Car locked...Key is in the car...What will you do??

By Nilantha Bandara,
21st of Nov.

Have you ever faced situation like your car key trapped inside the car and car is center locked. and things go crazy when you even don't have an extra key..
IF this happens to a car and to come out of this situation there are methods to unlock the doors rather than breaking a window or a door.

Method 1:
There is a little space of the top corner of the door where the rubber beading in covered so use this tiny space to insert small iron rod which has bended "V" shape at the edge and reach in to inner handle then unlock the door.

Method 2:
Remove the outside rubber beading on the bottom of the door glass and then you can see the door lock slightly. Then use iron rod to unlock the door carefully dislocating the lock connections from inner side of the door. This may need little bit of expert knowledge.

So next time if your car key locked inside accidentally, don't get panic and blast windows but try to use above two methods,
After all you better have an extra key so you won't come across to this situation!!!

Welcome "Geely" to Sri Lanka

By Nilantha Bandara,
18th of Nov.

"Geely" the Chinese automobile manufacture is going to launch their production in Sri Lanka. the factory supposed to start mod 2013 and it will complete first phase on 2014.
The production facilities is based on Hambantota it's one of most developing cities in coming years.

The $ 23.3 billion (revenues, 2011), Geely entered the Fortune Global 500 list at 475 last July and is considered as one of China’s fastest growing car makers, holding part ownership of famed black taxis of London and owning 100% of Sweden’s Volvo. Geely also owns the Australian automatic transmission supplier Drivetrain Systems International-source : Daily news

Geely will collaborate with Micro cars in Sri Lanka which is also a Srilankan local emerging brand in the island and at the moment Micro cars captured sri lankan community with brand new vehicle with affordable price. although the manufacturing only done here but parts are importing globally.

So the International automobile manufactures will focus on Sri Lanka because of the growth rate and more importantly they see the opportunities after the war.

What would be the next international brand of cars will eye on Sri Lanka?

Are you happy with the 2012 budget proposals on Cars?

By Nilantha Bandara,
15th of Nov.

Car importers were expecting tax relaxation from 2012 budget but it didn't happen,
The import taxes were removed from the racing cars so that the consumers can import racing cars with a least price but the question is who are the personals that have wealthy power to bring done those high market cars???
But some viewed this as a good initiative by the government move which is not to reduce import taxes on other cars, because of the huge number of cars brought down to island when it was relaxed immensely on the last year, that will result in more cars in sri lankan roads that it can't be accommodated and environmental pollution.
From this budget, 15 percent excise duty has been introduced on 5-20 tonnes lorries and 20 percent for more than 20 tonnes. The association said it would result in Mitsubishi, and Canter lorries going up in price by around Rs. 400,000 to Rs. 500,000.The duty on three wheelers has gone up by five percent as well.

What do you think???

 

No car is safe...unless you don't drive safely !!!

By Nilantha Bandara,
14th of Nov.

If you think the car is safer in the road, but think twice...
No car can rescue unless you drive your car safely.it may be worlds safest car in the planet but you don't obey the road rules & discipline yourself then it's the end of your journey.
Especially drink alcohol and driveis very very dangerous because then you tends to speed up and that happens unconsciously while your reaction time for obstacles in front & for breaks takes more time.
A millisecond of lateness of above can create a disaster,

Have a look at below pictures of Audi,Ferrari, Hummer 12, Lamborgini diablo, Mercedes, Honda,Ford cars for a while..they even can't identify the brand name..

Have a safe journey....

Double back Camper for Volkswagen T5 Transporter

By Nilantha Bandara,
12th of Nov.

Found difficulty on camping while enjoying the your favourite wild life trip...and

This is the ideal solution you've been waiting to see !!!
The new Volkswagen T5 helps you to go here & there without bothering where to stay. this double back camper accommodate two to three people at any time.
Just a single button push, this vehicle transform in to full furnished house.
The central cabin serves as a kitchen with a table, refrigerator, cooker and a sink as well,
and it's only adds 150 kg to overall weight of a van.

What do you do when your car heats is up....

By Nilantha Bandara,
3rd of Nov.

This is my personal experience and i wanted to share with you all,

I was going on a friend's car one day of last week and suddenly car has stoped when tries to re-drive after putting to parking gear,  by the way this is a automatic gear vehicle of honda brand, reagrdlessly the brand this can happen to any vehicle brand/type,
My friend tries to re-start the engine but couldn't embarrassingly this was happened in between of huge traffic jam. so we've noticed that the car heat meter on the dash board had risen up to the top level so we've realized it was a "heat up" situation,

 

So we've got done from the car in front of huge traffic jam, advising & guiding other vehicles to take side way direction,
We've realized cause of the engine heat up due to radiator boiling when we saw large vapor coming through radiator opener through the bonnet, so we've managed to neutral the gear & park the vehicle aside of the road,

The following steps was done as a remade for radiator boiling,

1. The car was kept 30-45 min without starting it to reduce the heat.
2. Then carefully remove the lid of radiator and you will see less water inside, then start the car while lid is still open,
3. Fill the radiator with water, if the vapor still whistling then keep more time to cool & then start filling again,
4. Once filled up close the lid and go to nearest mechanical workshop or service center to find the root cause of the fault, remember don't switch on the air conditioned just after above steps,

Make sure to follow above steps when next time your car is boiled or heated up...