New car batteries held in stock at our Gadong counter and fitted on the spot, so a car that would not start this morning is usually not a two-day problem. Nagoya and Bosch are what we carry most of. Not sure the battery is even the fault? Bring it in for a free check first.
Send your car make, model and year. We will tell you what fits and whether it is on the shelf.
A battery rarely dies without warning. It usually spends a week or two telling you, and most people read the signs as something else. If any of this sounds like your car, it is worth getting the battery checked before it strands you somewhere inconvenient.
The engine turns over noticeably slower than it used to before it catches, especially first thing in the morning. This is the most common early sign and the easiest one to ignore.
Worse after the car has sat overnight, better once it has been driven.
You turn the key and get a rapid clicking or a single hard click with nothing after it. There is enough charge left to work the solenoid and not enough to turn the engine.
Often the point at which people call for a jump start.
Headlights that dim at idle and brighten when you rev, a dashboard that flickers when the aircon kicks in, or power windows that crawl.
Can also point at the charging system rather than the battery. A check tells you which.
The battery symbol on the dash usually means the charging circuit, not simply a flat battery. Driving on it risks being stranded once the remaining charge is used up.
Worth getting looked at the same day rather than the same week.
If you cannot remember when the battery was last changed, that is usually an answer in itself. Heat shortens battery life, and Brunei supplies plenty of heat.
Bring it in and we will tell you where it stands.
A battery that needs jump starting more than once is either at the end of its life or being drained by something else on the car. Replacing it blindly does not fix the second case.
We check the battery and the charging side before recommending anything.
We have run the parts counter here since 1978, and batteries are one of the lines we keep depth in rather than ordering per customer. That is the whole point — a flat battery is an inconvenience today, not next week.
One of the two brands we carry most of, covering the common Japanese, Korean and Malaysian models on Brunei roads.
The other main line we hold, and the one people usually ask for by name on Continental cars and higher-draw vehicles.
New batteries bought from us come with a six month warranty. Keep your receipt and bring the car back if anything goes wrong inside that window.
Supply and fitting happen on the same premises. You are not buying a battery here and then finding somewhere else to put it in.
If your car takes something we do not have on the shelf, tell us the make, model and year on WhatsApp and we will say so honestly rather than sell you a battery that nearly fits.
Send your car make, model and year, and what the car is doing. A photo of the old battery label helps us match it exactly.
We tell you which battery your car takes, whether it is on the shelf, and what it costs, before you drive over.
Come to Spg. 27, Jln. Gadong, Menglait during opening hours. We fit it on the spot and you drive away on the new battery.
One thing worth being straight about: we do not run a callout or roadside service. The car needs to come to us. If it will not start where it is, arrange a jump or a tow to Gadong and we will take it from there.
Batteries are often thought of as a cold-climate problem, because cold is when a weak one finally refuses to start. The damage itself is mostly done by heat, which is why battery life in Brunei tends to run shorter than the numbers printed on the box.
Sustained heat under the bonnet accelerates the internal wear that eventually leaves a battery unable to hold charge.
The aircon runs from the moment you set off, all year. That is a steady electrical load the battery and alternator carry on every journey.
Lots of short trips around Gadong and Bandar never give the charging system a long enough run to fully replace what starting the car used.
A vehicle parked for weeks slowly self-discharges. Second cars and rarely-used vehicles are the ones that surprise people.
None of this means a battery is a consumable you should be replacing constantly. It means a free check once you are a few years in is worth more than a guess.
We are in Menglait, Gadong, a short drive from most of Brunei-Muara and regularly used by drivers coming in from further out.
Kien Sing Tan Autopart Company
Unit A, B & C, Bangunan Haji Ali Husein Mohamed,
Spg. 27, KM3, Jln. Gadong
Bandar Seri Begawan BE4119
Monday to Saturday · 8am to 5pm
Closed Sundays and public holidays