Garage Weikl | Mechanic and Parts

Rwanda

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Verified:
about 1 year ago
Altitude:
1410.0 masl
Phone:
None
Contributor:
werni.stoerfall

Amenities

Repairs Vehicles:
Unknown
Repairs Motorcycles:
Unknown
Repairs Bicycles:
Unknown
Sells Parts:
Unknown

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super place for mechanic work, the Austrian owner Armin know, where you can find parts, place for mechanic work, everything!! Amazing place also for parking the overlander truck, we spent 5 night's in this place.

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Nice friendly people, they changed a universal joint, could be better and needed some help but the manager is a good guy.

Paid 30.000 for more than two hours work (should have been 45 mins).

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Great mechanics! They fixed our engine problem really fast, with a lot of knowledge and for a good price. Armin and Serge are both really friendly. We even were able to camp in the yard for two nights and use toilet, shower and electricity.

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Sergio helped us with a leaky fuel tank and our leisure battery. We are travelling with our kids and all the staff were excellent, friendly and knowledgeable. Found our problems quickly, fixed them and charged us very little. We would highly recommend Sergio.

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As below. We got great service from Armin, Serge and the team. Had a worrisome squeaking noise from suspension after road from Tanzania to Rwanda as well as handbrake that needed adjustment. They sorted us out within an hour, cost RWF10, 000. Very professional and friendly. Can definitely recommend them!

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We had a bad experience here. We wanted to do a service check and they had to exchange the gear oil. Their service seemed to be good but in the end they overcharged. 62.500 just for 5 l gear oil! Nobody told this price before!!! With labour (3 hours) we should pay 92.500. The labour was fine for us but not their price for the gear oil! We were shocked!!! When we spoke to the austrian owner he was very rude and walked away while we were talking. He is may be a good mechanic but not a nice person, shouting often to his staff. Our advice: when you go there you should ask the price for each step they do.

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Competent and efficient mechanics. English and French spoken. Serge and his team big help. Our Land Rover needed help. They replaced master clutch cylinder (we were carrying the part), welded and reattached exhaust to stop loud noises, greased cross-joints and fixed a few missing bolts here and there. Vehicle in yard 11am-5pm and set us back RwF83,000.

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We don't recommend this place. We had to change a bearing and needed this place to press out a bearing. Big story short... Armin is the worst mechanic on our 2 year travel through Africa. It should be a one hour job but after screwing a spare part up it took him the whole afternoon. And then he charged us 80.000 francs. After arguing Armin became very angry and shows his real nature.
A local mechanic works for 10.000 francs the whole day. So if you want a bad mechanic for a lot of money go here.

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They welded our leaking rear axle, replaced bushes and did an oil, filter and break pads change for €320 (2 full days work, incl oils and bushes, excl filters and break pads). Friendly and knowledgeable staff, ask for Serge. He speaks fluent French and English.

They quote jobs, not hours. Which was nice in our case because one of the jobs turned out to be harder (more time consuming) than expected. I estimate their hourly tariff to be about 10-15k RWF.

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Armin, Serge, Kofi, and the rest of the mechanics at Garage Weikl got our Land Rover in right away without a booking on New Years Eve for an oil change, and fixed a vexing electrical problem that had been bothering us for a week.

We learned that Armin is 79, and has been in Rwanda for over 49 years. He seems moving a little slower these days, so a lot of the work is done by his capable assistants.

Good work done at a fair price. Check out the old Sahara-style Mercedes overland truck rotting away in a corner of the yard. I’m sure it has lots of stories to tell.

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super place for mechanic work, the Austrian owner Armin know, where you can find parts, place for mechanic work, everything!! Amazing place also for parking the overlander truck, we spent 5 night's in this place.

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