harshansenadhir

Might or might not but right now it's too early to judge and all facts are supporting otherwise. Success will depend on lot of factors including infrastructure, road conditions, agent backup and technician know how, spare parts availability. With all that it'll gradually grow up and I don't mind considering a hybrid when all these are in place and after these guinea pigs (you know who) paid their price and find out all pros and cons of hybrids for me (and for others) at their cost. Thank you guys, ehem. However, petrol hybrids are an interim solution until the diesel hybrids, the most efficient hybrids around the world hits our shores http://www.metro.co.uk/news/842936-driver-travels-1-527-miles-on-single-tank-of-fuel-to-set-new-world-record

i aint hating or anti hybrid for a fact. But, where were all of you when the agent first marketed the hybrids for around 7mil when the 121s were selling brand new in 2mil mark. If some one had tried hybrid during this period i'd by all means consider them as early adoptors, tree huggers, radical thinking risk takers and what not. Further if some one had tried hybrids during this era they would've done it coz they like hybrid for its 'features', 'style' and the reasons you've just mentioned. Why all this menance started? Coz of the tax cut on hybrids, and what comes to our shores aint brand new warranty backed tropicalised specimens but used junk. When it comes to new technology, it's always advisable to proceed when the technology is proven in local context, otherwise you are taking non-calculated risk in which you can be stranded with no help. True that you have taken a risk, but that's way too much to compensate by the benefits you get from hybrid. I'm very much confident that none or very less would buy hybrids if the tax was same and if it was brought brand new by agents with a high price tags. Therefore, i can safely conclude it's cheapos who buy hybrids in this context. Tree huggers? My a$$ , a bullshit cover up synonym you guys are using.

i'd rather be glad that some got themselves saved from almost a prank. imagine, a high tech traction motor, hybrid system, the re-generative brakes, non-tropicalised electronics and all are used for years with wear and tear you don't know of. In an engine you can judge the wear by running some tests, in this traction motor, only god knows what's left for you to use till next floods hit colombo. With all this risks there's no agent backing as yet. why people take all these risks just to save few bucks on fuel per month? (Oh, pardon me, save a tree in ten years time, is it two and a half trees? Not sure). I don't get the logic. May be i'm not one of those smart a$$es. btw, on saving trees, you'd better off planting some trees than driving a hybrid around.

Let's see those so called tree huggers will go that extra mile and buy those warranty expired mileage tampered hybrids by paying exorbitant prices.

have you used the recommended radiator cap with the matching pressure to the original one you had? Further, having max level water in overflow tank cannot damage the radiator or cap since the overflow tank too has another overflow line. However, sending some amount of coolant to the overflow tank is alright and when the system cool down, it'll take the balance from the overflow tank. Just keep watching the level in the tank, don't open the radiator cap frequently, it'll result in shortening the life time of the cap.

yeah, should've realized that by the number of idiotic posts/questions coming into this forum where majority of forum users represent a better educated, IT literate sample from entire country's population, it's indeed sad.

good topic and i think we should keep adding more to this, including spending lots of money on fuel efficient vehicles without thinking of the opportunity costs. About over inflated tires, there's another adverse effect on the entire suspension system and cost can be even higher than in the report. How about taking rusty short cuts avoiding the carpeted road for a gain of few kilometers and avoiding some amount of traffic. The damage on the suspension system will be high and you will drive on low gears all the time including added stress to the clutch mechanism. Overall saving would be low or nothing but an added cost.

tried the same brand for the 406 about 4 years back and it was a rotational set which can only be used in one rotational direction. Grip i wasn't satisfied at all and in the rain it was slipping like lady fingers. But durable? yes. Lasted 4 plus years in my kind of driving and not a single puncture till i threw them off and still some threads were remaining. Went for dunlop afterwards and i clearly felt the better grip of dunlop. Even look wise the dunlops were better but wear and tear is high as i've monitored.

you must be one those who think that the ecu s are god send. Keep believing that the mileage stored cannot be tampered and i will not waste my time trying to change your believe. But, even a laymen to vehicles knows this can be changed and not even 2months gone since a good friend of mine got rid of 150k kilometers from his car's odo.

These are the consequences of trying gurilla marketing in this forum. You try to do it here and it'll result in highlighting all the crap about the make/model you're trying to market. From the first attempt of marketing indian cars it happened here and here we go again.

Try some Battery joint. They usually have lead surrounding sort of thing which can be inserted to the battery terminal and then the connector would fix tight. I've done this to the lancer and it held up until I sold it after almost 02 years.

Even the old ones were packed with leather seats, triptronic for that matter. But, you know how this second hand market behaves and sonata's are guzzlers without no proper reason to be so and that explains why it sells lesser than a price of a Maruti.

This model too would sell at lesser prices than a Maruti 800 in the local market in few years time, just like what already happened to the first few models of Sonata.

apparently to save 120k, he should've used the car for 890 years! kidding, let's calculate. if an average person does about 2000 kms per month a normal car which does 12kmpl would require 166 liters = 20,803.00 a hybrid does about max 25kmpl would require 80 liters = 10,000.00 saving per month is 10,803.00 so, just to cover up a repair of this nature, he should run the vehicle at least a year and I don't think most of us would put 2000kms per month in our day today running patterns. If you add up the insurance premium differences and other risks, cost of being an early mover, the benefit would be negligeable, rather running an ordinary car would be better off, at least with a normal car, at the time of selling it, the buyer won't be skeptical about the battery and drastically reduce his offer.

Not even bothered to check and just gave a call as you inquired. It's with agents now and in need of some sensor which he too is not sure of and it'll arrive in 2-3 weeks time at a cost of little excess of 120k. I asked the reason as to how it failed and he said he drove in all electric mode(?) with less fuel in the tank and just before hikkaduwa he pumped fuel and then the engine refused to kick into a healthy cycle, in-fact started missing and died. Since he had almost emptied the battery, the only option available was to tow it back to Colombo.

well said and going bit of OT in comparing some cost factors here. Bought a diesel as a temporary solution until I get my hands on a good Euro and guess what, it does in excess of 450 kms per full tank and that full tank is merely 2600 rupees. calculating costs, 5 rupees and 75 cents per kilometer. It's equivilant to a petrol car which does about 22 kmpl, which is pretty much close to the realistic/practical hybrid fuel figures. That all is by spending merely 500k and without having the risk of battery failure, exorbitant maintenance costs, high insurance premium, risk of towing the vehicle back from a remote location (exactly what happened to a friend who drove a Prius down south with the fuel warning on and after re-fuelling the car refused to start)

Pajero V35, AKA V sticker/computer body in SL market can be bought in this range. Intercooler Turbo is above 4.0 mil mark.

who wants to change the display, when they can just change the figure. Go to Kalubowila area with 1500/- in your hand and you can return back with a mileage figure resembles to any numeric figure you want, be it the digits of your birthday, zero or the amount you spent on prius, etc.

No matter how solid or proven Toyota technology and quality is, whole hybrid technology, from the engine (atkinson cycle) to the tire are new inventions and being tested and improved, I say it again, being improved. That's why the Gen 3 is somewhat better than the Gen 1 so to speak. Whilst agreeing to charitha's comments about the usage or in automobile manufacturer's term, it's terrain. Countries like GB are classified as Soft Terrain and Sri Lanka is classified as Hard Terrain, Dusty Atmostphere. So, what you import from UK are the ones made for soft terrains and that shows why it fails in hard terrained, pothole filled roads in SL. Having said that the things inside can be worse when we consider almost all hybrids brought down here have changed odo meters, so the actual mileage of the car may be far worse than the reading on the odo meter.

there's no one way valve or anything like that so, in out won't really matter. Any water line would do as long as it keeps on circulating, including the water lines for heater matrix.

these lines are used to connect to the water circulation system to have a hot water line to heat up the carbeuretor. most of the cars running here have them disconnected.

I never call them sir and I don't encourage anyone to use it either. Always call 'em officer regardless of the rank and it had always worked and they of course respect you too.

if you see my updated signature you would notice that the lancer is no more around yeah, both were gone in just two consecutive days. No back up other than the bicycle

Again, if this 12.5V reading comes when all equipments were switched on, then it can be considered ok but it's not the ideal voltage. Go to a battery shop and ask them to check charging while all equipments switched off as well as switched on. Under the full load, it reads 12.5, that's sufficient and as I said, bare minimum. It doesn't mean the alternator powering the system, but it compensates the electrical demand in the system by filling up the battery.