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  1. You will get a stack of documents from the post office. Don't fill anything in it right now. Take your ID, the papers and go to the Central Mail Exchange in McCallum Road, close to the rear entrance of the Fort Railway Station. Take some cash with you. You should usually get the letter within 2-3 days of your package arriving at customs but may be things are delayed due to COVID. You can try calling them but they might not be very helpful until you get the papers on your hands. The process there is very smooth. You will be given a token number and your name will be called when the package arrives. Depending on staff availability, you may be called to a different location on the same floor. The customs official will value the package and calculate the taxes. If its for personal use, they don't bother too much. Its usually less than 1,000. The pistons may have got held due to weight. If you bike is high capacity, you might have an explanation to do, so best thing I can suggest is to say its for your grandad's old bike you are restoring. You don't need to answer any questions without them asking you. I've got down plenty of things from overseas - car parts, home security systems and even a massive chandelier. Never had any problem. There's absolutely no need to look for kaakkas or anyone of that sort. Maximum I paid for a car part was 500 as I recalled. They can get nasty if you bring in commercial quantities or things that you shouldn't import. For example, when I was in the CME one time, a man had imported 24, 10kg cans of whey protein - apparently for a child dying of cancer! Customs can smell a bluff a mile away. So that guy had a time. We enjoyed watching the drama. Here's a tip: dress well when you go there - shirt, trousers and black shoes. White shirt, black trousers, black shoes and a black tie can achieve unbelievable things in any government office!
  2. What will be helpful is to post the honest truth after using the car for a few months.
  3. Off the top, Avanza is what I can think of. There are also Sedonas, Delicas and Friendees around, but they are quite rare. The next best option for OP is to get a van.
  4. I always wondered why cars can't have speed limits inbuilt to them in this day and age...
  5. Yup this strange shifting pattern is for a Magnetti Marelli box. At first glance, one would wonder where the D is! Many Fiats, Alfas and some Chinese and Indian cars came with this box but this specific knob is from the Punto, so you are perfectly correct.
  6. Yup... it is an AEC Routemaster RM-class bus. We mostly know it as the "double decker" bus. The last 3 digits are actually the code of the specific bus. In most cases, the code number went on as the bus's registration number. So RM731 was registered as WLT 731. Bit of Googling revealed that RM731 was originally delivered to London Transport in 1961, made its way to Sri Lanka in 1988 and is still with Ratmalana depot, running hires for Ebert Silva. Back in London: ... and in Colombo, with her top removed... If you notice the just above the left fender, you can still see RM-731 painted on it. Some one seems to be very careful about it. I think the one I posted above is RM-596 but not very certain. Over to you, genius!
  7. Something we've all seen Need the specific name and model though...
  8. Let me summarise the two previous posts in a few sentences A group of guys went to a cheap pettah whore... just because she's cheap and they couldn't afford someone better The cheap pettah whore was pimped by a known pimp in the industry, who found an opportunity The pimp and the whore promised lot of things but didn't deliver - simply because a pettah whore is always a pettah whore, no matter who the pimp is And now the customers are taking sides and arguing with each other about her , forgetting that if they choose someone from pettah, they get what they paid for
  9. Most probably its still lying on the police guy's desk. If it was registered post you can make an inquiry from the post office if you can get the item number from the police. If not, you will need another police complaint from the same police station so either way you will need to go there. This happened to my NIC. After going round and round and round, it was eventually declared as lost.
  10. So what are u trying to say exactly?
  11. Tip: the lever on the right of the steering wheel is the gear shifter
  12. I'm still sticking to my Datsun/Nissan/Prince hunch. This design is definitely theirs. The Junior truck perhaps?
  13. I'm going to take a long shot and say its an old old Datsun Cedric. The headlight design looks very American but those from the stateside in the 60s would have puked at the front panel. Its bland enough to be British or Japanese but British were never this adventurous. BTW who owns this one? any idea?
  14. To be honest, all my knowledge about watches came from watchuseek.com
  15. If u r traveling just 1000km a month, the best thing to do right now is not to use Uber or pick me and put the 5,000,000 in an FD. You will earn about 25k per month as interest which u can use for paying for taxis and at the end of the year u will still have your 5 million. On the other hand, u can buy a car and spend 15,000 a month on insurance and another 15,000 a month on petrol. At the end of the year you don't know what price you will be able to sell the car.
  16. Timex is still good. They are a proper watch company but targets the low end of the market just like Casio. I think they are part-owned by Tata but that doesn't matter. FYI your Frederique Constant is a Citizen on the inside but do remember that Citizen is also a reputed watch manufacturer and they also own Bulova. Citizen 8210 movement is the most widely used automatic watch movement in the world (though I doubt whether your watch has an 8210 on the inside. Most likely its a Ronda). So you have a proper watch in your hands. Here's my little experience with a zombie brand. Faithfully recorded here, but in summary: I bought a Hanowa from a fairly reputed seller on eBay (in fact, I bought two at the same time). One was a world timer. The Hanowa was the only 'Swiss' world timer from the recent years which had COLOMBO (instead of Delhi or Dhaka) as a seperate time zone. That's why I bought it in the first place One of the watches (the world timer) had a spelling mistake on the bezel - LOS ANGELES was printed as LOS ANGEIES. At first I suspected it was a fake so I asked the guys from Watchuseek to authenticate. They too, were under the impression that it was a fake. In any case, I e-mailed Hanowa to check. Hanowa's manufacturer came up with a hilarious response. This was it: <Quote> We are the manufacturer of this Swiss Military/Hanowa watch, style 6-4131 and called REVENGE DUAL TIME. The first launch of this watch was with mineral crystal. In a later stage, on request of most customers, a sapphire crystal was added but there was no such writing on dial. Only recently, 1 or 1.5 years ago, the supplier of components was changed and the new manufacturer unfortunately did not copy the original 100%. In addition there happened a writing mistake in the wording LOS ANGELES as shown and explained by you. We still have watches on stock looking exactly as your picture even with SAPPHIRE printed in de Dual Time area. This means, that your watch is an original Swiss Military/Hanowa watch but with a small mistake. I am sorry that you have an "imperfect" watch but I hope that it gives a lot of pleasure to you anyway. </Quote> In other words, they knew about the spelling mistake (which was a significant QC problem) but were still selling the watches!!!! Now I stay away from zombies.
  17. Try not to confuse Festina with Certina. Festina is a zombie brand with questionable repute and quality. Certina on the other hand, is proper Swiss. A zombie brand is a brand that had died sometime in the past (mainly due to competition from the Japanese) but got reincarnated by shrewd businessmen who only see the value in the name. Other zombie brands include Omax, Hanowa, Mondia, Lucien Piccard... In fact, even brands like A Lange and Sohne and Baume et Mercier were resurrected from death. However, they were done with class and their products are still good quality.
  18. Would any of you mind taking the floor?
  19. The engine was a copy of 5A-FE but the ECU was chinese made. Do you know what happens when Chinese people try to write computer programs? BTW Chinese called this engine MR479QA . In China, every number has a literal meaning. In this case, 4=death, 7=rise 9= emperor of china or just china. Therefore, 479 means rise in china after death... What they probably didn't know is a live person and the same person after becoming a zombie (risen after death) is not the same. This is exactly what happened with the 5A-FE
  20. Isn't this that BYD or BAIC piece of shit? Not sure what the model number is but they usually come with lots of letters and numbers.
  21. How about Apsara fuel savers and omnipotent valampuris... Oh wait...
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