AHM Instructor Indonesia Winner 15th Japan Safety Instructors Competition 2014

In the event 15th Japan Safety Instructors Competition 2014, which was held at Suzuka Circuit Traffic Education Centre, Japan, some time ago, PT. Astra Honda Motor (AHM) Indonesia, which is represented by two instructors, namely M. Adi Sucipto and Aldea Henry, managed to become champion.

Even that followed from various countries, including Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Singapore, Australia, and Turkey, the instructors from various countries are tested safe driving knowledge and skills in the theory and practice exams.

In theory test, participants are required to be able to have a thorough understanding of the instructor. Among other things, attitude and techniques that promote driving safety. While the practice exam, participants are required to be able to maintain balance in the exam Narrow Plank, able to cross the board in the very low speed, without lowering the leg and still maintain the ideal driving position.

For Slalom Course practice exams, when maneuvering, participants are required to be able to accurately and quickly in conquering a special track that has been provided, without touching the lane divider and footrest in asphalt. In addition, there is also a practice that requires participants to be able to master the technique of braking, Braking exam.

Given this event, the Honda, especially PT. Astra Honda Motor (AHM) Indonesia, hoping to benefit and knowledge of road safety for its customers, as well as any motorcycle rider.

Flying Car AeroMobil 3

With the increasing growth of the automotive world and the purchasing power of the people, but inversely related to infrastructure, auto congestion will occur everywhere. Therefore, the presence of a car that can fly even more eagerly awaited his presence, so that could be a solution to the congestion on the road.

But now, that dream closer to reality, because recently, Slovakia-based company announced it has managed to create a car that can actually fly, which is named Automobile 3. AeroMobil plan will be on display for the first time in the event at the Festival Pioneers Austria, the end of October 2014.

With elegant and futuristic design, AeroMobile 3 utilizes a mixture of infrastructure as well as the function of four-wheeled vehicles and propeller-powered aircraft, so that it can be implemented with traffic on public roads. For. AeroMobil driving, the driver must first spread their wings, then sped on a straight road with a speed of at least 130 km / h, as usual aircraft.

Despite having wings, but. AeroMobil 3 has been designed as a car in general, so it does not bother the owner, nor does it interfere with other road users. AeroMobil can also accommodate a passenger, even if only for one person only. To run it easy, with a refuel gasoline with octane levels 91. Mixture of hybrid cars and aircraft is able to cover a distance of 700 km in one full tank contents.

This AeroMobil carried with Rotax 912 engine, which is capable of reaching a speed of about 160 km / h when on land, and 200 km / h while in the air. In addition, AeroMobil have chassis made ​​of steel combined with a carbon fiber body immaterial. When the wings unfolded, AeroMobil dimensions 8.2 x 6 meters, and the empty weight of 450 kg.

Despite having an awesome concept, but it still can not be used as a practical solution, because it still needs a runway to fly. According to the automotive observers, it takes now is a flying car that has the capability of vertical take-off landing (VTOL).

Automotive News Article from Mondial de I'Automobile 2014

The auto show is held every even-numbered year since last October 4 in Paris, is a car show that is reckoned as the most important auto show this year.

As with the frankfurt motor show which is held every odd year, his presence is always awaited by the public, because it will be the premiere event or just a facelift of a car.

Given this event, of course, the public will assess the extent to which preparations will be displayed by each manufacturer. So with the response from the public, can be used as a reference by the manufacturer to determine the design of their future cars.

With the event this year, every world-class manufacturers will display their latest variants. Visitors also seemed to have been so looking forward to what the new variants that will be displayed by each manufacturer, such as Mercedes-Benz AMG GT, Jaguar XE, Fiat 500X, the Audi A1 and the Audi R8, the Volvo XC90, Mazda MX-5, as well as the Land Rover Discovery Sport, although been introduced some time ago in the headquarters of Land Rover in the UK.

It was a grand event that is worth the wait and observe it goes.

Evaporator Maintenance Tips

Currently, how to take care of the evaporator is getting easier with the evaporator cleaning fluid on the market. Because if the evaporator is dirty and not cleaned, the water must be out of the exhaust air conditioner will be muddy and dirty.

In addition, cleaning the evaporator can also kill the bacteria in the cabin. So the cabin stays clean and healthy, especially for those of you who have small children.

Actually there are no standard guidelines in cleaning the evaporator. But that hygiene is maintained, try to clean the evaporator every 10,000 miles. Cleaned more often, the better.

How to care for the evaporator:
- Buy a cleaning fluid evaporator is already sold in the market, then open the glove box located to the left of the dashboard, in front of the passengers sitting in the front seat, then remove the AC filter and spray the liquid into the blower, until the liquid is gone. When finished, wait 10 minutes and turn on the air conditioner to the thermostat off, so just wind alone. Turn on for approximately 15 minutes. If the lattice AC foaming, no need to worry, because these foams has been designed so as not to damage the dashboard or other panels. Adequately cleaned with a cloth until clean. Well, after it was all finished, do not forget to replace the cabin filter and glove box as before.

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Leaking Sunroof Maintenance Tips

Sunroof is designed free maintenance, but that does not mean it does not require maintenance. In some cases, it is often found that a leaky sunroof, so the water into the cabin. There was even a sunroof that can be opened but not closed.

Therefore, it is necessary to own checks or maintenance sunroof, because in the workshop, sunroof not on the list to be checked, so that needs to be done alone.

In fact, damage to the sunroof is caused by the owner itself. For example, when a car in the parking lot under the trees, when the leaves fall off and remove the sap, then after a long time is not cleaned, the sap will be hard. In addition, it could also be caused when closing the sunroof when it rains, coupled with cleaning water without the sunroof rails. It is necessary dlakukan because dust that has accumulated on waterways. So if it is not cleaned, the dust will close the waterway and water got into the cabin.

The steps can be performed:

1. Perform opening and closing the sunroof, at least once a month, by pressing the button. This serves to keep teeth and sunroof mechanism movable or stationary in a long time. In addition, to determine whether there are sounds that are not normally on the sunroof.

2. Clean the rubber parts with a damp cloth from dirt and dust, especially on the edges, then wait for it to dry.

3. Clean the glass and suburban rail line from the buildup of dust with a damp cloth or low pressure spray. After that, wait for it to dry.

4. Spray rubber parts with silicone spray. This serves to keep awake and rubber elasticity rubber age becomes longer. Because when the car sunburned and exposed to the sun's heat, the rubber will be hard.

5. Grease the sunroof rails with silicone grease or liquid.

Hopefully with the tips above, will make a sunroof on your car does not fuss when you were driving.

Automotive News - Seat For Disabled

At the time of implementation of the Indonesia International Motor Show a few ago, there was one of the booths that enough attention. Stand-owned agency of Autodapt, product of Sweden, providing a wide range of equipment for disabled people who like to drive.

One of the products on display are seats that can go up and down and back and forth. So that the driver and passengers with disabilities will not have trouble again when going up or down from the car.

There are 3 main parts of this turny seat type, the seat itself, which contains mounting rails attached to the floor of the car, as well as a remote with its settings. How it works is very simple. From inside the car, the seat will rotate to the outside, then slowly going down to near the ground.

Setting it up was easy, just press the button on the remote, so that it can adjust the speed on the way down as well as up.

Seat that can accommodate loads up to 150 kg can be mounted anywhere, good seats for the driver and passenger front or rear.

Tips For Car Carburetor Maintenance

For those of you who have an old car, definitely one of which is the gas that is wasteful. Aside from the internal condition of the engine that is worn out, it could be caused from the suppliers of gasoline and air, of course carburetor. Because if the carburetor is not healthy, we can be sure the vehicle will be wasteful of gasoline.

To that end, in addition to cleaning the nozzle, but more importantly, also inside the air duct cleaning. Also make sure there are no leakage of.

In order for a total of carburetor cleaner, way is to disassemble the carburetor total, then sprayed with carburetor cleaner, especially the small channels. After that, let stand for 1 night so that the dirt fall out. Next, make sure the carburetor is still flat surface, so that still no gas seeps. Once everything is finished and the carburetor is reassembled, set the wind, according to the AFR.

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Toyota News - Toyota Racing Development (TRD) in collaboration with Motul

Toyota Racing Development (TRD) is an agency falsifies Toyota cars around the world, which is working to develop, manufacture and provide technical support to a wide range of complementary products and accessories.

As known earlier, the success and the success achieved by Motul racing team and Team Toyota, TRD representing in Thailand and throughout Asia, the TRD and oil Motul finally inspired and decided to work together, to develop a line of co-branded products (co-brand ).

Although the viscosity lubricant with the SW-40 is labeled TRD, but can also be used for other car brands, both for petrol and diesel engines. Believed, the advantage of this is the operation of the engine lubricant will become more refined. In addition, these lubricants have also meets API SN specs and ACEA C3 and comply with Euro IV emissions regulations and V is the latest.

Indonesia International Motor Show 2014 Auto Sales Increases

Auto shows it still proved to be one of the ways to increase sales for the agent brand holder (APM). It can be seen from the conduct of the event IIMS 2014 was held for 10 days was able to penetrate the sales transaction of USD $ 5.300 billion.

Chairman of the Indonesian Automotive Industry Association (Gaikindo), Sudirman Maman Rusdi, deeply satisfied with the results achieved from the holding of IIMS 2014. Where at IIMS 2014 traksaksi surpassed similar event last year, which amounted to USD $ 4,900 billion.

Jakarta International Expo Kemayoran, as the venue for this event, enter the last day was still crowded packed with visitors who want to see a variety of the latest cars that were on display. In addition, visitors are also treated by a variety of entertainment and attractions. The committee noted, during the last ten days of the exhibition, a total of 311 405 people who have attended this event.

At IIMS 2014, there are 36 brands of vehicles involved participants, consisting of 29 passenger vehicles and commercial vehicles 7. Total number of 432 cars on display and motorcycle units 23 units with a total of 322 booths fruit.

Secretary General of the association said, Freddy Sutrinso, stating that in the event IIMS 2014, low car variant of the multi-purpose vehicle (MVP), is still the main target of the visitors. It is recognized if the agent brand holders who have low MPV product, that its sales are in demand. For example, the Toyota Avanza recorded bookings of more than 1,000 units.

In contrast to Toyota, Daihatsu managed to collect a letter ordering as many as 478 units of vehicles. Daihatsu Ayla still be the most desirable type to achieve sales of 113 units, followed by Terios who managed to sell as many as 73 units. As for the Sirion and Luxio, each 15 units. And from the commercial segment, the Gran Max pick-ups and minibuses managed to sell a total of 108 units.

According to the Head of Marketing and CR Division Daihatsu Sales Operation, Hendrayadi Lastiyoso, Daihatsu makes the event IIMS 2014 as a forum to introduce educational initiatives in developing compact cars. Where during the implementation of the IIMS 2014, Daihatsu managed to steal the attention of visitors by introducing the concept of four-car and six modifications of existing models.

Car Exports Hampered Infrastrusktur

Indonesia's efforts to pursue export performance cars Thailand that reached 1.2 million units still have problems and is far from expectation. In addition to the export of cars in Indonesia, which still reached 320 thousand units per year, coupled with export facilities and infrastructure is still very minimal.

Indonesian production car demand is quite high than the countries in the Middle East to South America. However, efforts to improve the delivery can not be maximal because it is still hampered by the dense Jakarta Car Terminal at Tanjung Priok Port.

In addition, the Indonesian car exports are also constrained by traffic congestion on the plant, which is a lot going on in Falkirk towards Tanjung Priok. This is very different from Thailand that provide special toll roads along the 90 miles from the center of the automotive plant in Laem Chabang port towards bangkok, Pattaya.

If in Indonesia, the trip from the factory to the port able to take about 4 hours, whereas that occurred in Thailand is very much different. In Thailand, the trip from the factory to the port only takes about half an hour. It's a very significant difference.

Conditions such as that which makes the distribution of exports in Thailand more smoothly than in Indonesia. In Thailand, traffic traffic from the port to the plant can reach 4 times, while in Indonesia, reaching 1.5 times the course has been pretty good.

However, it should not be a reason why exports in Indonesia has not experienced a significant increase, given the potential in Indonesia is still very large. For example, the Toyota Vios car demand in the global markets and the Middle East continue to increase the ASEAN region, where there is a surge in exports of 1,500 units per month to 3,500 units per month.

Fuel-Efficient Driving Tips

Although it's been a lot of car carrying LGCC type car, but keep in mind also that driving also affect fuel use. Here are some tips on how to drive a car to make it more environmentally friendly.

Driving a car with eco-driving techniques aimed at changing the driving paradigm becomes more efficient. With this technique, the use of fuel becomes more optimal.

Here are some tips on how to drive a car that is more environmentally friendly:

- Hit the gas pedal slowly, try acceleration effect does not occur suddenly. Also, try to reach speeds of 0-20 miles per hour in 5 seconds.

- Keep your speed to remain constant. One of the characteristics of rider safety is not often change the speed.

- Remove the gas early to take advantage of engine braking when the vehicle decelerate.

- The driver can optimize the use of electronic features, in particular the use of air conditioning. When turning on the AC, try to adjust the volume of the AC with the weather conditions.

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