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!