My Dorifuto Charmant 2009 edition

Sorry for the super late update, was being lazy, haha!

Anyways, I finally picked a day during CNY which surprisingly, was having a decent weather, without further hesitation, I’ve taken some of the following pictures of my crappy Charmant with my handphone:

Charmant 2009

Charmant 2009

My Charmant is still rocking with different sized rims front and back, due to the fact that I haven’t changed my suspension, the car still looks tad bit lower at the rear, I know it doesn’t look good, but heck I’m broke, will think of another solution in soon time I guess.

Charmant 2009

The biggest change after coming out from the paint shop, my black hood! Jumping on the black hood bandwagon yay! LOL!

Charmant 2009

And here you can see the lovely DCM stickers being applied on the tip of my black bonnet, looks great!

Charmant 2009

I’ve also applied the ‘Dorifuto’ and the Japanese worded drift logo stickers on my side doors, they’re pretty hard to spot as they’re silver, pity there’s no black color version of those stickers, and they only come in white and silver, which I’ve bought the latter version.

Charmant 2009

A view in my cockpit, nothing has been changed, except its now cleaner, and a lot of duct tapes were used on my dash, which you can’t really see from this picture though, haha!

Charmant 2009

I must apologize for the awful sight from the rear, I know my rear wheels must go, LOL!  But these will just have to stick with me for a while now, the good thing about those wheels are the tires are so bloody cheap, good for me!

Charmant 2009

Another DCM stickers at the back of the car.

Charmant 2009

And then the “Defying Grip” sticker at my rear side panel, together with my old “Drifter in Car” sticker, my favorite!

Charmant 2009

As you can see from the pictures above, my Charmant, is still looking the SAME as before, except for the black hood, and its finally looking CLEAN now, thanks to the new paint and the polished job.

Anyhow, I’m pretty happy with how the car is now, there are still some more details that needed some attention, but I will get on that much later on, for now, my Charmant is meant to be driven, so rest assured, the car won’t look so clean very, very soon…. LOL!

Triton > Hilux

I’ve driven a lot of Hilux, and I think the older models were better cars, the latter model to me is a bit… not sure how to put it exactly, but it felt soft on the road, so soft and wobbly that it gave me headaches most of the time.

Anyhow, I think the Triton from Mitsubishi is a cool looking car, and surprisingly, the handling seems to be far better as compared to the new Hilux, check out this video for the handling test:

Can you say OMGWTFBBQ @ that bodyroll?  Whats the point of an off-roader if its that easy to flipover?  Phail!

Cars spotting before CNY

When CNY is near, you’ll be seeing a lot of newly bought cars on the road, or used cars that had been done up nicely, or even cars coming in from other places, such as Miri, Brunei or maybe Kuching, and some of those, are probably really nice cars as well!

Take this Mark X for instance, this is the first time I ever saw a Mark X in Sibu, looks fabulicious!

Sibu Mark X

Sorry about the poor quality as I was driving my Charmant while I took this picture with my mobile, plus I have to keep a safe distance, don’t wanna risk bumping into this big luxury ride during CNY eve! LOL!

Next up, is this Naza Citra which is from a friend of mine, whom has an auto service shop called A1 just beside “鴻福海鮮舘” , he just redone his Citra and this is how it looks now:

Citra's new look

Citra's rear panel view

Citra's Bonnet view

At first glance at its bonnet, it may just look like an ordinary black painted bonnet, but if you have a look closer, you’d notice this:

CF hood?

Woot! It’s a CF hood…..NOT! Anyone that is familiar with CF would know that the texture is no where close to the real thing, but it was a pretty interesting try to replicate the real thing though, and if you like to know how its been done?  Well, paints applied on a layer of tiny holed mask, as easy as that.  To be honest, if I wanna go for CF, I’d go get a real CF hood, not like this, haha!

On to some weirder rides shall we? Next up we have this Myvi:

Myvi offset wheels

The moment I saw this Myvi zoomed past me at the roundabout, I’ve noticed its offset wheels, as both of us were moving, I couldn’t really tell what rim is it, but what do you guys think of such a wheel fitment on a car like Myvi?  For me, totally distasteful! LOL!  Those kinda wheels are more suited on cars like my Charmant or any other old schoolers la~ go stick with your own VIP type of wheels man! ^^

And then to end up my post, I present to you, the Ang Pow Kelisa:

Ang Pow Kelisa

Need I say more?  Guess not.. LOL!