Coming February will be the 2nd year driving my very first, own expense car. This would means I will need to renew my car insurance and roadtax. My mom helped me to renew the insurance and she told me the value of the insurance coverage. I was wondering what would be my car’s value of of this year and made a quick search in google which leads me to this link. I have no affiliate with the link but merely thinking that the vehicle market valuation system site that they offer worth sharing here. The page listed all the car’s manufacturer with its’ model and selecting the right option would generates the estimated(*) value of the car. I believe there is a formula to calculate the depreciation value of the car but the site does the job for me.
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Bumped into a comment posted in a forum I’m frequent to, eightgc2. There was this topic being discussed, the tyre choice recommendation. I thought it would be useful and excerpt’in it in here for my future reference..
Tyre choice is the most important upgrade in my opinion for our FDs. I’ve tried 3 types of good years, 2 types of Michellins and 2 types of Yokohamas, 2 bidgestones a Falken and recently the Toyo C1S. (over the last 4 years with 2 cars) I’ve realised one thing, each tyre makes the car a whole different experience.
My preference is Michellin and Bridgestones cos they do not to pull the steering as the road leans. I think this is true for American and European tyres (including Continental). All other tyres tend to pull left or right where the road leans left or right horizontally. Which means we need more steering input to go in a straight line in Malaysia. Malaysian roads — do not deserve to be called roads. To some, this may not be so important, but these tyres give our ride a “european” feel. Especially the more premium modals. In fact, I tried the PS2 recently (thanx to a friend) and I tell you — when I threw the steering right, this tyre centred the car for me. I can practically drive hands free on the NSE and feel refreshed 300km later.
The C1S is very comfortable too. I’m on them now — you cannot feel the road at all — and I’m on 215/45/R17 — it absorbs the rough tar well. It is also very good on performance on both wet and dry. I’ve driven through heavy rain and drained roads and never once did it pull left or right. However, they are not “sports tyres” — they are designed as comfortably good performing tyres… so I kind of miss the “grunt” that I used to get with ultra-high performance sportier modals. I might consider selling them off (only 3 weeks old) to get the PS2 after kena poisoned like that …
Hence, it all depends on taste. Not all of us bought the same colour car — so no one here can decide what will “taste” right for others.
And the price for the C1S, imported from Japan, cost around RM380++ per piece.
But I might be considering to get Michelin Primacy LC for around RM400-450 per piece since it is is more of comfort tyres and fuel savings caught me most.
Written by admin on September 25th, 2009 with no comments.
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Even with the sudden spike in oil crude price, the car automotive industry is keeping their pace to ensure the drivers are not affected with the moolah but toward the coolness of the big kid toy. I always thought the car on the road would be lesser if the price of petrol shoot sky high but then it have proven me wrong (or the price is not there yet).
Mitsubishi is coming with a new model of their lancer evo. It has somehow exposed some hint on what the beast would have (their website is having countdown to launching of the new model). One of it was the brembo RED brake kit. That was the first thing caught my eye. I strongly believe, no matter how fast a car would go, the brake is the most important (not forgetting other simlar parts that provide added safety). And there’s one more thing in which it may attract many cars enthusiast, the Recaro seats. I bet you have heard the brandname before.
Not only that, the other competitor is also having their new model to release soon as there are already rumors on how the new model of Honda City would looks like. The front design was very close to the new generation of Honda Accord (does that sounds orgasm to you?). It would certainly be cool to see speculated news on what is the next “big thing” that is going to hit the road. I guess, life would be dull if we were to see all the benz moving on the road without the aerodynamic design and sporty cool rims.
As the current oil crude price is depreciating, I am afraid with these more cooler new cars that is going to be in the market soon would somehow contribute back the consumption of petrol knowing the beast they are handling is not tame..
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