SFG267
Active Member
Just changed my tyres at a big shop near bukit batok nature park and they recommended that I get my wheel aligned as well. Its at a discount as I had purchased new tyres. So I tot, ok, do it.
WORSE MISTAKE I EVER MADE. Totally regret doing so.
Saw a thread in this forum that some of you are worried about your car's alignment and the cost associated with doing a wheel alignment, well, DONT EVER GO TO (this place that i cannot name as it is against the forum rules, PM me if you cant guess that place. Haha, in my unedited post initially, i put the shop name then my fren pointed out that its against the rules, moderators, sorry k! but do pm me if its ok to post the shop name, i believe everyone here deserves to be warned of this place) to get anything remotely mechanical done. Here is my story.
PML's "digital" wheel alignment costs about $300plus.... Its expensive.... When AxxxBxxS offered me to do it for $120 and assured me that their system is digital and laser guided as well, I thought, that a good deal.
After AxxxBxxS did their so called "digital laser guided, with report printed out" wheel alignment for me, my car's alignment was worse than ever. To drive straight, my steering wheel has to be tilted left at an angle.
I went back on the very day to ask them to ractify the problem. But it turned out they made it even worse. I went back the next day, for the third time, to get them to ractify the problem again. I spent 4 hours there, while they took my car for "test drives" where I can see and hear them trashing my car at high revs the moment they leave the gate. Moreover, the way they took out the tyres to "check" the wheels' balance was heart wrenching. (Imagine, see two guys kick your tyres off the car, and the rims hitting your brake assembly with a 'kunk! before falling to the ground!)
After 4 hours, they still could not get my alignment right and worse thing is that they have used up an eighth of my petrol on their "test drives" and my car now has funny noises when i release my foot brake to move off. And when i am stopping, the brakes give off funny flapping noises too. Now I have to spend even more money to get my wheel aligned and fix the brake noise.
Total Damage:
Additional wheel alignment at somewhere more reputable,
Cost to fix my brakes,
Cost of petrol,
Heart ache of seeing and hearing my car abused,
7 hours of my time in total over two days,
Paying money to have wheel alignment, but ending up wasting my precious time and with wheels even more misaligned and more problems than before--- PRICELESS!
Moral of the Story:
NEVER GO TO AxxxBxxS TO FIX YOUR CAR or you will be in a worse FIX than ever:furious: !!!!!
WORSE MISTAKE I EVER MADE. Totally regret doing so.
Saw a thread in this forum that some of you are worried about your car's alignment and the cost associated with doing a wheel alignment, well, DONT EVER GO TO (this place that i cannot name as it is against the forum rules, PM me if you cant guess that place. Haha, in my unedited post initially, i put the shop name then my fren pointed out that its against the rules, moderators, sorry k! but do pm me if its ok to post the shop name, i believe everyone here deserves to be warned of this place) to get anything remotely mechanical done. Here is my story.
PML's "digital" wheel alignment costs about $300plus.... Its expensive.... When AxxxBxxS offered me to do it for $120 and assured me that their system is digital and laser guided as well, I thought, that a good deal.
After AxxxBxxS did their so called "digital laser guided, with report printed out" wheel alignment for me, my car's alignment was worse than ever. To drive straight, my steering wheel has to be tilted left at an angle.
I went back on the very day to ask them to ractify the problem. But it turned out they made it even worse. I went back the next day, for the third time, to get them to ractify the problem again. I spent 4 hours there, while they took my car for "test drives" where I can see and hear them trashing my car at high revs the moment they leave the gate. Moreover, the way they took out the tyres to "check" the wheels' balance was heart wrenching. (Imagine, see two guys kick your tyres off the car, and the rims hitting your brake assembly with a 'kunk! before falling to the ground!)
After 4 hours, they still could not get my alignment right and worse thing is that they have used up an eighth of my petrol on their "test drives" and my car now has funny noises when i release my foot brake to move off. And when i am stopping, the brakes give off funny flapping noises too. Now I have to spend even more money to get my wheel aligned and fix the brake noise.
Total Damage:
Additional wheel alignment at somewhere more reputable,
Cost to fix my brakes,
Cost of petrol,
Heart ache of seeing and hearing my car abused,
7 hours of my time in total over two days,
Paying money to have wheel alignment, but ending up wasting my precious time and with wheels even more misaligned and more problems than before--- PRICELESS!
Moral of the Story:
NEVER GO TO AxxxBxxS TO FIX YOUR CAR or you will be in a worse FIX than ever:furious: !!!!!
