Roshan F.
disgraceful customer service and a non-return of a 1,000 euro deposit
I have written to 1. Rentalcars.com 2. Zurich Insurance 3. Nogliarre ** I have NOT made an insurance claim BUT they have told me to contact Zurich Insurance. ** Nogliarre have not refunded my 1,000 euro deposit and has failed to reply to my emails. ** everytime I contact Rentalcars.com all I get is a reply from a different person each time passing me to someone else BUT always asking for an evaluation of their service !! ridiculous. ** when I call the international Rentalcars.com customer services number all I hear is a message in Arabic and no English option. How ridiculous. Maybe this is intentional ?? My full story is below: - we picked up the car from Turin after signing all the documents in the Nogliarre Office on Via Magenta. - As we drove out onto the Main Street, a lorry driver wound down his window and pointed to the rear tyre drivers side. Then I noticed that the dashboard alarm had registered a low tyre pressure. I then pulled in immediately into a small petrol station. The car tyre was completely flat. An Italian man tried to help me and we realised that there was no spare tyre in the boot. The car had run flat tyres. - The screenshots sent to Rentalcars.com will show that I called the emergency car recovery number several times. I spoke after waiting for many minutes to an Italian lady who could not speak much English but said that an English speaking operator would call me. After waiting a long time, I called again and was told the same thing, BUT noone called me back. I also called the Nogliarre Office, but they said to call the emergency number. - After several hours no one had called me back. My wife and 11 year old daughter were also with me in the car and were quite upset. - I then called my friend in Saluzzo (our destination from Turin) as well as our hotel and they also tried to call the emergency recovery number. - In the end I drove to a car tyre repair garage. They did NOt have a new run flat tyre but they said they would order one which would arrive on Tuesday 25th July. We were due to return the car on Monday 24th July. In the end, they replaced the flat tyre with a normal tyre so at least we could drive to Saluzzo and not be abandoned in Turin. - They gave me an invoice for the new run flat tyre, BUT they did not want to charge me for changing our tyre to a non- run flat tyre. - Finally we drove away and within a few minutes the low petrol alarm went off. I was told that the petrol tank was almost full when I signed the office documents, but obviously this was incorrect. - we then had to find a petrol station to fill up the petrol tank. We finally left Turin and arrived at 8.30pm over 4.5 hrs after picking up the rental car. This whole episode was awful and I would like to complain about the service we received. I have sent over 20 emails to various people BUT no-one will help me or give me useful info.

