How to pay for your petrol using credit card?

Hello everyone, and I was travelling the other day, I guess I can share with you my experience on using my AMBANK NEXTG prepaid credit card to pay my expense on car petrol. It’s applicable to Shell station, not sure to other stations though. And yes, this applicable to other credit cards, the major ones.

As usual, before pumping petrol at any petrol station, you’ll have to make sure the lid are open, engine stopped and no mobile phone conversation though. If you would like to know more on how to open the car’s petrol pump lid, refer to this post on how to fill petrol for your car.

First, by the side of your car and the petrol pump you will have this machine which you are able to use your credit card to pay for the bill.

Next, we’ll slot in the card with the front of the card facingleft (as per picture shown), and slowly slide it in. (If you do have any ‘rewards’ card such as Bonuslink, do slide the card before your credit card). Make sure it’s properly fitted in fully.

And as you slot the card into the machine, on the screen will have the indication that it is checking for your card’s validity. Do not worry, everything is safe here.  As the screen notify you to remove the card, you can now feel free to take back your credit card from the machine.

And now be happy, and star filling up to the amount you desired.

It’s always best to estimate on how much petrol you need for your car so that you will not end up paying too much for the amount you doesn’t need. As you finish filling up the petrol, kindly place back the nozel at it’s place.

The machine will then automatically generate a receipt of your transaction. Keep it for future reference and enjoy!

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How to check your car’s water level (temp)?

Anyone of us that is driving here are quite concerned with our car’s health most of the time, especially when we want to avoid random breakdown caused by oil leakage or overheating. Here I hope these tips would benefit you in checking the car’s water level which I’ll normally do every 1 week due to our tropical climate which is hot on the afternoon.

First you will have to locate the latch to pull that will enable you to open up your engine’s hood, usually in front.

Notice the car icon? with the front car hood open? Pull it and you’ll hear a sound from the front of the car’s hood.

The hood is now ready to be open. You will then have to locate the ‘latch’ which is normally in the middle of the car’s logo, which you will needto pushup on the latch before you can totally pull up the hood. Locate it slowly and be cautious especially when the car’s engine is still hot.
 
As you locate it with you hand. Hold and push up the latch and then move the hood up.
You will now see the engine. Be sure not to touch any of the compartment when it’s hot or engine is running.

While with one hand holding down on the hood, you will need to take the holder to hold down the hood from closing, be really careful as you hold with one hand because the hood is really heavy.

Locate a hole below the hood so that you can attach the holder to stand and pushup the hood from closing. You can now rest assue to check the water level. Make sure the engine is turned off.

Note that DO NOT touch or try to open the cover no matter what when it is hot or the engine has just turned off. Wait until it is cooled down.

By twisting the cap counter-clockwise slowly, you will then able to take away the cap.

Be sure to place the cap somewhere safe so it will not drop inside the engine.

As you can see, this is the radiator that is filled with water to keep your car cooled all the time. Whenever there is a routine checking done, you can rest assure that your car will perform on it’s best and chances to avoid from breakdown is higher than ever. Be sure only fill it in with WATER. Not other thing else which is harmful.

Soon as you completed, hold the hood with one of your hand, and put back the holder on it’s place. And finally, make sure the hood is closed and locked properly. Enjoy!

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How to pump air into your car’s tyre

You car’s tyre are almost flat, without air and you’re in need to fill it with airs. So head on to then nearest petrol station to get some free air, yes, there’s actually thing you can still get for free. For now. And oh yes, car with insufficient air in their car literally causes your car to use more petrol to move (less air = heavy car). So, to save your car from fuel comsumption, it’s better to check once a while.
Here’s how a typical ‘modern’ air-pump looks like. Angin means WIND in Bahasa Melayu literally.

Here’s the pressure you’ll normally use for your car, generally for cars we drive, and you’ll have to refer to the chart provided below for other type of car, eg. Vans, Jeeps…and so on. 200-210 is alright.

Go to any of the tyre that you wish to pump. Remove the cap.

Press and hold down on the pin before pushing it inside the tyre’s head?(correct me)

Make sure it fits properly else you’ll face some problem of the pump not working correctly. As you insert the pump’s head correctly, you’ll have hearing noise from the machine *ting ting ting ting*, and it will start to calculate the current pressure of your tyre, and slowly increasing until it reaches the one that you set. (210 refer above).

Once you have reach the limit, the screen would blink and the machine will alert you to remove the pin from the tyre’s head. Repeat the process until you feel that all of your tyres has sufficient air to move around.

And remember, to put it back. Of course, enjoy!

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How to use the Autopay service (Sunway Pyramid)

I guess this will probably have a series of similar tutorial but on different machine, (most of the hypermarket uses different/thier own machines).

Here you'll have a valid ticket, and you'll only need to pay before exitting the area, because the amount of charges will be counted by hours.

Weekdays : RM1 per hour / Max RM4
Weekend : RM3 per hour / Max RM6

Almost at every exit to carpark of the shopping centre you'll find this machine. Look for one, spotted usually nearby the carpark's lift.

With the labels on top, insert the ticket.

Insert coins or money notes onto the machine, remember to align the notes on the very very left of the slot, else, you'll probably face trouble paying. Don't ask why, a bug from the maker of this machine.

Look at thedisplay for the paid amount and return you'll gonna get, and if you need a receipt, press on the highlighted button.

And also look out for your change, remember to take it.

Before leaving the place, remember to take your ticket as well.

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How to use the car’s handbrake/e-brake

Here is a simple guide to help you to better understand on how to use your car’s handbrake (e-brake : emergency brake).

For most of the common car, when parked, the handbrake are usually pulled to ensure safety that your car doesn’t rolls out of it’s way by itself. And notice the light that lit on the dashboard, a classic example on how to check if your handbrake is active/unfreed.

A typical handbrake/e-brake that might look at your car, located right in between the driver and passenger’s seat. You can have access to it anytime.

Note that there is a button for you to hold down to use the handbrake.

With the button pressed firmly, kindly push the handbrake down and release the button.

The light’s are not lit anymore indicating that you can ready to drive your car now.

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How to use your car’s remote lock?

You might a car equipped with a remote lock, or what do we usually call it, an alarm system. And previosuly I’ve been wondering if the car has been properly locked, because I had no idea what the ’sound’ means to me *beep* or *beep beep*.

Here you have a typical car lock’s remote. With red will trigger the alarm system and auto locks your car, and the blue is to lock/unlock your car from a far distance.

Upon leaving your car, you’ll press the blue button to lock your car.

Play close attention to the sound, which normally for one *beep* (close.mp3), it means your car is locked. But for 2 *beep* (open.mp3), the car’s unlocked. From my point of view, the one beeping sound is to indicate ‘close’ in English while the 2 beeping sound simulates the ‘o-pen’ meaning. Not true?

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How to fill petrol for car?

It might be overlooked, that the safety precaution during filling up petrol for your car. Here’s a basic walkthrough how you’ll use the pump. I still remember back in the old day of the famous ol’ “Ambil Tarik Tolak Ad” (forgot the actual phrase, but is’ funny to know that filling petrol is like reading maths)

Note : Please make sure if your car is suitable for Unleaded/leaded petrol or Diesel! Do not fill with it with the wrong petrol!

Once you parked your car beside the pump, to avoid embarassing yourself, remember to open your car’s gas tank’s door.

Of course, at certain classical petrol station, you’ll get to choose leaded and unleaded fuels. Which almost every car now uses unleaded fuel. Choose the right one.

Once you made the correct amount of payment, there’ll be indication from the LCD screen of the pump that you can start filling up.

It’s open

Remove the cover.

There’s no complication in this process, just take the pump and tuck it in. Make sure it’s in, else you’ll have petrol leaking/sprinkling out.

Just make sure

You can choose to hold on the trigger.

Or automate the process, notice how the white little metal that is being locked/held?

dum dum dum

As usual, good manner teaches us to put back things in order when we’re done.

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How do you start your car?

You need, your car’s key for this operation. Obviously. Applicable to most(old)/some(newer car) of the Automatic transmission car.

You’re right in front of your car’s steering. And you want to ignite your car and have the engine running.

Make sure you car’s gearbox in on the N (Neutral) position, you don’t want to end up start your car and have it banging on other object before you knowing it.

Have your car’s key ready.

Locate where you can insert your car’s key to start the engine, normally would be located on the right side of your car’s steering.

By slowly turning your key CLOCKWISE, you’ll hear some sound indicating it is starting up.

On the previous picture, that was on the ACC state, by turning your key towards the START state, keep it on that state until you have your engine running/started and release it. DONOT HOLD YOUR KEY ON THE START’s state for a long time! You might end up damaging your car’s engine for it.

You have your engine running, and you’re ready for cruisin’

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How to use your car’s seatbelt

Out of the blue one might question on the importance of a car’s seatbelt. But have you ever wondered that one of the oldest invention would be this one? And I’m not sure that it has evolve that much compared to…let’s say iMac.

It’s very easy to locate your car’s seatbelt anywhere in your car.

Upon reaching it, inspect if the belt if working fine and doesn’t stuck when pulled.

If you’re on the driver’s seat in Malaysia (right side of the car), your belt will be pulled from right side of your body across to your left and you will see this red colour “PRESS” thing.

Push it in, no cow force needed. You’re done! And safe! (varies on style of driving )

And if you want to free yourself from the lock, push your finger down on the PRESS button?

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