Vincent,

Yes, your serdang kia, Chester said you on leave... so he entertained me

He said can test drive koup this sunday, for sure ? can you serve me or not ?

cheers

Brian

Near to dark brown I would say...

In some angles, yes... but titanium silver and metal bronze is pretty distinct from each other.

Metal bronze is darker and has a 'brownish' hue; think ancient Greek sculptures.


Under sunlight it becomes even darker.


Titanium silver is more towards dark silver with a golden tinge when seen under dusky sunlight.


More obvious in this angle.


Under cool fluorescent light it becomes greyish-silver.


I personally prefer titanium silver because I'm bloody biased.

This post has been edited by StarGhazzer: Mar 24 2011, 12:34 PM

Finally got my Black Forte 6 Speed from Vincent yesterday. Kudos to Vincent for getting everything back on track even though he was on holiday

Just sharing my personal experience on the new 1.6 6 Speed:

Though a bit disappointing with some scratch line damage done to the back seat of my car (Vincent will get it settled so hopefully will get some good news from him) and the front bodykit had scratch line and it's not even at both sides.. Some retouching work required to fix this.

One more weird issue that I have was when I turn on the volume for my radio (volume 20) with Power Bass at Mid (Not even at High!), I can hear both doors (Passenger and Driver side) with some weird vibrating sound, like some part of the door is loose or like plastic hitting metal sound but I can't find where is it coming from and it's pretty darn annoying. Kinda beat the purpose of putting in Power Bass but you hear all sorts of funny funny sound coming from your car when you blast it, and 20 is not really considered as "blasting" yet..

The reception for the radio is horrible, along my drive to work today I can't really get a clear reception even though it's not raining.. My proton's radio works so much better than this.. hmm...

Told Vincent about these problems so gonna send my car back there again to fix it, hopefully nothing major here...


Other than all the above, it's a pretty smooth drive for me. Loving this car by the minute and finding more reason to be on the road now

Hope the new owners can share their experience as well to see if mine is actually an isolated issue or a general one with the new 6 speed batch..

This post has been edited by derlin: Mar 24 2011, 03:09 PM

Thanks for the info guys!

@derlin

radio reception is not good = general issue.

20 u consider low?
lol for me 15 already a blast! window all shaking and afraid windscreen also crack! lol

I notice my front lamp got some watermark just now when I parked outside a shop... It was raining and when the rain stop and sun shines, the interior of the lamp have some watermark (foggy) in front... I quickly sent a picture of the lamp to SA and she say she will help me to claim for warranty during the first 1k service, just need to let her know where I send for service earlier...

This one issue is very common on the forte luckily you know about it. Anyway i wanna ask you Yeowa, if you want to use your paddle shifter, do you need to slide the triptronic into manual mode before able to use the paddle shifter? Or just press the minus sign the car will downshift.

Thanks. I would like to know.

Hehehe... it was help from God... It suddenly rains when I enquire about coating to my car just now... And while I was in the shop, it rains heavily and stop after a while... Then only I noticed and took picture... Common ah? The dealer say not so common... To use paddle shifter, you need to switch to manual mode first...

20 is very loud already lar...i put on 12-15 range also feel very loud..20 will be overkill for me...

agreed... u can never turn to max... lol...

Are the paddle shifters mounted to the steering wheel? meaning it'll follow the turning of the steering wheel...

yes...

Congrats bro

For 1.6 SX FL you have to shift to "+/-" in the gear box 1st,
then only can use the shift paddles ...

But for 2.0, yes you can press & play "+/-" behind ur steering any time, lol


Cheers

WTF volume 20...

I normally set it at 6-7, and at 4-5 whenever I have passengers.

The vibrating sound is from the doors. The plastic of the door storage bins is quite thin and tends to shake with the bass. Try putting tiny loose items eg coins and keys there and you'll hear even more jitter. To work your way around it, put soft things eg a piece of cloth or foam into the storage bins before putting your items there. I've got an umbrella that fits snugly into the driver's side instead.

Radio reception is pretty mediocre, but why bother with radio stations when you have the USB input? My own songs are much better than the talk-cock by radio deejays.

20 on radio is not really loud though.. If you guys are using USB then the volume is at different level as 15 would be quite loud already.

Maybe coz i'm on too many conference calls my ears are getting deaf

Just now driving back also I'm still hearing the sound (kit kit chritt chririitt sound...) from the door even at volume 10-15.. Urgh...

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Added on March 24, 2011, 5:14 pmI just got my car so basically it's totally empty at the storage bins at the door.. Most likely sounded like a loose screw or something is not fitted properly in the door which is causing it.. Could be the speakers itself.. Gonna get it checked anyways as putting it at 4-5 volume also I can hear it.. That's not normal to me at all.

Yeah true about the radio part, but sometimes for news and also my girl wants to listen to some latest songs on the radio so once a while have to tune in

Pretty minor issues to me, just thought of sharing and to see if anyone else having the same prob

This post has been edited by derlin: Mar 24 2011, 05:20 PM

Derlin, could it be a defect? mine defect at lamp...

If you can keep reproducing the sound all the time (especially when your car is idle) then you should take it to service centre during your first service and show them. If you cant reproduce it, gonna be difficult for them to troubleshoot (or anyone else for that matter).

if a guy with salary 3k, downpayment 30k, wan to buy EX 1.6, can afford or not?

how much is the monthly installment, i can get 2.6% for the interest rate.