HELLO HELLO fellow Marchies!
I hope you guys had a good long holiday, cos i did!
was in malaysia for a week. took the opportunity to chiong the
highways when alone, very shiok. once i even knocked a bird while
it was taking off, i went OMG!!
the burong kuku was in the middle of the highway although it saw me
coming, think it overestimated its capability to be able to take
off on time before me. unfortunately i was faster. after knocking
it, i looked back from the rear view mirror and i saw it struggled
in mid air and fell on the ground, everywhere was flying feathers.
there were some blood on my car front, quite scary sight.
on another day, my car battery died on me.
after stopping for petrol at a kiosk, i couldnt start my March
again. the engine ignition did not sound like typical weak battery
like "cough...cough...cough..." but rather sounded like machine gun
rattling, the internal lights and dials went flashing.
at first i thought it was electronic malfunctioning, it definitely
did not sound like a typical engine ignition from weak
battery.
while still puzzling, this nice indian man came for my help, he
said just get a piece of metal to rub on the battery connector. i
thought it sounded more like voodoo...
of course it didnt help.
luckily there was this battery and tyre shop behind the petrol
kiosk. they changed the battery to maintenance free type and voila,
my March came alive again!
they advised that modern cars esp our types are very sensitive to
voltage stability and usually we cant see any symptoms prior to
failure.
so, the original one (Panasonic brand) lasted me about slightly
above 1 year only.
the maintenance free battery (dunno what brand) costed about S$80,
thought it looked quite solid.
