Did you trade in your old car for this serena? If yes, then probably the RM150 is for puspakom test. Starting from July 2013, if you are selling your car, you need to get certify from puspakom. The test is only RM90, but RM60 is for the runner to take it to test.

For new car testing, cost RM400 already included in the car price.

I received my white serena couple of weeks ago. It has just clocked over 600km.

From my limited experience, I am quite satisfied with the car except for some minor issues.

It is probably not as sound proof as your friends' peugeot or toureg. Can't compare as serena is more of a van. Also it has the biggest door opening (2 auto door), plus the equally huge door at the back. The only thing separate inside and the outside are the rubber door seals around these doors. I have a prius which is quite good in term of sound proofing and I don't have any problem with sound insulation of Serena.

The engine does sounded a bit loud when accelerating. But once cruising, it is almost stealthy. But this is for speed below 130km/h. Have not gone faster yet.

As I have a prius, I have some understanding of how hybrid suppose to work. From my limited knowledge on hybrid on serena, I assume that whenever we don't step on the gas pedal, press on the brake or idling (full battery charge), the s-hybrid light should turn on. This means that the car is charging the battery, or is using the battery to power up your car. When I don't press on the gas pedal, I can feel that the car started to slow down faster as it started to charge the battery with the s-hybrid light on.

What baffle me is that this doesn't happen all the time. Sometimes, the light doesn't turn on when I am slowing down or braking. I think the car doesn't get charge up. I can feel this as the car can go much longer distance after I release the gas pedal.

I wish Serena have some indicator to show us how much power is in the hybrid battery, how much we are using and how much we are charging at any instant. This will train us to drive Serena more efficiently.

The fuel indicator is also quite jumpy. It can jump up and down a couple of notches within a short distance.

As for tyre size, I think they are fine. However, in my opinion, you can improve the car handling and stability by installing stabilizer bar, anti-roll bar and lower bars to strengthen the car body frame. This way, you can feel the car more stable when go at higher speed or going round corners.

Fuel consumption wise, it is too early to comment. I would think that we can achieve around 10-12km in city driving. If this is true, then it is quite good for vehicle this size.

Just found out that the Serena cruise control max speed is set at 108km/h.
If you drive faster than 108km/h, you can't set the cruise control, regardless of whether you are in ECO mode or not. At 108km/h, the true speed is only 102km/h!
I don't see any note on this in the owner's manual or find anything on this in the web.
Anyone has any idea how to bypass this so call safety feature?

To my understanding, all our cars speedometer is set at roughly 5% higher than the actual speed. If your speedometer shows that you are going at a speed of 110km/h, you are actually going at around 105km/h.
To know your actual speed, you can refer to your gps speed.
This is probably done to avoid you from over speeding.

They told me it is safety feature and they will not disable this feature (even if they know how to)

To me, driving at 108km/h with auto cruise control is more dangerous than driving at faster speed with auto cruise control because the former will tend to make you feel sleepy.

Err...not normal, I think.

Did you stuck at 9.9km/l for a full tank of petrol? Or did you accidentally put your car on sport mode.

It is normal if you have just fill up your tank and drive less than 50km. However, the number should rise as you drive further and the meter gets more accurate.

Even town driving can get me 11km/l. On the highway, I can get as high as 14.8km/l on a full tank average. A full tank on the highway can get you over 700km.