it does not straight away eat up your coating, if u clean asap then should be fine

headlight no need. Go do smoking/tinting for headlight better.


Not really. Wax gives ur car shine and a lil more water proofing to your paint and that's it and often very thin. Coating is much thicker than wax hence the durability. My coating needs to do maintenance twice per year but free for 1st session.

Due to the thickness, bird droppings and scratch will not immediately affect the body paint but with just wax, a light scratch will immediately affect your paint and dependning on the extent of the scratch, you may or may not save it by waxing thoroughly.

have a microfibre cloth and turtle wax quick detailer in your car all the time so when you have any bird droppings you can remove it quickly. You can get it in EON

https://www.turtlewax.com/shop/products/tur...-spray-detailer

same with u, waxing instead of coating

Was quoted by Soft 99 glass coating (5 years warranty) at RM2400 i think...

Still go on traditional wash & wax. Wax it once a month, pretty rewarding after the hardwork, took ard 2 hours to wash & wax, using soft 99 liquid wax. Save me RM72 (RM12 for wash & vacuum, RM60 for wax)

This post has been edited by breonwei: Apr 13 2015, 12:25 PM

New Mazda 2 owner reporting

Mazda 2 Sedan Red in colour

Going for 1st service in few days, any service center to recommend? Staying at Kepong, don't mind travelling as long as the service is good.

This post has been edited by lyn_sunshine23: Apr 13 2015, 12:39 PM

Usually u guys wax urself? Or u go to some car care shop n let them do it? I not realky good about car.

I'm a lazy guy so I send to car wash shop.

The only part I'm not sure what to do are the leather seats. I've asked around and some say just use a leather cleaning solution, some say use baby oil.

Read online and people are saying there is a urethane coating on your leather seats that is the one that you must treat, and not the actual animal skin itself because of this coating over it. So have to find a leather cleaning solution that replaces/helps preserve the coating because it wears off overtime. I don't know lah!!!

I am interested with M2.
Just would like to understand more of the aspect such as resale value, maintenance cost and other.
Need to know whether worth to buy.
I try Vios and City is a bit plastic.

have you tested M2?
if u look for resale value, M2 is not for u

I'm using something similar but from Megular. I used Turtlewax rubbing compound to "unscratch" my wife's mystique purple Myvi.
Regret never do coating for that car.


Just look for leather treatment solution (spray type) from Turtlewax or Megula's. They should be sufficient.


Resale value based on history u can forget about it if you choose Mazda (whichever model) but I have confidence Mazda RV will catch up in the future though not sure about M2 yet. Maintenance cost is pretty much standard for engine oil, air filter, oil filter, etc but Mazda and Nissan give 3 years or 60000km whichever comes 1st. After that 3 years, drive shaft, suspensions, bearings, etc would probably hurt more than the other brands. In this sense, Nissan would cost the lowest.

Plastic feel is pretty standard for all cars but M2 feels a bit more premium due to the PU leather finishing and carbon fiber trim here and there. Plus the MZD connect screen and the control knob feels like BMW or Audi.

All the things I said in my previous post still stands. If you intend to buy as family car and travel long distance with family, you should consider Honda City. Vios only selling point is the projector headlamp and resale value.

This post has been edited by t3chn0m4nc3r: Apr 13 2015, 01:26 PM

hai, tinted on headlight mean put on a transparent film ??

a good value car still the honda city. even honda hater must to admit that. it practical, stylish, good resale value, cheaper maintenance, more airbag.
It still the king of everyday hero car in Malaysia.

But when come to something around the hairpin, mazda do better.
it the "most" beautiful car in B segment (my personal opinion). none in B segment can beat it interior sexiness (where you gonna be for whole driving time).
Mazda 2 owners claim the 2 drive lot better than city (fun to drive) and it most fuel saving car (base on paultan review).

everyday hero - city
spirited driver - 2

vios - i dun see any good beside the RV and maintenance cost.

This post has been edited by murasame85: Apr 13 2015, 02:51 PM

Yes. You also have choice to put colored film.


I would like to say from personal experience (My mom drove a Honda City and I drove a Vios both cars about same age). Honda City maintenance (parts price besides engine oil, filters, brake pads and tyres) is higher than Vios. I have colleague driving Almera and most parts, Almera's is the cheapest. So Honda maintenance is only cheaper than Mazda but not cheaper than Toyota or Nissan. Nissan parts are the cheapest by the books.

yup that i want to highlight. i know almera the cheapest maintenance. but both honda and toyota still cheaper than mazda. than why i write "cheaper" not "cheapest"

general idea about cost maintenance
Almera < Vios < City < 2 < Fiesta

dun know about Polo, K-car and others

This post has been edited by murasame85: Apr 13 2015, 03:14 PM

I also wonder about Polo but kimchi cars I heard many mechanics hate fixing kimchi cars.

anyone bought kia car pls look at ur car during service, they dun rly service ur car..even d oil they use from korea which is low quality for ur car. dis is true story,especially 1st service if u dun look at it,they will only clean d marker without changing anything eventhough they said they change d oil also

SERIOUSLY? ... at first i m so happy to go for RIO. when tell family wana buy it.... aunty uncle all shout at me DONT buy, said tis n tat bla bla bla..... damn sad.... lol, M2 came out just in time, so change my mind immediately.

My personal 1st thumb rule of buying car is to avoid Korean/Kimchi car. I may be racist...

I think we really have no idea, because M2 owner still have 3 years free maintenance.
The price and availability of parts are generally determine by how popular is the car model.
M2 is global model, and if it's CBU in thailand, I think the parts will not be difficult to get. Just hope that more M2 will be sold in Malaysia.
BTW, anyone know how long is the waiting list for M2 now??

And if it's CX5, people will not even think twice, because it's everywhere in malaysia, so it must be affordable to own one.

This post has been edited by ssyycc: Apr 13 2015, 05:28 PM