Mechanic scam | Warning

A pretty nice game they tried to play with us. It goes like that:

Just about to leave Ica behind, two passengers pointed at our car and signaled something was very wrong. We stopped immediately and were super lucky that a mechanic was right there where we needed him. He checked behind the front tire and came back with a defective rubber housing with broken spring. "Dangerous! Follow me over there I can fix for 10 Soles".

We followed him but doubts already started cruising around in our heads. The timing was just too perfect.
Also, the two guys looked so shocked as were our complete tire missing.

At the new spot yet another mechanic arrived out of nowhere, fully equiped, weird.

They showed us a "very bad part" of the steering system, which looked exactly like the working part on the other side, weird again.

I then checked his faulty part again, which was defect but clean. Too clean. No mud or anything, unlike our car which is full of dust, sand and mud.

After he didnt want me to keep the faulty part it was enough and we left, then I read the same story in an entrance in Cuzco.

The game would have gone further as they uninstall the faulty part, leave with it and return with a newly painted, wrapped and bar coded part which is exatly the same part.

Nice try, almost guys.

Be careful out there, always what them closely when they pretend to find some faulty parts.