ty801
01-31-2002, 02:12 AM
this happen to my friend:
I was first recommended by a friend who use their services and says they were good and knowledgeable.
I had a problem with my car jerking on acceleration and he guy in charge there confidently said he had other customers with the same car and the same problem and he fixed it. He said he will change a few things which included clean the fuel injectors.
2 days later, he calls me to collect the car and there's something else he wants to talk to me about. When Im there he says there's a crack in my radiator that need immediate repair or it will cause overheating. The head gasket needs replacement. It strongly recommends that I do it asap. I ask the price and he tells me outright its going to be about $2500-3000!!
That was not the end of it.
He then handed me a $600 bill which consisted of new Bosch spark plugs (he charged me $98 for 4 of them, simply outrageous when anyone can get 4 NGK iridium tip ones for $65). Changed the engine oil ($65 for 3.5L- it must have come in a gold plated bottle). Changed oil filter $15 - ($8 u can get a Ryco or Silverline one fr Repco). And the list goes on, you get the idea. The worst bit is that the problem was still there!!! Paying $600 for listening to someone who thinks he is the God of cars with solutions to your problems is not what I will recommend.
I went back to him afew days later and the attitute I got was very unwelcoming. Inaddition to my problems, the car's idle was very erratic, it stays at 1500rpm and can drop to about 500 or almost till the engine is about to die. The first thing he accuses me of in a annoyed fashion is,"Have you been racing?" I was very very pissed off, the car was in no shape to get from one place to another and he could accuse me of racing??? Even if I did, so what? You mean erratic idling is due to racing??
But does the problem end here?
Of course not.
I also noticed a smell of petrol while driving. I played around with the aircon switches and even tried driving with the windows down for a few days, but the smell never went away. I then looked under the bonnet with the engine running and had the shock of my life!!
When they took the injectors out to clean, they did a very bad job fitting it back. The rubber seals where the injectors meet the engine were actually not siting right!! So everytime you step on the accelerator, it actually pisses fuel out around the engine bay. And after 10mins of driving it actually drips onto the road. If I happened to stop over a lit cigarette, the car would have blown up.
Once again, I had to return to Hybrid and another untrained goon had the cheek to say I was driving too hard. I was at an NRMA fuel injector specialist just an hour b4 and they told me that its impossible for the rubber seals to get pushed out of place, for it to happen you would have to run fuel thru it at a few hundred psi.
Anyway, they fixed it and that was the last of them.
Just last week, a friend of mine was at Hybrid to get his headlight globes with PIAA ones that he supplied, spark plugs changed which he also supplied and a turbo timer fitted.
3hours later, after they fitted the lights and spark plugs, they say they dont know how to fit the turbo timer. They tried and in the process scratched his dash area and the 2 pieces of plastic behind the steering wheel and ignition area now sits with a gap. His car is 1 yr old.
And in the end, they charged him $200, just for changing the lights and spark plugs.
He's never going there again thats for sure.
He also order a cusco strut bar 6 months ago and still waiting
Im not into bringing someone down. But something like this happens to you, how would you feel and what would u do??
If you think what Ive said above is not true then by all means go ahead, but remember you've been warned.
I was first recommended by a friend who use their services and says they were good and knowledgeable.
I had a problem with my car jerking on acceleration and he guy in charge there confidently said he had other customers with the same car and the same problem and he fixed it. He said he will change a few things which included clean the fuel injectors.
2 days later, he calls me to collect the car and there's something else he wants to talk to me about. When Im there he says there's a crack in my radiator that need immediate repair or it will cause overheating. The head gasket needs replacement. It strongly recommends that I do it asap. I ask the price and he tells me outright its going to be about $2500-3000!!
That was not the end of it.
He then handed me a $600 bill which consisted of new Bosch spark plugs (he charged me $98 for 4 of them, simply outrageous when anyone can get 4 NGK iridium tip ones for $65). Changed the engine oil ($65 for 3.5L- it must have come in a gold plated bottle). Changed oil filter $15 - ($8 u can get a Ryco or Silverline one fr Repco). And the list goes on, you get the idea. The worst bit is that the problem was still there!!! Paying $600 for listening to someone who thinks he is the God of cars with solutions to your problems is not what I will recommend.
I went back to him afew days later and the attitute I got was very unwelcoming. Inaddition to my problems, the car's idle was very erratic, it stays at 1500rpm and can drop to about 500 or almost till the engine is about to die. The first thing he accuses me of in a annoyed fashion is,"Have you been racing?" I was very very pissed off, the car was in no shape to get from one place to another and he could accuse me of racing??? Even if I did, so what? You mean erratic idling is due to racing??
But does the problem end here?
Of course not.
I also noticed a smell of petrol while driving. I played around with the aircon switches and even tried driving with the windows down for a few days, but the smell never went away. I then looked under the bonnet with the engine running and had the shock of my life!!
When they took the injectors out to clean, they did a very bad job fitting it back. The rubber seals where the injectors meet the engine were actually not siting right!! So everytime you step on the accelerator, it actually pisses fuel out around the engine bay. And after 10mins of driving it actually drips onto the road. If I happened to stop over a lit cigarette, the car would have blown up.
Once again, I had to return to Hybrid and another untrained goon had the cheek to say I was driving too hard. I was at an NRMA fuel injector specialist just an hour b4 and they told me that its impossible for the rubber seals to get pushed out of place, for it to happen you would have to run fuel thru it at a few hundred psi.
Anyway, they fixed it and that was the last of them.
Just last week, a friend of mine was at Hybrid to get his headlight globes with PIAA ones that he supplied, spark plugs changed which he also supplied and a turbo timer fitted.
3hours later, after they fitted the lights and spark plugs, they say they dont know how to fit the turbo timer. They tried and in the process scratched his dash area and the 2 pieces of plastic behind the steering wheel and ignition area now sits with a gap. His car is 1 yr old.
And in the end, they charged him $200, just for changing the lights and spark plugs.
He's never going there again thats for sure.
He also order a cusco strut bar 6 months ago and still waiting
Im not into bringing someone down. But something like this happens to you, how would you feel and what would u do??
If you think what Ive said above is not true then by all means go ahead, but remember you've been warned.