[Resolved]  Zoom Car — poor vehicle/poor customer support/ poor refund policies

Address:

Ernakulam, Kerala

Hello zoomcar,

Thanks for the troublesome experience that you have given to us.
We have booked zoom car for our kerala trip from 7th oct (10 am) to 10th oct (6 pm) which is around rs 8600 for 80 hours and 800 km (Booking id : jps6tv2tq)
The car given to us has diesel leakage problem which we noticed it on 9th at 12 pm after we reached our resort in munnar.
It took close to 18 customer support calls and 10 hours for them to tow the vehicle which eventually means we have not enjoyed one complete day of our resort stay which is rs 8000 for single day. Basically half of our trip went in talking to zoomcar customer care loosing the mental peace.
Cs guys will call every 10 minutes and ask what is the problem? I dont even understand how poorly they maintain the record of earlier calls. After so much of fuss and towing the vehicle, another customer support guy calls and asks us the status of returning the vehicle on 10th oct as it is nearing the end of the trip.

After towing the vehicle they have added rs 10000 to our trip telling it as vehicle damage fee as per the so called zoomcar policy.

However the vehicle is towed and it took 3 days for them to get the service report which told that there is no problem for our end, it is eventually the mistake of zoom car for handing over the vehicle which has a diesel leakage problem which would have been catastrophic.

We have not gone out of our munnar resort because of this and we have to take the next days flight back to hyderabad so we booked a cab and came.
Now coming to again so called refund policy, they told they will reimbursement the cab bill which is rs 2800 which is same as the unused hours amount.
Hence, there is no loss to zoom car because they are refunding unused hours. They are not at all penalizing themselves for handing over the wrong vehicle to customer.
We are asking refund for unused hours as well as return cab bill which is close to rs 5000

The loss from my end is
1) compromised in roaming in munnar as we didnt had vehicle
2) one complete day in answering customer care calls.
3) lost mental peace in the most awaited trip

Finally i never want to encourage anybody in taking zoom car as they are not maintaining vehicles in good condition and having a very poor customer support.

Thanks,
Sriharsha