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I have this water/chemical stain on my front windscreen which came from a leaky pipe in a basement car park that is super stubborn. I suspect the drip contains some chemical. The stain though transparent is very obvious when the windscreen is wet. :angry: I have tried Autoglym glass polish, thinner, turpentine, vinegar, lime, bleach, claybar, Jif but none seem to work! Anyone can suggest what I can do to remove it?

To all the drivers out there, please help me to understand why some drivers act like this: I really don't get it, isn't it better to have just missed that turn and then turn back later on? Sure, you could say that this driver might have been in a rush or that he could have had something urgent to attend to. But I don't think having to make a missed turn is worth having your car getting hit by other vehicles. 😥😓 And worse, this driver might not be able to claim anything from insurance due to his reckless insistence! Thoughts?

Any bro can advise me on how to DIY stubborn water spots on car wind screen? tks u.

dear brothers/sisters, anyone can advice how to remove spark plug that is stuck to the car? mechanic managed to remove 3 out of 4. now left one and the mechanic say its dangerous to remove, might result in engine need to be removed. google and found some results like spraying WD40 or on the engine make it warm then easier to remove. thanks in advance for any advice given!

which wise guy said that poorer families are not as badly impacted by inflation as the rich? [sINGAPORE] Inflation is still not coming down and appears to have hit poorest households hardest in the first half of this year. Policymakers expect inflation to moderate in the second half of the year after June's rebound to 5.3 per cent, but high inflation makes any loosening of monetary policy dicey, even as slowing growth raises the need to. The government now expects inflation in 2012 to come in at the upper half of its 3.5 to 4.5 per cent forecast range. June's consumer price index (CPI) was unchanged from a month ago, but the latest year-on-year jump brings inflation for the first half of 2012 to 5.1 per cent. Inflation's impact on households varies across different income groups, a separate report released by the Department of Statistics (DoS) yesterday shows. Worst hit were the bottom 20 per cent of households, for whom inflation rose from 5.4 per cent in the July to December period last year, to 6.3 per cent in the first half of this year. Inflation for the middle 60 per cent income group slipped from 5.4 per cent to 5.2 per cent, while for the richest fifth of households, inflation eased from 5.7 per cent to 4.6 per cent. DoS emphasised that overall inflation numbers are due to higher imputed rentals on houses occupied by their owners. This does not have an impact on cash expenditures of those who own their homes. Excluding these imputed rentals, inflation was comparable across income groups. But the poorest 20 per cent of households still saw inflation rising most, from 2.6 per cent in H2 2011 to 4.1 per cent for H1 2012. The middle income group's inflation slipped from 4 per cent to 3.9 per cent, while inflation slowed for the top 20 per cent, from 5 per cent to 4 per cent. UniSIM senior lecturer Tan Khay Boon noted that lower oil and commodity prices may help lower income households, which tend to spend a larger portion of income on food. However, the lowest income group also faced higher healthcare cost inflation of 4.3 per cent, compared with the middle and high income households' 4 and 3.9 per cent. "Healthcare cost may increasingly be a burden to the low income group and more assistance in this area may be needed," he said. Housing and transport costs were the main culprits driving up the CPI by a faster-than-expected 5.3 per cent in June from a year ago. This came after inflation had slowed to 5 per cent in May from April's 5.4 per cent. This choppy trend is partly because rebates for service and conservancy charges (S&CC) were disbursed to HDB households in April and June last year but not this year, exacerbating cost hikes this April and June. Still, accommodation cost inflation has been stronger than the authorities expected. "Leasing contracts continue to be renewed at significantly higher rental rates, especially in the HDB segments," the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) said in joint comments yesterday. Accommodation costs sped up to rise 10.8 per cent year-on-year in June contributing 2.2 percentage points of June's inflation, up from 1.8 percentage points in May. Car prices surged from a year ago but lower petrol prices and ERP charges helped slow the rise in private transport cost, from May's 10.3 per cent to 9.7 per cent in June. Excluding accommodation and private road transport (which formed two thirds of June's inflation), MAS's core inflation measure held steady at 2.7 per cent for a third straight month. Sharper spikes in clothing and footwear prices were offset by slower price gains in other segments of the CPI basket. Services inflation slid from 2.9 per cent in May to 2.8 per cent in June, while food inflation slowed from 2.5 per cent in May to 2.3 per cent in June. "The pass-through of wages and other business costs to consumer prices will continue, but at a more moderate pace," MAS and MTI said. They also expect earlier weakness in global commodity prices to dampen pressures on oil and food items in the near term. But UOB economist Alvin Liew thinks the recent surge in soft commodity prices, due to parched weather conditions in key farming regions, may lead to higher food prices in the second half of this year. Barclays economist Leong Wai Ho thinks so too, noting that corn, wheat and soybeans prices are at least 30 per cent higher than what they were at the start of the year. Food weighs 22 per cent in the CPI basket of goods, compared with accommodation's 20 per cent and private road transport's 11.6 per cent. Stubborn inflation implies a "tougher balancing act" for the MAS, Mr Leong says. Already, Singapore's growth has slowed, sparking talk of a technical recession and raising the odds that MAS may ease monetary policy in October. While most economists still expect the MAS to keep policy tight to stem inflation pressures, Mr Leong thinks growth concerns are likely to overshadow inflation, unless coordinated easing by global central banks turns the global economic outlook rosy. Citi economists Kit Wei Zheng and Brian Tan said in a note yesterday that expected near-term inflation of 4 per cent sets the hurdle high but is "not an insurmountable obstacle for monetary easing", given that weaker growth could set the stage for disinflation next year.

Date - 13 Aug 2011 Time - 1625h Place- Woodland causeway checkpoint Traffic flow- Heavy Matrix constantly keeps a very close distance to the front car (Honda City) even when stopping. Perhaps he did not want to give way to exiting vehicles cleared from checkpoint counter. Honda city notices the close-up of Matrix. As traffic is heavy, he come out of the car and give Matrix driver a friendly advice not to stay so close to him as the traffic flow is heavy and few merging and narrow lanes in the checkpoint. Matrix takes the advice, immediate reverse 1 footstep from City. Guess what? It takes the next 10 minutes for this 2 cars to reach the entrance of causeway bridge due to heavy traffic. When they jus approached the bridge, BANG . ..... Matrix hit rear city.... City: Hey! Didnt i told you 10 minutes ago not to stay so close to me???? Jus sharing what i saw and heard....

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For years, since COE started open bidding via online, the price only start moving aggressively during last 15-30 min. The bidding exercise always starts from Mon noon. Isn;t it a waste of system resource. Why can't just start the bidding on Wed 10am and close at 4pm??

Dear all, I went to Sunway last week and parked at the basement carpark of paramid hotel. I didnt realised that I parked under a leaking pipes that dripped chemcials over my car. I've been using Sonax Extreme Spray & Claybar but the removal is just too slow and very siong man. Wonder anyone here with similar unfortunate experiences? I need help to remove these marks off my car. Does car grooming services offer such services? Also, a word of caution for all who goes to Msia: Open your eyes and see where you parked!!! Sigh..... Thanks for your help!!!

Hi I just found 3 streams of what looks to be like hard water on my front windscreen. It's definately not paint and I got it whilst parked at an underground car park... must be leaked from the ceiling and can see it landed from the top of the windscreen and run all the way down. Initially, I thought I could remove with a bit of hard scrubbing (using wash sponge and car wash detergent) but it didnt come off. Went to HW DIY shop and bought Oust Descaler yesterday, applied it, left it for a few mins and washed off with sponge and water... it's still there!. Then I was a bit desperate and tried a rough sponge from the kitchen (you know the one use for scrubbing stubborn burn stain from pots and pans), I knew it was going to cause some scratches, so I tested it at the bottom of the windscreen first... after much hard scrubbing , I could only get 50% off but it caused a bit of scratches on the glass as expected so I stopped. At this time... I've left it as is, and seek your help if any bros out there have effective solution to resolve this. The other option is if anyone know which shop I can go to get this problem sorted out. Regards Mike.

Hi all Juat want to find out from the experts what stain remover is effective in the market. This evening I was shocked to see some white liquid mist on my car bonnet. My car was parked in the office indoor car park. Could be some mischievious act of someone . I spent an hour applying several rounds of wax and rubbing it with Meguiar Quick Detailer but there is still this 50cents coin size like a bird stain substance stubbornly stuck on the bonnet.

Hi bros, I wash my car almost every week, some times with car shampoo, others just with plain water. Over the years, the wipers seem to cause dirt to accumulate on the windscreen. Lines of stubborn dirt can be found on the windscreen where the wipers are resting during inactivity and at the extreme position where the wipers would be able to turn to (see the green lines on the picture). Any ideas to clean away the dirt? Use mama lemon? Real lemon fruit juice? thinner? vinegar? lighter fluid?

Dear all I've got some stickers on my jeep sides that just refuses to budge.I tried slicing with pen knife, peeling with fingernails, WD40... Nothing works. Can anyone help b4 I approach the painters? Thanks. Regards Lester