Surendra Nath Sahoo
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### BEYOND HORRIBLE. AN UTTER DISGRACE.
I had a truly horrible experience, but it's important to clarify where the blame lies. I recently bought a new Scooty(TVS Jupiter) from the Sarjapur TVS showroom just four days ago. I was in Jayanagar for a medical emergency when my Scooty suddenly died. Not a self-start, not a kickstart—nothing. It was completely dead.
I immediately called the Sarjapur center. They were concerned and told me to share my current location. Since I was far from them, they suggested me find a nearby TVS showroom for help. I found TVS - The Bharat Automobiles, which was 2 km away from my location. So, in the brutal midday heat, I started DRAGGING the brand-new, dead bike for 2 kilometres on a hilly, uphill-and-downhill road. My medical emergency was more important, so I had no choice but to push through the agony.
I finally reached TVS - The Bharat Automobiles, exhausted and desperate. A person who looked to be a sales executive approached me and what was the FIRST thing out of his mouth? "You bought it from the other showroom, so you have to go back there, or you'll lose your warranty." ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I was in a medical emergency, stranded with a faulty bike, and they threatened to void my warranty over a simple request for help. This is how you treat a new customer?
After a soul-crushing 15-20 minute wait, a "technician" finally looked at my bike. His expert diagnosis? "Go put 1-2 litres of petrol in it." The fuel indicator CLEARLY showed there was fuel, but he insisted it was a "new bike problem." So I dragged the dead Scooty AGAIN to a petrol pump nearby, 100-200 meters away, filled it up, and—shocker—it still wouldn't start.
I went back, and he told me to wait. I waited for another half an hour before he finally returned from Lunch. He had a new demand: "You need to get a service manager's approval." The manager, of course, was nowhere to be found. After another half-hour of waiting, he finally showed up and told me the battery was drained. A four-day-old bike with a drained battery? And they couldn't even jump-start or kick-start it? The absurdity of it all is infuriating.
Then came the final, jaw-dropping moment. Two guys from the Sarjapur showroom drove to help me with a new battery, assuming that it could be the problem. They were in a tradeoff with the Bharat Automobiles staff to use the service toolkit or service place access to check the bike, but no help. After a ridiculous back-and-forth, finally some alignment may be by both the center and the Sarjapur repair person was finally given access , and within TEN MINUTES, they fixed it.
TEN. MINUTES.
I asked what’s the problem. It was a loose connection. A simple, basic issue that a competent technician should have checked from the start.
* The Bharat Automobiles showroom staff's immediate reaction was to save their own skin, not to help a stranded customer.
* The "technician" was either completely clueless or deliberately wasting my time with his absurd petrol-filling suggestion.
* The fact that it took two people to drive across the city to fix a 10-minute issue is a testament to the shockingly isolated and incompetent way these showrooms operate. They don't care about the TVS brand; they only care about their own shop.
* And worst of all, there was a total lack of empathy. I was in a medical emergency, in pain, and utterly frustrated, and not a single person showed an ounce of concern from The Bharat Automobiles. If they had just been honest and said, "This will take time, drop the bike here" I could have taken an auto and handled my emergency instead of enduring hours of pointless dragging, waiting, and misguidance.