Changing Timming Belt

I send my proton Waja to the workshop today to replacing my proton waja timing belt.The mileage meter is at 95476 Km. 
This means for the last three years my proton waja have travel about 95476 Km. 
Even though the proton waja manual recommend to change the timing belt at 100,000. km.

With my trusted mechanic, he also advised me to change the fan belt, air-con belt and also the water pump. Thus I replaced the fan belt, air-condition belt, water pump, timing belt, timing bearing, timing oil-seal and also the radiator fluid.

So how much does it cost me;

1. Timing Belt, Timing Bearing, Timing Oil seal = RM300.00
   
2. Water Pump = RM130.00
3. Fan Belt  = RM55.00
4. Air-con belt = RM 40.00
5. Radiator fluid = RM12.00
6. Workmanship/ Labour Charges = RM120.00
7. TOTAL COST = RM657.00

I do this replacement at Harud-din Otomobil Sdn.Bhd, at Kampung Melayu Subang, near my house. It's is located near the Subang Air port.  Tel: 03-78454230. That owner a Malay guy and I think it's is the reasonable price.

I think for the next timing belt replacement, I have to travel for 80,000 km. The important of replacing the timing at the right time before it's snap !. Once it's snap you have to overhaul your engine because many your piston may be broken and it can cost more than RM1000.00 !. So you better check your car millage. Some mechanic say, we have to replace the timing belt at 80,000 km. But I'm lucky to replace at 95000 +.

So if you want to change your timing belt, give the workshop a call.

Close Encounter With Proton Persona

Segi Motor Sdn.Bhd Shah Alam Proton Persona Delear.

Today I went to see the new Proton Persona at Segi Motor Sdn.Bhd, one of the Proton Persona delear at Section 13, Shah Alam. This Proton Persona showroom is close to Giant Hypermarket, at Shah Alam and adjacent to Shah Alam stadium in Selangor.

It seem that this Proton Persona is an upgrading of Proton G2 for me. The car is bigger and I think it's suitable for young executive. I just look at the car and not even test drive the so I cannot said much.

Proton Persona is a nice car and look elegant. You can see the photos.

The humble me.

The Author Asikin, yes it's me.

The Driver Seat.

The Campro Engine.

Passenger Seater

Rear View

Proton Pesona New Model Lauched Today

Proton have launched it's new model Proton Pesona today. I have seen this proton pesona yet but looking at today news it look good and nice. Proton Pesona is I think an upgrade model of Proton Gen 2 model. I heard that the price is reasonable also and it come with a few model by itself.

With this new Proton Pesona , I sure that the sales of Proton Pesona will increase because the design is very good. But I think due to the price range of this Proton Pesona models, I think it slowly will kill the other Proton car model !. The price can be range from, like

Proton Persona 1.6AT H-Line Metallic – RM55,800
Proton Persona 1.6AT M-Line Metallic – RM52,800
Proton Persona 1.6MT M-Line Metallic – RM49,800
Proton Persona 1.6AT B-Line Metallic – RM48,449
Proton Persona 1.6AT B-Line Solid – RM47,999
Proton Persona 1.6MT B-Line Metallic – RM45,449
Proton Persona 1.6MT B-Line Solid – RM44,999

Thus when compare other proton models, I'm sure potential buyers will rush to this models right. But if some of the Proton qualities not been improved in these models, mmm....one day it will come back to the square.

For me, as I already own the proton waja dan wira, I have to wait to the what market says about these Proton Pesona models. So I want wait and see these Proton Pesona performance.

New Model Proton Car

Proton is expected to launch a new proton car model. For me I have to wait and see how these new proton cars look likes. It may be looked nice or good but how about the quality of this new proton cars ?. I want to see the quality of proton car must be improved to make it success in the market.

After owning two types of proton cars, and all those experience that I have gone through with both proton cars that I own, I can said that proton should really need to improved the QUALITY of the proton cars to make it success in the Malaysia market today.

The quality of this car such as it's power window, door handle, absorbers, brakes should be improved because this is from my own opinion about the cars. The proton cars should be problem free at least for the first three years. I have headache experiences with my proton waja !. I don't know the new name for this proton new model. Some said proton will launch this new proton car on 15 August this month.

I think because of the proton car quality , proton have loosed a lot of it's market share to competitors. I hope that proton will gain back it market share by launching it's new proton car models

Choose the right car battery

My proton waja give me some problem for me today. I cannot start the my car today. May be because of weak car battery. With the help of my freinds, I have to jump started my car. After doing it my car can be started. But because it is multi point injection system, I found it's have some problem about it's tunning.

I have to keep the engine running to be able the car running properly. I think may be this is due to it's battery. But I need to check with my mechanic.

Change Tyre and Absorber

I also own a proton wira which I bought 11 years ago. Proton wira 1.5 is my first car. I have drove this car around Malaysia. On 22 May 07, I change all the absorber , yes all four of them . It cost me about RM550.00.

While on 29 May 07, I change 2 front tires. It cost me RM230. 00. For both tires. I used dunlop tires. After made this changes, my car runs smoothly. Since ten years I have used many brand tires, but for the past dunlop tires is better and can last longer. Other type of tires, have some problem such bloated, which make your driving not smoothly.

Change Engine Oil

Today I'm sending my proton waja for service to change the engine oil. I been advised by my mechanic at my uptown to change the engine oil for every 5,000 kilometers. So for me the mechanics is expert, I have to follow his advise.

Engine oil is very important to our car and we need to change the engine oil according to the millage. If not you car engine may stuck and that will cause a lot of dollars. Changing engine oil not cost you much. It's depends on what type of engine oil you use, there are mineral engine oil, semi synthetic or fully synthetic. The later one is more expensive.

One's your service your car, make sure ask the mechanic to check also the battery water, air filter and any other thing that you feel that disturbing your peaceful driving. This may be your brake system and your brake light and car signal.

It is important to check these thing, if not it can cause you deep problem while driving.

Porsche and Ferrari My Dream Cars

Porsche and Ferrari is my dream cars. Sometime I think what the advantage or disadvantage having this two cars ?. I found that Porsche and Ferrari are German and Italian sides of the same coin, interpretations of the sports car idea. Both founded by a dominant patriarch, both honed in racing, both more than 50 years old, both with engineering and styling integrity. Whether on the track of Le Mains or on the streets, the two have always been put head-to-head and compared. Even the most naive motorist associates these two names with both performance and style.

I decided to compare the methodical Porsche 911 Carrera 4S and the passionate Ferrari F430 because both of them astonish with their performance while attempting to maintain a reasonable amount of practicality but do not pretend to be anything other than sports cars.

I think as a lady driver, a modern sports car should feature these characteristics: it should be started easily,maneuvered around town, blasted on a couple of country roads, it looks and performs the part on a racetrack but at the same time it is very safe.

The easier way to separate the two cars is by measuring figures since both of them have mastered the modern sports car requirements and basically there’s no other way to choose between these two phenomenal cars.

What initially impresses is Ferrari's lightning fast 4-second 0-100km/h acceleration and thrilling exhaust tone. As the occupants are pinned to the seats, the new generation 4.3-litre V8 pushes out 368 snarling kilowatts. Porsche’s acceleration also offers that kick in the pants a super car should deliver, although it is 0.8 seconds slower at the 100 km/kmark.

With such acceleration performance, it comes natural for both cars to excel in the braking department. The two cars offer optional ceramic discs for impressive stopping.

Porsche’s engine gets the upper hand as it is more refined and on the economy rank leaps ahead Ferrari with a 11.8 liters per 100 km as opposed to 18.3 liters. Both cars deliver the power through impressive 6-speed gearboxes and offer top rate handling performance.

Both F430 and Carrera4S offer great interior comfort and even if the space is limited, the occupants don't feel claustrophobic and flustered. Although an impressive mix of suede, carbon fiber and aluminum abound in the Ferrari, the Italians stand no chance when it comes to the high finish level attained by the Germans.

Speed and silence are key elements for any super car. The look and appearance is the biggest draw card. The Carrera 4S is a typical Porsche, despite the new proportions. It is a great looking car, like any other 911 but somehow the styling no longer creates the jaw dropping reaction that the Ferrari does. Indeed, traditionalists may say that Porsche pays homage to its roots, but the truth is that Ferrari F430 simply draws the attention.

However, even if Ferrari F430 takes your breath away with its appearance, the super car title goes to the Porsche Carrera 4S with a more complete all round package.

I hope someday both Porsche and Ferrari cars will be mine. Oh Porsche Oh Ferrari, come Porsche come Ferrari, come to my reality world. Were are you Porsche and Ferrari.

Auto Insurance Quote

One of the important thing we need to remember before driving a car, is that we have a proper auto insurance for our car. Proper auto insurance means that you and your car have been covered properly if accident occurred to you.

In order to do this, we can get auto insurance quote form the insurance agent. Auto insurance quote make easy these days because it can be done online. Auto insurance quote give me a chance to make comparison with various auto insurance company, thus it can save me a lot of money because auto insurance quote will give you information on how much money need to pay for the insurance.

However in some country there no need for auto insurance to drive a car, but the risk are very high. It better to get auto insurance quote before you buy your car insurance. By doing this, some times can save you a few hundred per month.

There for get your auto insurance quote !.

Car Service

I sending my car for service today at service centre close to my house. This time I change the engine oil and the oil filter. It cost me about RM120.00. I use March 5 lubricant oil for my engine.
I also use proton original parts fr my oil filter.

As you know, to make my proton car running smoothly, I regularly change the engine oil for every 5,000 kilometer. So my car run nice on the road. In the market there a lot of engine oil. We can choose from semi synthetic engine oil to fully synthetic engine oil.

Full synthetic engine oil was made from special blend, so that this engine oil can last for 10,000km. However the price is very expensive for me. Therefore I always used semi synthetic engine oil.

Perodua launching new special edition Myvi

Yesterday Perodua launching a special edition of Perodua Myvi SE. This new car with a new image and look more aggressive is targeting young generation market. I have heard a lot about Perodua Myvi. It is the most seller able car in Malaysia today.

What about proton ?.Yup proton back to same selling strategy, because this year Malaysia will celebrating 50 years of independence, proton were offering it's old model Proton Saga at a very discounted price !. I think about RM26,000.00. !. Is this proton right strategy ?.

I think mmm... it's not. Now a days proton are losing its market share to the competitors. I know for sure it is because the quality of car they produce !. The proton car that not meet the consumer satisfaction. Yes I know that from my own experience.

Therefor , with the increase of fuel prices and the very good offer from Perodua Myvi, I thinking changing my proton Waja to Perodua Myvi !. However I also aware that in the market today there a lot of products that can be used to reduce the fuel consumption of one's car.

Sometimes they call this products as fuel saver. I think should used a fuel saver rather than buying a new car. Fuel save can comes in many ways. Some fuel saver product need you to add that special chemical at certain amount when you refueling the gas or petrol or diesel.

Other fuel saving product, need to be fitted to your car. This look like car booster and it will give more power to your car, while consuming less fuel.

Tinted Window

My car has a tinted glass window. People said that once you tinted your window, your car be more cooler and this can save a lot of petrol when you using an air conditions while driving your car.

This is true. How ever when you want to tinted your car window, please choose a good quality products because if you are using low quality tinted film, you have trouble in the future because this film have tendency to crack or even peel off by the time.

Today there is a new type of tinted available in the market. One of them is using nanotechnology such as liquid coating on the window glass thus giving a good protection for sunlight and other harmful rays such as UV rays.

This type of film coating will not crack or peel of by the time because with the nanotechnology, the coating will bind and stick to the car window glass properly and effectively. I personally recommend this type of tinted.

Washing my car

Today I send my car for washing at Car wash near my house. Some times keeping a car is like taking care of your self. You have to wash and polish your car to keep it clean and shining.

There are a lot of car care products in the market today such as car shampoo, car polish and car wax. Once a month, I wax my car using turtle wax. This waxing give good look and it also protecting your car.

So make sure your car look good, always wash and wax your car.

Internet Business

Yes , everybody dreaming of making money while we still staying at home. Is this possible ?..for me the answer is YES. How ?. Actually I have join one of the Malaysia largest ecommence business. It is very easy to join.

I have involved in this simple ecommence business for almost 4 years and owning a nice income every month. By joining the ebusiness you immediately owning an eBusiness direct from your home.

You can find more information here : INTERNET BUSINESS

Car Starter

In November last year on my way to work place, I stop at petrol station to buy some sweets. When I try to start my car, I found that the car cannot be started....mmmm. The fist thing that come to my mind, is that this is something to do with the car battery.

May be the batteries already dead because since I bought the car , I haven't replace the batteries yet. So I when back to the petrol station and buy a new batteries. I ask from the petrol boy to replace the battery for me.

After they replace the battery, the car still cannot start !...mmm this must be a serious problem. So I asked the petrol boy what to do. He told me that he can call a workshop nearby. I'm agree with that suggestion.

When the mechanic came, he told me that the car was jamm. He need to check it. So the car has to tow to his workshop..

At the workshop his boss told me that the car's engine was jamm..and I need to do the overhaul !...this will cause me a lot of money. However his mechanic insist that this is the car starter problem.

He just need to change the car starter. So he replace the car starter and finally my car can be started again...and it is not the engine problem !..However it took me 3 hours to replace the car starter and cost me RM550.0

So if you drive a proton waja, if you encounter the same problem check your car starter. The car starter my be jamm. The car starter is a machine that start the ignition of your car when you turn on the car key switch .

It looks like this.

After the ignition, the fly wheel in the car starter will draw back to the car starter. In my case, the car starter fly wheel can draw back and its stuck between the ignition. Thus will stuck the engine pulley and it will look like the engine have the problem. Which actually is not.

So when driving and your car have a problem ask the trusted and sincere mechanic, if not they can charge you a lot of things than unnecessarily.

My gear stuck !

On 11 February I driving my waja to work. After passing a traffic light, I try to shift my gear from gear 1 to gear 2, however I cannot shift the gear...! my car suddenly stuck at the middle of the road !. Luckily I ,there is no car at the back.

I try and try pressing the clutch pedal and suddenly , I managed, to shift the gear...and the I drive my car to the nearest workshop. What a scary experienced.

At the workshop, the mechanic told me that there is a problem with my clutch plate. He said that I have to replace the clutch set. So what I can do huh..!. I have to leave my car the workshop...It took about 6 hours to replace the clutch.

The mechanic told me that he will replace the clutch with a better clutch, brand Daikin. He also told me that proton used Exeedy manufacture to make clutch for proton waja. He suggest that I use Daikin, it's more better. May this is his opinion from his experience. So I have no choice, so I change my clutch with brand Daikin.

When replace a clutch set, you also have to chance clutch plate, clutch cover, clutch bearing, flywheel oil seal and also gear oil. The clutch set cost me RM 350.00, Fly wheel oil seal RM45.00, Gear Oil RM 40.00 and the labour or workmanship cost me RM100.00. Total cost that have gone out from my handbag that day is RM535.00 !. peeu...

So what is the function of the clutch ?. To make you be able to shift the gear, for manual transmission car.

Car Insurance

My car have an insurance. In my country, before you can drive your car on the road, your should have car insurance. This a law in my country. Other thing you need is the car road tax and a valid driving license.

The car insurance and road tax have to be renew every year. There a lot benefit to have insurance cover my car.

My Proton Waja

This is my car, a proton Waja which I bought in October 2004. Since 2005, I drive my where ever I go and it's a good. As usual, beginning October 2006, my power window at the driver side has broken. I do not know why. I already asked the mechanic how much to repair or replace the power window ?. He told that it will cost me about RM300.00 !.

Until then I haven't repair my car yet. I do not why.. However, I still confortable driving this car because I is mine !.