Diver
Georgetown,#2Author of original report
Fri, July 20, 2012
I have received my full refund. I had a productive conversation with the Director of fixed operations, and he informed me that Onan had authorized a full payment of the cost. However, my case was never about notification, rather, proper process for claims filing. I have agreed to the settlement; however, I also expressed my operational concerns about their process of claims filing with the Director of Fixed operations. The fact still remains that after my posting with this site, another consumer site, phone calls to manufacturers and warranty companies, I did immediately receive my refund. Any time a customer has warranty work it is assumed they would not pay every penny of the labor. The process used to secure approval, the timely nature of that process at Colerain, and the ultimate notion that every customer must be prepared to pay all costs up front and then wait for the claim to be filed-is a noteworthy practice to know.
While I was notified numerous times about their costs I continue to disagree with a practice that could delay reimbursement (if at all) up to two weeks. That process is uncommon and in stark contrast to industry standards and warranty companies contacted by this author.
Since Colerain argued that my case was unique the process of claim management would-and should- require a pre-authorization and warranty direction for labor costs that would be in excess of reimbursement. That protects the customer and then the cost estimate at least would be somewhat accurate.
I am, however, satisfied with the refund and the resolve of this matter. While I may be in the 10% of customers that find this type of bill, it is safe to assume that others have found the same issue. I do appreciate the phone call from the Director and the resolve. This is a closed issue, and our disagreement rests only with warranty claim filings and not with communication and notification-that part of their service was fine.
Ray
Cincinnati,#3UPDATE Employee
Fri, July 20, 2012
Colerain RV did make contacts about repair being under warranty. Needed to know a diagnosis of the generator problem before knowing whether it was a covered item or not. Customer authorized pulling generator and fixing problem. We submitted the claim and was waiting for authorization to whether they were paying or not. Customer wanted to pick up so we let him and charged him for the repair. The authorization took a little longer because it had to go to their management team for authorization. After getting that authorization of payment we refunded the customer his money. This repair had nothing to do with where camper was bought or anything else. Company policy is that service has an authorization from a customer or warranty company before any work is performed. How would you like to go to a dealership to pick up your car, truck, rv, camper, boat...whatever, and they tell you everything is fixed but you owe $$$ without you authorizing the repairs? Not the right way to treat your customers and they probably wouldn't return for any additional work.