Simple Tips for Changing Car Headlight

Have you ever questioning yourself how and what when you notice your car headlight bulb broke down. People tend to give all that stuff for specialist to solve. Notice that specialist sometimes ask about what bulb input will you prefer, suddenly you confuse and do not have any idea about it. Sometimes when you are taking a journey to rural area and have this broken down bulb problem you have no other choice but to buy the bulb yourself and choose whether to let them change it for you which you are not sure about their skills or you changed it by yourself. If you choose second option, here are some knowledge about changing your car headlight bulb.

1. There are a lot of people out there don't know how to treat headlight bulb. It is recommended not to touch the bulb body. Look at the picture. It is because it can influence the performance and life-time of the bulb. People usually touch the metal part of the bulb. So by knowing this, you can warn people not to touch the body if that people is going to help you install the bulb. However, if you accidentally touch the body, you can do these several tips:
- wipe the bulb body using tissue slowly
- for maximal result, use alcohol to clean the accidentally touch body.
- when you do it, make sure you not accidentally touch the body again.
2. Change the bulb in pair. Don't change one if one is broken down, change 2 of them together although the other one is not broken down. this is to prevent different state of light the bulb produce due to different brand of bulb you purchase or weaken down bulb.
3. Choose the bulb that has UV block, because they filters out the ultraviolet rays that are potentially damaging to modern plastic headlight lenses.
4. high input lamp (up to 100/90 Watt) is recommended using relay.
5. re-setting the height level of the light that the headlamp produce especially when you change the bulb become HID xenon. It is because different bulb has different filament distance which will effect the height level of the light.
So at last.. feel safe during your journey.
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Our Choice for Best of the Best Car Detailing Product

Guys.. I have discuss about car care last night with some of my friends. Here we agree below products is the best among others. Check this out..
1. Wax Product goes to..
- Turtle wax Carnauba Wax
Turtle Wax Carnauba enriched car wax is formulated to provide the highest level of shine and protection for the enthusiast who will settle for nothing but the best. Keeps new cars looking new and restores the showroom-like finish to older cars. Carnauba enriched wax barrier repels air and water-borne pollutants while a natural water-repellent coating greatly reduces spotting. The UV blocker system of this product maintain the shine by repelling ultraviolet rays.
- Autoglym Super Resin Polish

Super resin polish give high gloss shines to all types of automotive paintwork. Super Resin Polish is easy to use and contains specialized emulsifiers and conditioners to gently clean and condition the paintwork. Ideal for all types of new or moderately deteriorated automotive paintwork including metallics, water based and lacquered finishes. Wash car first, apply a small amount of the product onto a soft dry cloth, rub into a small area at a time, allow to dry, recommend doing a full panel at a time such as wing, bonnet, allowing to dry, then buffing off.

2. Leather Conditioner Product goes to..
- Autoglym Leather Care
This is very durable product, provided the loss of essential oils and preservatives caused by evaporation. Autoglym Leather Care is a carefully blended emulsion containing soaps and natural oils to protect and moisturize. Regular light treatment will help conserve the natural appearance and characteristics of automobile leather.
3. Glass-Fungus Cleaner Product goes to..
- Autoglym Glass Cleaner
Even a clean and polished car doesn't really sparkle until you clean the windows. Windscreens and windows are easy to clean with Autoglym Car Glass Polish. It contains specialist cleaning and polishing elements which quickly and easily remove all common contaminants, leaving a crystal clear, smear free finish.
- Turtle ClearVue Glass Cleaner
This product safe for tinted windows - contains no ammonia. Advanced formula cuts through dirt, grease and grime to leave the surface sparkling clean and streak free. Safely and easily removes cigarette smoke, water spots, bugs, road salt and tree sap.
4. Interior Cleaner Product goes to..
- Armor All Multi Purpose Auto Cleaner
Armor All Multi-Purpose Auto Cleaner is specially formulated to remove tough automotive soils such as ground-in dirt, grease, road grime, tar and brake dust. Yet its powerful formula won't harm delicate surfaces such as the dash, fabric and carpet. Armor All Multi-Purpose Auto Cleaner is the one solution for all your cleaning needs.
5. Bug and Tar Rmover Product goes to..
- Autoglym Tar Remover
Tar spots are unsightly and stain certain paint finishes. Autoglym Intensive Tar Remover instantly dissolves tar on paintwork and plastics, enabling it to be wiped off, or washed away during a routine shampoo. Use to remove oil, grease, silicones, wax, gum, resinous tree sap, fuel stains and adhesive residues.
6. Washer Fluid Product goes to..
- Rain-X De-Icer

Rain-X De-Icer Windshield Washer Fluid is formulated with advanced technology for streak-free cleaning power. The washer fluid applies water beading technology to your windshield for greater driving visibility. Instantly applies Rain-X to the windshield for greater driving visbility.

However there are some products that is recommended to avoid which is..
1. Autoglym Bumper Care
Cleans and revives textured plastic, bumpers, grilles, mirror casings, mouldings and tyre walls and leaves a tough translucent flexible barrier for ongoing protection. Also removes polish smudges from bumpers and trims. My experience, when the rain touch it, it looks terrible.
2. All the product that claim has the ability to remove swirl or scratch. Until now, no product that can really give satisfied result.
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Types of Shock Absorber

In common, there are 2 types of shock absorber which is oil shock-absorber and gas shock-absorber. Oil shock-absorber more comfortable compare to gas shock-absorber. Gas shock-absorber not contains 100% gas, it has oil act as the lubricant. To differentiate oil and gas shock-absorber when you want to purchase it, you can press the stalk. If it is oil type, the stalk will not back to the position when you press it down. The stalk that can go back to its previous position will definitely gas shock-absorber.
Some aftermarket shock-absorbers have double action type. This means the shock-absorber will faster the rebound action but this type of shock-absorber will wear out faster. Double action and single action shock-absorber is just talking about the percentage between the compress action and rebound action. Single-action shock-absorber has the ratio of 40% compress and 60% rebound.. Double-action is the vice versa. The higher the percentage, the more the action can hold-up. So when rebound action, spring will be helped by shock-absorber and it make the car back to its position faster.
Base on the design, shock-absorber have monotube and twin-tube design. For the car that giving high priority for comfortability and durability, twin-tube is the best choice. The more you give pressure for the twin-tube shock-absorber, the higher the hardeness level. This characteristics make same comfort when you have full passenger in your car or when you do self-driving. Monotube has same hardeness level in any pressure which means if you think your car is the most comfortable when have 3 passengers, then when you drive yourself it will be too hard and when you have full passengers it will be to soft. So the recommended one is twin-tube shock-absorber.
Now, there is self-leveling shock-absorber in the market. It makes you able to settle the hardeness level of the shock-absorber.
See also The Sign When You Need to Change Shock Absorber
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Pick Me - Car Plastic Cleaner Product

Nowadays in order to reducing cost of production, car manufacturers tend to substitute car material into plastic material. Several among those plastic materials are headlamp-glass which is some of car use plastic material rather than glass material, mirror cover, bumper, etc. This make us have more and more plastic material in our car and we need to care of them. Plastic material easier to damage compare to other material in car. Take en example, plastic material headlamp-glass have high possibility become paler and yellowish if you change the headlight into higher watts, interior plastic materials have high possibility to scratch deeper rather than other materials because they are softer than others. And remember when the plastic material have become paler or yellowish, or been scratch, they are hard to renew it again. the best way is to change it and it is cost-a-lot option.
So, care of them before it is too late. Here is some plastic cleaner that come from car detailing manufacturer. I give some hint for you so you know what is fit you.
1. Waxco Plastic Lamp cover
The product claims it able to clean & polish all types of plastic lamp covers and other plastic parts to produce a crystal clear transparent & shiny surfaces. The performance.. I think it is defeated by others. But Waxco somehow cheaper and give sponge inside the package, so this is its added point.
2. Armor All Original
Armor prevents cracking, fading, discoloration and premature aging. It renews and revitalizes vinyl, rubber and plastic. That is what the product claimed to be. The applying show the same result with Waxco. However It says that it can prevent cracking so it moisturize the part and this make this product reasonable to buy.
3. Permatex Plastic Cleaner
Old player in plastic cleaner product. It claims to be able to forms a water-repellant, anti-static shield which resists fogging. Permatex suggests to apply the product at plastic windows, instrument covers, goggles, lenses, motorcycle fairings, helmets, boat windshields and fiberglass hulls. Nice result from the applying. Maybe this is why it exist until now.
4. Stoner Trim Shine
* Restores color and shine to dull or faded auto trim
* Protects trim from UV sunlight and environmental damage
this is 2 of several that the product claims that it is expert in. However, it needs several times applying to have maximal result.
5. Mothers Plastic Polish
This is a true polish. You can buff out hairline scratches, smudges, flaws and little nicks, as well as clean away yellowing and stains from your plastic convertible window. It doesn’t stop there, it protects your plastics from the sun, smog, water stains with a tough layer of polymers. And you can have all of this at half price of Meguiars PlastX.
6. Meguiars PlastX
As we know, Meguiars always have nice products. It is the same idea with its plastic cleaner, Meguiars plastx. This easy-to-use, rich gel formula quickly restores optical clarity to both rigid and flexible clear plastics. It removes light oxidation, chemical degradation, surface contamination, stains and light surface scratches with ease. Its polymers substance provide long lasting durable protection for you car plastic.
What will you choose? The best three according to me is mothers, Meguiars, and Permatex.
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Turbochargers, Superchargers, Cold Air Intake, Intercoolers - Why Not All Car Manufacturer Apply It?

We know that turbocharger, supercharger, cold air intake/CAI, and intercooler are the technology in which helps our car getting more powers. Some of the technology also improve gas mileage. It is logical as when you have more power in your car, you will able to move the car in less gas pedal press than usual. But this is the condition where you in standard driving mode. If you drive aggressively because the improving power, you will burn your gas faster. And people tend to boost the car to high rpm when they get this technology.
So as we know this is the technology which benefit us, why the car manufacturer don't use it to all of their production car? Is there any bad side that we don't know about this technology? Here is some reasons why they don't put the technology to all car..
- Reduction in cost
manufacturers tend to reducing the cost in producing car. this is become one of the reason because these technology higher the cost significantly.
- Save mileage
Turbo add significant power and horses to your car. But it eat your gas eagerly. Things get worse when the turbo apply without mature calculation.
- Complexity
Turbocharger, supercharger, cold air intake/CAI, and intercooler is a complex technology and turbo add heats a lot to the engine. If your car equip with this technology, you will have more expenses when it comes to have problem with the system and need to fix it.
- Shorter life time
Some of this technology will shorter your car life-time. And if you equip it to your car without mature calculation, it will really harms your car parts.
- Mileage concerning
Almost all new technology require premium gas. And it is not wise when an efficient city car equip with this technology and require the car to consume premium gas except it is limited version for people that eager in technology.
- Material
This technology need higher standard of material compare to normally aspirated engine. the cost of production will double and double and the product will not competitive anymore.
- Not in need
Not all people is speed freak and they want a simple car. People that buy city car or smart for two alike-car clearly tell you they just want economic and efficient car. So manufacturer will have no addition benefit to its selling if they put the technology to such kinds of car.
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Should You Wash Your Own Car?

Look at the title and what would you say. This is an "always have pro and contra" question. wash car is a must when you own one. But the problem is some people like to wash his car himself. others likely to spent the money and get the car wash by the specialist. This always been an argument.
Some people who pro that it is wise to have your car clean by specialist say that..
- Time is money. Why wash the car ourselves when we have the specialist who can do it for us. our time is more precious compare to do such a thing. Spent your money to let them wash it for you because your time is worth more than the money. The idea is talking about if the car wash about 1 hour than if you let it wash by specialist for take an example 3 dollars, using that time you can earn up to 3 dollars so you should not spent that time doing less worthy thing.
- Why put yourselves in trouble buying car care things. Let the specialist do it. They have all of it and what you need to do is just give them couple of money.
- We don't have the washing car ability like them. The specialist just know the procedure. (So you need to read this blog article and you will know everything hehe..)
- Lazy. You can use that time doing another comfortable stuff. (not a nice reason isn't it?)
- Too much steps and it is hard to do it all by one people who is me myself. the specialist is the right choice.
Here is some arguing from people who like to wash car themselves, hey I'm joining this people..
- When you own a car you will know how satisfied to clean the car yourself using your own effort. You know that your car clean and you do it yourself. It just have different feeling, more than satisfied feeling.
- Have you ever see sport cars in specialist car wash place? They all do it by themselves. ask them why they do so.
- I can't see the shampoo left in my car body because they don't hose the car thoroughly. I really can't hold it. If you ask me to tell them to hose it properly, i prefer to wash the car by myself because they will ignore you. You will be laugh if you struggle to tell them hose it and start to supervise them. And what towel they use, it looks old and I just don't sure with that things. Is it microfiber? I'm not sure and they should change it. (This is probably the operator of car wash specialist problem, we can change to another specialist but I think you cannot depend a lot as they just wash your car, without any feeling, not the same when you do it yourself.)
- Who wash the car during work hours? We wash it when we have leisure time in the weekend, when we have nothing to do.
- for those who are interested in car detailing, they like to converting their leisure time into washing and polishing their lovely car. that time is priceless for them. They could chat for a day just talking about it with friends that have same interest.
- Some people a lot more sensitive. They say "My car is my wife. I will not let other people wash it".
So which side are you? if you enjoy washing your car then probably you will like this blog.
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3 Steps for Car Paint Detailing

When you are in weekend and have nothing to do, maybe you would think about put some effort of caring your car as it always help you to do several task in your life. you use it anytime you go to anywhere especially when talking about distance that you can't done without driving. So the well-known way to care the car is make the exterior as shiny as new car. There are well-known 3-steps that will make your car looks shiny which is cleansing, polishing, and waxing. A lot of car care product come with package for this 3 step. One of them is meguiars. Its step-1 product is "Meguiars Deep Crystal System Cleaner", step-2 is "Meguiars Deep Crystal System Polish", and step-3 is "Meguairs Deep Crystal System Carnauba Wax". Other manufacturers also give package like that and just using different name.
Step-1. Cleansing
The first step is to clean your car painting. Of course before apply all of this 3 step you need to wash the car first. After that Apply the cleansing product you bought. Cleansing product is safe for restoring the color of dulled clear coat finishes. Its ability is to removes the environment contamination that cannot wash by regular washing, waxing, or polishing. It erases fine scratches and lets you wipe away blemishes, oxidation and dead paint for preparation for polishing and wax protection. Because of this ability, cleansing contents the most abrasive substance for car paint compare to other step. So avoid using it too much.
Step-2. Polishing
Polishing has less abrasive compare to cleansing. the main function of polishing is to give conditioner to your car painting and nourish just-cleansing finishes.
step-3. Waxing
The last step and doesn't have abrasive at all. So it is really safe and you can apply it as often as you want. But usually people re-wax once in 2 or 3 months. But this is depend to your car environment whether it is put at indoor or outdoor. waxing has ability to make the completely shiny effect on your car and protect or maintain the 2 step you are done before.
A lot of waxing product in market, you should know which one is the best. I recommend waxs that are using carnauba substance. Carnauba is a natural wax from the leaves of the Carnauba Palm in northern Brazil. It has a natural ability to retain oil, will not react with paint, and has excellent gloss properties. In its original state, carnauba is hard, so it must be mixed with oils or chemicals to soften it. (Manufacturers use various softening methods). Carnauba wax produces a very hard film to protect your car painting. Some brands such as Turtle Wax Hard Shell Car Wax includes polymers-designed to fill in minute scratches in the clear-coat layer. Armorall Car Wax has a formula that "penetrates and bonds" with the car's surface.
So choose the product you like.
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Ways to Remove Old Wax from Your Car

People asking how to remove old wax from car when it is the time to re-wax the car. Here I got several ways from friends, but me myself always re-wax my car after washing the car 5 or 6 times. In average I wash my car once a week. I just directly re-wax it. But when I get a little bit extra time I will do the polishing then waxing after washing the car. We know there are 3 steps in maintaining car exterior, look at 3 Steps for Car Paint Detailing. But I will do the first step if only my car need it because It is not really good for car painting. So here is some several steps when you want to remove old wax before applying a new one. To be honest, I Haven't try all of them so if you really need it just go with the way or use my way.
1. Use the dishwashing liquid
Some people use the dishwashing liquid. It is logic thing as dish washing liquid really remove all the dirt, fat, grease, etc. That's why we use it for dish. So we can say wax is substance that contain high grease. So it is logically very possible if dishwashing liquid could remove the old wax. But I recommend you to directly do waxing after you wash your car. If no, Can you imagine your skin at hot place without any conditioner. That's is how our car without waxing after you wash using the liquid.
2. Paint Cleansing Lotions
This could be product such as P21s, Pinnacle, etc. I think this is the safest way because manufacturers claim one of their product ability is to remove old wax and protecting your paint and make it ready for waxing procedure. So may you use this method to remove the old wax. Me myself not use this product because it will be too much bottle of car care product at my garage. Can't hold it.
3. Paint Abrasive Polishes / Swirl Removers
Some of the product is 3M, Menzerna, Meguiar's, etc. This is same with polishing which has a little abrasive characteristic for the paint.
4. Paint Preps ---
Such as 3M, Detro, Klean-Strip Prep-All, etc. Just another one of the ways. A liitle bit the same with paint cleansing lotions, it make your car painting ready to be waxing with new wax.
5. AIO Waxes
Some of them are Meguiar's, Zymol, Mothers, etc. AIO or All In One waxes like to claim that they are multi-purpose cleaner. However I think this is just the same with my way which is directly re-wax the the old-wax.
So pick one of the way and start waxing your car.
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Automotive Record #1

Here I give you information that you will hard to find in any site. I will give you the record and the fact about automotive. from here you will know how many that you don't know. From what is the smallest car that ever been produced until what is the fastest car in the world. Check it out!
1. What is the smallest car that ever been produced?
-- Produced in Isle of Man which lies in the Irish sea between the United Kingdom and Ireland.. It was produced from 1962 until 1965, There is Peel P50 that have the size only half of Smart For Two.
2. So what is the largest car that ever been produced?
-- It is incredible limousine with 26 wheels and 30.5 meters (100 feet) designed by Jay Ohrberg of Burbank California and it has two driver's compartments, one at each end to help when reversing. It is mainly use in films and exhibitions.
3. What is the longest name that ever been given to a car?
-- It was in 1975, Datsun Cherry Estate 1975 has an official name "Datsun by Nissan 100A Cherry F11 Station Wagon De Luxe". It has 10 words in total!
4. Do you know what car become the first that has smart suspension?
-- You will surprise, It was Citroën 2CV that has smart suspension for the first time in the world. It used simple balancing system that make the car able to maintain its height in any kinds of road and any kinds of loads.
5. Who sold 4WD car for the first time?
-- It was Spyker from Dutch who sold it in 1904. But 4WD car that sold in large quantity is GAZ-61 from Russia in 1941.
6. Is there any car that can fly?
-- Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation patented its Convaircar in 1947. This car has the ability to fly because it has wings and propeller machine on its roof.
7. who is the first car designer?
-- Harley J. earl was the one who worked only to design cars. He was hired by General Motors in 1927.
8. What is the fastest massive production car in the world?
-- For now, It is SSC Ultimate Aero TT. It ables to run in 256.19mph (412.30kph) as stated in Guinness Book of World Records. It has twin-turbo V8 machine with 1183-hp and 1094 ft-lbf of torque.
9. Who find cruise control?
-- Ralph Teetor, a blind man from pennsylvania, U.S., patented the cruise control in 1953. The first car that used it was Chrysler Imperial in 1958.
10. Who is the first people that pass away in racing tournament?
-- Levassor died in 1896 when his panhard roll over. It was when he joined Paris-Marseilles-Paris rally championship.
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Intermezzo: My PUG

Guys here is my dog for u to have a look.. enjoy!!
Here is some of the pug well-known habits:
-Pugs are Stubborn
Pugs are usually very stubborn. If they want a treat or a certain toy, they will cry about it until they get it…It’s as simple as that! Some might refer to Pugs as “needy”, but a better description would probably be “childlike”. They want what they want when they want it!
-Pugs are tons of fun
Pugs are lots of fun and they love doing silly things in order to get your attention. Most Pugs don’t even mind parading around in crazy outfits, and that’s probably why some call them ”the clowns of the animal kingdom”.
-Pugs are intelligent
Pugs are a lot more intelligent than they look (Thank God!) and they are fast learners when it comes to things that excite them. For instance, figuring out how to get to the cookies on the table is usually a piece of cake for any Pug. They are also fast learners when it comes to figuring out how to best get your attention. Some say that Pugs are hard to train, and sure, some Pugs might be. However, with a healthy portion of patience from you and lots of yummy treats, Pugs can learn lots of great tricks.
-Pugs Snore
Pugs make lots of weird noises, due to their small nose and flat face. Almost all Pugs snore and while some consider this to be kind of charming, others might find it annoying. To be completely honest, if you have trouble sleeping you might be better off don't buy pugs.
-Pugs both snore and farts
Due to their button-nose, Pugs also tend to snort a lot. But as long as your Pug breathes without any problems, the snorting is normal. Pugs also tend to pass lots of gas. Ever heard of Weapons of Mass Destruction? You will if you decide to get a Pug!
-Your pugs, your shadow
Pugs love to be close to the people they love, so if you like being alone sometimes or have the couch all to yourself – a Pug is definitely not for you! Pugs tend to follow “their people” everywhere and if you are sitting on the couch, your Pug probably doesn’t just want to sit next to you. If he can and if you let him, he will soon be sitting on top of you. While some people love this, others might soon find it rather annoying.
That's it! And I tell you my Pug has exactly the same habits.

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Another Tips for Free-Fungus Windshield

Maybe some of u already read the Tips for Free-Fungus Windshield in my previous post. if you haven't read it, click on the link or else use the search column at the right-hand side to find it. I stated there that i'm gonna clean my windshield. But actually I just did it yesterday because the time not allow me to do it last time. Yesterday is a holiday for my country because it celebrates occasion which is "Maulid Nabi Muhammad SAW". That's not the point, the point is I'm doing some car care for my car. One of them was cleaning the windshield. But i didn't using the fungus-cleaner. This is what i'm gonna share with you. Fungus-cleaner is very harmful for car paint and you should really careful when apply it to your windshield. Some days ago I have information that I forgot where I get from. It stated that we can use toothpaste to substitute the fungus-cleaner. Hey, this make me just grab the toothpaste and no need to buy the fungus-cleaner. Everyone have toothpaste at his home. I'm not post this matter last time because I will not post something that is not proven. Well, the result when I apply the method is it able to substitute fungus-cleaner eventhough fungus-cleaner is more powerful. But I recommend this method as it is cheaper and safer. Why safer, because fungus-cleaner strongly recommended that the substance must not touch your car paint. But the toothpaste, when I apply to windshield, it touch the car paint a little bit. I just aware it when it dry. and when I wipe it using towel. It didn't leave any spot. But however I recommend you to use exactly the same procedure with when you want to aplly it using fungus-cleaner. Ah, others is that because toothpaste doesn't have really strong substance compare to fungus cleaner, it will not easily show the scratch in your windshield. However if your windshield has a lot of scratch, it is wisely not to do fungus cleaner as it will disturb you more compare to when fungus is your problem. Here is the Fungus-cleaner procedure article.
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How to Count Your Car Fuel Consumption

How you count your car fuel consumption? Is it the right way? I join several forum, read several magazine, and have a chat with several people. And every time when we chat, when we are talking about car fuel consumption. There will always some people talk "Oh, I fill my car fuel two times a week", then the other people says, "Ah, mine has better fuel consumption. I have my car fuel refill one time a week."....
Stop!! How we know that his car really get better fuel consumption? There are a lot of condition may different from two of them. who knows how many mile they are taking for a week. Also, who knows how many liter of fuel they fill to the car when they go to pump station.
But still there are people use this method to compare their car fuel consumption everytime. We should know the correct procedure for counting our car fuel consumption. The way is easy. Full your car with fuel, make sure you can see the fuel with your eyes so that you can mark it on your mind. then reset the trip meter to 0. Now, have your trip.. enjoy.. until the time you need to fill your car again. lets say you go for 298km. Go to pump station to have your car filled. make it full and exactly the same level with the previous time you fill your car, you can remember the mark, isn't it? lets say you fill for 28.6liter. Now get the KM divide with liter. So, 298km/28.6ltr= 10.419. It means your car consumpt 1 liter when it goes for 10.419km. Got it? People usually state it 1:10.419 or 1:10.5. Simple isn't it? Now you can use this method rather than other methods.
Some car equip with MID that able to count the fuel consumption for you. In my experience, it can get different result when MID count the fuel consumption with the method I stated. The tolerance is 5-10%. So if you count your car have 1:10.5. The MID may show 1:10, 1:9.5, or 1:11.5. This different because sometimes air is trapped inside the fuel tank and we don't know how much air inside. This make the method has somehow tolerance for 5-10%. The MID also can make mistake in counting fuel consumption. there are 2 ways for MID to count the fuel consumption. First is they put sensor inside the fuel tank and the second way is they put sensor at the pipe that go to combustion chamber. sensor at the pipe is more accurate as it count the fuel goes out. Different with sensor at fuel tank, it count the fuel consumption by detect the level of fuel inside the fuel tank. this could be inaccurate as when the car move, the fuel will shake.
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The Sign When You Need to Change Shock Absorber

Besides to uphold the car, Shock Absorber also has the function to dampen the spring bouncing. A lot of people have wrong perception that shock absorber is for absorbing the road shocks. It is not. The spring does it and shock absorber is the one which dampen the spring bouncing. Shock absorber also becomes aid to your ride control. So if the road condition and your driving style are somehow extreme, the spring will work harder than usual which make the shock absorber need to work hard also. This will shorten the life-time of the shock absorber. You have no option but to change your shock absorber with the new one otherwise it will make you have somehow decreasing in comfortable when driving your car.
Here is some common signs when it comes the time to have a new shock absorber for your car:
- See abnormal wear on tires. Shock absorber which has broken is one of the reasons.
- Pays attention to the car when passing small pile or hole on the road. If you feel that the car ran aground. It means you need to change the shock absorber.
- Or do you have ever felt the steer often thrown away and difficult to be controlled? If yes, This is one of the effect that your shock absorber has ”death”.
- See the physical condition of shock absorber. If you find it has oil on it, it means leaks on the housing and you need to change it.
- press downwards the car body near the suspension several times. If the sway doesn’t stop immediately, then prepare to buy new shock absorber.
You have various choices to substitute your old shock absorber. You can choose original component from factory standard, aftermarket product precisely with standard, shock absorber having special specification such as for racing or comfort, or rebuilt shock absorber. Of course the price differs from one to another. Usually from my experience, shock absorber aftermarket which is precisely with standard can be cheaper than original component from factory standard. But this doesn’t mean decreasing in quality. In fact, some of them have higher quality. This because of the parts price of car manufacturer tends to be higher. They get benefit from people perception that their parts are design specially for the car and the aftermarket quality is somehow questionable and not really compatible with the car. Some people do not want to get confuse in searching for aftermarket product. Just compare when we do treatment for our car in manufacturer workshop with when we do it at external workshop. The price is different and manufacturer workshop will be costly. Besides, shock absorber having special specification have various prices depends on the brand. But usually they are more expensive compared to standard shock absorber. The cheapest one is shock absorber rebuilt. This is shock absorber which had broken down and modified in such a method so that it can be use again. Of course the price is very cheap however I don't recommend it because its questionable quality and it is impossible to have quality like before.
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Prevent and Detect Rust / Corrosion at Car

Have you ever been frustrated with rust problem on your car? At the time they are small, we don't detect it. We have just known its existence when they thrive and leaves footstep that is big.

If it is detected before, we can save part attacked by the rust. Here are some ideas for you where rust usually sprouts and attacks your car. Make sure to check it thus you can manage it earlier.
1. Underneath of the car
This is the riskiest place that is attacked by rust because it is often thrown by gravel and road dirt. Thing gets worse because it is hard to clean. It is impossible if we lifts our car in doorsmeer service and cleans it every day. So at the time you clean it, pay attention if it has small rust. If yes, action is needed.
2. Below part of the door
plate extension at the below part of the door is one of the place you need to pay attention. This place trap dust easily and the remaining water when you wash your car quicken the growing of rust.
3. Fender
Rust attack inner part and outside part of the fender easily because dirt often hooking there. Pay attention mostly for inner part as this is the place that is hard to inspect and the problem is the same with underneath of the car.
4. Door hinge

Door hinge is patched to car body using bolt, usually car body around the bolt often attacked by rust especially when the bolt had ever been open.

5. Ex-weld
Ex-weld also able to cause rust. This is because bad carbide substance can generate rust.
6. Scratch cause by dismissal accessories
Dismissal of accessories incorrectly could generate rust. It is because when the time you release the accessories, you might not deliberate to generate scar at car body that may triggering the rust grows.
You also need to know that the main cause of rust is when there is a contact of iron with O2. At car means if the coat of the body which is the paint peel off, the rust will come out. sometimes the peel is invisible but the air that contains O2 able to make a contact with the iron. This is the condition where trigger the rust grows.
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