Donna W.
Mar 14, 2025
Absolutely disgraceful service and I definitely won’t be coming back as I’ve informed Motability of this disastrous experience yesterday and they’ve now changed my dealership to hopefully a more professional Toyota branch.
I waited many weeks to book in for my first service and was told, as before when I had to bring my car in a few months ago for a battery and computer fault after just 10 short months of my Toyota’s life that no courtesy cars are ever available, not even for Motability customers who rely on their vehicle due to mobility issues, so I could wait the hour it would take to complete the service instead of relying on taxis again.
I arrived early at 10.30am for my 11am appointment, handed over my keys and was told to book in at the desk and then wait for the hour whilst the service was done with a coffee in the lounge part. The young boy at the desk took my name and then strangely I was handed my keys back by the man who parked my car, but thought nothing of it as this is my first service here and I’d already given my name and registration number twice upon arrival.
TWO HOURS then passed with absolutely no updates whilst I sat with my Mum and dog waiting like complete idiots in full view of the glass office bustling with staff with my car out the front clearly waiting to be seen by countless employees walking past it, yet not one of them came out to see what the delay was and why we were sitting there like dummies from 10.30am until 12.30pm. Finally after 2 hours and 15 minutes we could take no more incompetence so asked how long it would be and was told they hadn’t even started yet as they hadn’t checked me in upon arrival because they thought I hadn’t arrived! Absolutely appalling excuse. So we’d wasted almost 3 hours by then for nothing just sitting there. My joint disability and chronic fatigue makes this incredibly painful and exhausting, so by then I was starting to feel increasingly unwell as was my elderly disabled Mother. I’m shocked that not a single employee asked why we’d been sat there that long in the empty showroom (except for a few other customers coming in briefly with complaints!) and having turned down a hospital appointment to attend this service and then subsequently missing my opticians appointment that afternoon too because of this extra wasted time, our whole day was totally ruined by their sheer incompetence and I’m now suffering the consequences with extremely poor health today.
Once the error was realised just before 1pm, they seemed to quickly rush my car through in 45 minutes which doesn’t feel safe and spend very little time on the complimentary wash leaving it streaky and the whole thing feeling very substandard after over 3 hours wasted sat there right in front of all the staff! Absolutely horrendous customer service and as I said, I have now raised this official complaint with Motability, so will be taking it further with them after this shockingly bad service. I would give no stars if I could- avoid Jemca Bromley as they clearly do not value anyone’s time, or their disabled customers on this scheme!