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Workshop recommendation for chassis straightening

thekingslom — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 11:21:59 +0800

Hi all,

I, being an idiot, accidentally hit a divider in a parking lot some years ago. The impact is not visible on the outside so I didn't care much for awhile. However, recently I noticed that no matter how many time I do alignment, my car always get pulled to the left and my left front tyre always wear faster than the one on the right.

I took the car to a workshop and they said the car chassis is bent but it's not too expensive to fix. I lost the contact to the workshop they recommended already.

Any sifu here has experiences on this and has any workshop recommendation around KL? Car is a beaten up 2010 Saga. Changing car is not an option now as I am saving money to upgrade to a far more better one

SSD Upgrade

thekingslom — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 15:28:49 +0800

Hi everyone sorry if this is a noob question,
I have decided to upgrade my laptop (ROG Strix GL503GE) main SSD along with the win 11 upgrade but I am not sure about the compatibility. I've searched for information on google and I found this:

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Asus ROG GL503 M.2 Solid-state drive:256GB/512GB PCIe® Gen3 x4 SSD

Does anyone know if I can upgrade to a 1TB SSD? I am eyeing the Samsung SSD 980, I am afraid it won't work as it exceeds the spec stated on their official web.

Anyone know where in KL can repair GPU?

thekingslom — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 08:32:50 +0800

As title,
I left my old desktop with gtx970 to store dirt for quite some time dy, recently I tried to boot it up and it shows nothing but black screen.
I swapped it with my spare card gt1030 and it works fine.

I am trying to build a new rig with budget, if the 970 is repairable with a reasonable price then I will delay a rtx purchase till i am comfortable to get one

Any sifu know where can repair gpu? Not rushing to repair, can wait till mco gone

Additional info: MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 4G
https://www.msi.com/Graphics-Card/gtx-970-gaming-4g.html
The fans did turned and the light did on. Just the screen remains black. Tried both the HDMI port and DVI-D

Workshop in subang rip off or over cautious?

thekingslom — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 18:47:13 +0800

I saw a promotion in fave that 1 workshop in subang is doing alignment + balancing + car 31 point check-up under RM50. Workshop has a 4.9/5 ratings on google ratings. Good. So I called and sent my car for the promotion. At the end of the service they told me my gearbox oil is leaking, told me something about the flywheel blah blah (did not pay attention) and quoted me around RM1k to pull the gearbox out and overhaul.

As I am still a student myself, 1k is not really something I can just pull out my wallet and pay. So I decided to just pay the amount on fave and find my trusted mechanic to check.

Guess what. They said it was just a driveshaft oil seal. RM40 then gaodim dy

It is hard to believe a workshop with such good ratings on google will makes such mistake. What do you guys think? Were they just being cautious or they were really trying to rip off a poor dude like me?

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thekingslom — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 23:32:57 +0800

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Anyone know where to replace dashboard light?

thekingslom — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 21:53:58 +0800

My car dashboard meter just happened to be dimmed at some part. I guess the bulb is burnt and want to replace it. Anyone know which workshop will do these kind of work? I asked my nearby accessories shop but they dunno change.

If can I might want to change all of the dashboard color from orange to blue too

Edited: I live in KL