Worsening customer service?

I’m sorry to have to post it here, but I wonder whether others are experiencing what I am - and whether the management are aware of the issues (@marc )

I won’t go into the full details of my issue, but while car sharing does include car insurance, the experience of going through this has been pretty poor. But more importantly. the feedback and support I am getting through customer service is making it even worse.

I don’t know if the insurance processing is outsourced or managed by remote staff, but to say “we cannot answer that because the member of staff doesn’t work until 11pm” is not a good answer. I was told multiple times that questions had been passed on internally, and when chasing over a week later, then being told the message had not reached the person responsible … but “The process for escalating messages is straightforward and cannot be simplified any further.”

When I try to get an answer today, I’m told customer service staff will raise it with a colleague, then do not answer for over 6 hours, and the member of staff dealing with it appears to go offline.

I’m already incredibly frustrated to be without my car for over 2 weeks, but also that this is now going to mean a booking will have to be cancelled at the last minute for no reason.

Come on Hiyacar! You’re losing your main supporters this way.

I know I’ve just called you and explained the situation over the phone but I wanted to post something here for transparency too.


Insurance is, and always will be a moving target. We’ve changed some of our internal processes for handling claims, and our insurer has also changed some of their claims processes.

Ultimately these changes should result in smoother and faster resolution of claims but unfortunately your claim has been affected negatively by this while we get to grips with these new processes and for that I am very sorry.

We will learn from your experience here and feed this back to our customer services team.

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I’d like to acknowledge that after posting this in frustration, I had a very helpful call from the senior team who got personally involved, and I’m happy this is now going to get resolved.

However, I think the post reflects a frustration about the process that others may have experienced and if so it might be helpful to know so it might be addressed.

Then again, it might have been a one-off and I’ve been unlucky, in which case we can celebrate and continue to enjoy the car-sharing revolution.

I’m off to cool down / chill out