Alternator or starter rebuild
Three hours on the bench, when a rebuild is better value than a replacement.
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Send us a request and we will confirm it. Nothing is paid online.
What it costs
1,300.00 Per booking
What this workshop sells is hours of looking, and it is worth being blunt about that because it is unusual. A leak in an air conditioning system and an intermittent electrical fault are both found by measurement and elimination, not by fitting a part and hoping, so the figure on the booking form buys you a defined block of diagnostic time and a written answer at the end of it.
What that figure is not is a repair. Once we know what the fault is, you get one price for putting it right, with the part named, and nothing is ordered or fitted until you have said yes. If the answer turns out to be something we do not do, you pay for the diagnosis and we tell you who does.
A repair figure is an estimate until the part is off the car. On a fifteen year old loom a connector can break while it is being separated, and a bolt on a compressor bracket can shear. Neither is anybody's fault and both change the number, so both stop the job for a telephone call rather than appearing on the invoice.
We do not sell sealants, leak stoppers or anything else poured into a system instead of a repair, at any price, to anybody.
Three hours at the bench, for an alternator or a starter that has already been diagnosed as the fault.
A surprising number of them do not need replacing. An alternator that has stopped charging usually has worn brushes or a failed regulator inside it, both of which are parts the size of a thumb, and a starter that clicks and does nothing usually has a solenoid or a set of brushes. Stripping it, cleaning forty years of nothing out of it, fitting the small part and testing it on the bench costs a fraction of a replacement unit and often lasts longer than the cheap replacement unit would.
When a rebuild is not the answer we say so. A rotor that has gone open circuit or a case that has been under water is a replacement, and we will tell you the price of a good unit and of the cheap one and what the difference actually is.
Everything is tested on the bench, loaded, before it goes back on the car. You are welcome to watch that; most people who do end up staying for the whole test.
Our details
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Where we are
Industrial Village, plot 7
Maafannu, Malé, Maldives - Call us +960 332 6614
- WhatsApp 9603326614
- Email us bay@finiauto.example
- Opening hours Sunday to Thursday, 8.30am to 12.30pm and 2.30pm to 7pm Saturday, 8.30am to 1pm, and the fault finding clinic from 9 Friday, 3pm to 7pm