Crosswind

This is so typical of Sri Lankans! Anyway you did the right thing by returning it to its original resting place. Never ever touch a car with an unclear ownership. You will just waste a lot of money and time in courts.... all the best buddy.

Well said, sampath. Patience does pay off...

The biggest drawback of the Tiida is its appearance. It looks like the tractor designer for Mahindra and Mahindra got high on some local moonshine from a far-off village in India, found some old drawings of a renault megane and designed this car. However, if you are ok with that appearance and ok with a car that has an average performing engine, with average suspension and average fuel economy, About the only advantage you get is the value of the Nissan badge and you won't hear things like "ayyo why did you buy a mazda? okey parts na aney... " from your neighbor...

Ebay Aus has a number of bits and pieces you might need, including that gorgeous meter cluster. Getting hold of a wire-harness will be a issue if you can't restore the existing one. http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/Car-Truck-Parts-/6030/i.html?_nkw=holden+fb+sedan&_ipg=200&rt=nc (The seller of the meter cluster has mentioned that he is breaking his car so it might pay to get in touch with him!) http://www.earlyholdenparts.com.au/category/fb-holden/ http://www.rarespares.net.au/rarespares/SearchPage.aspx?type=catalogue&pno=0&cat=holden+restoration+parts&catcode=holden+restoration+parts&subcat=INTERIOR&subcatcode=INTERIOR Whatever u do, don't change that exterior colour combination. Its gorgeous.

try vikasitha enterprises in delkanda or homagama

you can buy it from delkanda.

are there any 1500CC charades in the country? Pyzar is 1500CC.

Yes, people are watching it! Your show is leaps and bounds ahead of "contemporary" tv programs, run by g*y b**tards talking about curves of cars in singlish.

Nice review on the Polo. does it have a version with an auto box? that (or the lack of it) needs to be mentioned, I believe.

How about fixing a second hand bumper instead?

13V is normal

I honestly don't feel that you need to look for a big-brand for most of the items in that list. I would just go with a supermarket brand car wash soap, tyre shine and glass cleaner, which should total to about 600-700 bucks.

If you have a serious brand-loyalty towards 3M, this is a fantastic deal... There are plenty of non-3M alternatives for most (if not all) of these products and collectively, they will cost far less than 6600!

I can't believe I'm reading this!

Haha I was rather surprised nobody mentioned Alfa for quite a while! It IS Proton Perdana pre-facelift version. Saw one of the same color in Kotte. Not sure if its a v6 though. Your turn Nexus.

It does look notoriously similar to Commodore and Vectra but it's not a GM product.

Saw one of these in Kotte Road last week. Didn't know this particular model was brought down to Sri Lanka

Renault Fuego

U perv! Cant you see that damsel is in distress?

Nzer, which of the options given in the list says Corolla? From your options, I suggest the Axela. If you want to look like a boring old fart, get a Corolla.

I had a Dell D630 about 5 years back which had a sim card slot (just like yours) and wasted lot of time trying to get the non-existent HSDPA modem to work! As dell laptops are customizable, its upto the buyer to select mobile broadband option. But the casings are common to all laptops of the same model. That's why you see the sim card slot but no mobile broadband card or antenna inside. If the laptop came with the mobile broadband card, it will also have the software pre-installed. No software means no mobile broadband card. If you got the laptop second hand, then check if windows detect an unknown device. If so, it probably has the card. You can download the driver from Dell website. You can get a card off ebay and do a DIY installation. This is what the card looks like http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Studio-1555-1735-1737-HSDPA-Mobile-Broadband-WWAN-Wireless-Modem-Card-XX982-/350571996384?pt=US_Internal_Network_Cards&hash=item519fb824e0 But you need to buy the antenna as well. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-20-Laptop-Notebook-Internal-Antenna-Mini-PCI-e-Wireless-PCI-WiFi-Dell-HP-NEW-/160983848529?pt=US_Directional_Network_Antennas&hash=item257b629651 Ironically, the wires that connect the sim card slot to the mobile broadband card will be already there in your laptop, even if it doesnt have the card (which was something I found out, after opening my old laptop!) Even if you go through this, it will still be a waste of money and effort. Now I use a Thinkpad with an inbuilt Ericsson F3507G HSDPA modem. Believe me it's f**king SLOW! So I've long since given up using the inbuilt broadband and now use a trusted old Huawei USB dongle which beats the s**t out of the Ericsson modem when it comes to speed.

some dell laptops come with a sim card slot but it doesnt have the mobile broadband card inside. so you cant use it. buying a dongle is far cheaper than buying a mini pci broadband card.

My knowldege on T-belts is very limited but to me, it sounds like something wrong with a tensioner. Did you replace the tensioners with genuine ones or did you get them modified at a lathe workshop?

Looks like Toyota borrowed its 'fresh design' from Suzuki India