A terrible experience
At 37 years old I've never left a bad review, even if I've had a less than satisfactory experience. However, I feel very strongly about my recent Kallenhard experience.
I purchased a 2019 Porsche 718 Cayman T. Before leaving a second deposit on the car, I was promised that the car would undergo a full service (to Porsche spec) with their sister company ''RPM Technik'. This wasn't the case and they instead got a local garage to do an oil and filter change. Their excuse was that RPM didn't have availability as soon as the other garage did, even though I had made it clear that I wasn't in a hurry for the car, and that I wanted it to be properly prepared. This was overcome by a small reimbursement made to me.
When collecting the car, it hadn't been cleaned to a good standard at all. I werent bothered by this though, as I was just happy to be driving it home.
Almost immediately after collecting the vehicle, I realised that it wouldn't always start at the turn of the key. I also noticed that the car was leaking oil. After undergoing an AA inspection, a oil filter and oil change and an MOT, I was very surprised to find these issues so soon after my purchase. I wanted to give Kallenhard the opportunity to rectify the issues, so I spoke to them on the phone. During the initial phone call I was told that it was normal for all cars to leak some oil, and that the car does start at times, they therefore couldn't see what the issue was. This is not what I wanted to hear, so with this, I decided to excerise my right to reject the car as it was within 30 days since I had collected it. This was not a straight forward process whatsoever, as they initially told me that it wasn't feasible for them to take the car back and refund me. I had to involve the finance company as I felt that I was getting nowhere with them. Kallenhard then told me that I'd need to take the car to a VAT registered garage to get proof of the issues (as photos and videos weren't sufficient) and that if issues were found, that they'd reimburse me the diagnostic cost. I was able to provide this evidence to them along with many other unknown errors appearing on the diagnostic machine. Yes, it had other things wrong with the car. Even then, they accused the diagnostic machine used by the garage as not being the correct one. The finance company told them they would fully support me legally to reject the vehicle. It took for Kallenhard to eventually seek legal advice to realise that they had no choice but to accept my decision to reject the car.
Sometime during this process the managing director at Kallenhard told me that he felt that I had only purchased the car to show off to my friends and family, and since I'd now done that, I wanted to return it. Completely inaccurate and unprofessional in my opinion.
It was a very long and stressful process and I'd advise anybody to avoid this company, no matter how much you like the car you see for sale. I was lucky to eventually get my money back for the car, but to this day, they still haven't refunded me the diagnostic charge which I had to pay to the garage although they said that they would.
A very disapointing and stressful experience indeed.
June 2, 2025
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