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Hi all, Overheard from 93.3 radio annoucement this morning that MY govt is going to annouce review on policies regarding foreign car entry to Malaysia today. Did anyone receive any winds on this matter? Regards,

talk big, now balls small when threatened to get sued. molina han and amanda tan is joseph ong chor teck. somehow the message was passed to joseph and tr agreed to change the name later? Temasek Review agrees

Apparently on the New Paper. Anyone read it? Link

OK, I have decide to try out the plugs and see all the "performance claims" myself. Bought a set of it and install into my car. Previously using Denso IK24. Initial impression is, well engine felt smoother which is pretty much in tune with what happens when you install a new set of plugs (My Denso plugs are around 1000KM old only). There is definitely a little more power at low RPM (between 1-2K RPM) compared to the Denso plugs. Its not surprising since there is no 5K ohms resistor to suck power. The difference gets more pronounced when I turned on the AC. There is less vibration at low RPM esp. when dragging the engine. Overall, there is some improvement but not much. I don't know if it worth the extra premium over the Iridium plugs. I will have to monitor the FC and see what happens. Right now I am hovering at a very steady 7.5KM/L. I pump once a week and my daily routes and even traffic lights timing are very fix. So, I can monitor my FC very accurately. One thing I didn't do is to measure the gap. My Denso are using 0.8mm gap. I will have to take out to measure it at some point of time. One side effect I did notice is my tachometer gets a little erractic. It may jump a little during idle. As expected, plugs w/o resistor will produce more noise and my tacho signal is wired directly to the -ve terminal on my ignition coil. I do have a variable resistor attached to it, will have to adjust to compensate for the noise. At least the plugs didn't seems to affect my Vipec ECU which could result in erratic A/F ratio or misfiring etc. Hopeully, it stays that way in the long run. I have yet to try high RPM to see if it runs well. Thats all for my initial review of the Nology plugs. If you also using the same plugs or some other plugs, just post your experience here

Hi, Any G Punto owners out there? can give your review on the car especially in the 5 areas: 1. Price 2. Power 3. Consumption 4. Workmanship/ reliability 5. Car service by TT I have tested drive the car but find that it is underpower and handling not so good. Beside that I was told that the car service by TT was not so good. Your advice pls. Cheers.

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http://www.sun-auto.co.jp/english/english_...zma_4cycle.html This is the one I bought 2nd hand from another MCFer. Its the black MR one. Btw, its selling at Autobacs for slightly over $400...... Initial response is like....... Well...... no difference leh.....I felt nothing at all. Maybe the unit is faulty but the blinking LED lights show its normal. Its just capacitors and unit does charge up. Monitor my FC.... well.....again..... nothing significant. Maybe just 0.2KM/L better but inconclusive. I just adjust my fuel during idle to be slightly leaner and I get even better FC than this. I also DIY my Spark Earth VS. The unit is basically just 2 x 470uF caps and 1 x 0.0068uF cap. Then 1 x resistor and 1 x LED. Fuse is optional. No difference of any kind as well. I just treat it as some noise filter lor. So, if you want to spend $400-500 on VS thinking you can get more power, think again..... I know grounding does help, and my car is already grounded (DIY of course). thus maybe thats why VS is useless.

Hi Everyone. Like anyone fit this product? http://www.eastgear.com/vosonic-gv-6330-ve...-safeguard.html Like to hear review from you all. Thanks

Anyone driving a Chervolet Spark 0.8A?? How is the ride and how is the FC. For repair, is the after market parts easy to find and is servicing easy to find as well? Planning to get a 2nd hand ride for my job requirement.

Let's look at a S$65,000 or thereabouts car (depending on the COE of course) that had recently been launched and see whether its any good to drive it or not. The car in question is the Mazda 2 Sedan 1.5 automatic. Yes, the hatchback has been around for two years and it has basically taken Mazda that amount of time to come out with a sedan version of it for the sedan loving Asians. I think one of the reason people in this region like sedans is because it looks a little more dignified and bigger looking than something without a boot. Actually the real reason we Asians like sedans is the fact that we like to carry durians, belacan (fermented prawn paste) and many other naturally bad smelling good food that we tend to love eating so much. A boot would separate the smelly food from the passenger cabin where unlike a hatchback a piece of cardboard acting as the parcel shelf only separates the passenger cabin from the boot space. Of course you still get the smell of durians in a sedan as its not really air tight, but it is lessened compared to a hatch. Ergo, this is the reason Asians prefer sedans over hatchbacks. Anyway the Mazda 2 Sedan is a hatchback that has been redesigned to have a boot instead of a hatch. Hence the sheet metal from the B pillar rearwards is redesigned. Wheelbase is similar and the rear legroom is as per the hatchback, therefore adequate. If you're looking for Toyota Camry like rear space within this category you're expecting too much. Now when it comes to the styling of the car it is of my opinion that Mazda have been pretty successful in the conversion from hatch to sedan (with a boot that would fit baby strollers with ease). It does not look like a dumpy, unbalanced and ugly looking 2nd generation Honda City or a dumpy, unbalanced and ugly like the new (basically for China) Peugeot 207 sedan. Hey, they are both hideously similar so they deserve the same description. Both are really bad looking hatch to sedan designs. Period. So it looks good and even after adding the boot the car is still light, weighing only 30kgs heavier than the hatchback version. Mazda still designs their cars light even with all the usual safety equipment, and this helps in how the car handles. Lightness also helps with the performance of the car too. The 103bhp 137Nm engine provides ample propulsion for this 1051kg sedan. But when you compare this against the 1098kg Toyota Vios (109bhp 141Nm) or 1130kg for the Honda City (120bhp 145Nm), the weight advantage is negated by the extra power/torque of the other cars. But the good thing is that the lighter weight allows the Mazda to burn less petrol in order to achieve the same level of performance as the heavier Vios or City. So you would seem to be the more eco-friendly person if you drove a Mazda 2 over the other two. However any small, built to a price sedan is going to have merely adequate performance. But if its main purpose is to spend most of its life in an urban environment, with maximum speeds hovering around the 70-90km/h mark the Mazda 2 does this pretty well. The controls are like the Mazda 2 hatchback and nothing has changed. The seats are good and I could find a nice driving position pretty quickly. It is like anyone can can jump in and drive it fast straightaway without any problems. The ride is pretty good on the 195/45/16 tires (the version I tried had this specced), the car turns on a dime and the electrically assisted steering has some feedback and feels pretty natural most of the time unlike some other wheels of the same type. The car has pretty good road manners at urban driving speeds and when you up the ante and do some high speed driving the Mazda 2 sedan still delivers. It is agile and it does handle well with this rim and tire combination. If you take sharp corners at around 80km/h it feels very neutral. You could make steering correction at speeds above 120km/h and it does not get unsettled. Front end is high and it will mildly understeer in-extremis but it is quite throttle adjustable at the limit. However the lack of grunt or pulling power somewhat limits this. This may be due to the fact that the car had less than a thousand kilos on its clock and you can't really expect a small family sedan to do wonders with only 137Nm of torque. But couple this lack of torque with an unintuitive autobox its not so nice if you're into spirited driving. When left to its own devices the 4 speed automatic gearbox somehow likes to be in a gear higher than what I would have liked in mid-corner. It doesn't shift down fast enough on full throttle after you are done braking and when you want to get back on the power. It isn't as intuitive as some other gearboxes as it does not shift down when you wish it would. So you're out of the power band and performance suffers mid-corner. So if you want to be in a lower gear, you have to shift down manually before the corner. This is the only way to overcome this slightly slow transmission if you want to do some spirited driving. The ride doesn't suffer at high speeds and even with that torsion beam rear suspension it does not unsettle easily over large bumps. This is one happy handling small sedan. Oh yeah, the brakes are adequate for the car. I have no complaints except that I would like better pedal modulation. But that's nitpicking. So does it have any faults other than the presumed lack of torque and the sedate gearbox? Engine noise and wind noise. Too much of both intruding the passenger cabin at high revs. If you're a sedate (read very conservative and slow driver) these and the earlier mentioned slow acting gearbox wouldn't be a problem as you'd never even hit 4,000rpm in this car. But cross the 4,500rpm threshold, things get pretty loud and trashy. Maybe this is down to keeping the car light or down to a cost until it lacks more soundproofing. Aside from engine noise, at speeds above 120km/h there is a noticeable amount of wind noise around the A-pillars, so high speed cruising in this car isn't too quiet. This could be down to lack of aerodynamic development due to cost or the car I drove had faulty seals. If you want a comparison on comfort, ride and handling, the Suzuki Swift 1.5 has better Noise, Vibration and Harshness suppression as well as better driving pleasure, which I put as one of the two most important criteria in a car (the other is the looks and/or character of the car). I would personally choose the small Suzuki hatchback over this sedan. But this Mazda has above average handling and also a boot. So you can smell less of the durians you may be carrying. And that may be all the reason you need to try a Mazda 2 Sedan before making a decision. Actually you could try a Honda City, Toyota Vios or any other car in and out of the price range. But that is another story altogether.

Hi guys.. i'm really interested in the car.. would like to hear more from the drivers of these cars if there are any.. cos i rather hear a user review than some SE trying to earn some bucks...

Anyone driving this car? Care to share your review?

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Hi, just went to kartright karting track, would like to say they have great karts and a great track, it took me 2 drives to get myself used to the track and kart.... the first drive was not too good...made 6 to 7 errors via skidding and lost time the second drive was better...but i skidded twice....which is not too bad.... the track is challenging and fun....i would say the track is on par with plentong, and not as easy as kart world

i had som much advice for GPS from here.. So now its time to contribute back to the forum hehe Got my Marbella M550 deluxe for 2 weeks liao. Here is my review.. If i am wrong , just let me know BUT during the IT Fair, the demand was overwhelming>> i need to wait for at least 1 month before i received the GPS. (standard problem faced for ordering at IT fair) :crycry: I got it via mail, Speed post. Delivery timing as set at my convenience :yehyeh: The packaging is chio and classy leh Price i got is $380 from Makagps SPECS >> 1)GPS navigator with malsing & mapking Singapore and Malaysia maps 2)movie player (3gp, wav, avi) 3)Pictures viewer (jpg, bmp, gif and other std format) 4)Music player (wav, mp3) 5)bluetooth 6)FM transmitter for navigation and video playing 7)TTS function available Interior Inside the box, there are quite a few items. IN fact, much more than others 1) AV cable (from gps to TV RGB) 2) Car adaptor - charging in car/ FM transmitter's antenna 3) AC adaptor - charging at home 4) USB - charging via pc/for copying file 5) 2GB micro sd + SD card adaptor with malsing & mapking Singapore and Malaysia maps loaded 6) Card reader 7) screen protector 8) Car mounting 9) stylus Exterior The car mount for the gps is easy to set up .. but sometimes, it will drop off from the glass one (common fault for all car mounting) -> but rarely happens haha The GPS has a 4.3" screen size. Quite a decent size.. The exterior got a layer of black rubber coating > not slippery, good for me as i got sweaty palms + even i put on dashboard, it will not slip off so easily The connectors that M550 have are as followm Bottom> the USB connector Sides>> SD card, earpiece connector , AV-IN Top>> On/OFF switch - for toggling to sleeping mode (must press and hold for 2 sec) Behind >> Stylus (i rarely use, as i use my fingers hehe --> The icons/keyboard are quite big. Even my fat fingers can also type easily). Speaker is at the back too Mounted view

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Hi all, Bad news, COE quota reduce again. Mid-Quota Year Review For Quota Year 2009 Reduction in the number of COEs in all Vehicle Categories 1. The Land Transport Authority (LTA) has completed its mid-quota year review of the Certificate of Entitlement (COE) quota for quota year 2009 (from May 2009 to April 2010). 2. For the remaining bidding exercises for this quota year, from October 2009 to March 2010, the monthly quota of COEs for all vehicle categories will be reduced as follows: Category A (Cars with engine capacity 1,600cc and below and taxis), Category B (Cars with engine capacity above 1,600cc), Category C (Goods Vehicles and Buses), Category D (Motorcycles and Scooters) and Category E (Open Category) will be reduced by 17.8%, 9.8%, 28.1%, 6.7% and 18.8% respectively. The revised monthly quotas for the affected vehicle categories will be effective from the October 2009 first COE bidding exercise which begins on 5 October 2009.

hi thinking of changing horns. I tried PIAA at autobacs, sounds quite ok with twin tone. which bro has changed horns before? which do u like the best?

hi all, after doing some surveys/research, i found that my current pay is below market rate by about 20-30%... what would be the best/tactful ways to 'ask' for a revision without harming employer/employee relationships?

For those watched the match, comments please? To me, some points noted: 1. Singapore football suck totally especially in 2nd half - defenders dun know how to defend, strikers dun know how to shoot... blah blah blah 2. Why have trophy? Super damn pointless... i can see that the Liverpool players like no interest and just going through motion... 3. Jersey exchange... seems like Liverpool players not that keen... some just trying to give face only and put up a show

Hi all, my medical review is due soon (after 2 years) anyone knows any good specialist to recommend (fractured my arm previously).... for permanent downgrade pm me if u got one. many thks

One of our writers took the Chery A1 for a day or two..this is what they think. Warning. If you like China cars, don't click. http://www.sgcarmart.com/news/review.php?AID=26

Hi ALL, Please share your experience in using "TIBO" GPS device. (Esso is selling only $159) Any model as there isn't much information when you seach the Web. Thanks In Advance...