To
The manager,
Customer relations
Honda cars india
Subject: poor service feed back
Dear sir/madam,
I am writing this letter with utter disappointment due to worst disrespectful experience faced from the honda service centre towards me and some of my friends.
I reside in wandoor, a town in malappuram dist of kerala (Pin: 679328), i am a doctor by profession. We have only one honda dealer in our entire district which is one of the largest dist in kerala, ie apco honda, malappuram. After purchasing my honda city (Model : city 1.5 vxcvt (I-vtec) vehicle in 26 th october 2016, i didn’t get proper vehicle operative information’s from the dealer even though they carry a delivery note paper. So the very next day of purchase, my car’s battery drained out as i was not aware that the automatic vehicle gear shift should be in “parking mode” when halting the vehicle. As soon as i called the apco malappuram and informed them, they responded by saying we need rs.500/- to come and see the vehicle apart from the service charge. This all happened in the very next day of purchase and because of their staff mistake of not providing adequate information’s while delivering the vehicles.
On the third free service (19/7/2017), the apco, malappuram delivered vehicle without cleaning the boot area. When i spoke to them on this, their response was “ can you bring the vehicle again, we will clean the boot space”. I have to travel nearly 50kms from my home town to apco, malappuram. Is this is the way they treat customers? I gave 3 out of 10 for their poor service.
On my last paid service (20k kms) in jan 10, service person named mr. Sreejith initially told me that the break pad has to do slimming (My complaint was sound coming while applying brake) while i was on my way to banglore. I showed the dekshin honda, bangalore (Mr. Praveen) and they did under the instruction of apco, malappuram. After the work while returning to kerala, i felt some vibrations while applying break and showed in apco. Then the same person (Mr. Sreejith) and service in charge mr. Abhijith told me to change the break pad and disc. We had a very bad talk because the work is kept on changing and i have to pay extra money for this.
And after finishing the vehicle, they kept the vehicle for 3 days by not delivering saying that payment has to be made (Mr. Abhijith). Then i reminded them i opted for pick and drop and i will pay once the vehicle drop by acpco’s driver. Finally they did and i thought of writing at that time itself.
Yesterday (20/2/2018), when my vehicle met an accident by hitting a vehicle on the back bumper area, i immediately called the apco, malappuram and once again they responded very badly. I called the vision honda, calicut, and mr. Praveen, came for the rescue.
I am writing to you that, myself and many of my friends had very bad experiences from apco, malappuram which is the sole dealer in malappuram and their monopoly force us to find other dealers for our needs. After giving 3 out of 10 mark for their poor work, i haven’t received any updates from honda group. There are almost 50-100 honda vehicles in our area and most of them not complaining just because of the time they have to go behind this. Now all o[censored]s has to depend calicut which is nearly 75km away from our town.
I urge the authorities to take strong action on this by considering my letter with utmost priority and if possible we expect an alternative second dealership in malappuram for honda cars to stop the apco monopoly.
Thanking you
With regards
Dr. Hifsu rahman
Zara, wandoor, malappuram (Dt)
Kerala : 679328
Ph: [protected]
[protected]@gmail.com
Honda Cars India customer support has been notified about the posted complaint.
please help me to solve the problem !