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I envy you people with proper engine temp gauges. All my car has is a red light and a blue light

What I don't understand is, why can they not make a informative presentation about the highway and play it regularly on national tv? Even a small segment of 10 minutes depicting the do's and don'ts would be enough. Ideally, they should have started this campaign at least 2 months prior to the opening. I mean they played that damn titanic song often enough, so why not something that's actually useful to the public?

I got the kit for my from ebay. Don't remember how much they charged me, the amount is probably in another thread where I posted my experiences of installing an HID kit in my old van.

I went for a ride today in my mate's Montero Sport. I sat in the front, and I liked the ride a lot. There's no real feedback stating what kind of surface you're, and the suspension does wallow quite a bit. Having said that, I think it's perfect for our roads and I have no qualms about it. As for the fuel consumption, the display didn't go above 5.6km/l the entire trip, but he mentioned that he's touched 10km/l on occasion, and probably could sustain a rate as high as 11km/l on the highway. I love the surge of power when the turbo spools up, it's like being released from a slingshot.

I sometimes take a drive around from pelawatta up along the parliament road to borella, and then, down the baseline towards nugegoda and then back to embuldeniya and home again. Not so bad on sunday afternoons or weekdays after 10-11PM. The X-Factor would be a picketing rally along the baseline.

Imagine a batta trying to do 40km/h on a slight incline.

Apparently you have never seen a toppled "dolphin".

I think it's better to wait till all the morons are done with their antics before venturing on to the highway. I had planned a trip to Horana on Wedndesday, but feel like postponing now.

Which exit is at the point right after the Bandaragama town? Edit: Nm, it's Galanigama.

As far as I know, you need a conversion done to use R134a. The two refrigerants (R12 and R134a) are incompatible and should not be mixed.

The rear end hit the railing. You can see the dent in the rear door corresponding to the shape of the railing.

Upload to tinypic.com and paste the url here. It will give you a set of URLs, use the one with the tags.

Interesting. So that means these vehicles will go into "limp" mode once the DPF is saturated?

Almost reminds me of a Lotus from some angles.

IMHO, if you want to get your item released ASAP, I've found it best not to assert one's civil rights inside the post office. Edit: having said that, my most recent purchases, a Sansa Clip+ and pair of Phonak PFE 112s arrived at doorstep yesterday. The container of the Sansa had the following stamped on it: "RECEIVED LETTER/PACKET SELLO TAPE PASTED/STAPLED ASK YOUR SENDER NOT TO REPEAT Date...... SUPERVISING OFFICER F.C.O.H REG. BRANCH CME. COLOMBO-10" I think they were unable to open it for inspection maybe? But in that case they could have detained it. This is the first time I've come across this message.

Call 1919.

Blame the Mini for FWD becoming the norm. There are so many cars I imagine would perform far better as a RWD, the Rover 75 is the only vehicle which comes to mind right now though.

I don't understand why anyone who can afford a Montero Sport diesel would be so concerned about the fuel consumption. My old van did only about 8-9 in Colombo and I wasn't anal about it.

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Sure, but the police officer can be ambiguous in the interpretation of the offense committed, since there's plenty of overlap.

I'm more surprised the driver wasn't distracted, unlike this guy.

Speeding would be a subset of reckless driving, would it not?

I have tried the english tactic. All it gets you is a free trip to the police station where another officer will explain the charges in English. My best tactic thus far has been notifying the white sleeved officer that I will be breaking several traffic rules in order to get to my destination and getting his nodding approval. And what MiniAce said.