N G V...the saga continues

Totally not my intention to be M.I.A. and cramping all four days posting into one, but this ‘business’ with the NGV thing is really stressing my life out. Sharing transport running errands, going to the workshop for situation update, argh…, really time consuming. Haiz, anyway, here’s brief summary of my ‘NGV adventure’…

Monday - foreman called at about 6.45pm, “mam, sekarang macam ini (I was like oh no, new problem discovered with my car again), kereta sudah ok (phew!), baik dari hari itu SIKIT, boleh naik slope. Tapi kalau nak betul baik tu, saya suggest you tukar sequential system, he said. Without any expression, I replied, “I’ll try out the car first tomorrow.” Both agreeing to that.

Tuesday – tested the car. Start, drive away from the shop to the end row only the car ‘mati’. After attempts of pressing here and there, ram ram the accelerator pedal abit, continue driving. Making my way to the slope, I find the ‘power’ is almost the same. Head back to workshop I told the man, “pretty much the same to me-lah.” Then I called his boss, voicing my unsatisfactory, the boss say he will sincerely look into the matter. You know what, even before I turn to take leave, the boss came, kept apologising. So after much discussion, I relented by giving the sequential system a shot.

Thursday – foreman called saying that my car is ready, and also they finally found the culprit for the loss of car-power issue. It’s the ‘Distributor mechanism’. Phew!, alas. Suppose to pick-up my car that evening, but I told them I’ll pick it up tomorrow instead (actually quite scare too, incase halfway after got problem, and night time too).

Friday – picked-up my car in the afternoon finally. Test there a few around seems okay to me. So alas, I drove my car back to the office. Come 6pm heading back home…caught-up in our ‘Malaysian jam’. Car engine still running (in case you’re wondering). Crawling, crawling, crawling, cra…wait.. why the tachometer suddenly like fluctuating one. OMG! in mid-jam, cars pack left-right, front-back, it’s a nightmare..OMG! this couldn’t be happening to me..not now atleast. Called the foreman, ah luckily he’s still there. He said don’t worry the engine won’t ‘die-off’ one. So it’s like between him and me, we’re still on the phone monitoring the tachometer status. I even turn-off the air-cond (though no effect on engine performance, just psychological effect). Foreman said to bring in the car tomorrow for tuning abit. Okay fair for me.
Thank god, made it thru and back home safe.

Conclusion, so far so good after my Saturday’s visit to the workshop for ‘a minor tuning’ (so they say). And that’s a week ago since. Hopefully, no more of such nerve breaking, mental anguish ‘Adventure’ for me again.
Hence, before I post-out, FYI, beside the mental stuffs thingy, nowadays filling the car with Natural Gas really DOESN’T burn a hole in my pocket anymore. So if you people out there who are up for the ‘Formula GAS’ challenge, GO FOR IT!

N G V

NGV. Natural Gas Vehicle? or N.ot G.reatly V.alued? Sent my car in for NGV convertion on Tuesday. The foreman said will be ready by Wednesday evening. Waited for their call but none (since i wasn't free too, didn't mind collecting it on Thursday). Called them on Thursday afternoon, the foreman said that they are testing it for some tuning purpose - whatever. Anyway, I did 'spot check' them on Thursday itself. The boss was there. Seeing that my car's boot has 'sunken' abit by the weigth of the gas cylinder, he offered to place some spring thingi to support it atleast. Said can collected that evening (again). Come evening, waited till 'bout 8.30pm, I gave them a call, again..."still tuning-lah mam.. sebab kereta punya system elektronik punya, payah sikit", said the foreman. OK..OK. Come Friday morning the boss himself called me. Well, according to him, upon wanting to put in the spring thingi, they saw the car's absorber has given way (foreman's term is 'sudah pecah'), so ask me whether i wanna change or not. I ask the price and all etc,etc. Ok, decided to change as well. Great! After change absorber, place the spring thingi, collect car, on the move. You think-so?

Anyway, visited the workshop later on Friday, they still say got some tuning problem to attend to..not that perrrfect yet. So I asked, can test drive? they said can. Took the car for a short drive. Upon reaching a slope... ahah! cannot finish naik the slope!! OMG! (the slope distance is bout 2 meters, another 2 feet more i will be on 'safe zone', but NO!! cannot fulfil it). Also, the engine keep dying....

I tell them like that cannot. Dangerous and difficult. Foreman said, he also headache why like that, but will really investigate why and solve the problem, do 'nice-nice' for me. I said better do so.

Suppose to rectify matters and hand back the car to me by that night, cos Saturday public holiday and Sunday closed. But again(yes, your guess is right), that didn't happen too. SO...come Monday tomorrow..see what happens. Haiz!

JOYFUL JUNE

Jun, June, Juney... wow! coming to mid-year already. But still, I am happy with this month of June. Why? to me it's a 'guys month' (or should I say my guys month). Cos my dearest burfday as well as Father's day falls on this month. SO...it's a month with 'License To Shop'. YEAH!