Has anyone used RoadServe?

stonedave

Recently came across Roadserve whilst searching through the royal mail employee benefits online. the advertised price is £89.99 per year however the royal mail price is £12.99 or caravan club price is £11.99. It offers to bring members the benefits that can usually only be enjoyed by fleet car drivers.
The main advantages are threefold:
Job control - a professional, technical expert works with the repairer to ensure that all work proposed is absolutely necessary and justified. For example, that the wear level on brake pads or discs is such that it warrants changing.
Cost control - using manufacturer and industry standard data, maintenance controllers check that the right amount of hours are being charged, and the right amount of consumables such as lubricants etc are being used.
Thirdly, as part of a fleet maintenance scheme, members enjoy the discounts we are able to negotiate with repairers.
Basically they claim to save an average of 30% off service and repair bills, equally to hundreds and even thousands of pounds for some people. However i cant find much info or reviews online so leaves me a bit sceptical, but at £12 my be worth a punt.

Just want to know if anyone has had experience with this company before?

atrixblue.-MFR-.

stonedave wrote: »

Recently came across Roadserve whilst searching through the royal mail employee benefits online. the advertised price is £89.99 per year however the royal mail price is £12.99 or caravan club price is £11.99. It offers to bring members the benefits that can usually only be enjoyed by fleet car drivers.
The main advantages are threefold:
Job control - a professional, technical expert works with the repairer to ensure that all work proposed is absolutely necessary and justified. For example, that the wear level on brake pads or discs is such that it warrants changing.
Cost control - using manufacturer and industry standard data, maintenance controllers check that the right amount of hours are being charged, and the right amount of consumables such as lubricants etc are being used.
Thirdly, as part of a fleet maintenance scheme, members enjoy the discounts we are able to negotiate with repairers.
Basically they claim to save an average of 30% off service and repair bills, equally to hundreds and even thousands of pounds for some people. However i cant find much info or reviews online so leaves me a bit sceptical, but at £12 my be worth a punt.

Just want to know if anyone has had experience with this company before?

never heared of them, never heared of an engineer baby sitting your car for you whilst its in a garage what garage owner is going to let random joe form a company in his garage to watch he doesn't over charge and replace unnecessary parts.


and how long will you have to wait to arrange a baby sitter for your car and wallet. sounds too good to be true. probably is.

custardy

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

never heared of them, never heared of an engineer baby sitting your car for you whilst its in a garage what garage owner is going to let random joe form a company in his garage to watch he doesn't over charge and replace unnecessary parts.


and how long will you have to wait to arrange a baby sitter for your car and wallet. sounds too good to be true. probably is.

It says 'works with'
Sounds more like an intermediary auditing the proposed work/costs/parts etc.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

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Nodding_Donkey

So how do you justify dropping the price from £90 to £12?

ETA and your website doesn't work.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

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gilbert_and_sullivan

Nodding_Donkey wrote: »

So how do you justify dropping the price from £90 to £12?

ETA and your website doesn't work.

Can't get in via a proxy either.


Seems a good way to instantly destroy the relationship built up over years with your trusted (why would you deal with someone you don't trust) garage.

I can just imagine the reaction from my scrupulously fair dealing gentleman indy if i informed him that some unheard of company on the internet was going to vet his work and charges and somehow going to inspect every single widget from afar to confirm it actually needed replacement, if i was daft enough to try this i'd do a Billy Bunter and stuff the yellow pages down me britches so his steel toe cap didn't do me a mischief as i hobbled away for the last time.

£12 would buy 4 or 5 Greggs breakfast roll and coffee deals, that's where my £12 is going.

forgotmyname

£12? They will come and hold my hand at the garage whenever i take it in and make sure i get charged the correct amount and dont get ripped off. for £12 a year?

How will they make money on that?


Not only does the website not work, They cannot even get the address correct when registering it.

Company net worth £6?