Our vehicles are not immune to breakdowns or wear and tear, and when any of those occur, we would send them to the nearest workshop to be fixed at a reasonable price.
A man was left flabbergasted and wondered whether he had become a victim of daylight robbery after he was left with a staggering bill over what was supposed to be a simple replacement of a tyre.
Had nail lodged in car’s rear tyre
According to the OP’s lengthy post on Xiaohongshu, he said he found a nail stuck within the rear tyre of his Nissan Almera, leading him to send it to a nearby workshop.
As the workshop’s owner worked on fixing the tyre, he told the OP that one of the tyres’ thread was extremely worn out and offered to check it out.
After the inspection, the workshop owner said the car’s lower suspension arm had cracked and the absorber needed replacing as it was damaged.
The OP revealed the whole replacement package (front absorbers, lower arms, absorber covers) plus two tyres came up to RM2,150, adding he also replaced the rear absorbers for the sake of safety, thus bringing the total amount to RM2,500.
Little did he know that things were only going to escalate further.
M’sian man hit with over RM4K in ‘upgrades’
The OP said the workshop owner dropped him home as the car repairs would take up to three hours.
15 minutes later, the OP was informed that he would be charged RM600 for the replacing of absorber mountings which had worn out, which he agreed to albeit reluctantly.
“10 minutes later, the workshop owner called again and said the brake pads and brake discs had worn out and needed to be replaced too. At his recommendation, I changed those too, adding another RM960 to the bill.
So from just fixing a tyre, I ended up replacing so many things that I spent a total of RM4,420. That’s my entire monthly salary gone,” he lamented.
The OP then turned to netizens for help and asked whether he had been fleeced or that the RM4,420 bill was the standard amount.
‘You got scammed, bro’
In the comment section, netizens believed the OP had foolishly allowed the workshop owner to ‘sweet-talk’ him into making those upgrades, with some saying the latter was probably laughing his way to the bank.
Another pointed out the OP could have avoided the RM4,420 bill if he had just asked for a quotation first and compare prices with other workshops before agreeing to the repairs.
Meanwhile, a netizen advised the OP to file a complaint with the small claims court if the workshop owner refused to revise the bill amount.
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