Customer Beware
As a private individual, I contacted Kontroltek to seek a quotation to service a 12VDC motor, used to operate the anchor windlass on my boat. The motor was still in fair working order but had lost some performance over time. The Regional manager offered me a free quotation and assured me that if for any reason I did not wish to accept the quote, my motor would be returned to me for the sole cost of shipping. The quote I received from Kontroltek was 1.5 X the cost of a new motor, so I declined the work, requested the return of my motor and paid for the shipping.
Instead of receiving my motor assembled and working, I received a box of parts with two key components missing, without which the motor was useless. I challenged Kontroltek and requested that they find and return the missing parts. Expecting that they would soon do this, I sent the motor to another company for appraisal. They carried out some minor cleaning and polishing work but could not reassemble and test the motor without the missing parts. By this time, Kontroltek had claimed that all the parts were returned to me in the box. Whereas I had photographic proof of what was received in the box, they have no photographs nor a packing slip to prove their claim.
Over a 3 month period I continued to pursue Kontroltek about the missing parts and the fact that they had not reassembled the motor as they received it in the first place which led to the situation of the missing parts.I I was informed that returning equipment in pieces after it has been examined to provide a service or repair quotation is Kontroltek’s company policy. However, at no point was I informed of this policy before handing over my motor nor was I given the option of paying to have it put back together before it left the workshop. Kontroltek also stated that this is "industry standard” but after enquiring with 3 other similar UK companies I found this is most certainly not the case. Eventually Kontroltek told me I should send the motor back to them, which I assumed meant they had found the parts. After weeks of waiting, I yet again received my motor back as a box of parts, now with just one piece missing, and was informed by Kontroltek that they would not reassemble the motor now giving the excuse that someone else had worked on it.
I have no doubt that Kontroltek will craft a plausible and polite rebuttal to this negative review. In the end it boils down to being my word against theirs that the parts were lost while the motor was in the Kontroltek workshop and the effort involved in trying to reason with them is simply not worth it. But the fact remains that I began my relationship with Kontroltek in possession of a working motor and ended it with an incomplete box of essentially useless parts. At least the new motor, which I now have no option but to buy, will be significantly cheaper than the work quoted by Kontroltek.
Gary Hancock
8 de março de 2022
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