Bates Street Motors 5527 South Broadway, St. Louis, MO 63111

"WARNING!!!!!!! SCAM!!! BE AWARE.... I wish I could give a negative star. I want to warn everyone before they spend their hard earned money. Immediately I started having problems with the car I bought from Bates Street Motor. Took it to my mechanic, he said I needed a whole transmission & transmission fluid was over filled. Tried to talk to the owner at Bates to consider trading for another car. After the owner with a nasty unprofessional attitude suggested transmission flush since oil was "Real Dirty" another lie. So I'm out of about $5000 for a car I can't drive. PAY ATTENTION TO THE NEGATIVE VIEWS. The positive views are from YEARS AGO . I will make sure I tell EVERYONE about their SHADY BUSINESS"

"Bought an 02 envoy many years ago there, and it's still going strong today. People need to remember you are buying a used car if you don't know anything about cars take someone who does."

"Junk cars, I bought a Blazer. And every week, There was a issue paid $3.500 put about $4.000 in it. Sold it to a junkyard within 9 months for$300"

"Lipstick on a pig cars. If you're on your last option and have no other options to buy a car. Still do not choose this place. I would rather walk. This guys attitude is pure trash. Is less than zero an option to choose? No stars."

"So of course every dealership, especially smaller ones, you have to be careful about, but you can get lucky; just not here. As far as the cars in the lot, most of them are over 230,000 miles, have something extremely wrong with it, are mainly falling apart inside and out, and i’m completely sure the mechanics here wipe the computers of the car so no lights show up for the next couple of days. besides the fact of the cars are not reliable, nice, and will cause you trouble, immediately i could tell something was wrong. The dealers there could not maintain eye contact at all, which is ok because most people can’t, not only could they not keep eye contact they continuously gave an attitude the whole time. when asking about a car i was mansplained how to look at a car (when i already have knowledge of cars) and i felt extremely uncomfortable the whole time, slightly embarrassed to even be a woman there. finally, when we were asked when our timespan of buying a car is, we said the next few days to weeks. immediately he said “we sell about 4-5” cars every day (not true because we live in the area some cars have been there for up to 5 months now) he then continued to ask if we had the money and became uninterested in helping us when we said we’d have money within the next few days. We also brought up how my family works on cars and the dealer said “well i’m sure they know more than me and you put together” then continued to walk away from us and not say another word. i won’t tell you to stay away from here as we have found cars that are reliable from here many many years ago, however, please be careful. within the matter of only a few years we have checked their cars multiple times and they only sell junk and they will use you for your money and your money only. these people do not care about you, any car your interested in, and they will try to sell you a car that isn’t worth even having a price on it. Personally if your looking at a car i would recommend going to a Ford pre-owned dealership, or some higher up used car dealership as they won’t disrespect you and can be far more trusted."