Hey guys, my dad has forked out nearly 15k over the past 3 months just to fix our car problems.

The thing is, the workshop we went to, City Alignment at Damansara Jaya, is overcharging and they like to replace parts not necessary to replace. They also cant find the cause of a problem and they love to change the whole system instead of pinpoint the problem and fix it.

Example:

1.My previous overheating problems they "overhaul" my whole cooling system.
2.My engine overheat, they need change gasket but they also did overhaul for my engine and change many parts.
3.Power steering leakage they replace the whole steering system.

Since we did overhaul recently, normally workshops will give 1000km breaking in period one-to-one replacement for faulty parts, and will give extra 3-6 months warranty. City Alignment only give the 1000km warranty.

After the overhaul, things were good for a few days and problems came back, the "donk" noise when accelerate from stop or accelerate after breaking, i suspect something loose cause this sound is momentum related.

Then the car drive halfway, suddenly the whole thing shut down, all the power, engine everything off. Sent back to them and they found some wiring problem. They also said that they know what is causing the sound and they will fix it for us.

Then the electrical shutdown happened a second time. I CANT IMAGINE HOW THEY CAN DO SUCH A BAD JOB. Imagine me driving 120km at the highway and the whole car just shut down like that? I wont have brake booster and the transmission will just die like that (mine auto). Its f***ing dangerous. Lucky the times this thing happen it was at low speed below 40, still relatively safe.

And now we still send it back, repair wiring, repair the sound. Total cost 650. The fcuked up part is they say sound is gone, after 1 hour driving it's back. And my car install security system, lets say, i open my door, close it and press the brake, then it will lock the door. But now it seems that after they do the "wiring fix" i got no more autolock and it seems that my security system not functioning properly.

Toyota Rav4 98" CBU Japanese

It's was a good car, but mechanic after mechanic just make it worse and worse =\

And since we have spent so much on the car, it would be stupid to sell it off since there wont be much gain too...

Dilemma.
I see, thanks for the recommendations bro. They did the overhaul because they needed to open engine to change gasket.

They said the shutdown problem is a wiring problem, somewhere short circuit, the 1st time i had that problem there was a burning smell somewhere under the dashboard near the driver's accelerator/brake there. Well that is what they say, wiring problem, i dont trust them on that either.

Bandar Sunway...Sunway Pyramid/Sunway Lagoon there right? Which part exactly? Nope, its not that far, a short drive using the highway from ss2. How are their charges? Expensive or moderate or really good deal?

ya, kaitenaz quite friendly, the price might be slightly higher but i would say it certainly worth the price.

Kin alignment also at sunway ? where is it ya?

Okay, so it looks like Kaitenaz is quite popular and is satisfactory, but rather expensive.

    Money again     

somewhere under the car, front center or back center

I had bad experience with Kin Alignment. They told me I needed to install adjustable camber nuts to fix my car alignment problem. After installing the nuts, the alignment got worse. Really lousy job they did.