A car sent for repair works at an auto body shop in Sin Ming Industrial Estate mysteriously disappeared… only to reappear again a month later, driven by someone else, claimed the vehicle’s owner.
On Sunday, Allan Wan went on Facebook to seek help on social media about a thorny situation he found himself in. According to Wan, his Toyota Estima MPV was sent for repair last December at a workshop called Teutonic Technologies, but somehow, the car went “missing” on Jan 24 this year. Continued attempts to contact the workshop employees failed, he said, and a police report was lodged. The Land Transport Authority (LTA) has since categorized his car as “missing” last Friday.
What made it stranger was that Wan stated he received a notification from LTA that his car had actually been driven through an ERP gantry without sufficient cashcard value along Havelock Road on the morning of Feb. 1. Again, Wan lodged a report about his missing car, which is now apparently being driven around by someone else.
As proof, the man put up pictures of his official police report lodged on Feb. 2, which provided further details of the alleged case of grand theft auto.
Here’s a timeline of what happened, according to the official account:
- On Christmas Day 2017, a man named Ken dropped by Wan’s place to pick up the car for repairs at Teutonic Technologies. It was the fourth time Wan engaged the services of the workshop for car maintenance.
- The car itself needed repairs due to “violent engine vibrations” experienced while being driven.
- A month later, Wan still had not received any updates about the repair works or the car parts that had to be ordered.
- But on Jan. 24, Wan suddenly got an invoice from the shop, which charged him a total of S$4,500. An odd fee, according to him, as his engine was under warranty from that same workshop.
- Wan refused to pay the amount. Later, he dropped by Teutonic Technologies in person to get more details, only to find that the workshop had been closed for quite some time. Calls made to Ken and another workshop employee weren’t being picked up.
- The car remains missing till this day.
