KIA K3 Owners check-in!

[Dark_flan]

  On 8/21/2015 at 1:41 AM, ricleosg said:

 

hehe i also have a little kerb rash on my rims too from the MSCPs... i think the sports rims are less forgiving to turning errors compared to normal tires. lucky i could DIY fix and sand/smoothen the affected area and respray gloss lacquer on it.

 

I may buy that blindspot mirror for tight turns too.... anyone has suggestions if the circular ones or the triangle/square ones are better/more practical?

 

Mainly the profile is too low so almost all kerb can hit the rim.

 

For me, I did not hit kerb but mount kerb haha.

[FinalNitro]

  On 8/21/2015 at 1:41 AM, ricleosg said:

 

hehe i also have a little kerb rash on my rims too from the MSCPs... i think the sports rims are less forgiving to turning errors compared to normal tires. lucky i could DIY fix and sand/smoothen the affected area and respray gloss lacquer on it.

 

I may buy that blindspot mirror for tight turns too.... anyone has suggestions if the circular ones or the triangle/square ones are better/more practical?

 

Round one seems better for me. Cause can turn and adjust the angle.

[Simplecar]

  On 8/21/2015 at 6:50 AM, Dark_flan said:

 

Mainly the profile is too low so almost all kerb can hit the rim.

 

For me, I did not hit kerb but mount kerb haha.

I have done both! I also did some polishing to make it look better using 3M foam sander.

 

I also have small round mirrors costing about $4. They work well for me.

 

 

[Smartiecm]

  On 8/21/2015 at 1:41 AM, ricleosg said:

 

hehe i also have a little kerb rash on my rims too from the MSCPs... i think the sports rims are less forgiving to turning errors compared to normal tires. lucky i could DIY fix and sand/smoothen the affected area and respray gloss lacquer on it.

 

I may buy that blindspot mirror for tight turns too.... anyone has suggestions if the circular ones or the triangle/square ones are better/more practical?

I'm using round ones. Those that can rotate one.

[drwatson]

I kana kerb rash on 3 of my wheels in 1 month after i collected my car.

very angry at myself and i drove to hurry tyre and polish all haha. 20bucks per rim.

[7hm]

Want to sayang your car is ok, bros... but as always, don't let yourself become the car's slave... always it should be the car slaved to you

[Julietta]

  On 8/21/2015 at 6:50 AM, Dark_flan said:

 

Mainly the profile is too low so almost all kerb can hit the rim.

 

For me, I did not hit kerb but mount kerb haha.

I mount kerb on 1st day Liao lol

[Javierpoon]

Hi guys! I just ordered a SX Metal Stream ytd! Was told will receive it latest Oct! So excited!

[Lurpsexx]

  On 8/21/2015 at 10:13 AM, Julietta said:

I mount kerb on 1st day Liao lol

 

Anyone changed out the original rims and fit back in other rims before collecting their new car?

 

I wanna use my current car rims but the SE don't have answer for me on how to do it...

 

Plan was to take out the current rims and swop with the K3 rims => K3 use my current rims, old car use K3 rims.

 

This also applies to the other stuff I wanna dekit too.... amp, sub etc....

 

Thanks to all for your kind advice....

[ricleosg]

some pics to share of my latest purchase from taobao :)

 

Kia K3 by ricleosg, on Flickr

 

Kia K3 by ricleosg, on Flickr

 

Kia K3 by ricleosg, on Flickr

 

Kia K3 by ricleosg, on Flickr

 

Kia K3 by ricleosg, on Flickr

 

Edited August 21, 2015 by ricleosg

[Javierpoon]

How much did you buy it for?

 

  On 8/21/2015 at 4:55 PM, ricleosg said:

some pics to share of my latest purchase from taobao :)

 

Kia K3 by ricleosg, on Flickr

 

Kia K3 by ricleosg, on Flickr

 

Kia K3 by ricleosg, on Flickr

 

Kia K3 by ricleosg, on Flickr

 

Kia K3 by ricleosg, on Flickr

 

Edited August 21, 2015 by Javierpoon

[7hm]

Lovely macro shots! Beautiful bokeh.

 

How much is this model? It seems so detailed I nearly thought they were doctored photos of a real car at first. Large scale one?

[flashbang]

  On 8/21/2015 at 11:21 AM, Lurpsexx said:

 

Anyone changed out the original rims and fit back in other rims before collecting their new car?

 

I wanna use my current car rims but the SE don't have answer for me on how to do it...

 

Plan was to take out the current rims and swop with the K3 rims => K3 use my current rims, old car use K3 rims.

 

This also applies to the other stuff I wanna dekit too.... amp, sub etc....

 

Thanks to all for your kind advice....

Wait until your K3 arrives then do the swap.

[ricleosg]

  On 8/21/2015 at 5:54 PM, Javierpoon said:

How much did you buy it for?

 

 

300 yuan, so about 65 sgd hehe....

  On 8/21/2015 at 9:25 PM, 7hm said:

Lovely macro shots! Beautiful bokeh.

 

How much is this model? It seems so detailed I nearly thought they were doctored photos of a real car at first. Large scale one?

 

1:18 scale. love the details on this car, thats why i bought it for display keke. the details are so fine that the rear wheels have a true spring suspension system, front wheels can turn, boot/trunk can open, and the internals have all the details like seatbelts, mirrors, the head unit is the eurostyle GPS too haha.... only thing is this is the china model, so left hand drive and the front grill is not our honeycomb design.

 

have a smaller 1:38 scale one on on my K3 dashboard too keke

Edited August 22, 2015 by ricleosg

[Julietta]

Anyone using de cruise control button? Jus tried today. No nd step on de accelerator n the speed can maintain at constant speed

[7hm]

  On 8/22/2015 at 2:40 AM, ricleosg said:

300 yuan, so about 65 sgd hehe....

 

1:18 scale. love the details on this car, thats why i bought it for display keke. the details are so fine that the rear wheels have a true spring suspension system, front wheels can turn, boot/trunk can open, and the internals have all the details like seatbelts, mirrors, the head unit is the eurostyle GPS too haha.... only thing is this is the china model, so left hand drive and the front grill is not our honeycomb design.

 

have a smaller 1:38 scale one on on my K3 dashboard too keke

 

For $65, that is really an amazing model. What other scale cars does this seller have? Wow!

[Axela525]

This car consumption issit good...I driving Lancer Ex 1.5....will it be worst or better? Thinking of test driving the car...any good SE to recommend? Thks!

[7hm]

  On 8/22/2015 at 5:59 AM, Julietta said:

Anyone using de cruise control button? Jus tried today. No nd step on de accelerator n the speed can maintain at constant speed

That is the exact purpose of cruise control. To maintain the car's speed for you.

 

  On 8/22/2015 at 6:39 AM, Axela525 said:

This car consumption issit good...I driving Lancer Ex 1.5....will it be worst or better? Thinking of test driving the car...any good SE to recommend? Thks!

If fuel consumption is your number one priority, the Koreans are behind in this regard. But compared to the Lancer EX, the K3 should be better. Most people are reporting 9.5~10.5, sometimes 12.5km/l on the K3.

If fuel efficiency rates very highly for you I recommend you go for the Mazda3 (I noticed you are also looking at this). If a little bit more money is okay for you but you want both power and fuel economy, you can consider Volkswagen Golf or Peugeot 308 (both can do 17.5km/l).

 

If cheapo car is also your objective and you don't care about frills and gizmos, Mitsubishi Attrage also can do 12.5~20km/l. Attrage underpowered though so it will need to rev a lot to get around, making it hard to attain more than 14.5km/l I think.