I give "0" stars, but the review process MADE me have to check at least one star, and will never use Safelite again!!! I unfortunately had a run in with a wild turkey and my windshield was completely shattered and pushed in on the DRIVER's SIDE of my vehicle. Got the suv home and filed claim with my insurance company that night, Monday, they told me to call who I wanted to have the windshield repaired. Unfortunately the glass company that I had used for over 25 years, with excellent service and customer service, had sold out and was no longer in business. So I decided to try Safelite had seen so many commercials about how service oriented they were. Started off ok, the representative I talked with the next morning was pleasant and helpful. Was not happy that it was going to be two more days before they could get out to repair it but I scheduled the appointment for Thursday. To start, my appointment was in a 4 hour window, 8am - 12pm, their ads make it sound they can pinpoint a time and be there at that time, fail to say they will call you when they are on the way and give you the exact time. Wife sat at home waiting for them to show. 12pm came and no windshield repair yet. Neighbor calls my wife, and says a window repair vehicle pulled up in her yard and then back out and left and she knew that I was waiting for a repair. At this point my wife had not heard from Safelite. She waited a few minutes to see if he would come back to the proper address, house numbers on mailbox in BIG numbers easy to find, but no show. She called the number that was in the text message sent confirming the appointment that day to find out where the tech was. The customer service rep that she talked with she said was extremely rude and in no way helpful. He told her that the tech said that he pulled in the drive and did not see the vehicle and thought we had decided not to repair, "WELL HELLO" if you are at the wrong address you won't see the vehicle!! She asked the customer service rep to contact him and get him to come back. He told her that was not possible, that he would have to reschedule the appointment. Then he told her the next appointment would be on Monday, this is Thursday we had been waiting 3 days already and now he is telling us we have the wait another 4 days. She tried explaining that the car was not drivable and that we needed it repaired before the weekend. The CSR kept cutting her off and telling her there was nothing he could do. She ended up hanging up with no resolution. She tried calling again to a different number and got a representative in Columbia, SC that was a bit nicer and willing to try and help out and resolve things. She contact the tech while she had my wife on the on the phone and he told her that when he completed the job he was working on that he would return and do the repair on my vehicle. GREAT problem solved!! NOT SO FAST!!! Tech does show back up at 3 PM, wife gives him the keys and he goes out to repair the windshield. Wife says in just a few minutes he is back at the door saying, "You're not going to believe this but I have the wrong windshield." WHAT!?!?! Ok then well go get the right one and come back and replace it!! Sorry it doesn't work that way, we will have to reschedule for Monday we are booked up tomorrow he says. Well, my wife didn't take that too well and gets back on the phone with the representative who WAS helpful. The rep did some over-riding and got my vehicle back in the schedule now for Friday. Now the email I get on Friday morning says that my appointment window is 8 AM - 5 PM! WHAT!?!?! I should be the first priority at 8 AM since I was not taken care of on Thursday when my appointment was scheduled. This is BEYOND NON - ACCEPTABLE SERVICE!!!! It's now Friday waiting to see when and if they show up! I WILL NEVER USE OR RECOMMEND SAFELITE AUTO GLASS SERVICE!!!! SAFELITE you are a SERVICE PROVIDER you better get a grip on that very fast!!!!
UPDATE TO MY REVIEW: I finally got my windshield replaced on Friday morning. The tech that came out Kenneth was much more cordial and helpful than some of the Safelite people we dealt with the day before. He made sure we were taken care of and worked hard in the heat until he completed the job. One issue arose and he promised to take care of it. Within a couple of hours after leaving Kenneth called and said that he had ordered the parts to take care of the issue and would pick up my car and take it to the shop and repair it next week and bring back to me. KUDO'S to Kenneth!!! If all of Safelite's employees were this pleasant and helpful I would use again, but due to all of the issues prior to Kenneth finally getting me squared away, this is still going to be my first and last experience with Safelite and I will definitely warn friends to stay away!!! Thank you Kenneth for your efforts in making things right!!! read more