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What about the weight of the passengers? It varies a lot if their bowels have been cleaned before the trip or not, at least 10kg/person I assume ??

Including the time wasted in trying to figure this out

It's no different than changing a regular bulb mate. Just make sure you have the lights turned off because the circuit after the ballast is high voltage. And don't touch the glass part of the bulb when installing.

For now....when refining fossil fuels reduces its cost will go up and the whole pine resin fuel development might actually be cheaper or the only viable method. In the 90s when corn based diesel was catching on there was a bit of a food security scare. Farmers in south america preffered to sell their crops to fuel manufacturers as they paid more...and then others wanted to cash in and changed various other types of crops to crops that can be sold for fuel. This reduced the paying price for bio diesel raw material. However, it pushed up prices in certain foods. So Food Security people start shivering in their pants when they hear plant based fuels. But seriously...if someone commercializes a method to turn feces in to fuel....we will be set for eternity

Well it sounds easy enough on paper As long as you heed the warnings and precautions that is

That's not true at all. Humidity is highly subject to the day's weather. So you can't say that humidity is always high in the evening. You can go to AccuWeather or some weather data website and observe hourly stats to easily disprove this statement. However, humidity does affect performance. Engines like cool dense air, so higher humidity reduces performance since water molecules in the air displaces Oxygen making it less "dense" for combustion. Combining both above points, this means that we can't surely say that you will get better or worse fuel economy depending on the time of day. If we assume humidity is exactly the same throughout the day, moderately cooler temperatures would give better results.

recon parts in SL are stuff that were removed from wreckers in japan. so in case you get a faulty one you are in trouble. Try to import a brand new part from japan and then install it in either at TL or a garage you know. But given the situation with limited imports you might have to opt for TL parts directly for a brand new replacement. Recon is cheap cuz it doesnt come with all the parts and the wear and tear in it is not guaranteed to last. Full set generally means the entire steering rack including the bushes.

Do you still watch that stupid programme? Even though don't take what they say seriously .

Sudeva mata wathura tikak denda Sudeva. Real Petrol Head:

You are very welcome

When your neighbourhood "3 wheel malli" makes it to the ESPN F1 Facebook page. ? https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157829471453759&id=172976613758

fiat fan, Very good detail pictures of your restoration, can you inform this work shop is situated in Colombo or out of Colombo. Pictures back ground I can see many newer cars. Do they do only tinkering and painting or all round repairs. It is good to know this type of people because today no one will want to undertake time consuming jobs like restorations of older Vehicles. I have little space in my Colombo property, if not I also will undertake this type of restorations. The little knowledge of older vehicles I am confident can do them to satisfy costumers needs. When I read outside world many people are engaged in restoration of vehicles what ever they have in those countries. There are many spare part dealers in the world who are selling original spares or spares similar to originals. I have restored many old vehicles in the past mostly, without cutting the corroded part of the vehicle. only by cleaning very well and make a little bigger part similar to the corroded section riveting the new iron sheath to that from inside of the vehicle or outside, later apply good epoxy mixed on to that section. Instead of welding a new iron sheath. this saves time also will not go out of alignment of the section what a metal worker will work. Above is limited to only straight sheath parts, like floor boards, door parts. Many sections need welding due to the shape of the body or the door sections. Application of epoxy is easy on straight sections, at times can use fiber glass cloth depends on the section. Have done to many vehicles for more than number of decades. I have posted about this few years back when one of my young worker wanted a vehicle for his family use. Riveting can use pop rivet or a Brass rivet, Brass rivet will give a better finish than a pop revert. finish with thin fiber glass cloth not the Fiber glass mat. Member wants can give a demonstration, I saw studied this method, metal sheath riveting and using Fiber glass mat this method to my self applying this in first class country. I studied from them very long years ago in late 1970. Sylvester Wijesinghe Sylvi.

Members, Little memories I have on Jeeps in Ceylon. This I should post to the page, requested by the moderators to write, still I post because jeep subject is disused above. During my young days Ceylon did not have many Japanese vehicles. Almost all jeeps available in the country was American Willis Jeeps, they were sold in Army auctions. I cannot remember any exclusive agent in Ceylon in 1950. Many motor spare parts dealers imported spares for them. Ms, Bogala Motors imported all electrical spares for them. They also had plenty of engine spares, Pistons, Piston rings Gaskets many others for the WW2 and post WW2 models. Many parts of USA jeeps were fitted to UK vehicles, some spares our mechanics were able to fix them without any difficulty. Innovative mechanics fixed them with few modifications. Most Peugeot Diesel vehicles came to Sri Lanka after 1970 I did a modification to starting problem they had due to a inherited problem on early Peugeot Diesel engines. Few hundred vehicles were imported and given to Transport contractors, Planters, Industrialists and few others who were close to then Government. They were the first new vehicles came to Sri Lanka with Alternators. Our Auto Electricians were not used to alternators, what they did was fixing 12 Volts UK make dynamos. At that time all leading spare part dealers did not have any spares for Alternators. Like Diode plates, Regulators Alternator slip ring brushes. Later Auto alternators came with Electronic regulators inbuilt. Lucas of UK had few alternators with a Electronic regulator can be fitted outside. Above is very little I remember mostly on my specialty during past era before switching to another modern technology in Automobiles. Sylvester Wijesinghe Sylvi.

Actually no. The first Korean vehicles to come to Sri Lanka were Hyundai Stellar and Hyundai Pony. Most Stellars that were imported in early 1980s are still in running condition. The bad reputation for Korean vehicles started in late 90s and early 2000s when hordes of Singapore-used taxis were imported to Sri Lanka. They were just 3 years old but had run well in excess of 200,000km and clocked before selling. Your statement about old Korean cars being poor in quality at the beginning is patently wrong. Chinese cars in Sri Lanka on the other hand, have been catastrophic so far. You have mixed up Dong Feng with DFSK. Dong Feng is an OEM manufacturer for Nissan and also has a stake in PSA Peugeot Citroen. DFSK was formed after Dong Feng acquired a small chinese vehicle manufacturer. DFSK is the low-cost vehicle production arm of Dong Feng. That's all. They are meant to make cheap vehicles and that's exactly what they do. And a point to note about exporting to Europe. Most Europeans and Australians buy cheap vehicles to use and dispose. So they do buy Chinese vehicles once in a while. They spend about $15,000 on a vehicle, run it to the ground and dispose for scrap. That's about 3-month's salary for someone who does a reasonable job in those countries. This is the market that Chinese automakers cater to, and they know this well. So you actually find brands like Great Wall, Foton, Chery, Geely in Australia and Europe. That's the reason why Pandas and JACs become virtually unusable after 5 years. This market does not exist in Sri Lanka. Sri Lankans expect the lifetime of a car to be around 30 years. This is where the problem is and this is why there's a lot of skepticism about Chinese vehicles.