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First timer-Cars
Meduza
#1 Posted : Monday, June 17, 2013 9:06:49 PM
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What do you need to know about cars especially being a first car? or should I just expect the mechanic to do everything.
You cant win, unless you first begin....
Tokyo
#2 Posted : Tuesday, June 18, 2013 7:47:25 AM
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To drive
work to prosper
Tokyo
#3 Posted : Tuesday, June 18, 2013 7:53:27 AM
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4 important points.
-battery oil
- radiator
-engine oil
- brake fluids
Be gentle with acceleration
Tire for your dear life
and finally safe driving if you aren't ready to meet your maker soonest
work to prosper
XSK
#4 Posted : Tuesday, June 18, 2013 8:06:30 AM
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Tokyo wrote:
4 important points.
-battery oil
- radiator
-engine oil
- brake fluids
Be gentle with acceleration
Tire for your dear life
and finally safe driving if you aren't ready to meet your maker soonest



@Tokyo

What is that?
You will know that you have arrived when money and time are not mutually exclusive "events" in you life!
Tokyo
#5 Posted : Tuesday, June 18, 2013 8:21:03 AM
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XSK wrote:
Tokyo wrote:
4 important points.
-battery oil
- radiator
-engine oil
- brake fluids
Be gentle with acceleration
Tire for your dear life
and finally safe driving if you aren't ready to meet your maker soonest



@Tokyo

What is that?


Mafuta ya battery level
work to prosper
Sober
#6 Posted : Tuesday, June 18, 2013 8:51:13 AM
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I always insost on the 'Engine Oil' lest your engine 'knocks' sooner than you expect.
African parents don't know how to say sorry.. the closest you will get to a sorry is a 'have you eaten'
Meduza
#7 Posted : Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:32:30 AM
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Thanks...at the moment its jargon when i open the bonnet...but then I guess with time am gonna know.
You cant win, unless you first begin....
nakujua
#8 Posted : Tuesday, June 18, 2013 12:10:40 PM
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Location: Kenya
as long as you have a dl, you are good to go and if you are lucky enough to get the car manual in a language you understand.
hiyo ingine leave to your mechanic and the petrol station guys - they mostly remove, dry and dip sticks after they open the bonnet, at times they add some water in a container labeled washer.

The mechanics are also weird guys all I see them do is take the jack and place it on the car body next to the wheels, there is usually a mark where they fit it, then they loosen the bolts and lift the car then remove the bolts and then the wheel. they then look at some little pad like things, then they look further in at some things that look like arms and proclaim that the bushes are ok.
there are more things they do I would need several pages to detail what I see them do - but as long as you can manage to turn the radio sound low periodically you will know when something goes wrong
jerry
#9 Posted : Tuesday, June 18, 2013 12:21:57 PM
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Sober wrote:
I always insost on the 'Engine Oil' lest your engine 'knocks' sooner than you expect.

Blood is to heart as engine is to oil.
The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it's conformity.
Siringi
#10 Posted : Tuesday, June 18, 2013 2:45:55 PM
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Smiling at cops na Kusema Afande Sasa? especially when you flout the new traffic rules
Having the local 'traffic commandants' number or somebody who know's him on speed dial
mechanic's number na garage on speed dial
Some shops along Dar Es Salaam road ama Grogoni...
Fuel gauge... and jumpers
"😖😡KQ makes money for everyone except the shareholder 😏😏 " overheard in Wazua
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