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Today, Ford India inaugurated its unique ‘Quick Service’ station, a unique process of vehicle servicing, at its dealership NCR Ford, Mohan Cooperative Industrial Area (opposite NTPC Gate), Mathura Road, New Delhi.

The Quick Service process was inaugurated by Nigel Wark, executive director, Marketing, Sales and Service, Ford India.

The Quick Service initiative, allows Ford dealers in India to service the vehicle and hand it over to the customer in just an hour or so. This new initiative results into a lot of time saving for the Ford customers at the authorized dealers, unlike in the past when periodic vehicle servicing for the customers was a whole day affair.

The Quick Service initiative was a result of a review of the current servicing procedure and shaving off everything that wasted time. The Quick Service bay becomes the interactive reception area to eliminate the flow between reception and bay. This means the bay is in clear view from the customer lounge, providing transparency to the process in a clean and conducive environment.

The equipment has been standardized to facilitate the process, thereby providing unmatched services to the customers. Two technicians working on the car have step-by-step instructions to synchronise the servicing process thereby reducing turnaround time for service completion. For example, in a 10,000-km maintenance service, the technicians would only need to hoist the vehicle once instead of two or three times.

In addition, everything that the technicians require such as parts, oil, air and water are available in the bay so that they don’t have to get them from the parts counter, oil room and materials room, thereby saving time. The ‘Quick Service’ process complements Ford’s current Quality Care procedure for scheduled servicing.

”The ‘Quick Service’ process maximizes space utilisation, thereby improving dealers’ productivity” said Ford India’s Customer Service Operations general manager, Arias Jesus Metelo, who initiated this concept in India.

So far, 25 dealership outlets have implemented ‘Quick Service’ in markets such as Mumbai, Hyderabad Bangalore, Delhi and Chennai. And dealers are clamouring for this new process because it’s certainly making the customers happy.

One of the dealers said, ”The dealership will be able to service eight vehicles per bay per day now, up from two vehicles in the past.”

”It’s a win-win situation as customer gets to spend lesser time at dealership and there is an overall increase in the service capacity of the facility, thus keeping customers happy and totally satisfied,” added Nigel.

As with the excellence in quality invested in our carlines and a better cost of ownership, the Quick Service Station initiative is an extension of Ford India’s commitment to introduce world-class customer service programs in India.

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