Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Oh Boy!

SP has been running fine and I am struggling to find time to drive it. On one occassion after tuning, I took it to work and decided to see how fast can it go. So gently coaxed it on 5th gear to about 225 km/h and suddenly heard a noise, looked at the rear view mirror and the driver side roof weather strip got ripped out by the wind force. Darn it! Slowed down and maintained a steady 120 -130km/h and got to work. Called Proton to ask for replacement weather strip and was quote RM 544.00 per side! Oh boy, apparently its MMC item so thats why its a lot more expensive. So will only have time to collect the weather strip next week, meanwhile this is how SP looks currently.


Clips exposed, looks unsightly without the weather strip

Close up


Some of you may spot the new addition to SP as well. Will cover that on my next posting!

6 comments:

hmph said...

wow so much just for those 2 darned strips!
Looking forward to seeing the new post :-) Harness right? hehehe

+ akatsuki + said...

aw man... it happened to me too! that rubber strips are damn expensive!

Mugil said...

hmph,

yes its the harness...:)

will cover that next time.

akatsuki,

tell me about it. if i knew it was that expensive, i would have stopped and picked it up. oh well, we learn something new everyday!

Jack said...

Did I see 225kph!! 0_0

On a mivec FD... 9000 rpms??

Mugil said...

Jack,

no la, rev limit is at 8.5k rpm and speed was done on 5th gear so about 7k+ rpm only.

llsaw said...

Bro,

I thought it was RM350++ only? Comes out everytime the SP does >180km/h