Catastrophic customerservice
After 5 years the accu of my watt bike needed replacement.
I tried for to get hold of someone (the number here on trustpilot also doesn’t work anymore), but without much success. Neither did my dealer succed.
After week the customer service finally responded and shared how we „can order an accu“.
Well, not quite. In fact my dealer got a message that he can send them the accu so that it gets renewed. However, the BMS will stay the old. So I would get a new accu for almost 400 Eur excluding VAT. And it might that the accu is then okay but the BMS is not working anymore. In this case the whole accu would have been sunk costs.
They are not replying neither on whatapp, nor by email nor to my dealer.
This feels to me like a scam - nothing else.
In othe electrical bikes you get a new Bosch accu for 500 Euro.
Update and reaction on the post from Watt.
This is not a misunderstanding.
Important for all who are reading this: The BMS (mini computer) sits in the accu and a new accu means that the BMS gets replaced too, not only the cells.
In my case I can now pay 390 Eur for new cells but doesn’t get a new BMS. Testing a BMS doesn’t mean anything. The BMS can just become defect a couple of days after testing and then I would have paid 390 Eur for nieuw cells, but my bike remains impossible to use.
Watt, stop treating your customers like they are stupid. I have now spent over 6 weeks with Watt on this matter, only to understand what I have described above.
My bike from Watt is just 5 years old and now effectively unusable. That’s the truth.
Reply from WATT E-Bike