I didnt like them or some of their practices(bought a new S10 from them),we still need dealerships that deal in American cars to be strong.
They locked the doors with no warning to 300+ employees.
Bill Heard is a very large dealership and has them thruout the USA.
At one time they were the largest dealer of Chevys in USA.

 

THis is a sign of things to come. Other dealers are hurting bad, esp the ones with high overhead (like the Plant City Bill Heard Dealership). when you have 50 Million dollars in inventory and you arent selling highly profitable 50K dollar SUVs, well, things are going to change, fast!

 

In this case I don't think it's "only" the economy though. Lawsuits were probably involved...

https://ls1tech.com/forums/southern-members/991781-bill-heard-closed-all-dealerships-ga.html

 

True...also heard that customers are non existent there after many have heard the horror stories.

 

They were going to get a new ZR1. I wonder what they are going to do with all the inventory. Time to watch the auction.

 

Damn. They put the new motor in my car when my old one got hydrolocked.

 

16 of 18 stealerships across the country is what I heard.
3500+ employees

 

they closed due to fraud reasons, not econoics.

 

I work at a Dealership and a well known one..Ferman. We are hurting bad in both sales and service. We have 4 SUV's left and had them for awhile. Service tom(Friday) we have no appointments for service....

 

I think the problem with service is nobody wants to pay $150 an hour for service anymore. [$75 per time unit, 1 time unit = 1/2 an hour, not a real hour of work]. I bit the bullet and bought the tools when I realized I couldn't afford to pay my mechanic more than my lawyer.

 

Courtesy Pontiac is done as well.

This is going to get worse before it gets better.

 

Everytime I see a Chevrolet with a Bill Heard sticker on it feel like its the Devil's child. They were a horrible dealership and they got what they long deserved. I feel for the good people that worked there but other than that good riddance.

 

I agree. Its 95 dollars an hour. Id never bring my car to a dealer..but I have the no how to do stuff. ALOT of people dont but dont have the cash to pay for over priced parts and labor anymore.

 

Those guys charged me $770 to rebuild a rear with USED parts! And it took them 4 days to do it!

 

i bought my 06 cobalt new from Bill Heard Plant city. i got a great deal and it was easy to deal with. bought it over the internet for invoice plus dealer fee minus GM Card points 1k dollars.

 

i know all about the lawsuits. those lawsuits would take years to settle. its no the reason they shut down. its the fact they couldnt buy any cars from GM and owed GMAC a ton of money.

 

I heard about this this morning on channel 13. I used to have a couple of "bird dogs" from there when i worked at drivetime. Its amazing how they used to treat customers. I did get a lot of business out of them though


i never should have quit that job..

 

thats why I do all the work on my car and my friends cars except for tires and stuff like that
I cant let my friends get ripped off, I just make them buy me lunch

 

that place told me some great stories, thinking i was a dipshit. hell they only wanted to give me 1500 dollars for my 00 when i thought about trading it in. 80k miles on a 8 year old car are "high miles" i laughed and left

 

I bought my 2001 camaro there back in 01 bran new and never had a problem with them. But i have heard of all the bad storys and lawsuits.