
John Finch
United Kingdom | 18 November 2024Very poor experience on many occasions over the last couple of years. The staff do not care at all. 'Toma' on reception is unwilling or unable to assist. Ray in parts will leave you hanging. People's word means nothing here. And to be told in a nonchalant fashion, send complaints to info@....... What a poor response! If you ask for the manager or director you will be told to find it on companies house! They are making a simple job, very difficult.

Michael highland
United Kingdom | 06 September 2024Absolutely shocking company, Made the mistake of ordering my daughter’s motabity vehicle for them and wish we had walked everywhere instead . We were promised a deliver date of February and it arrived in June! When it arrived it was leaking fuel everywhere from the adaptions they had done for the ramp etc . It took them 4 weeks to fix it and cost me an absolute fortune in leaked fuel, The director of the company promised me multiple times he would reimburse me and he never did He clearly just said it to stop me complaining, I’ve asked a few times about the reimbursement and he just shouted at me for daring to accuse him of being dishonest They came to do an annual service on my daughters wheelchair ramp and they ended up breaking the gas strut for it Again it took 2 weeks to get fixed and it was a temp fix They promised to come back straight after our holiday And suprise to suprise I’ve not heard a thing about it in 13 month Lying , deceitful and dishonest from the director all the way to the salesman and customer service Go elsewhere Anywhere else at all!!!

Matthew
United Kingdom | 29 August 2024Shambles unorganised, not friendly and don’t process orders like promise waited 3 months called them to chase up order I was told they hadn’t even placed the order for our car and they can’t process any more as mobility has stopped them.

Scott Smith
United Kingdom | 09 August 2024Stay well away I cancel my son,s traffic after been lied to last year I got an email 6-8 weeks ago your vehicle is on the way to the UK so I phone them and said it's been cancelled last year he Apologised and said we will never get another email again yet again today an other email your vehicle is here we will inspect it then will be available for delivery yet again I phoned them up the woman said sorry I will speak to mangerment stop Harassing Motorbility customers Motorbility have been made aware

Steven Crawford
United Kingdom | 23 May 2024Please stay away from this company, the most inept sales and customer service i have ever experienced and that’s saying something, tried for over a week to simply place an order for a new wheelchair accessible vehicle, countless calls with no success, the sales manager spoke to me once and never took or returned my calls since, how they are in business is astonishing. Him in particular wouldn’t last 5 minutes in my industry, you have been warned go elsewhere and save wasting your time.

Nicola D
United Kingdom | 11 January 2024Appalling lack of organisation and communication. This company is the worst company that supplies Motability vehicles we've come across in thirty years. They have a reputation amongst other vehicle adaptors who, last year, had to pick up the slack when they let down 150 customers by not supplying vehicles they had promised. They also have a reputation for being less than transparent with their customers. They don't get back to you when you call. Their diary keeping is a shambles as is their record keeping and I shudder to think what it would be like to be in a contract with them (providing you actuality got a vehicle). Steer well clear. They are not the company you want to be relying on for your mobility.

Sally Smith
United Kingdom | 10 October 2023Driver was given incorrect delivery address, even though I phoned the automotive group on Friday to confirm. However once the vehicle arrived, the handover by Steve was fantastic, very informative snd helpful

Joanne Jamieson
United Kingdom | 30 September 2023Same issues as many, vehicle ordered and took ages for delivery but to be fair, we understood this - not a company problem, manufacturer not providing vehicle. However, the customer service when the vehicle was finally on its way to factory was shocking. Kept getting calls to say vehicle was on site and they would be in touch when ready. Received the same phone call 3 times and each time I said i already knew it was onsite and yet noone could tell me what was happening. Kept chasing and chasing until finally we got our delivery date. The guy delivering vehicle was lovely, knowledgeable and helpful in showing me all aspects of the van but brand new vehicle (which we had paid a fortune for) arrived with two sticker marks on windscreen. It may be nothing to some, but when I spend that kind of money I expect the best of service. Noone at Automotive Group seemed to have any service training at all. It really irritates me that anyone needing a Motability vehicle is probably already facing difficulties in many parts of their lives and when you call to hear 'we are the premier WAV suppliers in the UK' on their recorded message, it really sticks in your throat. We would not purchase another vehicle from them and would not recommend.

Abigail Clark
United Kingdom | 19 June 2023Great service and delivery of my WAV, have kept in contact from order to delivery. The guy that delivered it was really helpful and explanatory, and worked around me.

Tamara R.
United Kingdom | 30 March 2023I initially thought this company was great. They held a Motability vehicle for me during lockdown and managed to get it adapted and delivered on time so my daughter could start school in September 2020. The vehicle was delivered with a slow puncture, which I wasn't told about, though, and had to find out the hard way. The driver was obviously aware of it, as the vehicle came with two spray tins of tyre sealant in the door. Over the past nearly three years, I have had various things go wrong with the adaptations to the vehicle. The back door (boot) has become stuck and refused to open on two occasions because the bottom part of the latch they adapted during the conversion was not on tight enough and it became loose, so it wouldn't release. This is really inconvenient, as I can't use the WAV if I can't open the boot to get my child's wheelchair in – it makes it pretty much useless to me. Then the ramp decided it wouldn't bend in half anymore, and I had to drive with it blocking the rear window so I could go buy some WD40 to fix it. Then the boot decided it wouldn't close, this time because the top part of the latch became loose and so it wouldn't align correctly to catch the bottom bit, and so I couldn't drive the van until the RAC came to fix it because the 'door open' alarm would sound endlessly and also because it isn't safe to drive around with the boot open. Then the winch cable fell down underneath the car, meaning it was at risk of being caught on something and torn off. Then, last week, the suspension became loose on the rear passenger side, causing damage to the rear axle and serious damage to the front passenger side tyre. The van needs a totally new rear axle now. The RAC recovered the van to a local garage, but I thought that this was probably a job for the adapter, as the part that was broken was something they had adapted in lowering the van to add the ramp. I called them and described the problem in detail and asked if they were the ones who should fix it, and they said no, that the garage could fix it. I trusted them, of course, as I am not a mechanic. The garage was able to look at it a few days later and they concluded that I was right: the adapter needed to fix it. I have since called Automotive Group three times and each time they have promised to book a recovery service to bring it up to them, but they still haven't done it (it has now been one week and one day since it broke down). They also haven't bothered to call me and update me or call the garage where the van is still sitting to update them. If they are busy, they need to say so instead of promising to do something and not doing it and not updating me. This last fault was seriously dangerous! I am very lucky that it happened when I was in the vehicle alone, not with my daughter. I am also lucky that I didn't have music on at all that day so I noticed the noise as soon as it became obvious. It is also lucky that I was clever enough to work out what the problem was and understand that the van was not drivable. Someone else might have driven it, though, as it wasn't yet obvious from the way it drove that there was a problem, and the noise might not have been heard if someone was listening to music. The suspension shouldn't just come loose on a vehicle that is 3 years old! I am now scared to drive the vehicle again, as I wonder what else will go wrong and if it will be merely frustrating or truly dangerous. Now that I have been driving a hire WAV (converted by a different adapter) for the past couple of days, I much prefer the ramp and tethers on the hire WAV. I do not like how heavy the ramp is on my WAV. I can't imagine how an older person could manage it! The one on the hire WAV is so much lighter and easier to use. I also really hate that the floor in my WAV is carpeted, meaning I have to live in perpetual fear of my daughter accidentally going through animal waste, me not noticing, and her wheels grinding it into the carpet back there. I have to travel with a mini jet wash to prevent this and I once had to buy a watering can and disinfectant spray and use river water and a stick to get rid of something disgusting so that we could put the wheelchair in the van and go home. The hire WAV has a smooth floor and a smooth ramp, so if something did get on it, I could wipe it clean easily. My WAV has annoying back tethers that don't work if dirt or stones get into the holes they go in... only there is nothing to protect them from dirt and stones and they are really small so it is really hard to properly clean them unless you vacuum them out all the time, but then I live in a flat and have no power source outside, so that is impossible. The hire WAV has different attachments at no risk of getting dirt/stones in them. I definitely won't get our next Motability WAV from this adapter, as now I have seen there are better ones with regard to the adaptations themselves, as well as with regard to service!

Rambling On
United Kingdom | 16 March 2023I phoned the After Sales Department on 09 March to order additional wheelchair attachments for my VW Caddy Maxi, they said that they had no record of the conversion could I supply the VIN number. I couldn't for a week as I was bedbound following an operation, but when I did at 14:53 yesterday, 15 March, they found the vehicle record without me giving them the number. So a week wasted. They said that they would send through a VAT waiver form by email straight away before they could take the order, by 15:32 they hadn't so I rang again, the same lady said she'd been busy but would send it through in the next 10 minutes. By 16:43 they hadn't so I rang again, and was transferred by someone else to the wrong department then by them back to the original department, but that person worked on a different system (in the same department?!) so I had to go through it all again, but was promised by this lady that she would do it straight away, after complaining to another department she did. But the next day on chasing again was told that she had 40 orders to go through and had no idea when I would be rung to take the order. I asked her whether this level of service is acceptable to the company and was told it is. Fortunately I have discovered another supplier.

Paul
United Kingdom | 02 December 2022If you lose the certificate for the conversion it’s £350 to replace.

ANDREW
United Kingdom | 02 September 2022I will have been waiting for my new wav on the 4th Nov 2022 a year and get the same issues as the other customers you ring them and give your details and they say no date for being built yet. Promise to call you with an update no one rings back. They say they tried to ring but no one answered I have an answerphone when out and another online if I am on the phone so that's not true. I placed the order in 2021 and feel so angry that they just don't care. My mum has difficulties driving my old wav as it's not automatic and it's a bit small for me now as I need to carry hoists and my things when I go visiting family. please try other companies in your area as I have had nothing but heartache from this firm.

Mark
United Kingdom | 19 June 2022Electric tail lift and ramp both stopped working off the remote control. Quick phone call to their support team diagnosed the remote needed resetting which they guided me through . 10 mins later we were off and running again... thanks for prompt service.

Mrs Heather
United Kingdom | 13 April 2022Ordered a new Citroen Spacetourer in April 2021. We were quoted 2 and a half months until delivery. It’s now been over 12 months and our car has not even been built never mind adapted. We have no guaranteed build date yet and it’s getting beyond a joke. Currently we have no WAV for my 8 year old son and the company have been very unhelpful with trying to fix this situation, I have asked to change colour/spec/get nearly new but nothing it seems will speed up this wait. We now feel completely trapped and have no clue when we will have the car we desperately need.

Leo Whiting
United Kingdom | 04 October 2021Think about ordering from this company. I ordered a set of brake pads and discs for my ford transit. I then received a call from customer service saying the parts i ordered when wrong fit for my vehicle , the right parts are an extra £20 charge. I was then sent the wrong parts!! They did not fit my vehicle... Called up customer service, finally managed to get them to send over a return slip which i attached to the items and returned exactly as described, to then not be refunded. this was 3 months ago. Emails back and forth. So in the end i had to pay out for another lot of parts and haven't received my money back from automotive. Check other reviews about this company. This seems to be a reoccurring issue.

John Summerville
United Kingdom | 23 September 2021Got a Vito Taxi the warranty has been a great help

Greg Mathews
United Kingdom | 06 September 2021We have had the most horrendous engagement with this company that has caused no end of stress and upset for over 7 months. Apologies this is long, but there’s no way of making this nightmare story brief. We waited 6 months for the car after being promised 8 weeks for delivery. We needed it in that timeframe as it was mandated by Motability due to our current DLA award running out. Throughout that time we were never proactively contacted by the Automotive Group to let us know what was happening, and promised callbacks after our own chasing barely ever materialised. We were told the delay was partly down to us opting for a fold flat ramp, which was sold to us as an option by the Automotive Group. Money was taken for the ramp but despite it being blamed for the delay, it transpires it was actually never possible in the first place (we were lied to by Phil Hind, Director of the company). We only discovered this when the car turned up with no fold flat ramp, much confusion and consternation ensued, and we sent the car away as no one seemed to know what was going on (plus it had scratches to paintwork, plastics and alloy wheels). It concluded with us eventually being refunded the money for the ramp. Before this on the first attempted delivery of the car, we were called and told engine warning lights had appeared in transit and it had to go back to be fixed. Having finally taken delivery of the car on the third attempt, the following happens within 24 hours: - The seatbelt positioning is completely wrong meaning our wheelchair-bound son can't safely travel in the vehicle. - A parking sensor disappears into the rear bumper, causing the whole parking system to malfunction. Automotive Group admit this is their fault as they modify the sensors during the adaptation process. - The car starts to leak fuel onto our driveway. We're told it is safe to drive until it is collected later in the week. Later that day when collecting our son from school (not in his wheelchair, as we couldn't do that because of the aforementioned seatbelt problem), an alarm sounds mid-journey with an engine fault warning saying the car requires urgent attention. The car is collected for all three issues to be fixed, and is returned a week later (we're told initially it would only be a couple of days). The seatbelt positioning issue had not been resolved, so the vehicle was still unusable. When the seatbelt issue is finally sorted, on our first proper family trip out in the car the USB port disappears into the dashboard when we attempt to use it, and the car starts leaking fluid underneath from two new locations after driving just 10 miles. We were due to go on holiday the very next day with the car, but just after arriving home from our family drive we're told we're now isolating for 10 days due a positive COVID case in our son's class. This was terrible news, but with the silver lining that we didn’t have to rely on the car to get us safely across the country anymore! By this time we’d reached the end of our tether, asked for a full refund, and for the car to be collected. The Automotive Group agreed to this and at the time were very apologetic for everything we’d been through with the car. They also offered to let us keep the car for a month after refunding the money to see if some confidence could be restored in the hope we’d keep/pay for it after all. We decided against this as frankly the thought of entering into a 5 year relationship with the Automotive Group filled us with dread. On informing Phil Hind, the Director of the company, of our decision my wife received an uncontrite call from him telling her “if the car wasn’t good enough for you, you should go back to our Ferrari”. We are now without the WAV we so desperately need for the foreseeable future, but the trouble this will cause is nothing compared to pain of dealing with this company.

RICHARD GORDON
United Kingdom | 21 July 2021I ordered my motability vehicle in January 2021 it's now July 21st and still it hasn't been delivered. It's supposed to be a 3 month turn around . I have had all the excuses under the sun but still haven't got any where with recieving my vehicle. I would think very carefully before using this company as the staff where unhelpful bar one called Paul.

Michael
United Kingdom | 25 May 2021First time I've had to use my vehicle warranty, it was for a new oxygen sensor, the job was carried out at great speed with no problems. The Auto Group called me just to confirm all the details were correct and within 30 minutes my taxi was back on the road. Great service really worth the money and great to have peace of mind, many thanks to Robert at the Auto Group who dealt with my warranty claim.