Quote Originally Posted by utakabo View Post
I just want to thank you again guys for the informative posts. without this thread it would have been hard to convince me to buy a korean car. now the kids are very happy with the space, the missus is happy with the very cold aircon, and i am very happy with the fuel consumption.

yesterday i brought it to servitek for wheel alignment and had two tires replaced with fortera (tama ba speling?).

just one question, how far does the temp gauge go when your unit is running? mine hovers in 1/4 but i was alarmed when i was negotiating the teresa-antipolo road when the needle suddenly went up to almost 1/2 (the drive was slow climb as there were trucks ahead of me, so slow that i can only go up to 2nd gear), is this normal? first time ko sa diesel kasi, sa corolla ko hindi ganun kahit anong bagal ng takbo, kahit paakyat.

Korean pa yung 2 gulong mo? Huwag mo na patagalin yan bro.

Yung sa temp, mas mataas ang compression at init ng diesels kesa sa gas kaya pag nahihirapan ang makina maaaring tumaas ang needle -- but it shouldn't go anywhere near the red zone. Ako dati, pag uminit yung makina, pinapatay ko AC para makatulong. You should probably ask your SA though just to be sure.