I had my car, a Ford Transit, serviced at the garage in Wangi many years back. About a week after I got it back, the battery died. While poking around, I noticed there was a lead off the voltage regulator. I re-fixed it and didn't think more of it, just got a new battery.

The next time I had a service done there, I looked under the hood. The wire was off the regulator again.

The car had been running on battery power alone, I guess, until it died. They wanted to sell me ANOTHER battery.

The connection, a spade terminal, was NOT a loose fit. It didn't just fall off. I never went back there, and the wire never "fell off" again.

Out of  ULTRATUNE workshop - 547 Kessels Rd , MacGregor , Qld 4109 - operates gang of crooks and misfits masquerading as CAR MECHANICS .

On 05.05.2012 my car developed a problem having damaged water pump and I had to organize repair .
The manager of Ultratune outlet , Steve Rennie , was contacted before the car was towed , he was told what the problem was and he quoted the price of A$500 . On the basis of that quote I agreed to have the car repaired in their outlet .
On Tuesday , 08.05.2012 , the woman from their office called me to tell that they found “ additional problems “ and the repair will cost me about A$1100 . She could not specify the nature of problems , because “ she is not a mechanic “ and “ she does not understand technical issues “ .
On Wednesday , 09.05.2012 – I had a call from their “ mechanic “ who told me that they found
“ cross threaded thread “ and they have to repair it .
When I came to collect the car on 10.05.2012 I found that apart from the water pump and the timing belt ( which are on the same mechanical arrangements ) nothing else was replaced or repaired .
The bill was A$ 1250 ! .

Turns out that they do not know how to redrill a hole for a screw and tap it for a heli coil – can you imagine that australian qualified A grade mechanics !  would be such imbeciles of having to call an outside “ expert “  to FIX A THREAD with additional charge for me of A$ 132 !!!
Chief among them , Steve Rennie , claims to be “ A Grade mechanic “ but he admitted that redrilling a hole in an engine block is beyond his trade “ expertise “ !
The skills of the rest of the gang appear to be to know how  to use a spanner in clockwise direction – for work requiring using a spanner in anticlockwise direction they obviously need “ outside experts “ .

They are incapable to do anything else apart from swapping parts and exorbitantly overcharging initially quoted price ( more than twice as in my case ).
A simple job of replacing a water pump in a car ( with changing timing belt as add on at the same time ) took them 5.5 chargeable hours at A$99 an hour .
And that charge is for doing a job requiring skills of half a notch of that above a monkey – that is the limit of “ australian qualified “ “ A grade mechanics “ employed by ULTRATUNE !

WHO made them “ A grade mechanics “ ?!
WHO gave them licence to operate the workshop and dupe people into believe that they are
“ mechanics “ ?!

Their conduct and dishonesty has to be publicised in the community as much as possible so they can be shown for what they really are and other people have to be protected from falling victims to their thievery !
Please stay away from them like from bad air ( as what they are ) . The sooner they will disappear from our neighbourhood – the better !

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