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A Mercedes-Benz CLA Coupe has been caught doing 'Boom Boom Boom' noises in one of the HDB carparks along Hougang Street 61 early in the morning last night. This has not gone well for him as videos of him revving his car that has been tuned to make "pop and crackle" noises has gone viral. s.MP4 According to unnamed sources, it seemed that the green CLA Coupe owner has been approached by home owners staying nearby for the noise pollution and a fight ensued. The police was called in and the CLA owner looked like he has been charged for causing hurt a.k.a Penal Code 323 as we can see from the Whatsapp screenshots. He was intoxicated too but was not charged for drink-driving as his female friend was at the wheel.

It happened before so what would u do if do if you are on the expressway and suddenly when u press brakes your car doesnt slow down at all?

He was driving behind a lorry crane when he noticed that its boom (the lifting arm of a crane) was extended. Then he heard a loud bang. The boom had smashed into an overhead bridge, dislodging two large pieces. But Mr Tonny Neo, 37, did not see them. Before he could react, one piece plunged towards his car and pierced the windscreen on the front passenger side. The 3m-long metal rod brushed against the left side of his body and - to his horror - continued towards his wife and baby in the rear. Miraculously, the rod went between mother and son and stopped a mere 2cm from the six-month-old baby in a car seat. The baby's left knee was bruised while Mr Neo suffered fractures to his ribs and has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. The family's close shave happened around 10.30am on Oct 29, 2011, after the exit at Paya Lebar Road on the Pan Island Expressway (PIE) in the direction of Tuas. Mr Neo, who is self-employed, was driving back to his office at Bukit Batok. While driving along the PIE, he saw the lorry crane with the extended boom in front of his silver Toyota Allion. "Suddenly, I heard a loud bang. My instinct told me something might fall. I tried to avoid it but it happened too fast," Mr Neo said. A part of the boom that had been dislodged landed beside his car, while the other piece came hurtling towards him and smashed into the windscreen. "I thought I was going to die. I never expected it to hit me. I thought I could avoid it, but it came right into my car." Source: http://ride.asiaone.com/news/general/story/crane-hit-bridge-pierced-car-boom

Wenzhou investors create Singapore property purchase boom http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-print-c...mp;MainCatID=11 Staff Reporter 2011-11-02 11:36 (GMT+8) Attracted to Singapore's progressive investment environment which boasts high returns and low borrowing rates, Chinese citizens have quickly become the largest property investors in the Southeast Asian country, with several buyers from Wenzhou making quick buys. According to the Wenzhou Economic Daily, tourists from the city in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang have been purchasing property during their trips to Singapore this year. Amey, a Chinese immigrant from Wenzhou who helped broker several deals compared the manner of her compatriots to people buying cabbages at a market. Amey moved to Singapore nearly a decade ago where she now owns a trading company. The recent buying phenomenon has also turned her into a part-time real estate agent. In addition to buyers who initially came to Singapore on their holidays, people from Wenzhou have been calling Amey every few days enquiring about properties to purchase since last year. After helping sell 10 properties worth a total of 100 million yuan (US$15.7 million) this year, Amey can now negotiate a better price for her countrymen. Buyers from Wenzhou, according to Sandy, a sales manager for Chinese customers at the Far East Organization, Singapore's largest private property developer, are very straightforward and make decisions quickly, with some of them placing orders after just a few phone calls. Hu Jianke, who is from a Wenzhou-based property agency, said it is not surprising that Singapore has become a popular location for property investors because of its political stability, strong currency and reputation for being a garden city. Even though Singapore has seen the most active property investments among Southeast Asian countries, experts said it is actually a fairly stable market and investors should not expect massive profit growth from real estate there. Hu Jianke concurred that Singapore was more suitable for immigration investors than for speculators seeking a quick profit as the local market was not prone to fluctuations. With this in mind, Hu said Wenzhou investors should consider the purpose of their investments rather than merely jumping on the bandwagon by entering the market. Copyright

Hi guys , in this video a man will think about it twice , when jumping to a ship during strong winds. http://www.megavideo.com/?v=V8VFTKZM Has this happened to anyone? Regards,

Hi Bros, I have been hearing an occasional boom from my sub-woofer in bootwhenever I turned on my sound system. Can anyone advice what causes it and is it a sign of bigger problems to come? Please advice. Thanks GC

check this thread www.cleanmpg.com/forums/general/t-cng-honda-civic-car-fireexplosion-dialup-warning-many-photos-7555.html yikes

Was driving under the Changi Flyover this evening, and a trailer, carrying a crane boom, was too high and hit the Flyover as it passed underneath it. The crane boom was dragged off the trailer bed as a result, and debris, chains were flung onto the ECP. A pickup was hit by the falling debris. I could not avoid the debris and ruptured my front left tyre. My 16" rim was also scratched, and the car steering was mis-aligned. I stopped by the shoulder, put up the warning lights and changed the tyre. Spoke to the driver, and he was already prepared to go to jail. The EMAS team arrived later to put up road cones, and remove the debris. Going to make a claim with the transport company.

Business Times - 16 Jan 2008 Parallel importers register another boom year PI segment accounted for a whopping 20% of car sales in 2007 By SAMUEL EE LOWER list prices and a wider range of models continued to propel demand for the parallel imported car in 2007 to a new high - it accounted for an unprecedented one out of every five new cars sold in Singapore last year. A total of 22,304 parallel imports (PIs) were registered, according to the Land Transport Authority - a substantial 38 per cent increase over the previous year (see table). And the jump in market share becomes even more significant given that the total number of new cars last year came to 106,531 units - or an 8.8 per cent fall from the 116,849 cars in 2006. The top PI make again threw up no surprises - it remained the perennially popular Toyota. But what was a surprise was that grey imports of the traditional No 2 brand - Honda - more than doubled its volume over 12 months. Toyota PIs notched up 10,451 units - about the same as the year before. But Honda raced up to 9,010 units for a 120 per cent jump in sales. This was due to the popularity of one model - the Honda Stream compact MPV. In 2007, PIs collectively moved 4,062 of these in the first full year of sales (parallel importers first brought in the model in the last quarter of 2006). By contrast, authorised distributor Kah Motor only launched it in mid-2007 and sold just 1,220 units for the year. The white-hot demand for the Stream nudged the older Toyota Wish into the runner-up position. In 2007, the previous bestseller only managed 2,807 units - significantly down from the whopping 6,628 in the previous year. Another brand that experienced an increase in PI sales was Suzuki. The small Japanese brand was also ranked No 3 in 2006 but it was its 150 per cent jump to 1,658 units in 2007 which has to be the most interesting aspect of its performance. The combined total of 16,137 grey imports in 2006 was already a record for the industry, which looked like it was on the verge of collapse just a few years ago. Back in 2004, the PI trade registered only about 4,000 cars after the government acted on rampant under-declaration and other high jinks. This number was a big drop from the preceding year's estimated 7,500 units and was all the more striking given that the overall passenger car market was experiencing strong growth due to ever-increasing COE quotas. But in 2005, the PI scene engineered a sharp about-turn and sales of PI cars jumped back up to 6,282 units. It rose even higher in 2006 before culminating in the 2007 boom. Against the contraction in the total industry volume for passenger cars last year, the market share for the PI segment is now a whopping 20 per cent, or one in every five new cars sold in 2007. Compare this with 2006's 13.8 per cent, which roughly translates to one in seven cars. The surge in PI sales has, of course, come at the expense of the MTA or Motor Traders Association of Singapore, to which almost all the authorised vehicle distributors in the country belong. In 2007, the collective market share of MTA members fell to 77 per cent from the previous year's 84.5 per cent.

This motorcyle has 12 loudspeakers, TV, PSP and other gadgets!

By Julian Lim - Feb 24, 2007 AsiaOne [/size] Car buyers have been flocking to showrooms and emptying their red packets for downpayment, as car dealers see red-hot demand for new cars following the COE price plunge and Chinese New Year holiday. Champion Motors, the local Suzuki distributor, reported a 30 per cent increase in bookings after COE prices fell to their lowest level in 17 years. The popular Swift and SX4 Crossover Utility Vehicle (CUV) have been snapped up quickly by buyers, some of whom could have been waiting to see if there would be any further cuts to ARF (Additional Registration Fee) in the latest Budget package announced by Second Minister for Finance, Tharman Shanmugaratnam last Thursday. Parallel importer, Car Times, saw more families visiting their showrooms since reopening on Wednesday, and up to half of them made bookings, which translates to about 20 per cent increase in overall sales. Attributing the surge in interest to the latest COE pricing anomaly and the long Chinese New Year break, Miss Gem Yeo, Executive Director of Car Times, named Toyota Wish and new Honda Stream as the best-sellers among the new orders. The Category B COE price for these two models have fallen from $12,152 to $6,002. Mr Kenny Chua, a graduate student who recently ordered a Suzuki SX4, was among those who were tempted by the low-COE price to change car. "I've already owned a Korean-made car for more than three years. But, with it starting to present some problems, the drop in COE did make it easier for me to get a new car." Many AsiaOne readers seem to have been infected by the car-buying itch. Nearly 56 per cent of 60 readers in an AsiaOne poll indicated that they are considering buying a new car. But the good times may not last. The surge in demand has prompted dealers to raise prices. For instance, prices of Honda's hot sellers, the City, Jazz and Civic (1.6), have started inching up by S$400

Hi guys, my sub gives me a sudden boom like a full discharge time to time(avg once per week). This happens when even when i'm playing soft sentimental songs. Have anyone encountered this? Could it be a grounding problem or a phase or cabling issue? I'm using an infinity basslink 200Wamp with 8" woofer

issit the air filter or the exhaust pipe?

I got a car problem. I was out of Carrefour and waiting at the slip road to enter the expressway. The one with the rightmost 2 lanes going to Jurong and leftmost 2 lanes going to Changi. My gear is on "D" with foot on the brake. While waiting for the traffic to clear, about a minute, I hear a "boom", "boom" sound coming from the rear. About 10 times, I speed up into the expressway and when I was entering the car park, I heard another 2 "boom" sound. Still trying to indentify the sound, any people here got experience? It did not sounded like the speaker because the music was sort of uninterrupted. Thanks for all the help.