bigger rims will make your pick up become even worse. if you always low load and travel a lot on highway, it's ok. However, the suspension gonna take extra penalty, could be potentially shorter life span.

This post has been edited by singk: Mar 23 2015, 10:25 PM

rm600 for whole set? well, alza suspension is more towards soft side as it mean for comfort (in fact OEM suspension setting are set to softer for comfort), else, you gonna have a bumpy jumping car when you drive alone. my 9 yrs myvi had a KO'ed front abs, i haven't change it still, just a bit nasty when going through bump (dives down easier).

perodua cars are never famous of their suspension setup. They give you a sedate feeling in terms of ride handling. Wanna get a good feel of ride and handling and your pocket is not deep enough, go for Persona / Gen2 if you aiming for passenger car. pick up sucks but the ride and handling worth the price.

Yea, german cars are quite good in terms of their suspension setup, i remember an article comparing vios, almera, city and Polo sedan ride and handling during emergency maneuver i.e zig zag movement. Polo sedan rank 2nd in the test as City ranks 1st with minor difference (due to VSA equipped while Polo Sedan is kosong).

price worthy! outside mechanic quote me rm400 for front abs and rm180 for rear (that was for myvi).

what's your average speed bro? 5 passenger?

dun play play... i think the price difference is due to the pad material. i drove a saga BLM which uses Mintye pads (with Proton logo on it as well), purposely tried the brake pad performance under continuous braking from gohtong jaya towards karak highway (downhill), slam the brakes when going down hill, guess what, brake fade!!! Have to slow down, wait for the rotor to cool down a bit, and the brake force comes back again. Stop by petrol station to have a check on the brake, a bit smelly, but no obvious discoloration on the rotor (where you get to see some colours on the rotor if it's overheated). hence my personal feeling on mintye pads wasn't very good.

if you use the word strong and you mean it, my advise is take it for a check at sc. my 9 yrs old myvi manual doesn't have strong vibration on the gear shifter albeit i able to feel the vibration when i slightly playing the the clutch during the freeplay distance (there's a slight freeplay before the clutch pedal engage any movement on the clutch pad)

unless you messing around with the sensors, else you can't get a significant improvement by using this cyclone thingy. about voltage stabiliser, i'm not sure how much it helps but again, i personally don't think the impact going to be significant if you are just a typical driver.

sure you have, if you have a deep pocket, a piggyback ECU that override the AF ratio setting, make your air fuel ratio towards lean side. and that saves fuel. the draw back is you going to have more sluggish pick up as it disturbs the torque curve. If you have a shallow pocket and some electronic knowledge, disturb the O2 sensor signal by using resistor.

FC is good

yea... you can't expect an MPV class vehicle to perform like a hatchback. there's always gain & loss when you make a choice. i would say alza is quite a decent choice if you wanna get a versatile vehicle. You can consider exora if alza doesn't satisfies you (i assume your budget only cater for P1 / P2 MPV).

Good thing about exora (turbo) compared to alza
more spacious
more stability during high speed
better handling
more spirited drive
more comfort (rear passenger got their aircond)

Bad thing about exora compared to alza
bad fuel consumption especially during city drive
the feeling on the brand
it use timing belt
cvt box
bulky

unlikely coz alza is not drive by wire, nor having any e throttle mechanism. unless you decide to do something to the throttle control mechanism

i kinda puzzle on jimmy's statement as well.... so far i only know alza terbakar for twice (that was on the news type)

given myvi & wira is the best seller for so many years, more over wiras are already aging (and some really early batch of myvis as well), so it's not hard to observe myvi and wira breakdown. if you say always see lotus car breakdown, that a news.

if plainly radiator fan i think it's not so obvious.it's more obvious when the aircond compressor kicks in. Conclusion is: It's normal.

u r welcome bro.

strangely my myvi is having this problem as well, it's more obvious when the aircond compressor kicks in. anyway, this myvi girl still running well, it's her 9 years this year. and the battery replacement interval is normal as well (approx 2 years)

well, back to your point, to manufacturer, cost is everything, if you wanna have a circuitary that doesn't dim a while when aircond kicks in, either you change the aircond clutch to a lower power ones (that gives you an even hotter aircond since perodua aircond is not so cold adi), or you bump up the cables size and the power rating (not guarantee to solve the problem but it will reduce the symptom). And this increase the cost a lot.
Imagine you have a main water pipe (main trunk cable) supplying water to all the pipes (electronics stuffs, injectors, sensor, fan, light etc), when you switch on the largest pipe (the aircond), the other pipe will surely feel the drop in pressure the moment the big water pipe opens. The same happens when you switch on dome light and starting engine, the dome light dims. I think perodua will try many ways to save cost so we gotta bear with it (unless we wanna pay more for non dim lights during aircond kicks in)

some people using welding cable to replace the stock ones. and they proclaim the engine less noisy. and the dimming problem got improved. probably they are right as the welding cable provide a bigger channel for the grounding current to flow. Imagine highway traffic and kampung road traffic. hehe....

usually the salesman will go through a checklist with you, go through it one by one and dun let the slaesman go through then sign without checking through it, pick a shady place (guess you dun wanna got sun tanned for inspecting your car)

i share you what i do...
1. check all lights and switches
2. check wiper functionality (wipe & spray)
3. mirror functionality check
4. test central lock
5. cosmetic check, scratches, dent, paint chip offs
6. my 2014 SE still using the old style aircond hose, they miss out the hose, i heard new batch no need use the hose anymore but they stick a metal sticker on the steering rack instead.

so far this is my experience....

kinda surprise, 2014 Alza FL don't have metal sticker on it (at least mie doesn't come with sticker) and the aircond condensate is directly dripping on the steering rack.

that a good heads up! but i do believe the probability for such thing to happen is kinda low or near to zero unless you use a pressurized hose and blast on the windscreen continuously. coz usually (my personal thoughts) hardly the water able to line up on top of the battery forming a connection between the terminals as your terminal should be oily (as the SC replace the terminal protector when you service your car which is oily)

thanks, i will check mine when i have the chance, or i try to spray water on it continuously using garden hose and see the outcome, i just worried your case is "independent" as the rubber seal might "ngam ngam" defect at that spot (what a coincident!)

The DIY cover a brilliant idea. Just watch out if you using wet battery, the vapor gonna eat up the plastic material.