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Know Your Car Basics 101: Totally Wasted My Time When The Bloody Car Battery Died

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(What is inside a ? What are the symptoms of a bad battery? Image source: Best Car Audio)

One of the main things during the lockdown that I never failed to do is to start up the every 2 – 3 days and let the engine running for a few minutes. Sometimes I drive around the neighbourhood till the engine had warmed up enough for me to park it back at the house.

For grocery shopping, I often use my wife’s car instead of my car as it had more fuel than my car. Further, it is rarely used since schools have been shut down and we rarely have any excuse to use that car.

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Know Your Car Basics 101: 4 Things I Learned On Car Maintenance

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The breakdown of Tesla components, do you know the components of your car and what it takes to maintain them in good working order? Image source: https://tech.co.

When it comes to or , most of us would be glad to hand over the keys to our . We would then proceed to the air-conditioned and get busy on our phones (or go off for shopping or home) until the service center customer rep calls to inform that the car have been serviced and we can collect the car.

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Know Your Car Basics 101: Mistakes Between Alignment & Balancing

Read These First:-

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(Do you know the differences between alignment and ? It is not necessary that both need to be done at the same time but usually it is done as it is convenient for the mechanic and more income for the workshop. Image Source: https://tamages.blogspot.com)

I did one of the dumbest things when I was my early in the morning yesterday – I drove my car into a pothole even though I had plenty of space to avoid it. I will do a separate post on that as this has a long story on its own.

Anyway, I was at the car workshop to get a fix done when I saw a Honda SUV driven into the workshop. There were 2 guys – probably in the mid 30s – well dressed. They seemed to be young, successful executives. They got down and looked around, probably looking for the chief mechanic or the owner.

The mechanic, who was attending me, looked up and asked them what the problem was. One of the guys said that he wanted to do and balancing for his car and handed over the keys to this mechanic.

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Year 2017: The Day I Became Car Wash Centre Worker

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(This is probably the worst ever. But the true horror is seeing your loved vehicles being man-handled at the wash centres and being blasted with cheap detergents & shampoos that can rust the car body and wash half done properly and you still need to pay for it. This was one thing that we decided not to do when and if we decided to open our own car wash centre)

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Know Your Car Basics 101: Scary Wiper Scare & Brilliant Kapchai Ban Proposal

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(Things to keep an eye for – failing wipers. Image source: http://www.kempenfeltauto.com)

It has been cats and dogs lately…

It was raining heavily when I went to work one fine morning – I predicted an increased jam due to the rain and a couple of morons and changing lane without any indicators during the heavy rain. I switched on the wipers and immediately I noticed something not right. It was squeaking and as the wipers go up and down, it started to bend considerably.

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2016 – Crashing Out before Going into 2017

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(Close your eyes and think for a second – are we doing the right things? Are we saying the right things? Are we putting ourselves in others shoes? Image source: http://www.coolnsmart.com)

The year 2016 came to a close with a bang – an !!

Couple of days before the end of 2016, on my last working day for the year, I got up as usual at about 6.45 am (because of school holidays) and at about 7.30 am, I left the house with a relaxed mind. The roads were clear and I was looking forward on the long holidays for the and thereafter. My son had orientation day on the last day of the year and I was looking forward to that as well.

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Enforcement 101: Dashcam, Another Great Source for Strict Enforcement

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Dashcams are nowadays an essential part of the vehicle these days. Image source: Wikipedia

Let’s start with an interesting video that shows a lack of enforcement:-

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The above dashcam video, whilst may seem impressive demonstrates how some morons rather endanger other road users so that they can have cheap thrills on the road. Why they can’t book the racing track for a day and burn rubbers to their heart’s content?

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Enforcement 101: A Rather Stupid Idea for the Lovable Mat Rempits?

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(War on the menace of civilised society, Mat Rempit is on-going – Image source: Perak Today)

I think internally there is a competition among the in this country to come up with the wildest ideas. And the latest one that has hit the headlines is the one that deals with allowing pesky Mat Rempits aka public nuisance to race on public streets.

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Event Recalled 2016: When the Car Monkeyed Around In the Year of the Monkey

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(One good way to damage the sidewalls but modern tires is designed to absorb such sudden shocks. Image source: https://carfromjapan.com/)

Last month – on the month of the – had proved to be a rather very expensive month for me as an owner of a .

Firstly I accidentally scraped my left back against the kerb and caused a small portion of the tire sidewall to be sliced off. I know for a fact that whilst you can abuse the main tread and still drive safely, the same cannot be said for the . And it was painful because the tire was still new – barely a year since I last changed it. I took it to 2 different tire shops – the first one looked at it and said it was nothing to worry.

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Know Your Car Basics 101: Do You Listen to Your Car’s Cries?

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(The thing that you do not want to see sticking out from your . Image source: https://mynissanleaf.com)

Before I start, I was not meaning “listen” in this sense

Couple weeks ago, we suppose to make a trip to Kuantan to visit an elderly aunty who was not feeling well. And to ensure we don’t inconvenient the relatives (who I know don’t have much space in their house), I even booked hotel rooms for the family.

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Ending The Year 2014 On A Positive Note!

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(Not everyone can be the PM – very, very hard at “work” overseas in 2014. Some had said that there is nothing wrong for a leader to take a break. Well, that is correct but not when the country is seeing one of the worst floods around. The big mamma still on holiday, its so seems – no one had seen her wading through the high water in downtown Kota Bahru. Image source)

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Driving Skills 101: Speed Demons on Highway 2

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(There is always a limit to everything we do and a limit to is there for obvious reasons. Slow down and you will live longer. Some idiots would never learn no matter what happens when one speeds over the on the highway)

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