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Easiest is surgical spirit (rubbing alcohol). Tried and tested. Put it on a cotton wool, leave it on top for about a minute, wipe off. Wash off and add a layer of protection (wax) afterwards.
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I'm on the look out for a place for a minor paint job on a bumper. Looking for a place that will pay attention to things like over spray, covering all plastics properly etc. Its going to be sort of a spot/fade paint job as I dont want to mess the whole bumper. Considering couple places.
Any recent experiences with below options?
MagicT***** in Nugegoda, Arab***Motors in Maradana or Kenta** Auto in Pepiliyana. Arab joint has some good reviews even on this thread. Magic place has a very convincing web site and Kent place seems OK. Anyone who has done a paint job either of them? Any other recommendations?
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Yep.
Japanese one is very huge and can't translate with pdf translaters or google.
I use google translate app for android. You can take a pic and let the app do its magic. Its a bit of a pain to use if you intend to read many pages as you need to make sure the focus, angle size etc. is right specially with Japanese text. But when you really want to understand a message on the dash or how something should work, it really comes in handy. But definitely not an alternative to running a pdf or html through google translate.
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I'm having the same problem in my Honda Fit on the passenger side mirror. The most annoying thing is that when ever the engine is on, there is a motor running noise coming from that mirror and can be heard from inside the car. Also the mirror can now be folded easily. The mirror adjustments work fine and only the folding function fails.
I have also read about a common issue with a shut off device failing which stops the retract function in honda cars. Since I can hear the motor running and the fact that I can move the mirror with very little force I guess it can't be that and has to be with some plastic part so Stafford might not be the place for this.
Therefore planning to visit Rexton motors tomorrow. But any other options if Ruwan is not there? Or any other recommendation?
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thanks guys, thanks asanka for replying with grades. yah i heard triptronic giving troubles. so i think normal automatic is good choice. and randika thanks for fuel economy exp. one of sale guy told me it does about 14 in city limits and 16 outstations lol. now im sure its not
Well, there's a little bit more detail information you should know before you come to conclusions i think.
W is the highest grade alright and has Teak inserts, optitron dashboard (Illumination dash), antena integrated to the rear windscreen etc. but it comes in two variants. One called W grade D-Package which has the 7 speed triptronic option. So not all W grades come with triptronic. Well, from what i know, all grades come with the CVT gear box and the triptronic version is just a software controlling the changes. Therefore, if you are worried about the "troubles", you are most likely to come across them in any of the grades if you dont do the standard CVT box maintainance. If you can find a W grade, it comes with a much better trim level than A grade and the gear box should not be a factor which decides between the two as they are the same. Besides, A grade doesnt even come with the dipping feature in the rear view mirror, which is very useful when driving in the night and also the optitron is a classy addition in W grade.
It does about 15 outstation (got a reading of 14.7 on a trip to galle) and around 10 in colombo.
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SCP 90 - 1125000 to 1695000 It depends on the year of make, the depriciation you get, and the options.
NCP 91- 1640000
Thanks for the info Fire Dragon1. Do you have the Agent valuation (FOB, Ins, Freight, other) for these two cars just like you gave on KSP90, it would come in handy to make accurate calculations.
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is it true that u need to have a vehicle permit to import a car??i mean for personal use
There is no special permit required for this. There are some paper work to get done at inland revenue and customs dept. May be this is what you are reffering to, or have the law changed recently?
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Not an expert on the vehicle models or chasis no.
If you give me the chasis no i can tell the duty.
What I have given is the total duties applicable for different age groups.
rgds.
Fire Dragon
So what is the duty on 1300cc Vitz? Its the SCP90 and not KSP92 as you have guessed. You have given values for the 1000cc Belta (KSP92) and 1000cc Vitz (KSP90).
Whats the duty for the following chassis no's
1300cc Vitz - SCP90
1500cc Vitz RS - NCP91
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Guess you are talking about the VITZ with the chasis no KSP92. Other is KSP 90. Rates as follows.
KSP90 FOB 988000, Freight 49000, Insurance 13000, Other 10000, Vehicle 3-3.5 yrs 929300, 2-3yrs 989400, 1-2 yrs 1049600,6mnths-1year 1169800, exchange rate at 1.3 per yen.
KSP92 FOB 1248000, Freight 49000, Insurance 13000, Other 10000, Vehicle 3-3.5 yrs 1150800, 2-3yrs 1226700, 1-2 yrs 1302700,6mnths-1year 1454600, exchange rate at 1.3 per yen.
Hope this is helpful.
Fire Dragon
I think KSP92 is the 1000cc Belta. So your Agent valuations are for the Belta 1000cc and Vitz 1000cc, Isnt it? 1300 vitz is SCP90. Do you have the agent valuations for SCP90 and perhaps even the 1500cc Vitz RS, model no NCP91?
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Are you sure? A few months ago when I saw searching for a car I saw one on the net for 1.8 mil. And now I just saw one (pre face lift) for 1.5 mil. (Dunno how old the advert is though.). Both of them post 2000 models.
I digged up a 4 year old thread.. hence you see the pricing like that. Now the going price for a 2003 is about 2.4 mil.
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Guys please reply with info about the aforementioned ride.
Price?
Fuel econo?
reliability?
Maintanability(mechanics/parts/prices)?
any issues?
Things to watch out when buying one?
Tnx in advance!
Need almost the same info on 2003 passat 1.8T. Can you guys share what you know about this car. How is the agent dealing with repairs on this? Are they a totally dependable agent or better look else where for maintainance kind of and if something goes wrong, are we talking about waiting months till they get a certain part. Any specific issues that one would need to check out on a passat with a milage of 80K.
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teck motors always carry a stock of cvt fluid. you can buy the oil from there and get it replaced by stafford. and there is some kind of an additive introduced in far east asia specilly to treat this vibration issue and achived a remarkeble success. search the forum for more details.
Found some good info in the CVT threads here. Seems like very good care should be taken on the honda CVT box and hopefully that magic oil is available here is SL now.
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Thanks for everyone,
Stafford will have CVT oils after 15th of this month. I'm just waiting until they arrive their stock and do the oil replacement at Stafford.
Thanks
When stafford runs out of CVT oil they sometimes take quite a long time to stock up again. Last year i needed to change CVT oil on a fit aria and had to wait close to 3 months till they finally got it. Its good to know of any other place that stocks this Honda CVT oil.
randikatn, please keep this thread updated once you change the oil and if it fixed the vibration issue. I have heard that once you get this very known problem on Honda CVT box, the only lasting solution is to change the gear box or just keeps coming back once the oil gets a little old, even as old as 5000Km. It's interesting to know if it is such a big issue or not.
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Good to see the progress.
Any news on the colombo - Katu expressway.
They are also working 24/7, but from what i have seen of it around peliyagoda area, its still very much in land preperation/filling stage.
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Hello Fire Dragon,
Where did you get these numbers? Sorry to tell you that they don't quite add up, since I am half way in the process of getting a 2006 Hiace KDH200. It will cost me 50+laks which i will know soon exactly. CIF for my van was 23laks since i didn't want a high k van which i could get for 12laks(200,000kms on the clock). still the tax will be 30+laks. depreciated value for a 2006 hiace is Yen2,000,000 give by T** lanka
Please let me know if my calculations are wrong...much appreciated.
Cheers
From what i have seen in tax calculation documents, agents dont give the depreciated value. They give a value for the model and then the custom applies the depreciation table on that before all taxes are calculated. This is usually the case.
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So long story short, you are not going to save anything by importing it yourself?
Btw, anyone have any experience with customs auctions?
Not really. You can save on the margin the car sales keep. However, there is a risk factor. If the exchange rate goes sky rocketing during the time your car lands here, you might not get much of a benefit or even lose out. Plus drawbacks like not being able to check out the car before you buy and all that stuff. Also some irritating interactions with government institutions like Inland Revenue, Customs dept. to get documents sorted out. You will also need a clearing agent to work with you to clear it when you have all documents ready.
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I was wondering, if ur to buy a car from england and ship it here, would you be taxed on the depreciated agent valuation of the car or the price you paid for. For example a mercedes c class 2007 is around 9,500 pounds (around 1.6 million rupees). Since the C180 would fall in to the 1600cc - 2000cc bracket of 150% on CIF, it should essentially have a landed cost of LKR 4 million (1.6mil + (1.6mil X 150%)).
Is this right?
I have some experience on this. Tax is charged either on top of local agent valuation * depreciation table at customs or your invoice value for whichever value that is higher. For example, a car with CIF in Japan for 700,000 yen, you expect to pay 700,000 * 150% tax. But that is not the case in most instances. If the agent gives a valuation which is still higher after applying depreciation according to customs table, tax will be calculated on that.
So for the CIF 700,000 yen car you bought, agent would give a valuation like 900,000 yen and depreciation of 80% for a 2.5 – 3 year old car, tax would be charged as
(900,000 * 80% + Insurance + Freight + “Options”) * Sri Lanka customs Exchange rate.
“Options”, is whatever options that are in the brought down car which are not present in Agent’s valuation. So if the agent’s car doesn’t have a CD player, but your car has one then you got to pay for that. Not sure, who decides that price of that option.
You need to keep in mind that the valuation given by agent is also in that particular currency. So your tax differs every week depending on the exchange rate published by customs for that week.
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Thanks
But tried searching for "revenue license" but couldn't get anything
Interesting site though, which ever way, in general
You need to register in that site, its free. Afterwards you will get a home screen for you with couple of tabs. There, under "My Space" tab you need to click add services at the top left of the page to add e revenue license portlet. Then you are ready to go. Not really user friendly. Did this at the beginning of the year. Got the original through registered post in about a week.
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my wife uses nokia 6120 classic phone (fairly cheap phone) and hsdp SIM (mobitel internet, again quite cheap) to call me online when i am not in the country. we do not pay a penny to skype. only cost is mobitel internet which is extremely cheap. if you solely use it for skype call then you can get away with the cheapest package which is 500Rs for whole month i guess.
try firing.com for the free software to install skype in mobile. my bro installed the software for us, so i don't know specifics.
You dont have to go through fring anymore. You have Skype mobile version for symbian series 60 V3 and V5 now. It's got much better voice quality and does not have that nagging delay you sometimes get with fring.
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Does all 1500CCs come with CVT gearbox?
We have a 2006 face lift in the family and its not the 7 speed model, but comes with the CVT box. Check out the link
or
http://www.honda.co.jp/Fit-ARIA/2009/grade-data/index.html
and use google translate. Its the spec sheet for 2009 model, but its the same coming through 2006 - 2009. According to this, all 1.5 GD8's come with automatic Continuously Variable Transmission. Not sure about the pre face lift version.
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Has anyone actually done this? How do you submit that environmental report thing???
Yeah i renewed mine through that portal. You need to register with them first.
You need to get the insurance and emission test done and they take about half a day to update the revenue license system. So after that you can proceed with online renewal. You have couple of buttons to click on while doing the renewal and they show if validation was successful. Sometimes this may not work as they had a prob with validating my insurance. However, a mail to their admin solved it in about 2 hours. I guess its some data format issues they have. Then you pay with your credit card and they also charge a very small amount as a convenience fee. When everything is done you get a reference number and displays a license you could print to keep with you. After about 4 days i received the original license in registered post to the vehicle's registered address.
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any other kr42 users to help me???
We had a KR41 couple of years back. 1.5 Auto. Did 6 Kmpl average and was mostly driven in the city and always with AC. There have been scary occasions where it was doing marginally less than 5kmpl as well in heavy traffic. Long distance it was giving about 8Kmpl. However, apart from that its a good vehicle.
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ohh well, I don't know a specific place, coz I was looking for a set of recondition wheels, but I did look around a lot of places around Kandy - Colombo road and in Kurunegala, in the end I exchanged mine to another set of reconditioned wheels at a random place in Kurunegala
Hmm... yeah.. looks like reconditioned is the only option and that really doesn't make things easier in terms of finding the right set.
It's a pitty that we don't have places that considers offset set up when selling their wheels. Some places don't even know about the offset, they only talk about the diameter(14", 15") and PCD (dura thavu and langa thavu). If anyone knows about a place that offers wheels with different offsets please post.
Thanks
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If the paint is in tact, try the PDR place around Delkanda. Keen Auto. You can find the place in google maps and FB. I had a similar experience recently and the guy there was able to do a great job in getting it out.