Sunday, March 13, 2016

How to Keep Tire From Wear (ing)

HOWTOMOTIF  - Tyre, beside of being a vital component of a vehicle, it also usually has short age. However, the way of driving also affects the tyre too. In order to make your tyre safe, we advise that you follow our suggestions below:

Check your tyre regularly and don’t forget the tyre air pressure. Make sure that the tyre air pressure should properly meet your tyre type recommendation. Since the condition of the tyres with less air pressure can quickly cause deflection and lasts long enough, it makes the temperature of the tyres will rapidly go up and result in the separation of the tyre layers which may make the tyre wear suddenly. In addition, with a good air  pressure, it makes the contact area between the tyre surface and the road becomes wider, so the braking ability will become better. Instead, if the air pressure is not in accordance with the load, it will result in a narrow contact area, reducing traction, so it will reduce braking ability.

Don’t give too many loads to your car. Giving too many pressures or loads may cause a premature wear to your tyre. If you do that, your tyre may press the road too hard and damage your tyre. Other than those, too many loads will consume more fuel which is not a good solution if you are an economical-minded person.
 
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Check the components related to the tyre. For example, take a look at your bearing and hub, that way you should be able to detect if there is any damage occurs to your tyre. You can tell by seeing the condition. If the bearing got damaged, then the tyre will be more bumpy on the bottom part.

Specially for the front tyres, do regular checking on sporing and balancing. It helps preventing tyre wear in the other side.

While driving, try to use a flat road and avoid road with torrent of holes. With this way, tyres won’t get any hard collision with the road causing the tyres rupture and will more terrible if you drive with the speed of light beside of dangerous for you. 
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And don’t forget not to brake or accelerate the car spontaneously too often. This may cause the outer surface of the tire to be rapidly depleted due to frequent friction with the road surface especially when braking and sudden acceleration that can make traction tires work harder. (hrzg)

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Saturday, March 12, 2016

Remove Scratches on Car Using Magic Pen!

HOWTOMOTIF - Outer parts of our vehicle either motorcycle or car is always sensitive to unexpected things, such as scratch! That’s why paintings become one of the main protector, no wonder if painting technology is getting awesome day by day.

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Phenomenon of vehicle’s body gets scratched by something can’t be avoided of course. The scratch traces on the surface of the body may cause many troubles if it’s not handled soon, like your vehicle will get rusted for example. Repainting is the one and only solution in this case. However, not many who encounters problems when picking this solution. The reason is the price is not cheap and also unappropriate with the original color. Well, there is a creative solution which is able to mask or dismiss the scratch traces. It is simple, easy to use and best of all the price is economically acceptable.
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It’s only a small tool which shapes like a writing pen. It can remove scratches from the car’s body. This magic pen, probably the best term to describe. Are you curious of how this magic pen cleaning out the scratch traces? Just watch below video for more detail! (hrzg)
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What We Can do if Radiator Heats up

What We Can do if Radiator Heats up

HOWTOMOTIF  - The heating up of radiator is sounds unimportant, but it will be very annoying if it really happens. The first step to do if the temperature indicator in the car shows that it’s too heat, you should drive to the edge of the road (either left or right) which is safe and shady, then soon after, turn off the car machine. After that, open the roof of the car. Let the car be calmed for about an hour or until the water radiator is not too hot anymore. If the water radiator is not too hot anymore, open the radiator lid.

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It is a best thing before making a journey with your car, you have already prepared some clean water or coolant liquid for radiator (radiator coolant). It will come in handy if such kind of accidents happen in the middle of your journey. If the liquid quantity is not enough, you may put more clean water or coolant again.

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If you have followed above instructions and feel like to continue your trip, don’t forget to check the machine temperature display with little more intensive along the way. And if you feel there are such things related to the car radiator which need advanced checking, we will really advise you to stop at the nearest official repairment and ask the mechanic to check in the radiator in advance.(hrzg)
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Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Extreme modification: Twin Turbo Diesel in Motorcycle

HOWTOMOTIF - Have you ever imagined having a motorcycle that uses a diesel engine as the prime mover? Yes indeed there is actually a diesel-engined motorcycle made by Kawasaki which name is Kawasaki klr 650. But what if the machines use diesel engines with a type of "Twin Turbo Diesel AWD"? Actually, that size of diesel engine is relatively large so it will be difficult to be applied to motorcycles. However, it becomes possible for a person who works as a Diesel Technician for the United States Postal Service named Sam Turner who lives in Atlanta, Georgia. He managed to make a motorcycle with Twin Turbo Diesel AWD engine and of course he formed a motorcycle that has “fierce” look. Below is an explanation that we took from YouTube in how Sam Turner made the motorbike.
 
“I knew I wanted to use the 840cc V-twin diesel engine for my power plant, and figured that to keep it symmetrical looking, the only way to go was Twin-turbo. I tossed around the idea of double CVT’s, and a Hossack front suspension. but it seemed still too mild. then the idea of Diesel electric popped up, similar to a Diesel locomotive where my engine powered a generator, then the generator could use electricity to spin a wheel motor. This is where the idea of AWD became possible. After researching the generator and wheel motors that would be capable of moving this bike, I decided against it because the costs were insanely high. Even though the diesel electric part of the build was shot down, I still wanted to try to do anything I could to keep the AWD aspect. That is when I stumbled across the idea of using hydrostatic drive. It would act basically the same way as a diesel electric, but at a fraction of the cost. I picked out a hydraulic pump and 2 hub motors, and because the hub motors are designed to only be supported on one side, I needed to design a single sided suspension for the bike. Once I drew up the idea for the suspension I saw that it would be very easy to install air bags so that the bike did not need a kick stand. At this point I began to lay all the pieces out in my garage, and once the engine, air bags, suspension and tires were lined up, the bike was over 11ft long. At 11ft long I did not want to have goofy looking long handle bars, or have to awkwardly have to stretch out over the backbone of the bike to reach the bars so I ended up building Double push pull cables that would connect the front spindle all the way to the back of the bike where the pivot point of the handle bars were. I ended up using the same setup for my hydraulic reservoir, as Triumph used for oil in the TR650. the backbone of the bike is a 4in hollow tube that stores 5 gallons of hydraulic fluid, thus eliminating the need for a bulky storage tank. Hydrostatic systems generate a lot of heat, so I installed two oil coolers on the side of the bike and fabricated two hood scoops to help re-direct the air through the cooler. I installed two 2.5 gallon air tanks on the side of the bike, and welded cones and fins on them to give them the appearance of bombs. At this point the bike started to look like some type of military experiment, so I decided to run with that theme. I installed 31x10.5 off-road tires, a heat shield down the reservoir that looked like a gun heat shied, Cross hairs on the backbone. a 2.5 gallon jerry can for a fuel tank, a 5.56 ammo can for a battery box, and painted the bike frame truck bed liner black, and the body panels Olive Drab Green. Hope y'all like it! “
 
Here are the specifications of diesel engine used by Sam Turner:

 11ft 3in long
38in tall
840cc 20 hp Direct injection v-twin diesel engine
Twin RHB31 Turbochargers
Suzuki Swift Intercooler
EATON 2000 series Hub Motor
3.33cu/in per rev. Hydraulic Gear Pump.
31x10.5 MudStar Radial MT
Carrara 400lbs Coil over shocks
2 - AirMaxx 2500 lb. air bags
Airmaxx 150psi 12v Compressor
Parker Hydraulic Hoses
 
For further detail you can watch the video in how did Sam Turner ride the diesel-engined motorcycle. (hrzg)
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Extrem Scooter Vespa Modification Shabby "Gembel"

HOWOTOMOTIF - Company that originally made war equipments such as aircrafts, tanks, and vehicles changed and became an automotive company is Piaggio Motorcycle, a motorcycle manufacturer who comes from "pizza" country, Italy.


Piaggio Brand
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Piaggio is well-known in the automotive world. One of Piaggio motorcycle’s product which is very popular and has the most devotee in the world is a scooter variant named Vespa, with a unique model resembles to the shape of bee. It managed to deliver Vespa became one of the most iconic products in Italy beside of pizza and because of the uniqueness of Vespa itself, Bajaj Auto, an automotive manufacturer from India is interested to establish cooperation with Piaggio and has created wonderful product called “Vespa Bajaj” with deluxe and super variants. Since Paggio has a big success with its Paggio Vespa, there are so many fans that always use Vespa either as vehicle or collection. Mainly in Southeast Asia, there are so many communities established in many countries such as Indonesia, which has thousands of Vespa communities. Vespa scooters hunted in Indonesia are Vespas that were made back in 1960 and 1980 because there are rumors saying that Vespa made in that time are using armament materials whereas used in tanks, aircraft and vehicles so that way Vespa will much stronger and more durable.

Vespa communities in Indonesia consist of several classes, those are modifications, authenticities, and poorly shabby Vespa modifications. Specially for this shabby Vespa is a unique thing, since in modifying this displacement, it’s basically out of the rules of the motorcyle modifications. Shabby vespa communities use some junks that will be paired in their vespa scooter. So they make these Vespa scooter communities look shabby, dirty and unkempt. There is a modification which makes the size of this displacement becomes longer (2 to 4 meters) and of course this can endanger the riders and other road users. Community members of this “shabby” vespa suggested that this idea shows freedom of expression and aims to criticize other riders not to be hypocritical because they think that there is a lot of dirt in human beings.

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But there is one thing that can be very proud of from this communities, that is solidarity. Well, if you ride a Vespa scooter and having problems in the roadway, the members of this community will help you repairing your vespa scooter and of course without any charges. That’s because the motto of the entire community of Vespa in Indonesia is "One Vespa Million Brothers". (hrzg)

5 Wheels
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Art of Vespa
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Shabby "Gembel"
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Vespa Shabby "Gembel"
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Monday, March 7, 2016

Motorcycle Market Share in Indonesia

HOWTOMOTIF - Automotive world is always interesting and pretty good to discuss. There will always be new things that become a starting point of innovation and invention to produce new engines which is more efficient and modernistic. As some motorcycle manufacturers in the world such as Harley Davidson in America, Triumph in England, Bajaj-Auto in India, Ducati in Italy, KTM in Austria and many other major manufacturers such as Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki and Kawasaki.


Manufacturers Logo
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Talking a little more details about motorcycle manufacturers, especially those which are manufactured in Asia, it would be very nice to mention four “samurai” from Japan, those are Honda, Kawasaki, Yamaha, and Suzuki. There are also two "dancers” of India such as Bajaj Auto and TVS Company. But as the topic tells us, we will only explain about Southeast Asian market specifically.

"Matic" Motorcycle
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In Southeast Asia, the four “samurais” are most likely to be more populer compared to the two "dancers" from India especially in Indonesia. From these four names, Honda is now leading the major market followed by Yamaha, Kawasaki, and Suzuki. The most top-selling bike in Indonesia is scooter or better known as automatic motorcycle (simply known as matic). For your information, the type of motorcycle in Southeast Asia is a motorcycle with a small cubic cylinder (i.e. between 100 CC to 150 CC)

About designs and styles of the motorcycle itself, most of Southeast Asian admit that they love motorcycle with European design but with less price. (hrzg)


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Harley Davidson is Very Expensive in Indonesia

HOWTOMOTIF - Talking about automotive is like an endless discussion. Supposing it will take millions of paper with Times New Roman typeface and 12 valued font weight to review the history of automotive itself up to this day and it will also take billions of paper with the same typography to review about automotive world in the future, that’s how innovation and creativity take roles in the middle.
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We are going to review about superior classical motorcycle from USA which we know you’ve already heard. It’s Harley Davidson and also Indian Motorcycle. It’s almost impossible for people nowadays not knowing those popular names in automotive world, well at least one of them.
As a designer, manufacturer, and assembler of the classic type of motorcycle cruiser sport, Harley Davidson and Indian Motorcycle create their own market and of course put fantastic prices. That's pretty worth for motorcycles that combined with good art and a pride of American nation which are sold worthly.

However, there are some countries that have an interest and a great charisma over classical cruiser motorcycle from USA, such as Indonesia. In this country, Harley Davidson used as icon of wealth. People in Indonesia could be considered as rich if they own a Harley Davidson and it will make those people looks wealthy since Harley Davidson is categorized as luxury goods and the tax is very high that it gross up to 110% of the actual price given by producer. As an example, Harley Davidson with Street 500 type in the US are sold at a price of $ 6.849, while in Indonesia the price of this bike can reach $ 19.250 price which increases significantly, pretty fantastic isn’t it? That’s why Harley Davidson is considered as an icon of royal people in Indonesia.

Beside of the fantastic prize, in Indonesia to obtain spare parts of Harley Davidson is a difficult thing and even if there were, you would spend much money for them. Therefore, we should be grateful for not staying in Indonesia since the tax reaches 110%. Let’s be smart guys! (hrzg)

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