Gearmax in Bloemfontein will **** you, don't use them

These guys deserve a rating of zero stars, this workshop is nothing but a ******** operation. On Monday 12 Jan 2026 at 8am I took my car in for repairs of the gearbox - one gear was kicking out while I drive, gear 5. Peter assisted me, said he would take no more than 3 days to fix my car, said he'd have a quote for me by the end of the day. He did no such. On Tuesday no one called me, at 1pm I called them and asked when they were going to quote me - Kim said before the end of the day on Tuesday. Again they failed to give me a quote. On Wed I took public transport to their workshop, a huge inconvenience and left my work to go physically ask them for a quote. I found that they had only stripped my car that day....Peter quickly whipped out an unjustified exorbitant quote of R20K, I told him to reassemble my car and that I don't have that kind of money. Look at their **** quote which I have attached, no proper itemised breakdown of costs of parts. When he heard me reject his quote he begged me to accept a revised quote of R8k....yeah you heard right - the quote suddenly went down by R12k. I should not have accepted even this 2nd quote because Peter did not buy any parts or replace any worn parts of my gearbox. He simply reassembled it without fixing it at all. I picked up my car today (16 Jan 2026), it only drove 50km before the 5th gear reverted to its same problem. I had to drive my car 406km to Gauteng only on 4th gear. The 4th gear now kicks out too. My R8000 has been ****med from me by Peter. Trust Peter at your own own risk, he is a sociopath to have taken my money claiming to have fixed my car when he hasn't and instead put my life at risk. I could have gotten completely stuck on the freeway as a woman driving alone at night. Please do not spend your money at this ******** enterprise, read all the reviews carefully....Peter's Gearmax workshop is a sinking ship. He keeps cars longer than he's supposed to because he has no business, he keeps cars to create a false impression that he's workshop is busy and booked when it isn't. In the 2 days he wasted keeping my car I could have taken my car to a better gearbox specialist workshop in Bloemfontein I chose Gearmax because they promised to look at my car promptly - don't fall for this trick. Don't use car repair places like Gearmax which has a rating of below 4.7 you will regret it.