vishkid

I tend to get these mails from 'ladies' wishing to transfer their 'funds'. I always reply back that I'm willing to help, provided that they send me either a set of pictures or video of them 'en nude' Alas .. they never reply after that!

+1 all persons using a vehicle equipped with a seat belt must use those.

I've seen trishaws making regular 'hook turns' here in Colombo

Also in those countries the person who thus gets in front of you will get a move on at cruising speed : here the guy who gets in front of you will almost always travel @ half your previous speed.

Also, the go for the "Blizzard Pearl" color - it's 5% faster than the rest!

There'll be several classes of races including a Mini run, as I heard. Gonna be pretty interesting! Pity no one has put up a webpage, FB page as yet.

Some new (2011/12) euro cars, specially hatches, will hv puncture repair kits to save on boot space. Might be ok in europe but not really useful here. Spare + repair kit would be a handy combination OTOH.

UA seems to be more claim averse than the average motor insurer ...

Excellent! What's for dessert?

My latest Car: Mazda Axela 1.5 tiptronic Speed: 145 kmph Mods: None - 100% stock Road: Airport road from rail crossing to Averiwatta turn-off Reason for not going further: Road ran out Aiming to better this in the weeks to come. My previous best was 120+ kmph on the same stretch, Nissan K11 1.0 Auto.

Apparently not - zilch in HitAd, ditto Pet#o, ditto Gilbert (although they promised to bring down one for 64k!!)

On what? CC or Paypal? I've not noticed anything like that IIRC.

Mine is still going on (at least I think so) .. no smoke after 2 weeks It's still junk and I don't expect 100% performance and longevity from a $ 2 gadget!

Hv to agree on CRZ for economy, speed and feel but not the resale value.

Car air purifier/ionizer: Link Worth the money. OP: did u actually buy the BT/FM transmitter posted and how was it to use - reliability/durability etc?

When both you and passenger wearing seat belt - you can get a blow job. When u cant get a blow job - you dont press the gas i/o brakes by accident. When you dont get exited (i.e. above) - no accident. That's the logic

Where hv u seen HU replacements for M3 (2004-2009) around Colombo? One of my colleagues is also interested but there's next to nothing as per him.

There are very few options available in SL as the perfect fit for the factory HU cannot be easily found. But you can take off the original HU very easily but then you'll need to find something like this which is custom built for M3: Eonon D5102 Or you can find a dash kit modifier + wire harness like this: Eonon A0508 OR get a local version fabricated and then fit a standard 2-din setup or DVD fitted in. I've seen the Eonon models in SL once 2 years back but nothing recently. You can try with usual AV guys to import such a thing and install or you can import by yourself (~ $420) although I do not know how much taxes+duty this would attract.

Agreed!

Did everyone miss the part where it said that Seat Belt provisions do NOT apply to persons less than 150 cm tall?

Still the same - we retain the right to use the least fuel efficient but most fun cars. The only limit should be the money in your wallet (for fuel and cars!)

Damn I look pregnant with my 'prosperity' belly .. but never caused no issue with the seat belt!!! So, if you're wearing seat belts, no need to worry about getting copped eh? I started wearing belts a couple of years back and now habitually that's the first thing I do when I get in to a vehicle. If I'm not wearing a belt, it almost feels like I'm naked!

I don't get it - WTF is wrong with sticking to conventional cars in Sri Lanka? Are they urglier than the Fugly hybrids, are they slower than the hybrids? Do we get electricity cheaper than gasoline? Are we the worst polluters in the history of the world? Are those hybrids cheaper to buy? Maintain? I can tolerate a slow moving Prius so long as it keeps to the edge of the road, but rubbing green crap on the face of logic is not the done thing IMHO!

Is there any reason actually NOT to wear seat belts? Unless it causes physical discomfiture ...

What's the case against Auto Miraj - I thought quite a few Mazda guys went there?