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  1. Anyone knows where is this nice location? Very impressive housing estate. Must cost a lot...only can dream. http://www.sgcarmart.com/news/gallery.php?AID=991&CUR=1&TYPE=reviews#photo
  2. Hi Are there any nice food nearer ie not far after causeway clearance? And on the way to NSH? As I always got lost in JB Tks
  3. http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2013/10/23/honda-to-go-small-gas-powered-at-tokyo-motor-show/ CAT A COE!
  4. Just watched these movies over the weekend. Find them quite nice, so i post here. Happy birthday SG50
  5. $14.10 for these 2 plates... omg... i've eaten at this place and ta pau many times... also at katong there that one... my average packet or plate is like $3-$4 since years ago... but that day my friend lost me in darts and suggested to eat there... he couldnt believe his ears/eyes when told of the price for the 2plates we had...... is this normal sia? bloody expensive nasi lemak... yes i admit its nice, but nothing out of this world... and i hate Qs... so i only eat once in a blue moon when not so crowded or someone else is lining up...
  6. Dear bros, feel like bring my chai go eat hokkien mee... some suggested Kim's Place Seafood Restaurant's Fried Hokkien Prawn Mee, some say the one in geylang lor 29 good... any suggestions? kam siah
  7. Zanter

    Nice Song!

    http://www.mrbrownshow.com/2008/02/04/the-...ount-erp-drift/ Lyrics I wonder if you know, How they live in Ang Mo Kio Go to city many gantry Can
  8. Bro ,need recommandation for the exhaust tip of my newly purchase lancer.The exhaust tip of the lancer sux man. Need to fix a exhaust tip and the car will look much nicer man . And how much it cost??? How long it take to fix it? Welding it to the exhaust is illegal right??? Thanks
  9. The Saab Was Her First Birthday Gift From Her Daddy. It Was A Heart Touching Moment When She Knows That She Has To Leave Singapore Due To Career. She Commented That Anyone Who Buys Her Car Will Be A Lucky Owner. This Beautiful Lady Has Never Failed To Service Her Car. Seeing And Experiencing Your Saab Is Believing! Fully Agent Maintained & Extreme High Returns Of $32188 Awaits You. ( Lesson: Used car dealers should concentrate on selling cars instead of writing stories. ) http://www.sgcarmart.com/used_cars/info.php?ID=351350
  10. Rotating your tyres Keep your expensive rubber to LAST LONGER This is the practice of swapping the front and back tyres to even out the wear, not the practice of literally spinning your tyres around (you'd be surprised how often people seem to get confused by this). I used to believe that this wasn't a good idea. Think about it: the tyres begin to wear in a pattern, however good or bad, that matches their position on the car. If you now change them all around, you end up with tyres worn for the rear being placed on the front and vice versa. However, having had this done a few times both on front-wheel drive and all-wheel-drive vehicles during manufacturer services, I' a bit of a convert. I now reckon it actually is A Good Thing. It results in even overall tyre wear. By this, I mean wear in the tread depth. This is a valid point, but if you can't be bothered to buy a new pair of tyres when the old pair wear too much, then you shouldn't be on the road, let alone kidding yourself that putting worn front tyres on the back and partly worn back tyres on the front will cure your problem. So how should you rotate your tyres? It depends on whether you have 2-, 4-, front- or rear-wheel drive, and whether or not you have unidirectional tyres (meaning, those with tread designed only to spin in one direction). With unidirectional tyres, you can swap the front and rear per-side, but not swap them side-to-side. If you do, they'll all end up spinning the wrong way for the tread. Generally speaking you ought to rotate your tyres every 5,000 miles (8,000km) or so, even if they're showing no signs of wear. The following table shows the correct way to rotate your tyres. (Click any image to bring up larger versions with descriptions) Diagnosing problems from tyre wear Your tyre wear pattern can tell you a lot about any problems you might be having with the wheel/tyre/suspension geometry setup. The first two signs to look for are over- and under-inflation. Whilst this used to be a problem on older tyres, modern radials have much stiffer carcasses Problem Cause Shoulder Wear Both Shoulders wearing faster than the centre of the tread Under-inflation Repeated high-speed cornering Improper matching of rims and tyres Tyres haven't been rotated recently Centre Wear* The centre of the tread is wearing faster than the shoulders Over-inflation Improper matching of rims and tyres Tyres haven't been rotated recently One-sided wear One side of the tyre wearing unusually fast Improper wheel alignment (especially camber) Tyres haven't been rotated recently Spot wear A part (or a few parts) of the circumference of the tread are wearing faster than other parts. Faulty suspension, rotating parts or brake parts Dynamic imbalance of tyre/rim assembly Excessive runout of tyre and rim assembly Sudden braking and rapid starting Under inflation Diagonal wear A part (or a few parts) of the tread are wearing diagonally faster than other parts. Faulty suspension, rotating parts or brake parts Improper wheel alignment Dynamic imbalance of tyre/rim assembly Tyres haven't been rotated recently Under inflation Feather-edged wear The blocks or ribs of the tread are wearing in a feather-edge pattern Improper wheel alignment (faulty toe-in) Bent axle beam *There is an interesting "but wait" issue with the centre tread wear example above. This effect can happen even when the pressures have been religiously maintained and might be due to centrifugal throwout of the centre of the tyre carcass rather than underinflation. This problem would most likely show itself on high performance vehicles with wide section tyres. I've had a couple of emails on this particular topic, so go ahead and think it over, and either stuff a question in the forum or contact me directly if you have any better ideas. Checking your tyres It's amazing that so many people pay such scant attention to their tyres. If you're travelling at 70mph on the motorway, four little 20-square-centimetre pads of rubber are all that sits between you and a potential accident. If you don't take care of your tyres, those contact patches will not be doing their job properly. If you're happy with riding around on worn tyres, that's fine, but don't expect them to be of any help if you get into a sticky situation. The key of course, is to check your tyres regularly. If you're a motorcyclist, do it every night before you lock the bike up. For a car, maybe once a week. You're looking for signs of adverse tyres wear (see the section above). You're looking for splits in the tyre sidewall, or chunks of missing rubber gouged out from when you failed to negotiate that kerb last week. More obvious things to look for are nails sticking out of the tread. Although if you do find something like this, don't pull it out. As long as it's in there, it's sealing the hole. When you pull it out, then you'll get the puncture. That doesn't mean I'm recommending you drive around with a nail in your tyre, but it does mean you can at least get the car to a tyre place to get it pulled out and have the resulting hole plugged. The more you look after your tyres, the more they'll look after you. Lies, damn lies, and tyre pressure gauges Whilst on the subject of checking your tyres, you really ought to check the pressures once every couple of weeks too. Doing this does rather rely on you having, or having access to a working, accurate tyre pressure gauge. If you've got one of those free pencil-type gauges that car dealerships give away free, then I'll pop your bubble right now and tell you it's worth nothing. Same goes for the ones you find on a garage forecourt. Sure they'll fill the tyre with air, but they can be up to 20% out either way. Don't trust them. Only recently - since about 2003 - have I been able to trust digital gauges. Before that they were just junk - I had one which told me that the air in my garage was at 18psi with nothing attached to the valve. That's improved now and current-generation digital gauges are a lot more reliable. One thing to remember with digital gauges is to give them enough time to sample the pressure. If you pop it on and off, the reading will be low. Hold it on the valve cap for a few seconds and watch the display (if you can). Generally speaking you should only trust a decent, branded pressure gauge that you can buy for a small outlay - $30 maybe - and keep it in your glove box. The best types are the ones housed in a brass casing with a radial display on the front and a pressure relief valve. I keep one in the car all the time and it's interesting to see how badly out the other cheaper or free ones are. My local garage forecourt has an in-line pressure gauge which over-reads by about 1.5psi. This means that if you rely on their gauge, your tyres are all 1.5psi short of their recommended inflation pressure. That's pretty bad. My local garage in England used to have one that under-read by nearly 6 psi, meaning everyone's tyres were rock-hard because they were 6psi over-inflated. I've yet to find one that matches my little calibrated gauge. One reader pointed something else out to me. Realistically even a cheap pressure gauge is OK provided it is consistent. This is easy to check by taking three to five readings of the same tyre and confirming they are all the same, then confirming it reads (consistently) more for higher pressure and less for lower pressure. One last note : if you're a motorcyclist, don't carry your pressure gauge in your pocket - if you come off, it will tear great chunks of flesh out of you as you careen down the road.... Tyre pressure and gas-mileage For the first two years of our new life in America, I'd take our Subaru for its service, and it would come back with the tyres pumped up to 40psi. Each time, I'd check the door pillar sticker which informed me that they should be 32psi front and 28psi rear, and let the air out to get to those values. Eventually, seeing odd tyre wear and getting fed up of doing this, I asked one of the mechanics "why do you always over-inflate the tyres?" I got a very long and technical response which basically indicated that Subaru are one of the manufacturers who've never really adjusted their recommended tyre pressures in line with new technology. It seems that the numbers they put in their manuals and door stickers are a little out of date. I'm a bit of a skeptic so I researched this on the Internet in some of the Impreza forums and chat rooms and it turns out to be true. So I pumped up the tyres to 40psi front and rear, as the garage had been doing, and as my research indicated. The result, of course, is a much stiffer ride. But the odd tyre wear has gone, and my gas-mileage has changed from a meagre 15.7mpg (U.S) to a slightly more respectable 20.32 mpg (U.S). That's with mostly stop-start in-town driving. Compare that to the official quoted Subaru figures of 21mpg (city) and 27mpg (freeway) and you'll see that by changing the tyre pressures to not match the manual and door sticker, I've basically achieved their quoted figures. So what does this prove? Well for one it proves that tyre pressure is absolutely linked to your car's economy. I can get an extra 50 miles between fill-ups now. It also proves that it's worth researching things if you think something is a little odd. It does also add weight to the above motto about not trusting forecourt pressure gauges. Imagine if you're underfilling your tyres because of a dodgy pressure gauge - not only is it dangerous, but it's costing you at the pump too. What's the "correct" tyre pressure? How long is a piece of string? Seriously though, you'll be more likely to get a sensible answer to the length of a piece of string than you will to the question of tyres pressures. Lets just say a good starting point is the pressure indicated in the owner's manual, or the sticker inside the driver's side door pillar. I say 'starting point' because on every car I've owned, I've ended up deviating from those figures for one reason or another. On my Subaru Impreza, as outlined above, I got much better gas mileage and no difference in tyre wear by increasing my pressures to 40psi. On my Honda Element, I cured the vague handling and outer-tyre-edge wear by increasing the pressures from the manufacturer-recommended 32/34psi front and rear respectively, to 37psi all round. On my Audi Coupe I cured some squirrelly braking problems by increasing the pressure at the front from 32psi to 36psi. On my really old VW Golf, I cured bad fuel economy and vague steering by increasing the pressures all-round to 33psi. So what can you, dear reader, learn from my anecdotes? Not much really. It's pub-science. Ask ten Subaru Impreza owners what they run their tyres at and you'll get ten different answers. It depends on how they drive, what size wheels they have, what type of tyres they have, the required comfort vs. handling levels and so on and so forth. That's why I said the sticker in the door pillar is a good starting point. It's really up to you to search the internet and ask around for information specific to your car. The Max. Pressure -10% theory. Every tyre has a maximum inflation pressure stamped on the side somewhere. This is the maximum pressure the tyre can safely achieve under load. It is not the pressure you should inflate them to. Having said this, I've given up using the door pillar sticker as my starting point and instead use the max.pressure-10% theory. According to the wags on many internet forums you can get the best performance by inflating them to 10% less than their recommended maximum pressure (the tyres, not the wags - they already haves inflated egos). It's a vague rule of thumb, and given that every car is different in weight and handling, it's a bit of a sledgehammer approach. But from my experience it does seem to provide a better starting point for adjusting tyre pressures. So to go back to my Subaru Impreza example, the maximum pressure on my Yokohama tyres was 44psi. 10% of that is 4.4, so 44-4.4=39.6psi which is about where I ended up. On my Element, the maximum pressure is 40psi so the 10% rule started me out at 36psi. I added one more to see what happened and it got better. Going up to 38psi and it definitely went off the boil, so for my vehicle and my driving style, 37psi on the Element was the sweet spot. The other alternative - don't mess with your pressures at all So - raising the pressure can extend a tyre's life because there is now less rubber contact with the road, the tyre is stiffer and therefore heats up less so lasts longer and less friction with the road gives greater MPG. Also, less sidewall flex will give a more positive feeling of steering accuracy but it can result in less ultimate grip and sudden unexpected loss of grip at the limit of adhesion. Raising or lowering tyre pressures too much either side of manufacturers recommendations could be at the expense of a less safe, more uncomfortable vehicle. So should we take all vehicle manufacturers recommendations as being absolutely correct? Remember that thousands of hours go into the development and testing of a car. If you've dicked around with your tyre pressures and still don't think it's right, go back to the door pillar sticker and try that again - you could be surprised.
  11. Back to basic of the 70's ......... yahoo news: Nation of kindness courtesy campaign kicks off A nation of kindness starts with one. That's the message of Singapore's latest courtesy campaign which kicked off on Monday. Organised by the Singapore Kindness Movement, the month-long campaign aims to "incorporate graciousness in our daily routines" -- with a particular focus on behaviour on public transport -- through the power of the individual to extend a greeting or helping hand. The end goal? To foster a kind and gracious society. SKM's messages will be visible on public transport and elsewhere on the island, as well as in print and online, to encourage people to take ownership of kindness. Social media users are also encouraged to share kindness stories and photos using #NationofKindness on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. "In working with numerous ground-up movements, I have met many inspiring individuals, many of whom are youths, who give me great hope for Singapore. Their stories deserve to be heard by more people, and will motivate us to do our part to build a more pleasant and liveable home for everyone, " said Dr William Wan, general secretary of SKM. link: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/singaporesc...-030130695.html Thank You for Reading ....
  12. City fringe view throttle2 bungalow somewhere in those greens there [laugh] menthol too
  13. Craving for cheesecakes eversince I tried the heavenly ones from Hokkaido but cannot find any really good ones in Sin probably because of the milk they use. Go any good ones to recommend?
  14. http://www.sgcarmart.com/used_cars/info.ph...184&DL=1000 1080000
  15. http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/stomp/sg...#commentSection
  16. Just now on my way home. Balestier road kind of jam. I want to filter into the right lane from another junction, as later I need to turn into Whampoa market at the junction. But the right lane already jam until I am not able to filter in, so I was at the center lane. I am sure some might think I jump queue but I stay there leh :( Later reach near traffic light and it's red light. All car stop and I am lucky I am infront of the yellow box. I wave to the van driver I want filter in and he wave at me say "OK" so I turn in slowly . As green light, I filtered into the right lane until He can see me, I wave thank you to him follow by my back wiper. Like dog happy wave it's tail lol Then the van also wave his wiper once at me. Somehow It's feels good and makes me very happy. There are good people out on the road also. It's just that we need to practice it. The van by letting me filter in, it's just a few second thing. I don't have to hog the center lane waiting to filter into right lane. It smooth out the traffic. Even it's just a small thing, I appreciate the van driver's courtesy and also hope more brother here can put down their "ego" and make the road a good driving experience. Thank you "Mr Van" (^_______^)
  17. Anyone has any idea what is their cleaning process? All these second hand cars at the merc and BMW preowned showrooms smell like brand new cars!
  18. Pretty coool ride... Always love European estate car.. If this is not an imported car, i will seriously consider it. http://www.sgcarmart.com/used_cars/info.ph...424&DL=2597
  19. Any nice Chinese names to recommend? No intention to seek advice from outside masters to "calculate". TIA
  20. Just change today...any comments? Thks!
  21. Looking for ip5 cover for significant person for Xmas gift. So far went to some shops (kate Spade, Aigner & Agnes B) but couldn't find - they only have iphone 4. Does anyone know whether Burberry, Gucci, LV have? Or anyone can recommend other nice accessories for ip5?
  22. After watching some food show... got this craving for La Mian.... Does anyone have any nice La Mian restaurant to recommend? Besides Crystal jade and imperial treasure. Used to have this Malan La Mian... but no more liao right? Google can't find leh.
  23. hi guys. any recommendations for nice west side drinking places ( around jurong etc). preferably open til late night? east side got a lot, but west side no idea at all.... would prefer not to go holland V due to crowd and parking problem. thanks!
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