Hello,
I purchased exide battery from "Samir Automobiles", Sardarnagar Ahmedabad, Gujarat, invoice attached, on 4-Apr-2018.
During this lockdown in the month of April, I experienced issues as battery got discharged and I called up the dealer and was told that they are not working due to lockdown. Soon after lockdown got over, I approached them and was told that there was extension provided by exide but it is just over by two days and if I give this for replacement claim, due to work load it will not be checked and I will have to pay 50% of the cost because there are lot of replacement requests due to lock down to resolve issues company is straight away putting all requests at pro rata basis of replacement . The dealer further assured me that battery is okay and he recharged it. I trusted and got the old battery fitted again. But it kept getting discharged and I frequently visited and got the battery recharged for which I was charged 300/- Rs.
Now, I am fed up and last I visited 10 -12 days back he said that you can get a new battery ay 50% warranty, meaning I will have to pay half the price to get the battery replaced, which will be around 4000/- Rs.
He kept me misguiding and I kept getting annoyed on roads seeking help and getting it started by paying emergency charges to local vendors for jump cables.
This is very frustrating and I am a very old customer of Exide rather purchasing from Samir Automobiles since past 15 years.
I strongly believe that I should get a replacement battery at no additional cost under warranty as I approached dealer quite well before the warranty expired. I don't know what was his benefit or workload or whatever since he kept denying a replacement warranty.
Please, take this on priority as I cannot bear such a loss at no fault of mine and am not using my car since past 15-20 days.
Please call me any information is required from my side.
Exide Industries customer support has been notified about the posted complaint.
Once again battery was found fully discharged conditions.
Kindly take appropriate action immediately as requested 20 days ago.
Regards,
V.K. Bahuguna
Complain Ticket No.235703 dtd. 06.11.2020