The controversial review from an ignorant driver attempting to get his motor vehicle repaired – without the use of dirty flirtatious seduction, and promiscuous behaviour.
If you have had good service from them. Good for you. Kindly leave. If you haven’t, please stay. Take a seat. Cup of tea? Thats it. Now lets bitch together and form the anti-christ.
So my car(vintage voksie), recently decided that it prefers me using my legs for a bit.
I’m pretty certain, that in a parallel universe… this would not be the case.
It all started one sunny afternoon whilst traveling along a modern day path made for modern day vehicles – and for some strange reason, also annoying cyclists. Everything was peachy, until I attempted and failed to make the jump to light-speed. I punched it, foot flat, and it just didn’t want to put out anything at all.
So I take it to these fuckers down on the main rd in the Hoek, Pitstop, and they have it for 2 days…
(Now during these 2 days, I was told many things – “Yeah we found the prob, just replacing the condenser mixing effort contraption, and the distributer reprotractorerer”. Followed by “Yeah, it seems there was some dust lodged up in the thermal trangressor.
Bare in mind however, I am about as knowledgeable on cars, as I am on the female mating schedule. So after numerous calls – I had to call them, cause they love it that way, seeing as they must clearly have misplaced their ability to dial a clients fucking number and inform them on vehicle progress – I just went there to see what was going on).
Eventually, I leave the workshop yesterday evening, with the car sounding like it just came out of a backyard in Ocean View (they put on a new exhaust for some reason? – must have been part of the usual fuck-a-person-over troubleshooting guide for idiots). Okay kewl, I can deal with a new noise… as long as I can get. The. Fuck. To. Work.
But no… It STILL doesn’t want to travel vast distances in milliseconds – as it used to. Now this is R2.6k later – mother of God. I now have a lousy driving car, with a louder fucking noise.
Anyways, so I take it to them this morning, furious and foaming from my devil horns.
…They end up fucking around with it, like a bunch of shirtless penis-shaped-rock-collecting fairies, for who knows how long.
Finally… they fire-up the dying beast, and it begins to make some foreign clanging sound (a sound that its never made before – they blame the last mechanic that worked on the car)…
Now… hahah…. I’m getting told, I need a new bloody motor…. ?!?$$$E$!@$ … and its gonna cost 8k. This on top of the 2.6k. Total, 10.6k. I could buy a bloody beetle for that.
Barely able to sense anything other than the feeling of 2.6k being tugged out my ass, followed by a 12inch wrench being lodged up, I decided to call the mechanic I used 1 year before. He arrives in haste, looks about, listens a bit, and proceeds to tell these professionals that their Ma Se Falep (in 12 unknown languages), before politely requesting that I drive it to his crib.
All in all. I honestly feel like I just payed for a Pitstop gang-rape – and it didn’t even feel good, plus it was rather pricey. Thus, if you looking for good, cheap, pleasant gang-rape, don’t go to Pitstop in Fish Hoek.
Apologies for bitching.
Phew.
January 28th, 2010 at 10:09 am
I think my mechanic Mohammed from Pakistan would have done a better job. He would have screwed me on the price yes, but at least my car would work. :)
January 28th, 2010 at 3:02 pm
hahah :)
I just got word from the dude who has it now.
R300 total costs. And he tightened my breaks, did a spot check all around. And prob gave it solid rub down.
And to think… those idiots thought it was a busted engine.
Spear, what car do you drive mate?
August 11th, 2010 at 11:34 pm
OMG, I just Googled these idiots cos I had a lovely lovely experience with them today. I took my just-bought wheels to have a puncture fixed.
a- They had a look, did that worried-frown-this-patient-may-not-survive thing and told me the tyres are all retreads and all damaged and roadworthy will reject it, and gave me a quote for a new set of tyres, R2500.
b-And then nogal they charged me for just taking the tyre off and looking for a puncture. Not fixing a puncture, looking for a puncture.
I stomped out and phoned the roadworthy centre. Sure enough, they don’t care if your tyres are retreads as long as the tread is deep enough. I think they saw a chick coming in and immediately thought – rip-off!
Are the midgets male or female?
November 9th, 2010 at 7:34 pm
Geeze. Had a funny knocking noise in my front LHS wheel this morning so dropped it off at these clowns to see to it.
Went back 4 hrs later to be told that I need 4 new tyres (Still looked new to me) as three of them were slightly more worn on the inside and they would not be able to align them??? I could hardly see any diffs.
They would also have to skim the back brake disks as they are damaged??
Then they have to bleed the brakes.
Will this noise then disappear??
November 18th, 2010 at 1:16 pm
A national boycott! Try calling management, they are just as stupid. I have no idea why that shop is still open…
April 6th, 2011 at 11:42 am
Had several bad experiences with the Pitstop Fish Hoek crowd. My story is amazingly similar to those posted here. What amazes me is how they stay in business and how they manage to keep their franchise rights etc. Maybe the standards are all terribly low in Fish Hoek, so there’s not enough competitions, but who knows.
There’s a part of me that is posting this comment just to keep it at the top of the Google search results to make sure that others get the benefit of our hard-won wisdom
April 6th, 2011 at 2:01 pm
Its actually rather terrible. As although there are a substantial amount of mechanics in the valley that work from home, neither I know will allow one to frustratingly drive in and ask for a service that day.
I have dropped my car off at Superquick a fair amount of times for some tuning, and although they are also pretty weak on calling back, as well as general customer service, they are knowledgeable, and thus get the job done without forcing one to proceed to a bank for a loan.
April 29th, 2011 at 11:12 am
maybe they screwed u over because (like all us coloureds from ocean view) we can smell a CUNT from a mile away… i hope u die in yr fuckin old ass “tank” that should have be written off long ago…
July 11th, 2011 at 10:20 am
Interesting, I was worried about these apparent clowns because they said they could do the job in a couple of hours, whilst Super Quick wanted to order parts in from Johannesburg which would take 3 days etc. etc. And I came across this website and got even more worried, but then again, nothing ventured, nothing gained!
Anway, I went into Supa Quick Fish Hoek for a tyre rotation and a wheel alignment, it should have been nice and quick but they couldn’t get three of my wheels off from apparently cross threaded and rusted nuts. They did succeed in jumping up and down on their tyre wrench until they snapped the nut on one of my tyres and said they didn’t want to snap the rest as this would leave the car undrivable. I just wanted it fixed and said, “What can you do!?”, and they came back with a quote for replacing 6 wheel nuts and bolts of 2000 Rand (3 day delay from Joburg), the front disc pads need skimming and pads replacing (I knew about this already) but also needed to order in and that would be another 3000 Rand, plus the 400 or so for the tyre rotation and alignment. A nice round figure of 5400 at Superslow.
Off to Pitstop.
They said they could the whole job in 2 hours and spray a bit of Q20 (oil) on the nuts (why couldn’t Supastupid do this?) to loosen them.
So, a couple of hours later Pitstop had completed everything and charged me 1789 Rand. A nice saving of a few thousand Rand! Thanks Pitstop.
(Sorry for everybody else who had a crappy experience. Watch this space in a week or two for reports on my wheels falling off…)
July 11th, 2011 at 10:25 am
Oh, and I was standing over the other side of the road from Pitstop when the work was due to be completed, saw my car come off the wheel alignment machine, reverse out for a test drive and my phone rang to notify me that the car was ready. Perhaps their management has changed.
July 11th, 2011 at 10:45 am
I noticed that they have a new shop look? Complete revamp. Perhaps they are under new management.
As for SuperQuick, I took it around there the other day too whilst in a hurry. 7 hours later an im regretting my decision once again. “Sorry, we ran out of time, your car will be first in line tomorrow”. In the mean time, I was asked to run around and look for the parts required.
So anyways, it died again shortly after. so i took it back to the mechanic who saved me last time with pitstop, and apparently, superquick messed with my timing, and didnt put the tappets on correctly.
I dont know if I should ever bother using these fancy names anymore. This mechanic I occasionally use (must phone him a day in advance), always does an amazing job, for peanuts. an impeccable improvement is remarkably noticeable when driving off..
November 4th, 2011 at 8:33 am
Lovely experience with PitStop Fishoek. Bought it in because of a strange cluncking noise. R4500 later – noise remained. Took it back – they kept it for 3 days, eventually replaced the rear shock (which was under warranty!).Was told the R4500 work “needed to be done anyway”. Don’t trust these bastards.
September 10th, 2012 at 10:36 am
i only use one mechanics workshop and have been for many years – he is excellent, honest and reasonable. Barry’s Auto Workshop in Diep River behind CBS brakes.