Grey November

I’ve developed this penchant of DIY-ing practically everything, no thanks to my knack of breaking alof of stuff.

The most recent is my rear right tail lights (thank you palm tree-chai and my own bodohness).  Guess this is going to be my 1st of hopefully many better situation HOW TO.

Step #1:

Get a replacement tail light assembly from kereta potong/spare part shops/aftermarket shops whichever suits your tastes and budget.  Newer models/aftermarket assemblies may/may not be compatible with the electrical wiring set-up.

Step #2:

Open your boot and open the plastic cover shielding the electrical portion of the assembly.

Step #3:

With care, slowly remove the electrical board from the assembly.  Care not to break the fragile plastic clip-like thing that holds the board onto the assembly.

Step #4:

Using a suitable sized open end/ring spanar, loosen the three nuts holding the assembly to the body.

Remove the assembly from the body with/without brute force.

Replace the old assembly with the new unit.  In my case, the “Made in Taiwan” assembly came with rubber seal that was too thick.  Removing the original assembly seal and exchaning the thick seal with the old one seemed to work better.

Step #5:

Cautiously insert the electrical board with bulbs back into its position.  You dont want to break a few bulbs in the process.  Make sure the board sits properly.

Step #6:

Last but not least, test the assembly before and after finalizing the DIY.

THERE YOU GO!

Now, peculiar minded people such as myself would go get a good quality yet much lower priced imitation product.  Here are two setbacks of non original parts in this case.

Setback #1:

There is a 0.5cm gap at the top portion of the assembly.  Nothing serious as any water will then flow down out, avoiding electrical wiring.

Setback #2:

The new assembly seems to be a tad short on the right side.  Will have to take another look at this, perhaps could be the assembly is not seating correctly.  A quick check shows that imitation product is of a marginal difference in dimension.

Image taken from here.

I normally don’t flame.  But I’m really in the mood to now.  

Here’s one definition of Toyota.

Toyotas, they are ugly, endlessly reliable and you have to suffer millions of boring miles of it before it has the decency to just lie down and die.

PS romise better content the next post.

A candid picture filler post.  Random shots of people in my life.  Whether you muncul tak muncul in the post doesn’t mean anything.  Pure random picture selection.

I’ve been longing for one for a long long time.  Wouldn’t mind Takamine, Taylor, Gibson, Yamaha….

Well, I finally got one.

It’s not as branded though.  But for the price and full solid wood, it’s a steal.

My very first (of many more) Dreadnought sized Fina acoustic guitar!

Final Fantasy XII is the one of the few FF titles I never managed to complete as it was released in 2006 during my uni days.  One fine day, I had an uncanny urge to dig the DVD up just to continue off where my last saved game was.

Tapi…..

Pirated DVDs were cheap back then, and the cheapness clearly revealed itself 3 years later.

The toothpaste method helped for awhile, well until I bodohtedly left it overnight with toothpaste on.

Question is :

DOES ANYONE HAVE A COPY OF FFXII?

Until then, will try Brasso on it later.