WAC : Wise Auto Club
How we get along . . .

Early last year, a group of people of common interests gather in “Autoworld.com.my” forum to discuss mainly car problems and ways to DIY things to solve some affordability issues. Eventually, the group of people had a vision to form a community, to meet up and to extend the sharing of knowledge to hands-on and real-life discussions.

First gathering that attracted the participation of the seasoned and new forummers from the Central Region, was quite successful. Experience gathered from first gathering, was applied for the second gathering and hence, more publicity was made in the forum through opening of specific threads to discuss preparations and also to invite new participants.

Knowledge shared in the forum added with photos of the last gathering, encouraged a handful more to join and since then, they have not looked back as the core of the committee members now seldom missed any gatherings from then on.

During the first few “Teh Tarik” (TT) sessions, the members mooted for the idea of doing a DIY gathering to feed the needs for sound proofing and ICE tuning. A gathering was done for the first DIY session, where many members gathered and materials were ordered. Response was encouraging as many came and helped out; hence it became DIT (Do It Together).

The close knit community soon formed a strong bond during every DIY TTs and their positive qualities eventually spread through the word of mouth hence more owners of other car makes started to join.

Not moving away from the main objective of the club that is to find ways to DIY anything and everything possible, soon the DIY activities extended not just within the boundaries of ICE and soundproofing. It also covered cleaning the throttle body, changing brake pads, cold air intake (CAI), grounding, group purchases for accessories and spare parts, air swirlers, smoked headlights to name a few.

A great success fueled by more young blood and expertise from members from all fields, the club managed to setup and run their own forum.

During the time, the club started to frequent and organize TTs, DIY sessions and recreation trips which included the Ulu Yam waterfalls, Putrajaya, Port Dickson and Melaka amongst others.

Some entrepreneurs started to form their own companies to handle some DIY devices like the voltage stabilizer and grounding kits.

During the transition period from the Autoworld forum to the new website forum, more members started pouring in from other regions of Malaysia , more notably from southern Johor – Johor Bahru, hence a representative was elected to gather and lead the southern region.

The members from the southern region too held on to the club's main motto i.e. DIY everything possible and under the guidance of the representative eventually managed to garner support from some car owners in the Singapore .

Realizing that the club needs a proper direction and to lay down some proper solid foundation, a committee was elected and formed during the club's first general meeting with experts from various fields (IT, engineers, financial, human relations, graphics, event organizers, post-graduates, etc) offering professional help.

The club then held several competitions and brainstorming of ideas for the official club T-shirts, logo and even to rename the club. A short while after migrating, the club changed its name to WAC (Wise Auto Club) to signal the dawn of a new era.

Wise Auto Club – simply means a family of all makes that encourages wise motoring.

The club now boasts a registered list of 400 forummers and growing each day. Despite the pace of the club growth over the past one year, it has never deviated from their motto.

WAC is and will always be a club for beginners, learners and newbies to the automotive world because we believe as a club and individuals we can never stop learning.