Windy City Motorsports

Windy City is a wanna-​be «high-​end» used car resale shop, I’d avoid it at all costs. I would have given no stars if possible. There are several other more reputable and nicer places around the Chicago area. I went there with a buddy of mine to help him look at an Acura RSX-​s a few months ago. I got there first and ran into John, explained to him that we were there to look at the Acura.
So he starts the car and invited me to inspect it. Keep in mind that it was 30 degrees with 5 inches of snow on the ground. I knew right then I was in for a huge helping of used car salesman tactics and bs. I told him he needed to get the car inside so we could inspect it properly, which took him almost 30 minutes to accomplish. He didn’t seem happy about my request. In the meantime, my buddy joined me and we started chatting with John about the car’s history. Having been through the used car drill several times and having read all of Consumer Reports’ guide to buying used cars, I set John up with all the «naïve» car buyer questions and this tool proceeded to knock every single one out of the park. Epic fail! According to him, the car was perfect, clean history, like new.
It was way overpriced, after being on the lot 3+ months it still hadn’t sold. Any Honda/​Acura fan knows a clean car, even a diamond in the rough will sell quickly so I knew there were probably hidden issues.
We asked to see the Carfax, of course there were 2 major accidents in its history. John played dumb at first, saying he only knew of one accident even as we showed him the report. So either he was lying or ignorant, but totally busted out either way. I then proceeded to ask him about how many hits he was getting on the car. Fail again, he gave us this blatantly phony rap about how several people were interested, and in fact this one dude in the military was planning to buy it and was applying for a loan at that moment. If that were true than he’s super sketchy for being willing to sell a car out from under someone who had probably put a deposit down. What a swell guy.
Having had more than enough of the stories, we went and examined the car. He was looking more and more nervous cause I know for sure he didn’t expect the microscope we put the car under.
Turns out it was obviously never inspected, as other people have also mentioned in reviews. The oil was black, the headlight bulbs were out and the foglights were inoperable and turned the wrong direction, the interior was ok but one of the seats has lost power functions, there was a bug cocoon and tons of dirt under the intake manifold cover, the paint was fading on several spots on the roof and A-​pillars, the list goes on and on. They didn’t even bother steam cleaning the engine, which told me everything I needed to know about their program.
He and another dude were running around like chickens with no heads trying to fix everything as we went down the list, several days and several more dollars short. The final straw was when he told my friend he would have to put a non-​refundable deposit down with intent to buy before they would let him test drive it? Dumbest policy ever, clearly they just want to get paid before they pawn off inferior merchandise on folks who don’t know any better. We just laughed and bounced out of that dump.
They certainly put time in polishing the engine in the Nissan GT-​R that was sold on the floor (and the only decent car in the whole crummy shop), but it appears their MO is to ignore and not maintain the rest of the cars the most of the rest of us little people can only afford but account for the majority of sales. Total joke, John is one of the worst salesmen I’ve ever dealt with and I highly doubt he could sell a seeing-​eye dog to a blind person. I wouldn’t doubt for a second that the good reviews on here were put up by friends or even people who work in the back at this place. Shady all around. This store sucks don’t even waste your time.