Safely When Driving in Flood

When the rain comes, Jakarta hellish. Flooding and traffic jams occur everywhere.

Last night for instance, the height of water in some streets in the capital, including the streets of the protocol, the lowest 20 cm-40 cm. In these conditions, not a few cars that had stalled after the flood hit determined.

Want your vehicle is safe during a flood besieged? PT Toyota Astra Motor, gives tips on safe driving through the flood, the following tips:

1. Make sure that water does not exceed the height of exhaust or air filter. If exceeded, you better avoid the puddle.

2. If the water does not exceed the exhaust and air filter, run the vehicle with the engine speed (rpm) high and low gear position 1 or 2. You can use the rpm 2000-3000. Pancal the gas pedal constantly, do not be swung or lowered because it will cause a wave of water into the exhaust or air filter.

3. If the vehicle's engine suddenly died, check whether the exhaust under water and the air filter wet. When submerged in water, the better the engine should not turn on.

4. Bring your vehicle to the garage by way withdrawn, or contact the nearest garage for towed.

Then, when the car broke down what to do?

First, make sure that the battery is removed.

Second, make sure that the exhaust and air filter has been closed.

Third, make sure that the vehicle is not shifted due to float.

Lastly, make sure the door is closed tightly, so as to minimize water entering the cabin.

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Car Tips When floods strike

Heavy rains that occurred yesterday resulted in a number of roads flooded. Inevitably, traffic jams ensued everywhere. Flooding is also likely to happen, because this afternoon, Tuesday, October 26, 2010, heavy rains flushed back to Jakarta.

For those of you car drivers, have to be careful crossing the street under water. If not, you can strike a car on the road.

Then, what should you do when a car hit by flooding? Here are some tips on handling the car after being hit by floods which quoted from various sources:

When the car hit by flood light:
- Check the condition of wheel bearings
- Check the condition of brake system
- Check the ABS system works
- Check the condition of tie rod and ball joint

Floods are:
- Check the condition of the engine and transmission oil, when mixed with water, replace with a new
- Open the exhaust and air filter, if there is clean water and dry
- Make sure the machine can be spun by rotating adjustable with lock
- Check the cylinder by opening the spark plugs, if there is clean water in a way start engine with spark plug condition is open all
- Check for completeness of electrical machines, such as starter, alternator, and the ECU. If there is water, clean and dry

Heavy flooding:
- Check the appropriate components in the category of mild and moderate flooding, and check the components that are in the cabin.
- Check all the ECU, combination meter, tape, relays, and fuse, and all the connectors inside the cabin. Pastika all free of water, then wash and dry it using a blower or hair dryer.
- Bring the car to the garage in order to get further examination.

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Five Mistakes When Buying Car

Perpikir many people, buying a car like entering a jungle full of danger. In fact, they are not. Moreover, when funds are ready.

But buying the right car without bringing regret later on, need to follow certain moves. Here are some tips you can learn before buying a car:

1. Emotional moment
Often you say, "I need this car now." "I love this car," and "I am confident of being able to pay monthly this car." Be careful, this is an emotional moment that can make you wrong choice. Make sure that the price of the car is not only installment to be paid that month, but all the installments. You may be able to pay the installment of the X in one or two months, but not necessarily able to repay within 36 months continuously.

2. Not doing the research
Come to the dealership without first reading the read-very susceptible to make mistakes. Flirt seller can affect you buy a car that is not appropriate.

3. Unrealistic as needed
Before coming to the showroom, think about what vehicle you need. Do not assume you need a car that has just been launched, because you do not got the same needs. Determine whether you need a sedan, SUV, MPV, or the other.

4. Visited only one dealer
Do not hesitate to go to several dealers to get the right information about the car you choose. The more know, the more precise you choose.

5. Buying at the beginning of the year
Dealers have little incentive to purchase a lot at the beginning of the year. They will boost sales up to 12 months. But in December, the dealer must spend delaer old stock, because it usually appears in the new year a new model to excite the market. That's when you have to buy a car.

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Use caution Safari Car Sedan

Initially, the Safari activity is an activity that people do with money and tend to be reckless, to visit places that are considered dangerous. Later became known safari hunting by wealthy individuals from Europe and America in Africa.

Now, people tend to know a safari as every tourist trips taken in Africa, which can even be done for a family vacation. This is what causes many tourists do not pay attention to their safety in the safari.

As experienced by a tourist from Ireland, John Somers. Together with a friend, John Somers who celebrated the 66th anniversary of this experience thrilling encounter wild African jungle.

While following Pilansberg Game Reserve in Johannesburg, South Africa, sedan driven by John intercepted an Elephant. As quoted by the Daily Mail, Amarula Elephant named it and began to rampage and beat up sedan carrying John.

Elephant increasingly aggressive and tried to destroy John's car. The sedan then occupied until the dent. Not only that, the sedan was later overturned by Amarula.

Luckily both passenger sedan was not trampled to death Amarula. John and his friend suffered only scratches from the windscreen and slightly bruised.

Besides John, the same thing also happened at Knowsley Safari Park, Liverpool, England. It was a herd of baboons (a kind of loud) gang up on a red saloon car when I was just entering the area of ​​primates.

As a result of the attack was a group of baboons, wipers and rear view mirror car glass broken. Even the luggage rack located above the hood was also opened, so some clothes in it ruffled the baboon group.

Reflecting both the experience, maybe you should be more careful when traveling to the Safari Park. In addition to malicious, you can not load a lot of passengers when using the sedan.

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Here's How to Save Fuel

World oil prices now soaring above U.S. $ 110 per barrel. This condition makes the price of fuel oil (BBM) go soaring.

Price Pertamax for example, in Jakarta has reached Rp9.050 per liter. Likewise Premium, 88 octane petrol has also been very expensive. However, because of subsidized, the price remains Rp4.500 per liter.

For the sake of suppressing the number of these subsidies, the government has repeatedly advised the public to save fuel. This is nothing to subsidies in the State Budget (APBN) 2011 is not breached.

However, the actual saving behavior not only because fuel is expensive. Fuel was cheap even need to be saved. Therefore, the fuel is a source of energy that can not be updated again.

Gusti Putu, activists in the club car owners Mitsubishi Kuda, Kuda-klub.com write how to save fuel. Here are the tips:

1. Do not heat the car for too long, a maximum of two minutes. Warming the engine for 30 minutes might as well beat the traffic. Compare if you run a car with an average speed of 60 kilometers per hour, for 30 minutes you already covered 30 kilometers.

2. Reduce the habit of eating lunch outside the office. Should take stock, message delivery, or enough to eat in the cafeteria office. This is so that fuel is not wasted, especially when the jam occurs.

3. If traveling, take your family or office colleagues that direction, so no need to use two or more cars.

4. Take advantage of public transport such as busways, railway, or other public transport, so the use of fuel can be suppressed.

5. When out of town, when conditions are bad you should just step aside. Take advantage of the jam to eat, urinate, the content of gasoline, or rest. Wait until the condition of the road a bit quiet.

6. Try to drive smoothly. Reduce the frequency of braking. Anticipate traffic ahead of you really need. If there are red lights, do not need menggeber gas, let the car slide, yet later exposed to red light as well. Remember, do not press the accelerator and brake, energy is simply wasted.

7. Turn on the air conditioner only as needed, and lower charges are always useless in the car. Good luck.

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How To Save Fuel Driving

Do not blame entirely on the vehicle if your car is wasteful. Therefore, it could be your driving style is wrong.

Drive properly, greatly affects the efficiency of the vehicle. The same car, then drive two different people may spend different fuels. One extravagant, one economical.

Page Toyota, Thursday, June 16, 2011, wrote how good driving in order to reduce fuel consumption. Not just on the road, fuel economy has been started since before he left, that is checking the tires.

Toyota said it took more energy to roll the tire the less wind. This means more gasoline is burned. Be sure to keep wind pressure at the recommended level car maker. The habit of adding wind pressure every week to help maintain the condition of the tires.

Meanwhile, on the road, you have to do some things that do not need to frequently stop by the gas station.

1. Do not speeding on the road, especially on the highway. The more immersed in the gas pedal, the more wasteful of fuel. Toyota, citing Consumer Reports magazine, said that fuel efficiency drops to 2.13 kilometers / liter, while the car was speeding 88 km / h and increased to 104 km / hour.

Likewise, when the speed is raised again to 120 km / h, the efficiency was also down 2.13 km / liter. The trial is using the Toyota Camry.

2. Do not be reckless. Try to ride with smooth acceleration. Therefore, mengegas habit, then the brakes will suddenly make the fuel is wasted. This style of driving such a car could cut roaming capabilities between 0.85 to 1.28 km / liter. So, for every 10 liters of petrol, mileage lost between 8.5 km-12, 8 km. Not bad right?

3. Do not ruin the aerodynamics. Excess baggage, then placed on the roof so routine every homecoming Lebaran scenery. In fact, these bad habits are very detrimental to fuel efficiency. The test results are found, the goods on the roof makes the efficiency drops to 2.55 km / h when driving at 100 km / hour.

4. Ignore the tools that can save fuel promoted significantly. Therefore, test results have yet to find one tool that can provide significant savings, unless your driving style.

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