Funnyman Douglas Lim and his crew produced this brilliant video to promote Honda Authorised Service Centres. It attempts to show you what you might have to go through if you send your car to a random mechanic instead of a Honda service center, all extremely exaggerated of course. I’ll let the video do the talking!
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not that funny…douglas thinks he is funny but his jokes are recycled many times over…he better consider a new career.
why would people consider to go to random mechanics if got problem? that is a turd.
only people from proton would do such things because the ori parts are far superior than the so-called ori parts ;)
Can’t believe that Honda actually came up with this advertisement. Look at the language, expression, and the whole concept.
Bad publicity. Why can’t these people speak proper English? They don’t seem to understand many things in the current K-Economic world.
It’s rather unique for me. That Manglish used shows the culture here. Might be bad for you, but I’ve worked in tourism, and for foreigners, they find our Manglish awesome and hilarious.
Very funny and interesting !
I know few merc owners can’t afford to service their car exactly in this kind of situation. Car for show-off purposes only. Service belakang kira to the point need to berjimat cermat or can’t afford basic human needs, what we see as normal cause all income focused on getting the car.
right, I know of a chap who seldom repair or maintains his new car since they day it came out of the showroom and the car was used until it is sold in about 3 years ( after warranty) time . I quite agree though becos cars are much reliable now and must be some thing they teach in LSE UK. you figure out.
Best Marketing/Advertising Strategy – save the money on advertising and pass the saving to the end user.
Trust me hondi definitely is better than honda service center – blood sucker
Gotta to agree w u bro. Honda authorised service centre bloody expensive and their technician knows peanuts!
They cant even solve my friend’s honda city EPS problem….and its only like a week old car. And even after changing so many parts still cannot solved, yet they refuse to replace his car. WTF?
honda mechanics in malaysia are very useless… they can’t even fix a single problem after trying to repair it for 3-4 times… worst is that Honda doesn’t even let u replace ur problematic new car with a different one…
IMHO, toyota service centre is better in terms of service and price… just look at the toyota service centre in PJ section 14…
When would someone do ” Toyoti Service Centre” ?
lol
Very lame!! Dont like it at all !!
well done
Walau, I haven’t seen that dude much since kopitiam series at ntv7 many years ago… he’s gained weight.
Non Honda service centers and local mechanic shop were made to look like a bunch of motley crew and unscrupulous crooks.
Not exactly true isn’t? For changing engine oil, brake fluids etc I found that local service centers are more “price competitive” compared to Honda authorised service centers.
Then again, if you want to replace Honda parts, i will definitely go to Honda service centers.
This is so “old school” and lame. Better tell Honda to use ORI media company.
i Seriously prefer service my toyota at my local workshop much more than umw authorized dealer
Bad advert…..another proof of Malaysian critical brain drain
Very good one , at least to cheer us up with all the bad news flying around in MY , more please .
Found the video is lame actually, despite Douglas Lim is a cracking stand up comedian in the local standup scene. Prefer his song parody of Justin Bieber’s Baby song than this crap.
Yea honda service centres , in fact any authorized sc always overcharge . Thats y people still prefer to service them outside.
Look at how many bmw and merc are servicing their cars outside at bmw n merc specialists service centres.rather than the bloodsucking authorized sc?
First of all the technicians at authorized sc know nuts about cars. Most of the staff there are newly graduated students from TOC .
I service my merc outside , and it was almost half the price cheaper and they used exactly the same thing.
Hahahaa. Funny indeed…
…but I guess that Honda owners who actually send their cars to “Hondi” will not find it funny but painful to their ego – worship the Honda brand by saying great things but service somewhere else (when warranty expires, I guess).
:-)
i send my honda to HONDI after my warranty expired it its got nothng to d with ego….worship honda? common la these only apply to wannabe ricer who thinks vtec is a version of cheaper Ferrari engine…well they even have a temple for it …..from my experience sending my car to handa service cetre to either in alor setar or kb is just suicidal and irritative. on lots of occasion i went for service and telling them all the thing need to be check cos i felt something wrong about it it just fall on deaf ears. sometimes i even force my self to go far away to honda kulim or kah penang if anything wrong bcos i know they do better job….if nothing wrong i just send it to my hondi, their mechanics got proper ears to listen, proper eyes to check and proper brain to diagnose potential prob. choose a good hondi and u are in good hand compare to some of the so called ‘authorized honda service my a$$ centre’….
Instilling fear in peoples minds is a very bad form of advertising…
I think not to blame the out side workshop…. but is the SC r the 1 giving them the chance to service the hondi cars mah….
all authorized SC are blood sucker. You get better deal from local and more capable worksop
lol the dude literally bathe the engine with engine oil
damn i love the makeshift jack stands LOL
Changed my brake pads – depan blkg – u wanna know how much it cost me?rm700.tp ada diskaun,tp still mahal like 600rm,n x tmsuk labour charges.
nissin pads.wow..honda sa…kdg2 u really take people for a ride…most of the time….
ugly ads.. typical ahbeng honda
IMHO honda authorized sc take huge profit from customer due to the ‘authorized’ brand. There are many outside sc that can do jobs as well as this authorized sc or even better. Just compare item per item from authorized sc to regular sc, the price sometimes is three fold in authorized sc compare to regular sc, ex for the same spark plug cost rm500 in authorized sc whereas outside you can get for rm300. i sent my car to honda authorized sc just to keep my warranty, not due to their services. and i buy honda car because i like the car, not the H badge…
Should’ve called it Hondah instead haha… more Malaysian~
Sudah Hon belum? Hon-dah!
i have 3 yrs free service from Ford. after that, i will go fordi for service
Love the humor of this ad! Not that I can’t take a joke or whatsoever, but I think that this advertisement is a bit on the anti-competitive side. They should never attack the small bengkels which also need to survive! Instead of saying how bad the services you would get in those small workshops, they should have just say something positive about their own service… We the consumer still have the choice in the end though!
em..i like this video, not only for hondi, for local, japanese/korean/europian brand’s service centers are the same, technical issue, services issue..blar blar blar,
it can be better, earn a lot of profit from 3,4S, should improve the services, sometime, WE as a consumer, we can spend, but want a efficient, quality after sales services.
they want u to go there..so that they can do 5000km services and earn more money!! probably now very little people service there anymore. ….even a proton does 10000km service nowadays… n heck europeans cars does 25000kms…
The quality of the advertisement reflects the mentality, attitude and class of people who own Hondis and Toyotis.
Hondi or Hon-die? :-)