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Hi all,

Need to ask you all about the type of engine oil used for EB 1st service. I do refer to the manual and it says that you need to used  10W30 for engine oil.

But this morning I was told by the officer at the SC that the manual is wrong. It is duplicated from CPS exora. The reason he said is that our interval period for service is every 10k km that's why need to used fully synthetic which is Syntium 1000 15W50 is it true.???

Is it affect our engine in long term??

Anyone get the same experience???  

I thought the service  interval that shows in the service booklet and the types of EO in the manual have been take into consideration by those engineer in proton...Otherwise what is the point of having those info in the manual and the service booklet..?? Is it just the save point to be considered by the users ???

Can someone explain ??

Went for my 2nd service at odo 7000km @ Mutiara Damansara SC.

1. Regarding about the grounding whether will void warrany
- SA told my wife that this will void warranty cause it will disrupt the electrical circuit of the car and also part of modding. Isn't grounding helps to stabilize the electrical/curcuit running? And this couldn't consider modding.

2. Alignment/Camber
- Warranty not covered cause SA said alignment/camber easily gets out of alignment and always use. Couldnt hear properly what he tryin to say (on the phone with SA, wife took the car for service). IDK about that but can some one enligthen me about this ? Then why the heck absorber gets warranty which every sec gets abuse when your car in motion? But i got that fixed outside, which my camber lari minus 1.0!!

3. Change OCV which my exora bold had the recalled from Proton
- Fixed that sameday.

4. Sounds from the engine during idle or slowing down (like marble sounds)
- They couldn't figure out the problem and want 1 - 2 days to figure out. Told my wife forget about it, reschedule it for the check.

5. Passenger front seat making sound.
- THey couldn't fix it in time. KIV.

6. Engine Oil
- I bought my own oil (Mobil 1 5w-50 synthetic)  to change but SA do not want to use it cause they do not allowed it. I respect that. Then i'll ask them to use Syntium 1000 but he only give me Syntium 800. I asked why and he said that Syntium 1000 is too thin and will damage your car engine. Im was speechless on the phone and don't wanna to argue with him about vicosity of the oil because i dont think he understands them. You do not need a rocket scientist to figure it out.

Well, here;s my report of my 2nd service @ Mutiara Damansara SC.

For whatever reason i had no idea. I would get better grade oil for my EB if possible, but that is what they giving out now.

According to Lotus engineers who help designed the CFE, they did on record say to use 10W30 and AFAIK, there are no Fully Synthetic 10W30 on the market. Even if you can find them, I am certain they are extremely rare. So are you saying you are smarter than the engine designer?

Neither you nor I are automotive engineers. So it boils down to who should we believe, the engine manufacturer or the engine oil manufacturer? AFAIK, I think it's the engine manufacturer calling the final shot and setting up specification that oil manufacturer has to fulfill. Correct me if I am wrong.

If you believe the CFE manual, it did say you can use some Synthetic but not all Synthetic for CFE in Malaysia. So the SC is technically right because some Synthetic, not all, will indeed harm the engine. So do you know which Synthetic is the SC referring to?

not sure is this the correct treat that i post, but i see this treat is more active compare to the other.

i'm going to have a decision to make with between Exora Bold Standard (CFE) VS ALZA EZI going to get either one of it this comming CNY.

Price exora 69k VS Alza 64K
i'm personally thinking Exora is my 1st choice over Alza, how ever, another major concerns is the FUEL consumption, i'm 7 days a week

working driving from seri kembangang to KL City in peak hours.

Any of you are Alza or Exora Bold CFE users, kindly reply your fuels consumption ?

1. Price for Full tank
2. last for how many KM for full thank?
3. how often you refuel?