Living Nightmare
Went to view a property 170 miles away from home, after we viewed the property my van broke down. I have my breakdown cover with Green Flag through my bank account so at 11.55am I called them up, I explained to the very pleasant operator what was happening and he took my location and informed me that although they were very busy they would try to get to me in the hour. After sitting sweltering on the pavement for one and three quarter hours I received a text asking me to call Green Flag. So I called Green Flag and spoke to a different operator who explained that the Technician had called me up and not got an answer, she then read the number they had called and told me it was my landline!.
The Operator admitted that as I was 170 miles away from home it was unlikely I would be able to answer the landline, once again I explained where I was and sat and sweltered, ten minutes later I was called by Cambrian Car Care who told me a technician had already come to the address i had broken down at and I wasnt there, I explained that I hadnt moved and he must have gone to the wrong address as there are two streets with the same name in Merthyr. Not listening he became a bit ratty and explained that the Technician had knocked on the door and a man had told him he didnt know anything about it, I explained that the house I was at was empty as I had come to a viewing. Finally Cambrian admitted they had the wrong address because Green Flag had given the wrong post code, he told us that he would be with us as soon as.
At 15:50 a Welsh Technician rang having gone again to the wrong address and in a heavily accented English we battled it out to understand each other to try to get him to us, he arrived within ten minutes and looked at the van. Informing us he couldnt fix it he arranged a relay home for us not understanding why we hadnt booked somewhere overnight?.
At 16:26 we received a call from another heavily accented Welshman and we battled it out to understand each other as he had gone to the wrong address again!! He arrived and at that point his partner rang, when she found out he was taking us home she began to swear at the fact that he was taking us to England it was all on loud speaker. He then spent another hour trying to get the van going, my wife and i were very hot and exhausted but he didnt care it was obvious after his partner had rang he didnt want to relay us, it was at this point a man came out of one of the houses opposite totally disgusted with how we were being treated and gave my wife and me a drink and some snacks each.
Finally the relay driver admitted defeat and loaded the van and started us off, the relay van was dirty and if Henry Ford ever made a Model T relay van this was it. We were banged and thrown around for two hours before we arrived at Motorway services in the lorry park somewhere, the driver informed us he was leaving us here and someone else would take us the rest of the way and I would receive a call. He dropped the van in the lorry park and drove off, relieved to be out of Cambrians touch we received a call from Natwest to tell us that a new relay driver was on his way. We were then collected by AVS who were pleasant had a very comfortable vehicle and got us home by 21:50. My van is filthy covered in oily finger prints inside and out thanks to Cambrian, all in all a nightmare.
21 July 2021
Unprompted review