http://forum.lowyat.net/ Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:58:11 +0800 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2450564 Hi all - need some urgent advice regarding a problem I am facing with Toyota.<br /><br />For starters, my car is a 3-year old Toyota Vios with 40,000 mileage. For this incident alone I&#39;ve went to the service centre 3 times (all my servicing is done at Toyota) and I&#39;ve been car-less for three days now.<br /><br />The story goes...<br /><br />From my last service a couple of months ago, I noticed that the front wheels started making clicking noises especially when braking and turning (slow speeds... click click click sound). I decided to go for a check only to be told that my brake pads are not original and implied that it was causing the problem. I was very surprised at this claim and insisted that was definitely not the case since I have never serviced my car anywhere else before. They agreed to recheck and concluded my brake was indeed original. Hence they did two things:<br /><br />1) Insulate brake shim kit<br />2) Adjust drive shaft position<br /><br />After that everything was OK until about 2-3 days later... when I notice again there are weird noises... this time louder as the car goes faster. This was much louder than the original clicking sounds so I brought the car back again. Also, I noticed the plate in the wheels (disc brakes?) were scratched.<br /><br />Upon checking they told me these parts are ruined and need to be replaced / done:<br /><br />1) Fitting kit<br />2) Wheel bearing<br />3) Drive shaft nut<br />4) Perform scheming work<br /><br />I was to be charged RM500 for this. I wasn&#39;t very happy about this and after a long conversation (and double-checking my car) they decided the fitting kit and drive shaft nut doesn&#39;t need to be replaced / done... (I&#39;m not sure what made them decide if it was necessary or not) but the wheel bearing still needs to. I was given a discount and told to pay RM170 for the wheel bearings.<br /><br />Still not very happy about this... I read up some on the net and found out that wheel bearings can be damaged when doing brake jobs... so I&#39;m suspecting in the first service (where they said my brakes were fake) was when the damage was done...<br /><br />What are my options? I&#39;m really bad with cars and don&#39;t know how to argue especially when they throw around all these technical terms at me.<br /><br /> Jazzjess The Fast &amp; The Furious Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:20:58 +0800