Sampath Gunasekera

I never knew this Counter-steering technique on motor cycles until I see below video. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countersteering

Check with Sumana Motors , Panchikawatta too. I remember someone called "Kuruppu" had many cars for parts and even I saw the yard years ago. I mentioned it in an old thread but now I cannot recall it. Check with member @MasterDon too.

Captured today 7.00am. Many huge concrete beams were produced at construction site at Kadawatha - Ganemulla road in last few months . Now part of them transfer one by one to use at Kadawatha exit , outer circular expressway. (To connect Airport Expressway with Southern Expressway)

New Kelani Bridge Project (with visual)

This reminds me an old story between an IP & a MP (Joke) MP : යූ නෝ හූ මී ආර්? (උඹ දන්නවද මම කවුද කියලා?) IP : අයි අයි.පී. යූ එම්.පී (මම අයි.පී., ඔබතුමා එම්.පී.) MP: කොනෝ පීපල් කොනෝ. (දන්න මිනිස්සු දන්නවා ) know= කොනෝ ?

Two Engine Mounts Replaced – Odo:109,400km I observed a little vibration on idle and after checking with the agent, they confirmed two engine mounts are needed to replace. Lancer CS engine is mounted on 04 engine mounts. Replacement of two engine mounts mounted on central axis of the car is very common requirement in this stage and other two mounts can be used further. As per member Trinity, he is still on his originals(left and right side engine mounts) with odo over 200,000km. Replaced two engine mounts at the agent today. Parts Detail: MR554244 - BRACKET,ENG ROLL STOPPER – Rs.11,400/= MR554746 - BRACKET,ENG RR ROLL STOPPER – Rs.12,011/= Labour – Rs.2,034/= ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total - Rs.25,445/= Now car is very smooth even on idle. Power Steering Fluid replaced. (Power Steering Fuid – Rs.1600 + Labour Rs.1200 = Rs.2800)

You can hit (two vehicles) and run - Need to pay just Rs.5000/= penalty You park one hour and go without paying - Need to pay more than Rs.10,000/= As far as I know, even Department of Inland Revenue can charge late penalty for taxes up to maximum of 100% of the tax which was delayed. If you use a newly constructed building without Certificate of Confirmation (COFC) , you have to pay amount like Rs.250/day. (AFIK) But here you have to pay a charge of Rs.1080/= for every single day keep adding. Do CMC or . Tenaga keep reserve same parking slot for the suspect until he pays and come back? Don't they use same parking slot for other customers and earn money after the suspect left the parking lot ?

Is this legal????

There were no issue in braking performance and no leak found externally (up to my knowledge). I just checked the service history file and found only three brake pad replacements are as follow. But no brake oil changes in last two occasions. 107933km - 02.05.2018 – After doing 19408km (Under my ownership) 88525km - 31.03.2017 – After doing 30695km 57830km - 03.03.2015 No any invoice found for brake pad replacements and I guess I miss one invoice in the file. Because definitely there should be at least one brake pad replacement between 2007 December and 2015 March as this car was originally used in a hilly area Kandy from 2007 December 2014 February & done about 45,700km then. I guess brake oil was 04 or 05 years old. I am surprised why agent has not asked to change brake fluid as a bottle of Mitsubishi Genuine Brake Fluid (DOT 4) is just Rs.1585/= at agents. (Actually previous owner seems replaced many parts without any hesitation whenever agent asked to replace and they maintained all service history. Even timing belt replaced at 45,000km considering the age 06 years even the mileage is low) However before add new brake oil, guys removed the old oil at reservoir use a sucker and then add new oil and flushed the system. Also guys checked the rubber components and informed me no need to replaced. Anyway I will recheck this matter with agents on my next visit. Thanks all for your comments.

Exactly one year passed car under my ownership and mileage is 108300km now. Few maintenance work done within past 6 months. (1) Installed front and rear cameras with mirror mounted display (No recording function) Very helpful at parking. (Cost Rs.11,500/=) (2) Cabin cooling started to drop and A/C system repaired. (Cost Rs.16,500/=) Replaced A/C evaporator coil & discharge hose. (3) Few months ago at lubrication service , I was instructed by Unit#d Mot#rs to replace the damaged rubber boot at left side tie rod soon . However I could not replace soon. Result was left side tie rod worn due to rain water and sand entering them and soon started to make noise very badly. Other suspension parts are already replaced 30,000km ago with genuine parts at agents and I did not want to replace other parts as they were in good condition. Hence replaced only left side tie rod with 555 brand (Mitsubishi Part No.: MR491358 / 555 brand part No.: SR7700) and also rubber boot replaced OHNO RP-2089). Issue solved. (Cost :Rs.5400 with labor) (4) Replaced brake pads with genuine parts at agents. Replaced brake oil too. (Cost Rs.18,994) Mitsubishi brake pad part No.: MN116604

I haven't driven CS1 car with a manual transmission yet. Hope there is no issue. But truly speaking CS1 Automatic transmission variant is little bit under-powered . It does not mean that you cannot drive it easily. But it will not give you fast acceleration like a Toyota Yaris A/T does with 1300cc engine. Once you adjusted with the vehicle you know how to drive it. I get 08km/l fuel economy in city driving. In highway driving I get 14km/l while maintaining speed 80 - 100km/h. (All fuel economy figures measured by full tank to full tank method and I use full time A/C). Whatever you buy try to buy a good reliable unit with a service history.

As @iRage mentioned rear fog lamp indicators are for different markets and they may seen on our meter clusters too. Below photos are from a Lancer CS imported from UK & it has rear fog lamps. And below is my fuse box and seems it is almost same with yours. (2007 with factory fitted front fog lamps)

Great job mate. Many thanks for sharing it. These plastics boards are commonly known as Acrylic sheets. It is a plastic type called PMMA - Poly(methyl methacrylate) For suit with your bending, you can choose a sheet with suitable thickness (different thickness sheets are available in the market) . You can easily buy them from places like Shanthi Plastics, Jeewa Plastics or Subha Plstics. Search google. You can do many more things with Acrylic sheets.

@nagaya, your gauge cluster is different from mine. Anyway I post a photo of mine and hope it may help you. I have got factory fitted fog lamps. Cannot find connector at horns (not visible to me), but can observe some wire going down words between two horns (See 3rd photo)

Sad to see this thread now, as all links have broken and a valuable thread has gone almost dead. Anyway there is a good news for the members. You may remember Mr.H.D.I Anthony , retired Senior Railway Guard of CGR whom did contribut very valuable input to this thread. Previous link: Now Mr.Anthony is 84 years old and recently he published his railway experience and railway life as "Siyalla Hari ..Yan" Guys please go through this book and it is interesting very much. Also please pass your regards to Mr.Anthoney. Book Name: Siyalla Hari ..Yan Author: Mr. H.D.I. Anthony ISBN 978-955-30-8417-0 Publisher: Godage Poth Madura www.godage.com 011-2685369 No. of pages: 608 Price: Rs.1250/= Mr.Anthony's contact detail: Tel: 011-2579554 , No.:50/5A, Awissawella Road, Raggahawatta, Kaduwela Thank you Mr.Anthony for giving us this valuable book and your contribution to this thread.

What are these needle like things? In tire manufacturing process , when polymer mixture enter in to the mould it has to deair. (The air inside the mould has to move out with minimum entering of polymer mix to tiny de-airing tunnels). Hence these small rubber needles are useless excess rubber came out from tire and not better idea to measure the tire wearing 100% . Simply these needle like rubber particles may worn out in different way how they touch with the road. Additionally you better to check the depth of grooves in suspected area for better understanding. Then if you feel tire wearing is uneven, take the vehicle to Unit#d Mot#rs-Orugodawatta and and show them and also do wheel alignment there. And as far as In know, when UM replaced a part by them, there is a warranty for six months. Check the replaced part and still the problem may with some other part.

Toyota Vitz JDM Catalogues KSP90 2010 August http://cdn.toyota-catalog.jp/catalog/pdf/vitz-2/vitz-2_201008.pdf KSP130 2010 December http://cdn.toyota-catalog.jp/catalog/pdf/vitz-2/vitz-2_201012.pdf 2014 November http://cdn.toyota-catalog.jp/catalog/pdf/vitz-2/vitz-2_201411.pdf 2015 June http://cdn.toyota-catalog.jp/catalog/pdf/vitz-2/vitz-2_201506.pdf

Take us back to the 60's!! Loving the caravan racing and the amphibious car

Sad to hear the accident. Other than that, pay attention on all rubber parts related to brake system. No matter what the mileage is, rubber parts keep decaying and loosing their properties due to time factor. Once I had very bad experience with my previous Jap Alto , lost brake completely while driving, due to property change of a rubber washer in mater pump due to time factor even mileage is low as 40,000km and car was about 10 years old. It was a narrow escape and I could manage and stop the car with the the assist of parking brake and luckily it was a M/T too.

Continued from previous post... Four spark plugs were replaced with new units. (Part No.:MS851357 , Manufacturer: NGK) Unexpected issue popped up here. Due to exposure to engine oil (+ may be time factor), spark plug cable head was deformed and lost proper sealing property. Even after hard try, it could not enter and seal the spark plug cavity and it kept pushing back. Hence had to replace the spark plug cable set cost me Rs.9,474/= additionally. (Spark plug cable set (Include 2 cables) : Part No.:MD365102) After completing injector pressurizing and cleaning , re-installed all components. Emission test was done and result was successful at both low and high RPM. Then scanning done and found no issues. I did not replace genuine air filter from the agents as it is very costly and bough a VIC air filter from Semini Motors and installed it (Rs.3386/=) Drove about 25km after engine-tune up and clearly feel quick and smooth acceleration than before.

Car mileage is almost at 100,000km and about to complete 10 years service in December 2017. Last engine tune-up done 60,000km ago and today did the engine tune-up at agents. Throttle body with carbon deposits (before cleaning) Oil leak was observed on one spark plug due to hardening and deformation of rubber component called ‘seal - cylinder head spark plug guide’ and losing the sealing property. Rocker cover dismantled. Replaced all 04 spark plug guides with new units. Rocker cover installed back after cleaning. (Spark plug guide - Part Number: MD339118)

Toyota Comfort is the major icon at Hong Kong Taxi services as well. Hope this change will affect there too. One year old post. http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/economy/article/2038545/hk300000-hybrid-taxi-hit-hong-kong-market-next-year-toyota

Davy, actually outer plastic shell too damaged and one small piece separated from the shell. One of shop owners where the accident happen gave me a temporary mirror plate (back side damaged) of his van and I could drive home safely and thank to him. That wide view van mirror is better than original mirror.

My right side mirror unit was broken by a sleepy, stupid Prius driver. Whole unit was damaged & mirror unit detached from the car and damaged outer casing too. It happened when my car was stationary. He wanted not to visit Police station or not to call his insurance and after negotiations, he paid me at same time. (He was not the owner of the car) I was seeking an used mirror unit everywhere and all places quoted me Rs.11,000/= - Rs12,000. But finally I could find a good piece (advertised on line) at Rs.8,000. Luckily colour of replacement was very close to mine. Slight colour difference is there but I will get it paint later.(May be it belongs to pre-face-lift unit). But I had to waste few hours visiting Rajagiriya and collect the part. Replacement :

Six impacts, I feel.