Found Painted Quarter Panel of Car before Delivery

He is least bothered as he has the entire payment and car is registered in my name.

My complaint number with Tata is 5-166971298694

Dear Singh Sahab,

Hi. I understand the awkward situation in which the dealer has put you in, and to dismay dealer is not understanding the sensitivity of the sitiuation. He may be selling like 80 to 100 cars a month on regular basis, but for a customer - its like 1 car after 5 to 10 yrs of his hard work to satisfy his desire, feel, need of owning a brand new car

and when you buy top of line product of a brand which cost in price band of 25 Lakh or so - it turns equally important for a dealer to showcase the best of customer service, premium experience.

Coming to Specific case as mentioned by you
See there are 2 alternatives
1. Legal way
2. Mutual Understanding

Legal way is based on pretext that you paid money for buying a Brand New Car which in itself means that car should be free from any kind of scratches, dents, repairs and should be straight from factory condition.

Any kind of Repairing or Repainting on a Brand New Car is simply breach of Trust, Contract of New Car Sale where as per Judgement announced by Supreme court under Civil Appeal Number 574/2021 - which was represented earlier by District Forum and later State Commission, National Commission to Supreme Court level - some ket take aways in the judgement

1. the customer when he buys new vehicle, he is under the impression that a new vehicle would be defect free

2. it concluded that the appellant sold to Vaz, the defective car manufactured by it, and the dealer and the appellant were liable for sale of the defective car

3. “the sale of its goods is undertaken by the Manufacturer through its dealers, the Manufacturer exercises superintendence over its dealers including the right to terminate their dealerships

4. the National Commission held that the relationship of the dealer and the appellant in the facts appearing from the record, did not absolve it of liability

5. “It is shameful that a defective car was sought to be sold as a brand new car and instead of acknowledging the defects, the manufacturer chose to deny its liability.”

and many other statements which were critic against Dealer and Car Manufacturer which in this case was Tata Motors too
So either a case can be fought and you can actually reject the car delivery too

But this will involve
a. Years of Patience
b. Although can use previous ruling as base, but still a low probability that case may linger in court for years with opposite verdict may feature in too.

Other way is Mutual Way: Its understood that car front panel had some scratches, and lets admit that such scratches can appear during ownership of car too. As can be seen that such scratches are very minor - a better way would be to compromise on
> by taking the way as it is or repaint panel ( to my view no repaint necessary for such a small issue )
> Avail a compensation as goodwill extended warranty or free accessories pack or free body care treatment of car

You can definitely escalate to Tata Motors and involve dealer too and cite that you buying premium most product from TML with harrowing purchase experience where dealer remained silent till D day of delivery about scratches and spoiled in purchase experience. You can also mention about previous case where TML lost due to similar issue

Still, you ready to consider it as exception provided amicaby compensated for the error in terms of goodwill extended warranty for 5 yrs.

But definitely not the way to repaint the panel and hand it over without taking any responsibility.
Hope should help !!

Feel free to connect for any followup queries if any.

Dealer is adamant and not offering any discount or extended warranty. Perhaps only option for me is now to file case against dealer.

I Suggest to write to

customercare@tatamotors.com

and also to

Email hidden for privacy use

to take it ahead.
Its advisable to get a response from OEM - and not to base decision basis communication with dealer junior staff. As legal process in itself is complicating and time consuming.

Thanks, I have written to them now.

Shall be taking delivery tomorrow as my money is struck.

However if I dont get reply from leadership I shall take legal route. It may be lengthy route but I cannot let them cheat me and enjoy.

Email to CEO worked. Got call from Tata and dealership aswell.

Got third party PDI, the paint issue was gone. Anyways dealership gave me additionally teflon and anti rust coating( they said it's worth 9k) but for me it's nothing more than marketing gimmick.

Also got discount of 17% on accessories.

I didn't push for anything further asy problem was rectified and dealership was down to their knees( due to email from Shailesh's office).

Thanks

I need one more assistance from you.

Wanted to know is it worth taking Gold/silver AMC or extended warranty and what's your view on Part to part protect by Tata.

Dear Mr Singh,

To View AMC Packages prices have increased offlate in recent years and somehow dont call for value, so that can be avoided

Extended warranty yes is recommended as it cost around 1% of price of car and part failure probability is higher in later years.

Hope should help !!