The cylinder head is being worked on by a contractor for Avinda Enterprises but they need to the valves and the valves are still stuck in Piliyandala. When the workshop owner unloaded the cylinder head at Avinda, he had forgotten to hand over the valves. He later promised to have them delivered but that hasn’t happened either. So we are heading out to Piliyandala in the morning today to collect them and hand them over to Avinda so that the work can resume. In the meantime, a look under the hood will leave you with an empty feeling.
Open the bonnet (hang on a second where is the bonnet?) and you get an empty feeling.
While modern Mercedes engines probably have a dozen valves per cylinder, this old lady has only two valves per cylinder yet she still manages to get about 13 Kilometers per liter – or at least the book says it can. The 210 with all it’s electronics is only slightly ahead when it comes to fuel consumption. Right now, I am guessing that she probably does less than 10km/l but I hope that improves after the engine repair is completed.
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