I think it is my turn to visit this shop.
car wont start, not even cranking.
battery still ok, turn on lights still on.

Should be my starter issue rite?

Recently, my alternator seems charging weakly, so decided to pay them a visit. Quite inconspicuous but luckily Waze location shared by Maudermunty above is accurate   

Initially tech there (chubby guy) diagnosed it as battery defect (new battery, less than 2mth). Ask me to claim a new battery from my dealer. But I insisted that he service my alternator for it has been untouched for 17yrs/350k km. He agreed and began work to unmount/disassemble my unit.

Turn out true to my suspicion that the carbon brushes were worn. Even the bearing is broken upon inspection. So he did the needful and voila... my car is happy again.

Work performed;
1. 2x carbon brush
2. 1x NTN japan bearing
3. Cleaning of parts/housing
4. Bench testing

Total charges RM90

Will monitor further if got any complication. But initial feel and test at home is the alternator has been rejuvenated.

Voltage measurement when engine bay is hot
When car was quite new 14.3v
Before servicing 13.9v
After servicing 14.2v

Just went there to services my old wira alternator, the boss told me just replace the carbon only, the rest still working well. The repair cost only 50bucks.done within 2hours.

5 star services.

repair not so good..

better get a brand new 1 to avoid any inconvenience in future

Extremely displeased with the way the boss talks.

Was having a parasitic draw issue. Running voltage was 13+. Usually was 14. The boss say I sinkalan. Went home and fixed the problem myself. Running at 14v again. According to him 14 is "too high". Yeah right my 3 VWs, Subaru, 2 saga all running at 14. He said 14 battery will boil over. I've been fixing my own car for years and AFAIK 15v then yes it's too much. Lousy knowledge and service. Won't be back.

anyone tried.. change new alternator and the engine/car is shaky.. and mechanical said it due to system need to reset as alternator changed.. thus need two day to stabalize..

hyundai tucson 2013 new alternator cost 2k

today changed alternator carbon brush & service starter (since carbon brush still good) cost rm280

mileage 205k

Hi Sifus my Old car engine will die sometimes when I press brake during jam. Is this cause by alternator? It will jerk few time and then Macam lose power and die. However if I put N then it will be fine. Sometimes it will die if I reverse too. If aircon off Macam won’t happen. Thanks!

Car started abit weak today so went to my regular battery shop, was told that my charging system was abit weak so got recommended to this shop.. so went there, they weren't attending any cars at the moment when i arrived


Got the carbon brush thingy done in around half an hour.

Before the battery voltage was around 12.9v something with engine running, after done around 14v

Yes they do

If the car was bought used. How to know condition or age of the alternator? I would like to do preventive maintenance too for my alternator if not that expensive.

Went to Kwong Weng today to get my starter fixed. Went early about 9am, I think probably their first customer today 😅

Show the problem to them, starter giving tik tik tik sound only and occasionally it will start after n numbers of tries. They say probably switch/solenoid kaput.

Took them a bit of time and additional labour to
figure out how dismantle the starter since this is first time they work on my car type.

Around 10:40 like that they manage to finally dismantle the starter and start working on it. I had an appointment with dentist nearby so walked there and 1 hour later I'm back and the car is ready 😁

Got charged RM 360 for replacement of switch/solenoid, changing carbon, brush and some servicing as they mentioned there were some friction and caused some rust in the motor. They clean those up. The price is slightly higher than what I was quoted for a half cut starter but I choose to repair as I wouldn't know what's the condition of the half cut starter .

Now the car starts everytime 😁.  Would like to say thanks to this thread for sharing this workshop. Definitely one of the better and honest shop

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