Tol Diskaun Sampai 37.5 % Sempena Aidilfitri 2013

Sebanyak 17 lebuh raya bersetuju memberi diskaun dan rebat tol antara lima hingga 37.5 peratus sempena sambutan Aidilfitri bermula 7 hingga 9 Ogos ini.

Menteri Kerja Raya Datuk Fadillah Yusof berkata lima lagi lebuh raya akan turut menawarkan rebat tol sebanyak 20 peratus bagi pengguna kenderaan kelas 1 yang membuat bayaran tol secara elektronik pada 5-6 Ogos dan 14-15 Ogos ini.

“Diharap ia akan dapat beri kemudahan kepada orang ramai,” katanya dalam sidang media selepas melancarkan kempen keselamatan jalan raya peringkat Kementerian Kerja Raya di Persada Plus.
Fadillah bagaimanapun berkata jumlah dan tempoh masa pemberian diskaun dan rebat itu berbeza mengikut syarikat konsesi lebuh raya masing-masing.

Beliau berkata 17 lebuh raya yang terlibat memberi diskaun ialah lebuh raya Guthrie, LKSA, AKLEH, SMART, KESAS, KL-KARAK, LPT 1, DUKE, NPE, NNKSB , MEX, BESRAYA, LEKAS, SDE, SKVE, LDP dan SPRINT.

Manakala lima lebuh raya yang menawarkan rebat ialah PLUS, SPDH, ELITE, BKE dan LINKEDUA, katanya.

Pada majlis itu, Fadillah turut melancarkan pasukan Rakan Ronda yang antaranya terdiri daripada skuad rondaan syarikat-syarikat konsesi lebuh raya, polis, Suruhanjaya Pengangkutan Awam Darat, Jabatan Pengangkutan Jalan, Bomba, ’Workshop on Wheel’ Plus dan sukarelawan.

Fadillah berkata skuad rondaan itu selain membuat rondaan di lebuh raya, mereka juga akan ditempatkan di tempat-tempat tertentu bagi membantu 5.4 juta jangkaan pengguna lebuh raya sepanjang tempoh ‘balik kampung’ dan peraturan lebuh raya dipatuhi dan keselamatan pengguna dijamin.

Beliau berkata pihak kementerian juga mengajak orang ramai untuk menjadi sebahagian sukarelawan pasukan Rakan Ronda dengan mendaftar di laman web Lembaga Lebuh Raya Malaysia.

“Matlamat utama mewujudkan Rakan Ronda ini adalah untuk memupuk sikap bertanggungjawab terhadap keselamatan diri dan pengguna lain di samping menyampaikan maklumat-maklumat trafik, kemalangan dan kerosakan kenderaan yang seterusnya akan membantu tindakan lebih pantas syarikat konsesi,” katanya

Kereta hilang Power???

Adakah kereta yang selalu kita naik dan bawa tu terasa hilang power / umphhh??? Kalau jawapannya "ya" maka itulah tandanya enjin kereta kita dah kehilangn kuasa kudanya.. So kuda yang kita bawa tu dah tak gagah perkasa dah...

Kembali kepada zaman karburator ialah raja dan pam minyak mekanikal, kehilangan kuasa selalu berkait dengan kunci wap (vapor lock) atau pun penapis minyak tersumbat. Kini, sistem minyak rumit telah menguasai sistem yang sebelumnya. Walaupun sedemikian, kesemua kerumitan semakin merosot dengan beberapa potensi kegagalan. Sama juga dengan sistem pengambila udara (air intake) dan sistem ekzos, sejak penukar pemangkin (catalytic converters) menjadi peralatan asas pada sekitar tahun 70an.

Apa pun, dalam banyak keadaan, kaedah-kaedah lama masih diaplikasikan. Seperti badan kamu juga, setiap kereta memerlukan minyak untuk dibakar dan udara untuk bernafas. Kereta kamu tidak akan menyukai ketinggian dengan kentang didalam ekzosnya jika dibandingkan dengan kamu.

Jika penyebab kehilangan kuasa enjin ini semudah memeriksa sistem paip ekzos, kita semua tidak perlulah membuat diagnosis menyeluruh kereta. Mengenal pasti kehilangan kuasa enjin ini boleh menguji tahap kesabaran, tetapi syukurlah ada beberapa tanda yang boleh dicari untuk membantu proses pencarian kamu.

1: Tiada kuasa apabila menekan pedal minyak.

Jika kereta kamu kehilangan kuasanya apabila pedal minyak ditekan, secara asasnya kereta kamu mungkin mengalami masalah sistem minyak yang menyekat enjin daripada mengeluarkan kuasa tambahan bila mana ianya diperlukan untuk memecut. Mungkin penyuntik tersumbat, saluran minyak bocor, penapis tersumbat atau pun pam minyak (fuel pump) rosak. Kereta Satria Neo biasanya dikaitkan dengan masalah pam minyak ini.


Penyuntik minyak akan menyembur minyak ke dalam silinder, di mana ia mencapurkan udara dan menyalakan api semasa mampatan, menghasilkan letupan yang menggerakkan omboh enjin. Saluran minyak hanyalah satu hos atau paip yang membawa minyak daripada tangki ke enjin. Pam minyak berfungsi untuk menolak, dan penapis menghalang kekotoran masuk.

Dengan sedikit ilmu dan peralatan khas, kamu boleh menggantikan sistem minyak ini sendiri, tetapi masalah lain mungkin memerlukan lebih banyak usaha dan peralatan. Sebelum tahun 2006, penukaran penapis minyak merupakan kerja Do-It-Yourself, tetapi semenjak dua menjak ini, syarikat pembuat kereta sudah mula menyumbat penapis minyak ini di dalam tangki minyak. Nampak seperti misi mustahil.

Apa pun yang kamu putuskan, kamu perlu ingat bahawa sistem minyak akan menghukum mereka
yang mengambil ringan bab ini. Pastikan kamu mempunyai diagnosis yang tepat, peralatan dan ilmu sebelum mula.

2: Isyarat asap dilepaskan

Kereta kamu juga boleh menghantar isyarat asap, seperti Red Indian, khas untuk pemiliknya sebagai insyarat minta pertolongan. Eksoz berasap tebal menandakan sama ada terlalu banyak minyak atau terlampau kecil percikkan api, yang keduanya akan menyebabkan kehilangan kuasa. Backfire terjadi apabila campuran minyak-udara tidak dinyalakan sepenuhnya dalam kebuk pembakaran, dan sebaliknya meletup di tempat lain dalam sistem ekzos. Kedua masalah minyak-udara ratio dan masalah elektronik mencetuskan masalah pembakaran ini.

Palam pencetus diselaputi minyak enjin, abu ataupun apa-apa benda asing akan mendatangkan masalah pembarakan, memandangkan palam ini akan mencairkan elektrod. Asap hitam dari ekzos mungkin menandakan masalah pencetus (spark), yang mana akan merosakkan enjin kamu, dan jika ianya berlaku, periksalah secepat mungkin.Asap hitam juga menandakan campuran minyak-udara kamu terlebih minyak.

Sebaliknya, backfire tanpa asap hitam pula menandakan terlalu sedikit minyak dalam campuran udara-minyak kamu.

3: Terlampau banyak gegaran?

Semasa dalam keadaan rehat (idle) berhenti di lampu isyarat, adakah enjin kamu bergegar seakan gempa bumi? Bergegar sehingga kamu boleh rasakan gegaran di stereng yang menyebabkan kehilangan kuasa yang ketara? Jika iya, silinder yang misfire mungkin penyebabnya.

Jika misfire ini penyebabnya, tanda lain bakal kelihatan tidak lama lagi. Antaranya ialah masalah menghidupkan enjin, tersekat-sekat semasa tidak bergerak (lebih lagi jika aksesori seperi penyaman udara, lampu sedang hidup) dan mileage yang teruk. Mungkin juga hydrocarbon tepu sedang mencekik sistem ekzos kamu.

Biasanya, enjin akan misfire disebabkan 3 perkara : kehilangan pencetus (spark), kehilangan mampatan ataupun ratio udara-minyak yang merapu. Palam pencetus yang teruk, wayar palam yang usang ataupun distributor cap yang retak menyebabkan kehilangan kuasa semasa mampatan.

4: Pendakian itu satu penyeksaan

Adakah kereta kamu terseksa semasa pendakian serendah-rendah bukit? Lazimnya ia menandakan penapis minyak tersumbat. Tatkala penapis menghalang kemasukkan kekotoran dari minyak, lama-kelamaan ianya akan makin kotor akibat mendakan dan pam minyak akan terpaksa bekerja lebih untuk menghantar minyak melalui penapis itu tadi. Periksa kereta kamu dengan ujian tekanan minyak. Seperti jantung kita juga, ini semua gejala tekanan darah rendah, bukan?

Jangan setakat menukar penapis minyak, periksa apa yang menghalangnya. Manalah tahu, jika ia mungkin gejala masalah lain, seperti kontaminasi minyak ataupun kehadiran karat dalam tangki minyak.

Bagaimana? Adakah anda mendapat manfaat dari nukilan ini?

AP Lagi

An ad in UK says :

Toyota Estima Emina 2.4 Latest Edition.
5 Doors, Automatic, MPV, Petrol, 49,000 miles, Pearl White, 02 Reg year 2002, Air Conditioning, Anti-Lock Braking System, Central Locking, Compact Disc Player, 8 Seats, Electric Mirrors, Electric Windows, Adjustable Seat Height, Adjustable Steering Column, Air Bag, Alarm,

£8595

This car will sell for RM 160,000 in KL.
But £1 = RM 4.794
£ 8595 = RM 41,204.
So cheap ? Cannot be !

OK. The pound took a dip. Lets use the old old rate of  £1= RM 7
Then £ 8595 = RM 60,165
So cheap ? Really ? Why are we Malaysians paying RM 160,000 ?

The costing is :
    Vehicle CIF             ──  RM 60,000
     Duty.Taxes/profit  ──  RM 60,000

The other RM 40,000 ? Goes to the notorious AP.

If I sell 1 AP per month, my income is higher than the monthly salary of a CEO of a listed company. More than 1.5 times the annual salary of a fresh graduate.

If I sell 2 APs per month, I am a millionaire by definition : million dollar income.

Why do you want to go to U,  struggle for 3-4 years, and get paid less than what they make with 1-AP ?

Now I know why AP is extended again and again, and again ...


yang kaya bertambah kaya...
yang miskin???
tambahkan usaha...

Marussia, Supercar Buatan Russia

How Car Steering Work

You know that when you turn the steering wheel in your car, the wheels turn. Cause and effect, right? But a lot of interesting stuff goes on between the steering wheel and the tires to make this happen.

In this article, we'll see how the two most common types of car steering systems work: rack-and-pinion and recirculating-ball steering. Then we'll examine power steering and find out about some interesting future developments in steering systems, driven mostly by the need to increase the fuel efficiency of cars. But first, let's see what you have to do turn a car. It's not quite as simple as you might think!

Turning the Car
You might be surprised to learn that when you turn your car, your front wheels are not pointing in the same direction.
For a car to turn smoothly, each wheel must follow a different circle. Since the inside wheel is following a circle with a smaller radius, it is actually making a tighter turn than the outside wheel. If you draw a line perpendicular to each wheel, the lines will intersect at the center point of the turn. The geometry of the steering linkage makes the inside wheel turn more than the outside wheel.

There are a couple different types of steering gears. The most common are rack-and-pinion and recirculating ball

Rack-and-pinion Steering
Rack-and-pinion steering is quickly becoming the most common type of steering on cars, small trucks and SUVs. It is actually a pretty simple mechanism. A rack-and-pinion gearset is enclosed in a metal tube, with each end of the rack protruding from the tube. A rod, called a tie rod, connects to each end of the rack.
The pinion gear is attached to the steering shaft. When you turn the steering wheel, the gear spins, moving the rack. The tie rod at each end of the rack connects to the steering arm on the spindle (see diagram above).
The rack-and-pinion gearset does two things:

It converts the rotational motion of the steering wheel into the linear motion needed to turn the wheels. It provides a gear reduction, making it easier to turn the wheels. On most cars, it takes three to four complete revolutions of the steering wheel to make the wheels turn from lock to lock (from far left to far right).

The steering ratio is the ratio of how far you turn the steering wheel to how far the wheels turn. For instance, if one complete revolution (360 degrees) of the steering wheel results in the wheels of the car turning 20 degrees, then the steering ratio is 360 divided by 20, or 18:1. A higher ratio means that you have to turn the steering wheel more to get the wheels to turn a given distance. However, less effort is required because of the higher gear ratio.

Generally, lighter, sportier cars have lower steering ratios than larger cars and trucks. The lower ratio gives the steering a quicker response -- you don't have to turn the steering wheel as much to get the wheels to turn a given distance -- which is a desirable trait in sports cars. These smaller cars are light enough that even with the lower ratio, the effort required to turn the steering wheel is not excessive.

Some cars have variable-ratio steering, which uses a rack-and-pinion gearset that has a different tooth pitch (number of teeth per inch) in the center than it has on the outside. This makes the car respond quickly when starting a turn (the rack is near the center), and also reduces effort near the wheel's turning limits.

Power Rack-and-pinion
When the rack-and-pinion is in a power-steering system, the rack has a slightly different design.
Part of the rack contains a cylinder with a piston in the middle. The piston is connected to the rack. There are two fluid ports, one on either side of the piston. Supplying higher-pressure fluid to one side of the piston forces the piston to move, which in turn moves the rack, providing the power assist. We'll check out the components that provide the high-pressure fluid, as well as decide which side of the rack to supply it to, later in the article. First, let's take a look at another type of steering.

Proton MSX - What do you think?

Malaysia Airline

International Transporter - Antonov 124

The Antonov An-124 Ruslan (NATO reporting name: Condor) is the largest aircraft ever mass produced, and was, until the advent of the Antonov An-225, the largest aircraft in production. It flew for the first time in 1982. Over forty are currently in service in Russia and Ukraine.

Physically, the An-124 is similar to the American Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, but is larger in many dimensions. An-124s have been used to carry locomotives, yachts, aircraft fuselages, and a variety of other oversized cargoes. Up to 150 tonnes of cargo can be carried in a military An-124: it can also carry 88 passengers in an upper deck behind the cockpit.

Germany intends to lease An-124s for NATO strategic airlift requirements as a stopgap until the Airbus A400M is available. Boeing also has used the Russian cargo company Volga-Dnepr to ship oversize aircraft components to their Everett plant with their An-124 fleet. Specifically, the An-124 is the only means of airlifting the General Electric GE90 turbofan engines used in the Boeing 777 airliner. As of 2004, there have been four major crashes of An-124s with a total of 50 fatalities.

Could this be the BMW M1 Prototype?!

Fast And Furious 4 ( 2009 )

In the summer of 2001 Universal Pictures released “The Fast and The Furious,” it went on to gross $144 million dollars domestically. Later that year, two guys with nothing better to do started taking a camera to the underground street races.

By the end of 2002, the number of street racing fatalities had reached unheard of numbers. In San Diego county alone, 16 people died from illegal street racing. From Los Angeles to Miami, street racing became one of the hottest news topics around, as the death toll continued to climb across America.

Those same two guys with the camera spent the next 5 years trying to figure out why...
An exhilarating, hilarious, and heart breaking look at the clandestine cultural phenomena that won’t go away. 1320: A West Coast Story chronicles contemporary street racing’s Hot Rod roots, and the automotive aftermarket that evolved into a multi-billion dollar business.

Filmmakers, Dominic Pena and Matthew Goff examine how a nostalgic nuisance became the social epidemic it is today; along the way attempting to debunk any misnomers brought about by a certain hollywood blockbuster.

This groundbreaking documentary features entertaining interviews from some of the greatest icons in automotive history: Wally Parks (NHRA founder, 1st Hot Rod editor) David Freiburger (former editor Car Craft, Hot Rod; carjunkietv.com), Lisa Kubo(first sub-8 second front wheel drive car; ) William “Big Willie” Robinson (President - International Brotherhood of Street Racers) and many more.

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2009 Nissan GT-R

The Skyline GT-R has always been a the pinnacle of the Japanese performance car scene and after a hiatus the GT-R is back.

No longer a Skyline, No longer an RB26, but still full of all the goodies you would expect from a Japanese "Super Car". Powered by a 473 Horse Twin Turbo V6, it moves from 0-100 in 3.5 seconds with a factory 1/4mile time of 11.7 seconds.






Check out the video and heaps more information at Nissan's GT-R Website.

WARNING! ***Adult Content*** The Lamborghini Reventon

The title is the only way to describe these pictures ...ehehhhee...

Would this be crossing over to the dark side??? The Lamborghini Reventon.. general rule of thumb.. if it comes in a box it must be pretty freaking good!