Weng Fatt Motor Engineering

13/02/2026

Emergency News: BMW has issued a recall in for some of their vehicles which involves them having the starter potentially causing vehicle fires. For more information, do click on this Straits Times link. https://str.sg/teH7

If unsure, do click this onemotoring link by LTA and you can verify if you are affected using your (vehicle owner) Singpass.
https://onemotoring.lta.gov.sg/content/onemotoring/home/digitalservices.html?t=login¶m=F2303031ET

Do share with your friends to avoid any tragedy. Liking and commenting will help us bring you more timing news and updates. Cheers.

The two authorised BMW dealerships in Singapore are in the process of reaching out to customers. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

12/02/2026

Dear valued customers, kindly be informed that our last day of operations for the year of the snake 2025/6 will be on the 14th of Feb 2026. We will be closed along with most stockist until 22nd Feb 2026. Business will resume on the 23rd of Feb 2026. Here's wishing all a Safe, Healthy and Prosperous Lunar New Year of the Horse.

06/02/2026

With the deadline for free OBU installation fast approaching and a lot of installers being fully booked, there is now a special initiative for SAFRA members. OBU installation is noe available at SAFRAs for members. Do click the link below for more information along with terms and conditions. Do follow us to get more Motor news and share to help inform your friends and family.

03/02/2026

Installation for OBU will only be free till Feb 15th. With CNY coming, it may be a good idea to do your booking NOW. Do note that a lot of places no long does walk-ins though your workshop may be able to squeeze you in using their connections so there's no hard asking while you do your servicing or other repairs. Also, due to some Karens and other complications, continental vehicles may have no choice but to do their installation at the AD. Either way, time to get it done.

They will be given three months from the date of issuance for free installation.

30/09/2025

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It's most unfortunate this incident happened. For those not in the know, there was a world wide Takada airbag recall. While a lot of the vehicles are already out of circulation, including mine, there are still quite a few of these on the roads. Despite the Japanese sounding name, not only Asean cars are affected and it may be a good idea to check if your vehicle is also subjected to the same risk and recall. You can do so using your Singpass via the link here.

https://onemotoring.lta.gov.sg/content/onemotoring/home/digitalservices/Enquire_if_your_Vehicle_is_under_Recall.html

If your vehicle is a parallel import, do check the websites of your manufacturer or global recall searches.

Have fun but stay safe.

It's the first death in Singapore involving the Takata airbag.

30/12/2024

More and more cars require a scanner to reset the servicing reminder and others which have had this requirement are actually having their systems upgraded. Take this BMW for example. Nowadays, we will just send a pulse to the ECU to tell them that the servicing was completed and the vehicle will calculate when the next likely servicing will be due. For this driver, likely he does a lot of driving so the recommended servicing is pushed to 12,000km instead of the usual 10,000km. This is in stalk contrast to some other clients I have that do a lot of idling due to "wait for wife/hubby/offspring sickness" where the other party says "I'll be down soon" and after half an hour in the car... no sound... no picture... but your engine have been running for that half hour. I have seen servicing pushed forward to as early as 6,000-8000km due to this. There are also a lot an experienced mechanic can tell you about your car and your driving habit so it may be a good idea to go for a beer with them and have a short chat... hint hint... Do share if you find this info useful and either make a new year resolution to go for beer with your mechanic or like our page. Cheers y'all and have a great 2025

26/12/2024

I'm not going to post as you can see tons of photos and videos on Mothership, Facebook and other social media on idiots, jokers and penny pinchers shacking and hu***ng their vehicles to get that last few drops of petrol into their car in Malaysia. As some of you may know, petrol vaporized quite easily even at room temperature. To reduce the amount of petrol waste and for environmental reasons, modern vehicles are equipped with an EVAP systems which is basically similar to a charcoal cannister attached to a breather pipe at your petrol tank. When vapors hit this cannister, it reverts back to a liquid state back into your petrol tank. This cannister, however, gets fouled when it touches petrol liquid which happens when you over top your fuel and decide to start making that sweet sweet love to your ride by hu***ng it. Best case, you lose fuel in the form of vapors in the long run, worst case you are looking at a 4 digit repair and the constant annoyance of your Check Engine Light (CEL). So do share this if you find it useful and like us for more updates, news and info. Cheers.

13/07/2022

Cheap, Fast, Good... choose 2. That's a fact of life for most situations. The component you see here is actually for the rear boot latch and you can see a "Tamiya Hyper Dash" motor (sorry, uncle joke). In most failures for this latch also for your folding mirror and door locks, it's either caused by a faulty motor or broken gears. The Fast but Good fix is naturally to replace the whole latch, side mirror arm or even door lock actuator. However, an option that most ADs and some workshops don't talk about is the possibility for repair. One reason why is that while the repair may just cost you 20-50% of the cost of replacement, typically the repair may take up to 2 days as the workshop may have to dismantle the part, hand it over to a bench repairer who will take it apart and replace the faulty motor, gears or other components before handing it back to be re-installed. Still, at least now you know what's going on behind the covers and options for the most satisfactory job done. That's what she said... If you found this useful, do share with your friends and like us to get more useful tips and info. Cheers.

11/07/2022

I encourage all parents out there to get your kids playing TCGs (Trading Card Games) rather than spending all their time stuck behind a phone or a screen. Firstly, you get to interact with REAL people and learn concepts such as language, rules, match, logic and situation awareness. If unsure, read the instructions and the card. Reading the card tells you what the card does. If only it's so simple for adults. I often get the question "Hi Vince, I need to top-up coolant and just bought some from the petrol kiosk/spare parts shop/internet and I don't know how much to add or mix." Firstly, there are thousands of brands out there and each have different requirements so it is impossible for me to advise without reading the label which you should be doing yourself. Still, lucky for those of us who don't speak or read Indian, Thai, German or whatever language is on this label, the diagram below shows how much you should dilute. Basically, if you are driving in conditions below 50 degrees C add 2 part water to 3 parts coolant and in our case which we don't go anywhere near below 24 degrees C, It's 2 parts coolant to 3 parts water. Now if I can only figure out the instructions for washing labels, I'm golden. Jokes aside, if you really have difficulty figuring out the dilution or mixture, just get pre-mixed (with the ed which means it's already been mixed to the correct dilution) instead of pre-mix (without the ed which means you have to add water). Coming also from the generation that skips EULAs, I know your pain. If you found this useful, do share with your friends and like us to get more useful tips and info. Cheers.

08/07/2022

Short video on how we do a quick test on the EPB (Electronic Parking Brakes) on a Jag. Interesting notes... Most cars uses a hydraulic system for their brakes along with a booster and more and more cars use an electronic braking system to lock all 4 wheels. However, they almost always use a mechanical system to engage the parking brakes which only engages the brakes on the rear 2 wheels. This is to ensure redundancy and to have multiple points of safety. Naturally some people "abuse" this system which is where the hand-brake turns come in. Still, with the prevalence of EPBs nowadays, hand brakes maybe going the way of the manual transmission which we often joke as the immobilizer system against millennials. If you found this useful, do share with your friends and like us to get more useful tips and info. Cheers.

06/07/2022

This is why we often tell our customers we prefer to do physical checks rather than follow the technical manual blindly. A customer came in to inform us that he has to do "higher servicing" which involves replacing the drive belt but upon checks, we discovered that the belt was replaced very recently as part of another repair. Most belts are rated to be good for at least 75,000-100,000km and for this case, the belt was so new that even the wordings are clear as day. Bottom line is, talk to your mechanic. Some people hop around workshops and it may be a good idea to just get it replaced regardless if you do not keep track of the repair and the workshop do not do physical checks. Also, physical checks are not possible for some parts. Still, waste not, want not and with the whole world going green and reducing consumption, it may be time to rethink if blindly following something which is "dead" and have no situation awareness is such a good idea. If you found this useful, do share with your friends and like us to get more useful tips and info. Cheers.

04/07/2022

"Wah... why so expensive, last time I change not so expensive". This is what I have to deal with on a regular basis. While the easy way out is to just say "Inflation loh, last time you buy house at Tangling for $10,000 40 years ago, now go up to close to $1,000,000, I buy from you at $10,000 you want to sell?"... fact is, sometimes there is a reason for why prices go up. Take this boot release latch from a BMW for example. While the new and old latches are for the same model and are both electronic latches, the old latch had a relatively high failure rate and it's pretty common for us to replace them ever so often. After some constructive criticisms from consumers and mechanics, BMW have actually made improvements to the latches making the electronic contact a seal component thus reducing the rate of failure. While it cost slightly more, having a longer MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) actually means you spend less in the long run. Naturally, some customers will insist on having the cheaper option and spare parts shops and workshops are more than happy to sell you to obsolete spare... just don't mind others laughing when you are locked out of your boot and have to call in a pro to help you open it and spend even more getting it replaced. Everyone needs a clown and a good laugh at times ya. If you found this useful, do share with your friends and like us to get more useful tips and info. Cheers.