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This one was sort of a mid range car in the game, given default at the time of starting the chase. However you can hijack most vehicles on the road, even cop cars. The best cars that could get was the Lexus Altezza and the Cop Cars. The game was set up in London.

This photo reminds me of a PS2 game named "The Getaway" which i played back in the day. This car was prominently featured in it.

Yeh got it done through U&H at Union Place. They are not doing the repair but they outsource it to someone else. My repair was a bent wheel. He did a pretty darn job correcting the wheel.

Yes machang, this should be kept in mind at all times. Shouldn't take a chance. I'm unable to watch the video at the office, Will take a look at this when I go home. This repair came at a very difficult time for me as I already had spent just over 50k for the tune up plus the petrol filter replacement and my insurance also had to be renewed in this month. I hope by sharing this, someone else will be able to avoid facing these kinds of preventable repairs in future.

Yeh, the prices of these parts are just ridiculous. After seeing the above ebay link posted by @Hyaenidae (actually how the should this name be pronounced?? ) I decided to return the part. Besides I very well will pay more attention to the CV boots in future. So the chances of damaging the other CV could be considered somewhat low.

I searched, but didnt come across this. This would have been better. Another reason I opted to source the part locally is that i'm going on a 3 day trip to Haputale this weekend. So I needed this fixed before I drive the car on a hilly road with lots of sharp turns.

Continued from last post. So I gladly took that offer. They wanted the chassis number of the car (which I had with me) to be sent with the measurements of the CV joint to the supplier. Finally they found the part and informed that price of a one is Rs.15k and its not HDK as well. Didn't have any other option but to buy them, so ordered two. After few hours I had the parts. It's Chinese I guess, and imported from Dubai. It's a complete kit, The CV joint, Boot, Grease and boot tightening metallic straps. Quality wise it didn't seem bad and the boot was also much better. Its a rubber boot though. The genuine one is not rubber. Remember you Lancer EX owners, if this happened to you, the number of grooves in the CV joint are as follows. Outer - 28 Inner - 30 The important thing is that it is not possible to count the inner number of grooves of the existing CV joint without cutting it open. Once that is done, there is no turning back obviously. So, to remove the CV joint, first part that is holding the ball bearings have to be cut open and the bearings should be removed one by one. Once that is done, the outer cup can be removed. Thereafter you have to carefully cut the part that is fixed to the axel without harming the axel. This is a very delicate job. One mistake, you have to replace the entire axel. This took some time to do. Finally all came out and the new part went in without any trouble. Installed the left CV first and started the right one, surprise, surprise... that boot is not broken. It was some oil and dust which had given the looks of a broken boot. So we greased it and fixed it back. All in all this should have been a few hours job but extended up to 6 in the evening due to the issues stated above. The labour cost was Rs.5k. Now everything is ok. I'm in two minds whether to return the spare CV joint or keep it with me for future use if needed. Have to get the alignment done now. Thats it. So gents, I hope you'll learn from my mistakes if the need comes. Do share your thoughts. Cheers!

4.CV Joint Replacement If you had read this thread from the beginning, you'd know that the fist repair I did to the car was the CV boot replacement. If not,It is this discussed in this post. Unfortunately the inevitable happened around the third week of December 2019. The replaced boot had torn and somehow gone unnoticed during the service. I noticed the famous taka taka sound one fine day morning during my drive to the office and immediately knew its the left side CV. Sadly it was a very busy time for me hence couldn't find time to have the issue checked and try to sort it out if possible. I ran the car like that for couple of weeks and on January this year took it to Unit#d Mot#rs to have the issued checked out. By that time the noise was so bad I was avoiding the sharp turns as much as possible. After checking, we found that the left side CV boot is torn much it was near to split in to two pieces. So I asked whether they have the part to replace and how much would that cost. While my car was being tested I saw another Lancer EX having its both CV axels removed so I figured this is reasonably costing job. But ladies and gents, I was wrong, I was so f**king wrong. Here is a photo of a right side CV axel which I took at the agent which was ready to be fixed to the above mentioned car. Apparently replacing just the CV joint is not on the agents books. You have to replace the entire CV axel. Now, one axel cost over Rs.170,000/- at the agent. After hearing the price, i could see starts circling over my head. WTF am I supposed to do, I thought to my self. So the obvious next thing was to find out whether there are recon axels to source from the usual Mitsu recon part importers. Unfortunately almost all the guys/places I knew didn't have the part. Finally started looking in to inter webs and found a shop who had just imported two parted out Lancer EXs (Lancer - ES trim) from Australia which claimed that they have the part. The only doubt he had was that the engines of donor cars didn't mach with mine. It was 4B11 and mine is 4A91. I think 4A92 is not offered in Australia and Japan. Explains the difficulty in sourcing recon parts. The name of the shop is 'Alliance Auto Parts'. I suggest you check with the for any body parts and mechanical parts of any type of car as they have a huge stock. Also the owner is a very helpful guy name Nadun. Back to the story, the doubt was correct. The outer grooves of the recon part didn't mach. That was the only axel I found and it too didn't mach. I had a trip to Kandy upcoming by this time and I didn't want to runt the car with an exposed CV joint further more. So decided to have it cleaned up and fix a aftermarket boot as a temporary measure until I locate an axel. Here is a photo of the cleaned CV. This temporary fix was done at my trusted mechanics place. After fixing the new boot I went the Kandy tour and ran it about 800 kms. The taka taka noise persisted throughout. Now you must be wondering why I didn't try to locate only the CV joint from local part importers as replacing CV joint is a common job. Yes I too wanted to look for it but initially I was told all sort of horror stories about replacing just the CV joint which made me to look for the entire axel. I wouldn't wanted to do something which is not recommended by the manufacturer. But as a last resort I had to opt to this. My mechanic was so reluctant to replace just the CV joint I had to fid another one who knew his way around Lancers who was willing to do this job. Fortunately, through a contact in Toyota Lanka I was introduced a Mitsu guy who surprisingly live near my town and was available to do the job. By this time the car was due its regular oil change and I went to Unit#d Mot#rs Hyde Park to get it done. There they showed me that right side CV boot is also leaking and they suspected right side CV is also busted. f**k me side ways right?? I decided to bite the bullet and have both CVs replaced at any cost by this time. So,I contacted 'Wimal Motors' which is located in Moratuwa (These guys are very helpful and their prices are very reasonable . Their return policy is also flexible) to see whether they have the CV joints to be bought. To my surprise they had the parts. One quoted Rs.8k and sold for 7K. Bought 2 for 14K. The brand is HDK and are made in Japan. The shop instructed me to count the inner and outer grooves of the existing CV and match with the numbers of the new one before opening up the package. Above is the package, you can see the numbers 25 & 23. That is the count of outer and inner grooves. So we removed the CV axel last Saturday and counted the grooves. Oh everything was ok, right.. No you guys, It won't work that way. At least for me, these car things will never work out at one go. My CV axel had 28 outer grooves. I should have kept this counted at the time I removed the axel initially but I didn't. So there's a lesson in that for all of us. Called Wimal Motors and took the parts back with the removed axel. Now you would think that they had the part I wanted with them. After searching their books and shop for agonising 15 minutes I was informed that they didn't have the part. But offered to contact their suppliers and have them bought down within few hours if available.. To be continued..

I like these , but it will only suit an Ex which is bit modified like the one which @K.o.N.o.S has. Not a fan of red tinted lights that models from 2007 & 2008 has. Really like the clear lens one which later models came with.

I know a place where there’s a 4B11 for sale with complete wire harness and all ?.

Glad you got it sorted out this way. That’s a big relief isn’t it? Happy to be of assistance ?. Cheers!

I got mine polished from there. Had lot of wiper scratches which made night time driving a headache (Previous owner had not properly changed the wipers and used the same set for a long time). That guy did a damn well job removing those scratches. Now the windscreen is like branch new. He did a water repelling treatment as well. All cost me 15k.

@Klord As @Dee Jay stated, this most probably be due to deposits of paint mist on the windshield and viper blades itself. Since the garage used a sand paper to remove the paint off the windshield there could be small scratches that are not visible to the naked eye. This makes an uneven surface on the glass. First change the wiper blades and see cuz if the wipers are having pint residue, they will not wipe properly. If that did not help, I believe you need to get your glass polished. I don’t know if RainX will work in your situation but that too is a good option if works. There’s a place in katubedda and kandy called ING Automotive (or something similar) that does glass treatments which I’ve seen does wonders for badly damaged glasses. They are expensive though. You can check out their fb page for details. in the worst case scenario you might have to use a professional service like that to get this fixed properly. Cheers!

Hi machang, seeing this now, when I bought my Lancer CS, I didnt know what oil was used and I opted for Mobil first. Then after few years I switched to Valvoline as recommended by the agent and used it until I sold the car. But did not change the viscosity at that time. It was changed to 20W50 from 10W30 when the car reached 120,000kms as recommended by my mechanic. There was no issue whatsoever with the engine when the car was sold at 225,000kms. I'm using Valvoline 10W30 for the Lancer EX now. The car has run 135,000kms and I'm still using the same viscosity as I was told there's no requirement of changing it at this mileage. I'm no expert but i believe changing from Mobil to Valvoline wont be an issue but you gonna have to be mindful about the viscosity. Better to take agents advise on it.

Happy new year everyone!!! May our Lancer EX fraternity grow strong in this year as well !!! ??? Thank you @MADZ for letting us have this space and all the top contributors for your dedication.. Cheers guys!!!

Exactly five liters of Mitsubishi Diaqueen ATF SP3 (Price Rs.8,252.15)

I got it changed. Its stated in this post. It was a fairy easy job. They remove the left side fog lamp and access the oil pan from there to drain out the oil. Thereafter refill from the top. Oil filter was not changed. In fact it was not even discussed. I think it is not required to change the filter or there is a huge time interval to change it. Let me check and update you. I vaguely remember this was discussed at @Sampath Gunasekeras Lancer topic as well.

Amen to that. Couldn’t have said it any better.

Whoa, this truly is a surprise!! welcome back Sylvi, seeing a post from you after ages.

The oil type is noted on the ATF dipstick in my car. Just check yours or as the above post suggested check the owners manual..

Have few small updates on some new additions I made to the car. She didn't have door visors when I bought her and the window tint was badly faded. So got the windows tinted with 3M film and was able to import near genuine looking set of visors thanks to a friend of mine who is also a car addict. Did another small change, the B pillar area of the doors were in the original body colour and I did not like it at all. So got it blacked out as well. Here are the photos. Before installing the visors and getting the tint done. The visors and plus the tint. As you can see I didn't go for a dark tint, instead opted for a lighter one which cuts out the heat. Also this way visibility during the night time is also not compromised. I removed the seat covers which was there when I bought the car as the were worn out. And got a interior cleaned (there were not much to clean though). All these were done during June 2019.

Damn your car is low!! I guess you’ll be doing touch ups like this time to time Ha ha..

Hope you’ll receive it soon without getting delayed due to seasonal postal rush. Talking about ABS, my Lancer CS didn’t come with it. Drove it for 9 years, had some close calls also, but luckily managed to get the car stopped without crashing every time. In the EX, I was able to avoid two collisions mostly due to ABS doing its job. First one was when I was tailgating a friend of mine doing around 80 (this is something I usually don’t do but we were running late at that day and I was about to overtake him) he suddenly braked to avoid hitting a dog. I too slammed on the brakes and fortunately the car stopped within about a feet to my friends car. The next one was to save a motorbike guy who rode across galle road at a junction without bothering to stop to check the oncoming traffic. That basterd might have been drunk or something, narrowly escaped his death.. So get the brakes fixed soon. Good that the car is not a daily runner, you never know what awaits you in the next corner..

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