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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: Mistakes Between Alignment & Balancing

Read These First:-

alignment and balancing

(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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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 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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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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Enforcement 101: Quote of Week – Unsafe Cars

“The lack of demand among Malaysians for features is the main reason why many vehicles sold in the country do not meet international ”

proton saga ancap miros crash test unsafe

(Just how many of the locally made had even passed the basic crash test with flying colours? If you know the answer, then you will know that we been screwed with unsafe cars for a very long time now but the question is who’s’ fault is it? Image source: Miros)

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Recycling 101: Pushing to Recycling An Old Car

Volvo Accident Crash Test Safety NCAP Recycling

(When you think of , you will think , and luxury. Now you can add environmentally friendly to the  Volvo brand as well. Image source: WIRED)

The buzz word of the day is recycling and there is no major act from Malaysians to prioritize recycling in daily life.

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Enforcement 101: What, RM1,000 fine cancelled?

enforcement fine traffic law police summon

(A simple question – if there are 2 situations where the amount is different – one is RM300 and another RM1,000, in which situation you think will make this offender who is using the to cut to think twice? Photo by Erik Mclean from Pexels)

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Driving Skills 101: 5 Types of Drivers Who Misuse the Indicators

This is what I usually shout when some idiots cut into my lane without using their indicators…

Car indicator signal driving skill

(Some people are still clueless on the nature and function of this stick sticking out from the steering column. Image source: Kuni BMW @ Youtube)

After I had embarked on my personal ‘Overhaulin‘ project, many things have changed – I have become more careful when I am on the road these days.

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Childhood Memories: Part 19 – Driving My Uncle’s Gutsy Car

mitsubishi lancer 1980 uncle car childhood

(One of my uncles had a second hand white Mitsubishi Lancer as his first and it was the workhorse of the whole family for many years. Image source: DSF)

Last week I attended my niece’s birthday party and as usual, once the cake has been cut and the dinner has started, my cousins and myself made our way to the outside of the house, set up a table on the porch, rounded several chairs and started to chit chat over a large bottle of liquor and wine. As usual, such chit chat continued until wee hours in the morning.

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Personal 101: The Treasure Is All Yours, Beloved Son

Petrol Station Subsidy Malaysia Son

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The other day, I took my son with me to pump petrol at the SHELL .

As I was pumping the petrol, I heard a tap on the window from inside the . I looked over and saw my son pointing at something on the wall. He made a gesture for me to look at what he was pointing at. I followed his finger and saw a poster of SHELL’s Ferrari car collection. They had different models and colours of sleek sports . He rolled down the window and said “Daddy, I want the yellow one”. He sounded so excited and hopeful. I smiled and said “Maybe one day, son. Maybe one day”.

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Know Your Car Basics 101: Destroying Bad Rust Brake Hubs

Car Hub DIY Rust

If there is one thing that I hate is finding heavy in my …

What makes it worse is the fact that the rust is creeping on a part which was recently changed. This is a rear-wheel hub that was changed a couple of months ago when a faulty wheel bearing the original hub.

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