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CarShield is the largest vehicle service contract company in the nation. We have a national TV and radio campaign. CarShield is endorsed By Ice-T, Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Vivica A. Fox and many more celebrities. Our goal is to drive traffic to our affiliate website https://carshieldprotection.com/. We are open 7 days a week and our business hours are 7:00am CST to 9:00pm CST.
CarShield generally enjoys a positive reputation among customers, praised for its reliable coverage and the significant savings it provides on repair costs. Many users highlight the courteous and helpful nature of customer service representatives, noting smooth claims processes and effective communication. However, concerns persist regarding service delays, particularly in claims processing and the complexity of filing claims. Some customers express frustration with inconsistencies in coverage and support from repair shops. Overall, while CarShield is recognized for its value and customer service, improvements in claim efficiency and clarity of coverage would enhance customer satisfaction.
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This have been an horrible experience. No one can help. Car just sitting in the shop. Can't get CarShield to make the call to the shop to start the work
Received a fraudulent letter alluding to a car and a policy I did not own. HORRENDOUS INTERNAL FRAUD BY EMPLOYEES, scamming for personal data. Complaint portals online to customer service, never work, and ask to refresh over and over and over... they do not want to hear your complaints or expose themselves to another CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT BY THE FCC, AND THE FEDS. SENT YOUR COMPLAINTS DIRECTLY TO THE SHADY CEO, LISTED AS A Mark Travis, thousands of BBC complaints against this company across the US and in Missouri! Looks like it will take another class action lawsuit, to get justice for the many defrauded individuals, and identity theft victims due to internal fraud and employee misconduct!
Will not recommend anyone get warranty with CarShield. I have been keeping up with my maintenance on my car for every little thing. And they try to come up with any reason not to get your car fixed yes. And I feel like they are doing this since I am almost at the end of my warranty they were refusing to fix anything on my car and are coming up with every type of excuse to not fixing my car. They will steady transfer you to different people not lit speaks to the manager say that they are the highest person up knowing that there's somebody else higher than them. If I could I would've never got warranty with them and I would've kept my money because NAV wasted more money dealing with them then I would've had pocket. They refuse to take anything from my mom and pop shop they only want big-name companies receipts. They will try to say that your receipt is fake even though it has everything on there even though it is a real receipt that you got from your mechanic. They tried to say their my receipt was fake and I had never got any service done on my car even though I kept up with everything.
Do NOT Buy! Very unusual there's no pricing information online, so had to fill out form and wait for someone to call. 6 Different Protection Specialist kept calling. Spoke to Cathy, who told me the call would be recorded, and transferred me to Shawn. Shawn gave me prices $183 per month for Silver plan to cover a 08 vehicle. He said the plan changes depending on the car. There is a $200 deductible. You have to wait 20 days and at least 500 miles before you can file a claim. No preexsting conditions are covered. I asked another question, and he just hung up on me. Another person called Skyler very nice, gave the sales pitch tried to connect me to another Production specialist, but I told her to take me off the list. This company just keeps calling. Do not give them your number! This company is out for money! You be better off saving your money in emergency fund, then later fixing the car on your own. No-one likes dealing with insurance companies. I'm glad he hung up, now after reading all the reviews on all the websites. FTC (Federal Trade Commision) should look into this company. Please read the reviews and listen, so you don't waste your money! Good Luck!
Carshield is a scam. They have numerous actors and actresses on their commercials in California yet at the bottom of the screen during the end of commercial it states that they do not offer services in California. Why are the commercials aired in a state that does not offer the services? Carshield and their hired actors are frauds who are just looking to make a dollar regardless if they are purposely misleading people.
Skid Mark Travis has been ripping people off since 2005! He's decided not to remove me from his list of victims and sends 20 emails per day.
They are a scam and I don't know how any celeb that cares about their fan base can endorse such a lousy company.
This is the worst of the worst companies out there. Please save yourself money time and headache stay away from CarShield. They are a fraud I am surprised they have not been investigated. With a so called gold plan i ended up paying more money because I had CarShield. If you still have them cancel it immediately warn your family members coworkers neighbors stay away from this fraudulent company
Carshield does NOT pay for repairs like they claim to. I have the gold protection coverage which includes enhanced powertrain coverage. My transmission started having issues and the adjuster said they would NOT cover ANY repairs because it was a "PRE-EXISTING CONDITION". I purchased Carshield to give me peace of mind because it was a 5 year old vehicle and I had no records of how the previous owners maintained the car. Well, Carshield will not cover repairs that were due to the negligence of the previous owner. I asked the adjuster what was the point of used car warranty if that was the case and he said did not know. The adjuster's name is Mark. They send out an inspector that works for them which will find a way to get away with not having to pay for repairs. Mark also clearly told me on the phone that the only thing they could cover was the diagnostics test then refused to cover that as well. I called the Carshield claims department asking for Mark to give me a call and they said he didn't have to call me and then pretended that they couldn't hear me and hung up on me. NEVER IN MY LIFE HAVE I EVER DEALT WITH SUCH A FRAUDULENT, UNETHICAL, UNPROFESSIONAL COMPANY. I highly recommend you do not waste your money on this company or expect for them to pay for any repairs.
These lying scan People Is a big rip off. I made payments Of $89.99 every month on my warranty with car shield, Unfortunately I had problems with my vehicle after making about 6 to 7 payments. I took my vehicle to the Honda dealership. I got them to check it out and come to find out there were problems with my motor. Some of the problems I had was part of what car shield was suppose to cover on their warranty, missed fire cylinders, and Other things that I don't remember. Carshild told the Honda Service department that they had to take my motor out of my vehicle so that they (carshield) could inspect my vehicle to see if The warranty cover the problem that was going on with my vehicle. I had just had a oil change 2 weeks before my vehicle started acting up, so carshield did their bull crap inspection, and they said that the oil was black and had not been changed for a long time; I knew that was a lie, Therefore they were not going to fix the vehicle because of a lack of maintenance says carshield. Now I'm stuck with the $6000 debt that I have to pay Before I can get my vehicle back. I'd like to say to Ice T and any other celebrity that's lying to promote carshield's bull crap wwarranty, Stop lying for these people at car shield, You're only making yourself look bad. I would like to say to carshield you people oh you people will get what you deserve, Because what goes around comes back around be careful how you do people Because it will get done back to you but worse. Take it from a person that fear God. The only reason I added the star, because it would not let me submit until I did add a star.
This loathsome company uses third party spammers to constantly inundate my email with ads for their company. No legitimate company on earth needs to enlist the services of low life spammers to hawk their products. I definitely would not spend my money on any company that uses the same spammers pushing porn sites and fake medications.
Why buy something when they are spending billions on advertising. Rapper/ television celebrity ice t. Stands there acting like he's concerned as he really owns any car he wishes. I'm not donating my money to ice t a multi billionaire.
Here I am faithfully paying to have my car covered because my dealer warranty was over. I faithfully kept up my vehicle maintenance. Then it happened my car went down in my mind great I got Car Shield... NOT! They refused to pay for my repair after I explained to them even the Hyundai mechanic told me on the low it was a defective engine part that never turned on the check engine light even when the car became undriveable still no check engine light. So car shield wants to classify it as driver error when in fact it was a manufacturer defect and not pay for my repair. They said i would have to go thru a process in order to debate it. Meanwhile I'd be without my car and even while it was in the shop they would not give me a car rental. Basically all the money i paid to Car Shield was apparently just to have a car tow service cause that's all they did and looking at these reviews here these are the ones they don't post on their site the real ones. They are a Rip off I wouldn't recommend them to my dog cause they'd still be useless. I will moving forward come to these reviews as opposed to Google reviews. UPDATE I received a letter from Hyundai recalling my former car for the exact issue that Carshield refused to repair thus supporting what I told carshield the hyundai mechanic told me on the low there was a defect in the engine and that Carshield was wrong to write me off as "operator error" and refuse to pay for the repair.
Car Shield asked for my customer service survey and comments. I was happy to oblige:
Due to my experience with Car Shield, I will spend the rest of my life, educating everyone I know regarding the abomination of the rip-off that Carshield is...$1300 repair estimate and Carshield agreed to pay ALL, but $1253 of it. I will no longer watch ESPN nor Law and Order SVU because of celebrity support and encouragement to steal money from the middle class. What was their cut for promoting false advertisement?... my total cost for $1300 in repairs came to $1736, thanks to carshield's 2 monthly premiums for my 2 jeeps.
PS... why is there no option for no stars?
First I would advise folks to review the BBB rating. They have settled a 1,000 claims this past year in the NW.
I went to their web site after seeing numerous TV ads. Barely finished filling out the info (to get quote supposedly) when I got a call. First guy asked how many miles on car and was everything okay. He then immediately transferred me to Vince (salesman). Vince asked how many miles on the car and was everything okay.
He then went into a sales pitch about the low miles on my car and I qualified for the Diamond level. Hard to get a word in during the sales pitch. He went on to describe the benefits for only $129.99 a month. I asked about other levels of coverage, Vince stated that my low miles made the Diamond coverage the same price as the Platinum and as I was a first time called I could get the Diamond coverage for $109.99 a month. I asked for a copy of the contract.
Vince did not want to send me a copy but said I would get one as soon as I paid the $109.99 and had 30 days to cancel. He stated the contract was exclusionary and if it wasn't listed in the contract it was covered. After going back and forth he finally e-mailed me a sample contract, all 24 pages. I asked him who I should call after I looked this over and made my decision. He wanted to wait while I read it. Told him that 214 pages was a lot of pages to list the things that weren't covered and I didn't think he wanted to wait while I read it. I said that I didn't think he wanted to wait while I read the whole thing. He said take my time and immediately put me hold with music playing.
I hung up.
Other reviews have stated how hard it is to cancel the contract. How they have an excuse for not covering a claim. The BBB has an very derogatory statement regarding reviews and complaints.
Heed the warnings from other Posters. CarShield is [not] insurance. All similar companies use the same model--it's also identical or similar to home service warranties.
Read contract exclusions before you call to subject yourself to a fast-talking "used car salesperson" type verbal assault. Focus on specific exclusions and "what if's" that favor the company not the consumer.
Read here: https :// carshield. Com/policies/Platinum%20Comprehensive. Pdf
Next, Read here:
https://carshield.com/protection-plans/sample-policies/
This is the worst company ever, they take so long to answer the phone the shops cannot wait on hold, they will not refund you money if they do not pre-approve the work.
I called in for the shop and spent 4 hours on hold waiting, I used another phone in the shop called in just to be told I have been on hold in the wrong department. Once i finally get a hold of someone they denied my claim even though i had the top policy,
When I called in to cancel the policy the representative said and I quote "You ain't had nothing better to do than hold yo phone on hold for 4 hours.", then she said "Yo car aint going to get fixed over night" when i told her mine was already waiting just to have the part placed she then said, "That ain't how it works with Car Shield"
As a full time nursing student in an accelerated program, with a full time and a part time job i have plenty i could have done but seeing as i need my car i made the time to sit there.
My reviews are on this site and many people have responded to them.
This money grubbing group bilks people like you out of your hard earned money and gets away with it.
Help me shut them down by filing a complaint with the Better Business Bureau in your area. Most importantly, DONT CALL THEM!
They do fix what they say, if its not any reason it broke besides a act of god. You gotta pay for labor to rip it out and rip it down, just to see it they will cover it. Then pay once they say no. If's it electrical or uses electricity your going pay outta pocket. It's a old system that covers old parts. Basically just the cam and gears, and plates and bands in transmission none of the electrical switches. Most have at least 6+. Save your money for your repair as these guys won't help you.
The price and "Platinum" plan I was initially quoted suddenly got switched to a more expensive but less expansive "Gold" plan when I was actually trying to pay for this warranty and no one seemed to know why. I know why... this is a classic bait-and-switch deal. And you will wait at least two weeks before/if they pay your mechanic for any car repairs. Just a real shady way to do business. Avoid at all costs.
Answer: It's affordable, excellent customer service, and efficient claim precessing!
Answer: Great question! Please give us a call and we can answer any questions you may have!
Answer: Carchex & endurance. But beware if any car warranty!
Answer: Car Shield only SELLS the policies. American Auto Warranty is the company that administers is the warranty. BBB grades them an 'F' rating & I agree.
Answer: That depends on the level of coverage that your vehicle qualifies for at the time you set up coverage. Give us a call with your VIN and mileage and we would be more than happy to go over that with you!