Here’s a grab of some comments by Volkswagen Australia CEO Michael Bartsch in an interview with motoring journalists in Sydney recently. My only comment about this (and no, I wasn’t invited) was to ask Mr. Bartsch – Michael Bartsch, are you really insane?
Your company is being vilified in all media about the way you’ve treated millions of customer all around the world. Volkswagen has lied to its customers about the performance and credibility of its diesel engines.
And Volkswagen dealers, faced with almost insurmountable criticism from the media and customers, are being asked to lift their game? Surely you must be joking. (I’m not joking and don’t call me surely)From a personal viewpoint, having pretty workshops, smiling advisors MUST be preceded by product quality that goes without question. As a Volkswagen dealer of 8 years, I struggled manfully to provide my customers with a high level of service, to be thwarted by the holier than though attitude of the company.
Best you get your own house in order before holding a gun to your dealers head.
“I think we’re under capacity in the service departments,” he told journalists last week in Sydney. “We have a deficit in terms of our service culture. We have a long way to go. We can do a lot more, we can be far better. “I grew up in a workshop environment and it’s cliché, but you sell the first car in the front (of the dealership), and every other car after that gets sold in the service department.”
He also has a message for dealerships that are lagging behind on the workshop floor; it’s time to shape up. Mr Bartsch said that there is now a “zero tolerance” approach to getting customer service right. “Zero tolerance does not mean that you go about it like an elephant in a china shop,” he said. “Zero tolerance means that you have a consistent, unrelenting message about what one expects, that one is very demanding about how you approach and apply it. “And we mean what we say, and we make the changes as are necessary within the timeframes that we’re working with.”
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1 thought on “Michael Bartsch, Are You Insane?”
Once had a mate of mine – a former VW mechanic – be told it was “within specifications” for his GTI to use a litre of oil every 10 000kms. He doesn’t drive VW anymore.