Davy

So this is a GLX. As Crosswind has said, the repairs are all running repairs. The low price of the car itself will give you a bit of leverage to attend to the urgent repairs as soon as possible. So yes, you should consider yourself lucky. Good luck with the purchase!

As others have stated, the price seems to be okay even if this is a GL. If it's a GLX, the price is an absolute bargain. The GLX comes with 2 airbags and a factory fitted in-dash 6 CD changer and alloys (including a full sized alloy for the spare wheel) whereas the GL comes with 1 airbag. On the facelift, ABS was standard for both GL and GLX if I am not mistaken. Plus, unlike the pre-facelift version which did not have power windows for the on the GL, the facelift version does have power windows as well. Since trinity has given a clear list of prices, I will not re-iterate the same as I have gone through pretty much the same repairs over the years on my CS3A. The differences and my experience of repairs are: - AC compressor | Genuine used | 9000LKR (2013) - Radiator | Genuine used (without fans) | 18,000LKR (2012) - Radiator fans (both fans with housing) | Genuine used | 6000LKR (2013) - Rear brake shoes (all four) | Genuine brand new | 4500LKR (2011) - Rear brake cylinder | aftermarket | 900LKR (no I did not miss a zero and this was in 2013) - Genuine costs 14,000 - Complete left axle | Genuine used | 9000LKR (2013) - Costs over 40,000 at the agent - Clutch + Pressure Plate + Release bearing (fork with slave pump) | Genuine brand new | total of about 60,000LKR (2011) - Drive belts (2) | Aftermarket (Mitsuboshi) | 4000LKR (2011) - A single belt was over 7000 at the agent - Front shocks | KYB | 11,250LKR per shock (2013) - Rear shocks | KYB | 8500LKR (2010) - Battery | 3K | 8250LKR (2011) <- this is of little use now, the prices have gone up dramatically (costs about 14,000 I guess) Also, I have never spent over 8000 on a tune up. A set of good NGK spark plugs cost about 5000 though. My car has done 130,000km now and running on the original fuel pump. (Harry is absolutely right when he said that the pump needs to be repalced at 80,000km. It's clearly stated in the workshop manual. It also says that the ignition coils need to be replaced at 100,000km). One coil pack costs over 20,000LKR at the agent FYI. There are two coil packs.

It is illegal to mount front facing lights above the level of the headlights. Source: http://www.police.lk/index.php/traffic-police/55

And that's how you get rid of something like that.

According to my understanding and experience, the resin fills up the crack so that water does not get in to begin with. So using a transparent tape is not necessary because the resin seals up the crack. Also, pasting stuff (in this case, transparent tape) on the outer side of the windscreen can cause the wiper blades to get damaged easity as they run over the tape. And as the blade gets damaged, it will cause the windscreen also to look like this overtime:

Don't what until what does what to me??? Chee Cheee Chee!

Adding something that I've observed at a fuel station (Ceypetco on Kotte road near Sri Naga Viharaya at Nugegoda) while I was checking the tyre pressure of my car one day: It was a week day morning and a worker was checking the fuel levels in their underground tanks. The guy had what looked like a long aluminum pole which he submerged in the tank to get to know the fuel level (just like checking the engine oil level with the dipstick). Before submerging the pole, he drew a line using chalk, from the bottom point of the pole towards the top. After he submerged the pole, he could read the fuel level by inspecting the point up to where the chalk had been erased by the fuel. Obviously, a little amount of the while chalk powder was added to the underground fuel tank during the process, and if we assume they check the fuel levels twice a day, a huge amount of chalk can accumulate in the underground fuel tank over time. Plus, when the fuel tanker comes to fill up the tanks, the chalk should be getting stirred up well and probably ends up in a few fuel tanks as well. I'm not sure if this is a common practice followed by every fuel station, but I have not been pumping from that particular fuel station since.

According to the link below, the March has a common electronic unit that controls the beeps (doors, reverse and stuff) and a short circuit, or failure of one of the circuits may cause the beep to sound when braking. Going through iRage's link above, peope have been able to fix the issue simply by replacing their tail lights (which is causing a short circuit) and so on. Here's a link to another forum in which people talk about the issue: http://www.micra.org.uk/threads/reverse-beep-while-when-braking.49177/ It looks like most of them opted to remove the control unit and eliminate all beeps as oppose to finding what the actual cause is (which is not a good idea IMHO). I guess you can start by checking if you have any blown/bad bulbs (in any circuit). If you still have the issue, the best thing would be to take the vehicle to an electrician so that they can get the issue sorted out for you. My guess is that it would be easy to diagnose this on your own - at least the first few steps. Hope this helps, Good luck!

Wish you a very happy birthday mate! Have a good one!

I will be outta Colombo tomorrow and I'll be returning in the evening. Will give it a try if I get back early. So the meeting point is the track at Bandaragama?

True, I have heard the story on Wikipedia about Kollupitiya before, and thought it was true. The below Sunday Observer article proves that Wikipedia is correct. Source: http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2004/05/23/fea20.html

That is just clean! Very nice indeed!

Nice story Sylvi, but this is what Wikipedia says about how the name came into being:

Arpico, Battaramulla had 'em.

Good on them. It's high time they realized that the site has a lot of loopholes than they knew about. It also looks like we have some EYE CEE TEE A employees on the forum who rang the bell.

Well if you looked around a little bit more, you would have noticed that the all the JavaScript is on the page itself. And I landed on the payment page when I called the correct method on the click event of the hidden button. Obviously the commented button didn't have a working method for the click attribute. (I wouldn't be surprised if it had) I did land on the payment page and I could have typed in the credit card details and completed the process. I'll stop at that because I don't want people to get in trouble trying this. Plus this thread will start to look like some developers forum if we discussed the loopholes in detail.

Yes you can renew an expired revenue licence online. I have done it myelf a couple of times. In one instance it was just after a few days of expiration and in one case it was after about 3 months after expiration of the other car I had which was undergoing restoration. Edit: Just found out that you cannot renew online unless the licence is expired. If the licence is valid, it shows a message "This vehicle has a valid licence" and prevents you from proceeding.

Although I have not experienced the application being offline due to being overloaded, I guess it's a possibility considering the loopholes and defects it has had in the past. All of them were in favour of the public, so I guess they were not spoken of that much. For example, it was well known that the previous year's emission certificate could be used on the online licence renewal, again the following year; given that it is not expired (emission test certificates can only be used once per regulations). Something that I experienced this year was that when I logged into the site to renew the licence about 30 minutes after obtaining the emission certificate, the result was returned as INVALID for the emission test. I assumed that the data has not synchronized yet so I gave it a couple of hours and tried again and the result was still INVALID. I made an inquiry and I could not get hold of anyone as there was no answer. I even tried email but by the time I got their response (after about a week or so), I had solved my problem. It was at the end of the day when the result was determined as VALID. I'm not sure if it's a good idea sharing this, but while I was frustrated with the whole thing above, I discovered a commented out (hidden) HTML button on the site's code. When uncommented, it becomes visible on the page and allows you to bypass all validations (insurance, emission test) and takes you directly to the payment page. I was reluctant to try anything because I had already submitted the details of my car and it could still be traced back to me. My question is, who on earth reviews these things before being published? Edit: Mods, please remove the last paragraph if inappropriate.

First off, Thank you Mr. Sylvi for that disturbing image. The "anyone" you are referring to are probably not motor enthusiasts - people who love cars and the enjoy the drive. I for one have never owned a car with automatic transmission yet. And I don't plan on doing so for as long as I can. Plus, over here we've got people who dump their OEM automatic transmission for a manual just for the kick of it. So your statement is of very little accuracy here.

Yes you can. But take the bus on the 19th and 20th or avoid getting busted for driving with an expired licence.

The system works alright, I've been renewing my licence through the site for the past couple of years. And yes, I'd rather get it renewed to avoid being copped, over waiting to enjoy the 25% discount while driving around with an expired licence. Just my 2 cents.

Yeah, the sedan during the 1980s. I'm not aware of the name being used on a future Lancer. I was just making fun of the whole topic when I told that the it's probably the Lancer.

Nice care mate! Congratulations! Drove one that belongs to one of my frinds once... On sport mode with a nudge on the pedal and I was doing 120 down Marine Drive before I even knew it. Was a damn good feeling. Nice little machine for a hybrid this one. I'm sure you'll enjoy every bit of it.

Probably the Lancer that'll be out in 2014 (possibly made in Thailand). Wake up OP, stand on the side of Galle road and count the number of Toyota Hilux trucks we have over here. All of them are from Thailand and I don't see people specifically looking for the "Made In Japan" label on them. The story is and will be the same for the car in question IMHO.

Does this make any sense at all? I mean it's not like one can WAIT until the given dates to renew the licence if it is already expired.