Bro, once you're in D-segment territory you will never enjoy the same kind of FC, but OTOH you will realize that any car needs to weigh above 1.3tonnes to be stable at speed and retain composure over uneven roads. Just like Contis, they handle better than Japs because most of them are heavyweights. 1.3-1.7 tonnes seems to the sweet spot.

Hmm, actually the offset is out by a lot. May affect warranty. Not to mention scrubbing the fenders when the car is near bottoming out.

Better yet, stick to l/100km as this is the most common denominator that you can find on almost all car specs even here in Malaysia.

I thot Arul transferred out of Selayang and now he's in Kinrara or somewhere else?

Brother follow brother. Good for consumers la...

I also sometimes kena with my Forte. Especially after installing the pubic hair car mat lol... I also normally drive with my right shoe off, so my sock rubbing on plastic pubes = recipe for static shocker. But these days seldom get it la, only when it's cold and dry.

Can I ask a question. When you make U-turns, do you often accelerate out of the U-turn to avoid oncoming traffic?

The point is, you should try to avoid situations where you need to accelerate at full turn, as doing so puts additional stress on the drive shafts, in particular the CV joints. If you have seen a CV joint and understand how it works you will know what I'm trying to get at.

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Added on April 8, 2012, 12:58 amOk upon reading back on the previous reply, it was about steering shaft, not drive shaft. Forget I mentioned it...

This post has been edited by gregy: Apr 8 2012, 12:58 AM

No such thing bro. It's not possible to make the engine louder by cutting out other noises. Each component adds its own noise level to the overall noise.

By cutting down road noise, sure you'll hear the engine better, but the overall noise level has been brought down.

Imagine two people talking at the same time. Suddenly one of them shuts up, does it automatically make the other person louder? No, it merely allows you to clearly hear the person who's still talking.

Well, he's not entirely wrong. IINM 4,600 rpm is where the max torque of this engine is produced.

Don't be too hard on them bro, cari makan je... You want to blame, blame the company for not giving the right kind of training.

No offence, but if and when you decide to get the K5, will you end up buying from this young salesman with so much enthusiasm? Or will you buy from whichever SA can get you the best trade-in deal for your car?

I guess when it really starts to matter, SAs will ultimately buck up or butt out...in the meantime though...

The irony about technical info on products is this: Buyers who are keen enough and who are tech savvy (which means anyone who has an internet connection and knows how to access google) will already know from the net whatever he wants to find out. So, going to a showroom to test the technical knowledge of the SAs is a waste of time, really. Also, what's the point in knowing a car's max torque figure? That's only telling a partial story. To know how powerful and driveable a car really is you need to see its torque and power curves on a graph.

In most instances, information such as the above are useless to the general car buyer.

If however, the SA doesn't know stuff like how many airbags, FC, boot capacity, how to operate the car's controls etc, yes, you can fucuk him/her. But torque figure? That's asking a bit too much.

I bet most here don't even know how to interpret torque curves into a useful assumption. So why bother to ask?

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Added on April 12, 2012, 3:00 pmHence proving my point

Thanks zapirwin...

This post has been edited by gregy: Apr 12 2012, 03:00 PM

I think this is fair.

And in case anyone thinks I don't believe in scouting around for the best deal, I believe that it's the buyer's right to ensure that he/she isn't fleeced by the wrong SA.

On the flipside though, by informing the SA of your choice that you are getting such and such a deal from another branch, might cause him to report it to his manager that the deal seems too good, i.e, the other dealer is throwing prices, which might cause the principal to issue warnings or worse, terminate the offending dealership (that has been throwing prices).

That actually happened recently when I walked into two different VW dealerships. The SA from the more expensive dealership said he knows what the other SA is doing, and reports have already been lodged. The expensive SA even went so far as to say that the other dealer is on the way to losing their dealership lol...

So my suggestion is to keep the best deals you got, hush hush. Only share it with forummers lol... Otherwise as the Chinese saying goes, "One clap two gone" hahaha.

Don't be like the idiot friend of my friend. Because of my friend's good working relationship with a camera brand, the idiot managed to get some pretty darn good discounts for his camera and lenses. Then the idiot was at a camera shop one day and casually asked the prices of the gear that he had bought directly.

When the dealer told him the price, the idiot bragged about how he can get so much cheaper, directly from the camera brand! Of course the dealer tu-lan and complained to the camera brand la. So now, nobody gets special prices anymore lol...

Actually this overinflation is madness. Next year they are going to allow custom plates, maybe that would be better instead of everybody trying to bid for certain special digits or alphabets.

I've seen cars in Oz with plates like "AAARGGH" or "YEEHAAH" along those lines. Damn fun!

It would be nice to get "AZZKIKR" like the car in the movie Con Air.

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Added on April 17, 2012, 12:26 pmThat's why got Tiger Face hehehe. So can ROAR!!!

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Added on April 17, 2012, 12:35 pmNowadays, very hard to get even normal numbers. Many yrs ago I paid over the JPJ counter RM300 for "6693". Recently I tried to get it again but already tendered.

These days the running numbers are all those cilaka numbers left behind by the frickin syndicates like 114, 1769, 1453 and other crappy digits lol.

This post has been edited by gregy: Apr 17 2012, 12:35 PM