

People criticise Volkswagen for exploiting customers Requesting help from the community to get this wider reach so that I may get my car and insurance money back and correct these vulture like practises," he added. "I have called Volkswagen India, mailed them too and was told I would get a response in 48 hours. "'Rs.44,840' to make a document for a car which costs only Rs.600,000 now. "I go to the showroom to collect what is legally my non-functional car and am told to pay a sum of Rs.44,840 as estimation charges (standard industry practice is Rs.5,000) and cannot take my car out," he wrote. This fee was required to issue documents about the damage the car has suffered. However, the service centre asked him to pay Rs 44,840 to collect his vehicle from them. No, we aren't kidding.Īcko, his car's insurer told him that the car would be written off as a total loss and they would collect the car. After 20 days, the service centre gave him a repair estimate of Rs 22 lakh. However, the nightmare was far from over for him. Karlete hai kisi tarah,' he wrote in his LinkedIn post. No one to help but we middle-class people are tough.

"I had to push my car onto a towing truck in waist-deep water at 11 pm. His vehicle got wholly submerged in flood waters and he sent the vehicle to Volkswagen Apple Auto in Whitefield. He said his VW Polo got damaged in the recent flooding in Bengaluru. Taking to LinkedIn, Anirudh Ganesh shared his ordeal. However, making matters worse for car owners are some service centres that are asking for extortionate repair charges.Ī car owner has said that a service centre handed out an estimate of Rs 22 lakh to repair a Volkswagen Polo hatchback that cost him Rs 11 lakh. Due to this, several cars were left submerged leading to excessive water damage. The situation was so dire that waterlogging was witnessed even in the basements of many buildings. Owner gets repair estimate of Rs 22 lakh for car he bought for Rs 11 lakh People criticise Volkswagen for exploiting customers.Owner gets repair estimate of Rs 22 lakh for car he bought for Rs 11 lakh.
