If you are thinking about buying a new ASX, let me share my experience on one thing. When I bought my car, I was offered 2 years free service (labour and parts) worth RM3,000 which I thought was a good deal, because basically I will have zero maintenance cost in the first 2 years.

Now I regret taking this offer. Why? Because there is no such thing as free. You are paying for it. I found out that if you dont want the free 2-year service (upto 40,000km service), you can get a discount of similar amount. The disadvantage of taking the free service offer is that you need to use it within 2 years, otherwise you will burn your free service. My problem is that my ASX is my wife's car, which we use as second car, so it is relatively low mileage.

Now I have to use my ASX really hard to make sure I can reach 40,000km before my 2 year expired, so that I can get the 40,000km free service, which cost about RM2,000 as it is a major service. If I missed servicing my car before the 2 year expired, I will have to pay RM2,000 out of my own pocket. Essentially I already paid for this 40,000km service upfront, now because the car is low mileage, I run the risk of having to pay RM2,000 for the major service on my own if I dont send my car before 2 year expired or if my car not reach 40,000km yet.

My advice, dont take the 2-year free service (labour and parts), and take the discount instead. That you way you can take your own sweet time to do service as an when your car reached 40,000km, and not have to rush and really use your ASX extensively just to make sure your car can reach 40,000km within 2 years so that you can claim my free service worth RM2,000. This is a lesson learnt from me which I am sharing with you guys.

If you are thinking about buying a new ASX, let me share my experience on one thing. When I bought my car, I was offered 2 years free service (labour and parts) worth RM3,000 which I thought was a good deal, because basically I will have zero maintenance cost in the first 2 years.

Now I regret taking this offer. Why? Because there is no such thing as free. You are paying for it. I found out that if you dont want the free 2-year service (upto 40,000km service), you can get a discount of similar amount. The disadvantage of taking the free service offer is that you need to use it within 2 years, otherwise you will burn your free service. My problem is that my ASX is my wife's car, which we use as second car, so it is relatively low mileage.

Now I have to use my ASX really hard to make sure I can reach 40,000km before my 2 year expired, so that I can get the 40,000km free service, which cost about RM2,000 as it is a major service. If I missed servicing my car before the 2 year expired, I will have to pay RM2,000 out of my own pocket. Essentially I already paid for this 40,000km service upfront, now because the car is low mileage, I run the risk of having to pay RM2,000 for the major service on my own if I dont send my car before 2 year expired or if my car not reach 40,000km yet.

My advice, dont take the 2-year free service (labour and parts), and take the discount instead. That you way you can take your own sweet time to do service as an when your car reached 40,000km, and not have to rush and really use your ASX extensively just to make sure your car can reach 40,000km within 2 years so that you can claim my free service worth RM2,000. This is a lesson learnt from me which I am sharing with you guys.

you should have used 6-monthly instead of every 5,000km

my car is > 5yrs old and it's only 52,000km LoL

serviced every 6 month intervals regardless of km travelled

Thx for your info and I think the new 2015 FL player had been replace from initial 2014 CKD.
no way to fix the rubber smell?

If you are thinking about buying a new ASX, let me share my experience on one thing. When I bought my car, I was offered 2 years free service (labour and parts) worth RM3,000 which I thought was a good deal, because basically I will have zero maintenance cost in the first 2 years.

Now I regret taking this offer. Why? Because there is no such thing as free. You are paying for it. I found out that if you dont want the free 2-year service (upto 40,000km service), you can get a discount of similar amount. The disadvantage of taking the free service offer is that you need to use it within 2 years, otherwise you will burn your free service. My problem is that my ASX is my wife's car, which we use as second car, so it is relatively low mileage.

Now I have to use my ASX really hard to make sure I can reach 40,000km before my 2 year expired, so that I can get the 40,000km free service, which cost about RM2,000 as it is a major service. If I missed servicing my car before the 2 year expired, I will have to pay RM2,000 out of my own pocket. Essentially I already paid for this 40,000km service upfront, now because the car is low mileage, I run the risk of having to pay RM2,000 for the major service on my own if I dont send my car before 2 year expired or if my car not reach 40,000km yet.

My advice, dont take the 2-year free service (labour and parts), and take the discount instead. That you way you can take your own sweet time to do service as an when your car reached 40,000km, and not have to rush and really use your ASX extensively just to make sure your car can reach 40,000km within 2 years so that you can claim my free service worth RM2,000. This is a lesson learnt from me which I am sharing with you guys.

CKD ASX is serviced every 10,000km.

HI, Sifu,

  Does it easy to install.? can we install the Chome panel our self.?

I have not found a way yet. To be honest, I have not even asked the service centre to look into this, because from what I read here, this is "normal", so I just accept it.

If you are thinking about buying a new ASX, let me share my experience on one thing. When I bought my car, I was offered 2 years free service (labour and parts) worth RM3,000 which I thought was a good deal, because basically I will have zero maintenance cost in the first 2 years.

Now I regret taking this offer. Why? Because there is no such thing as free. You are paying for it. I found out that if you dont want the free 2-year service (upto 40,000km service), you can get a discount of similar amount. The disadvantage of taking the free service offer is that you need to use it within 2 years, otherwise you will burn your free service. My problem is that my ASX is my wife's car, which we use as second car, so it is relatively low mileage.

Now I have to use my ASX really hard to make sure I can reach 40,000km before my 2 year expired, so that I can get the 40,000km free service, which cost about RM2,000 as it is a major service. If I missed servicing my car before the 2 year expired, I will have to pay RM2,000 out of my own pocket. Essentially I already paid for this 40,000km service upfront, now because the car is low mileage, I run the risk of having to pay RM2,000 for the major service on my own if I dont send my car before 2 year expired or if my car not reach 40,000km yet.

My advice, dont take the 2-year free service (labour and parts), and take the discount instead. That you way you can take your own sweet time to do service as an when your car reached 40,000km, and not have to rush and really use your ASX extensively just to make sure your car can reach 40,000km within 2 years so that you can claim my free service worth RM2,000. This is a lesson learnt from me which I am sharing with you guys.

I am looking at ASX, CX5 and Forester but wondering what the best deal for ASX now?

Can I have the summary of cons on ASX as when I read through the forum, highly reflect issues are below:

1) Rubber Odor smell from A/C vent when sudden accelerate at >110km/h speed. Is this confirm fix in new 2016 model per some of the comment?
2) Player keep on hang and cacat Navi. Any firmware ugprade can fix this?
3) Rubber effect on CVT but I think this is normal for CVT gearbox w/ slow pick up.

Any other issues?

Thx

Knocking sound when reversing. SA says it is due to the brake pads and should go away. 6 months and the sound is still there.

Totally agree.

Good thing mine came with 2 years free service, 5 years warranty and cash discount.

You are required to service your car every 6 months even not yet reached 10,000 km as they mention whichever come first. So you noneed gila gila go push to 40,000km

I'm guessing, if you dont take the 2 years free service, you will get additional RM3,000 discount on top of whatever discount that you got.
I dont like to have my car serviced for 40,000km at (for example) 37,500km. It will "messed up" the next interval because the next one will be due on 47,500 instead of at 50,000km, which will mess up the next one and the next one as well. I would rather use my car a little bit more (and rest my other car) so that it can reach it the required mileage a little bit faster then normal. This is just my personal preference.

If that the case, its mean you choose to void your car warranty if anything happened instead of servicing it on time which on 6 months or before.

interestingly, this happens mostly with CKD batches

maybe if you can have a CBU and CKD side by side, you can compare the insulations and stuff like dat

CBU even has CVT cooler on the left, lower side at the front bumper, near the foglight

dunno CKD still retain this or not

Is the cvt cooler compulsory/necessary? For NA car?

Is the cvt cooler compulsory/necessary? For NA car?

Did my 40,000KM major service on 15/02/16. My mileage at that time was 19,911KM. I am following the duration, not the mileage. And yes, it is the last free service. My car is 2 years old now.

wah, u more keng. less than 10k km a year. hahaha