Chevrolet has ranked below average among mass-market brands in the latest J.D. Power 2020 Mexico Customer Service Index (CSI) Study.
The J.D. Power CSI study looks at the service experience for owners of 1- to 3-year-old vehicles, assessing customer satisfaction with regard to vehicle servicing from an authorized dealer or independent service facility. Satisfaction is judged on five key measures, including service quality, service initiation, service advisor, vehicle pick-up, and service facility. Each measure is weighted differently in terms of importance, with service quality and service initiation being the most important, and service facility being the least important.
This year’s 2020 Mexico CSI study is based on evaluations from 5,961 interviews conducted with new-vehicle owners in Mexico. The study was fielded between April and September of 2020, with scores calculated on a 1,000-point scale.
Per the study findings, Chevrolet was ranked near the bottom with a score of 820, slotting in at 13th among the 16 mass-market brands studied. That places Chevrolet below SEAT (825), Suzuki (826), and Fiat (829), but above Dodge (807), Volkswagen (805), and Mitsubishi (795).
The top-ranking brand in the study was Mazda with a score of 881. In second place was Toyota with 853 points, followed by Jeep in third with 849 points. The segment average for mass-market brands was 832 points. The highest-ranked brand overall was Mini with 891 points, which was ranked in the Luxury brand segment, with the Luxury segment average set at 863 points.
“New-vehicle sales will decline this year, so it’s critical that dealers take necessary steps to convince owners to return to the dealership for service instead of going to an independent shop,” said the senior director and country manager at J.D. Power de Mexico, Gerardo Gomez. “There’s a significant drop-off within the first three years of ownership, when customers start visiting independent shops more frequently. In the first year alone, 11 percent of customers are taking their vehicles to independent shops, and it jumps to 20 percent by the third year.”
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Source: J.D. Power
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Bow Tie: I have had many chevy’s in my last forty years and I always put red reflective tape over that ugly black bow tie. Looks much better.
Sounds like they only have themselves to blame. Their making the vehicles.
Got nothing to do with making them. This survey is about dealer service and customer experience.
wish they would have added Buick to the list. We have had several Buick Suvs since 2016 and have never had one problem. Also notice many more Buicks on the road. And “no” they are not identical to the Chevys.