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  1. This is her current look after completing all the work.
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  2. There's no guarantee that you will not meet with any accident in the city. So if you drive a papadam car from the papadam land, you will put yourself at risk. The second problem is both papadam cars you mentioned are with auto gearboxes, a technology which is alien in papadam land. So you have to expect them to give trouble. If I was in your position, I would choose a Kelisa if I can find a good one with the second and third options being Picanto, Axia and Viva Elite. Remember, you can always find an older Mazda Familia or a Lancer which will keep you safe and stay reliable.
    1 point
  3. Sell the permit Buy the Picanto!
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  4. This didn't happen unless there are pics.....
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  5. Hello guys, 1st let me apologize you all for taking long time to reply to this. Was buys with some personal commitments, hence the delay. So finally I decided to go ahead with PAS as I did not get favourable responses from other joints. My parts arrived in the last week of July and PAS did not accept the car to begin the work until 1st week of Aug as they were busy with some race events. However finally when the real work started they assigned two people permanently (2 very young guys) to do the work and another well experienced chap was working time to time when serious work was going on (Removing engine, wireharness, dash board etc.) They took four days to complete the entire swapping work which included, changing almost everything inside the engine bay, refilling all the oil lines, fixing front and rear suspension setups, changing steering columns, changing dashboard (had to re-fix my old dashboard in the end as my car had some additional features like air purifier and front windshield heaters and car from JP did not have those options and did not have dashboard wiring for those options. So had to go with the old dashboard) and they did some other miscellaneous work such as cleaning break lines and disks, washing and cleaning engine bay and area where the suspension is fitted etc. Need to say that they do a real professional work and they know what they are doing. They are equipped with ideal tools for the job and did not see any pointless chopping and hammering work going on. So thank you Supra_Natural and ghostwriter for suggesting PAS for this work. However I felt that supervisor is no match to the qualities that other guys had and he sometimes try to move away from things quickly without proper explanations and try to come up with obvious excuses. In terms of their charges, even though initially the supervisor quoted about 25k, after completion all the work he said the bill is about 55k and gave the most obvious excuse “We had to put more effort than we expected and had to pay OT for the two staff”. However I agree that no one can make accurate assumptions on the exact amount of effort that they have to put in for these kind of jobs until they actually finish the work. At the end of the day they delivered a superb outcome and I’m quite happy about it. But at the same time I believe the variation of initial pricing and final cost is bit too much (I was honestly expecting to pay 35K-40K even though he quoted 25k in the beginning but not 55k ). After the repair, except a little stiffness in the power steering and minor miss alignment in the steering wheel I did not have any issues at all and car runs smoothly like never before. In terms of changing other parts: changing most of the other parts such as seats, some door beadings, door upholstery, key barrels, lights, etc. was a DYI job for me and managed to do it at my place without a much hassle and didn’t have any reason to consult a mechanic or PAS for that. Can say car is in perfect nick now So thank you everyone for suggesting me good places to do the major swapping work and again really sorry for being late to reply to this thread. Cheerz
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  6. Don't change the trunk Use that money for a set of transparent lights for the rear
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  7. Crosswind is right, the black one is a pre-facelift CS Lancer whereas your one is the newer facelift (post 2004) model. Also, you will not be able to simply swap the current trunk lid with the older one, because they're different and won't fit. The pre-facelift trunk lid has a straight bottom edge. Yours has a curve. This means the bumper also will have to be modified/changed and I don't think it's worth it. I think you just need a rear bumper skirt to match the rest of the car. Also your rear number plate is a square one which ruins the look of the car IMO (It's running out of the number plate space). The rectangular one looks much better. Edit: Added photo
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