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Honest MileFix what is broken. Explain what is not.

Independent workshop · Wang Thonglang, Bangkok

Know what we found before you approve the repair.

You cannot see under your own car, so we do not ask you to take our word for it. We measure it, photograph it, and send it to you before a single bolt is turned.

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A technician under a raised car, pointing a torch at a suspension joint while the owner looks up at it

Everything we find gets a colour and a horizon

A finding with no horizon is an alarm. A finding with a horizon is information.

  • Red — repair now

    Safety, or it will damage something else, or the car is already driving badly.

  • Amber — plan it

    Worn or ageing, still working — and we tell you how many kilometres or months it can wait.

  • Green — monitor

    Fine today. Re-checked free at your next service.

This is what an estimate from us looks like

Labour, parts, fluids and materials always separated — and the last section is everything we checked and left alone, at ฿0.

See the other three estimates, and every labour and diagnostic rate
A tablet on a car bonnet showing an itemized estimate, with a worn brake pad and a vernier caliper beside it and the workshop behind

Front brake pads

Honda City 1.5 V · 201596,400 km

The owner said
It squeals when I brake gently.

Labour
Remove and refit front pads, clean and lubricate slide pins, measure discs, road test2.0 h × ฿400฿800
Parts
Akebono front pad setOEM฿2,250
Materials
Brake cleaner, slide-pin grease, copper paste฿180
Approved work, ex VAT฿3,230
VAT 7%฿226.10
Total฿3,456.10

Why: the left pad measured 3.1 mm and the right 2.9 mm, against a 2.0 mm minimum.

Recommended, not required today

  • Plan itBrake fluid replacementTwo litres of Bendix DOT4 at ฿600 plus 1.5 h labour at ฿600. Three years since the last change.฿1,200

Checked and not replaced

฿0
  • MonitorFront discs23.4 mm and 23.3 mm against a 22.0 mm minimum. No lip, no runout. Machining not needed.
  • MonitorRear pads7.2 mm left.
  • MonitorCalipersPistons retract freely, boots intact.
Time 2.5 hSame-day collectionVAT 7%

What we take on

Seven areas — and each one tells you whether you can keep driving it.

  • Scheduled service

    The job with no symptom — and the one that keeps the next three years symptom-free.

    Monitor1.5 to 2.5 hours

  • Brakes

    We do not read the odometer and tell you to replace them. We measure the thickness in millimetres and tell you the number.

    Plan it2 to 4 hours

  • Suspension and steering

    A noise from underneath is the easiest thing in this trade to get wrong, and the thing most often over-replaced.

    Plan it1.25 hours to diagnose, then it depends on what is found

  • Cooling system

    A small leak left long enough stops being a cooling job and becomes an engine job.

    Repair now1 hour to test, then it depends on what is found

  • Air conditioning

    Refrigerant is not a consumable. If it is low, it went somewhere.

    Monitor1.75 hours to test

  • Battery and charging

    We send you the printed test result, not the sentence “your battery is nearly finished”.

    Plan it1 hour

  • Warning lights and diagnostics

    A code tells you what the computer noticed. It does not tell you which part is broken.

    Plan it1.5 hours to scan and report

All seven, with what we check

The shop, in numbers

3
service bays
2
two-post lifts
5–8
cars a day
No more than that, because every one of them has to actually be looked at
฿400
labour per hour
Half an hour minimum, then in quarter-hours
09:30
bays are usually full by
2017
open since

If the bays are full we book you another day. We do not park your car in a queue.

Walk in, no booking

Free and no booking: a look and a listen, a battery and charging test, tyre pressures, and a road test with a technician.

Needs a booking

Needs a booking: anything that needs a lift, a scan tool or gauges.

One case HM-2411-038

Another shop quoted about ฿24,600 for the whole front end. We replaced one ฿890 link.

A knock from the front over speed bumps, worse first thing in the morning. The owner said another shop had quoted for the whole front suspension, somewhere over twenty thousand baht.

Road tested on the same loop, over the same three speed bumps. The noise was gone. Six months later, at the next service, the right link still had no play.

Actually approved
฿1,465.90
Checked and not replaced
5
Read all four, including the ฿13,257 one
A gloved hand rocking a worn stabiliser link on a raised car, showing visible play at the ball socket

And the work we do not take

This is not turning customers away. It is the cheapest possible way to stop you driving across Bangkok for a job we would have to hand back.

  • Engine overhaul, block or crank machining, gearbox internal rebuild, diesel injection pump rebuild

    Specialist work that needs specialist equipment. A small shop taking it on is more often the problem than the answer.

  • Chassis straightening, large-panel bodywork, full respray, serious accident repair, flood and fire recovery

    We are a mechanical and basic-electrical shop, not a body centre.

  • ECU tuning, performance exhausts, turbo upgrades, lowering, non-original brake conversions, track setup

    We keep daily cars safe and predictable. Making one faster is a different trade, and the people who do it are better at it than we are.

The cars we know, and the full list of refusals

Let us look at it first

A small independent workshop in Soi Lat Phrao 71, for Japanese and Korean cars that are out of warranty

118/7 Soi Lat Phrao 71 Yaek 4, Wang Thonglang, Bangkok 10310Mon–Fri 08:00–18:00 · Sat 08:00–16:00 · Sun closed

Book an inspection02-514-8802LINE @honestmile