Hi everyone,

I've been facing a strange and worrying issue with my car, and I'm hoping someone here might have experienced something similar or can offer some advice.

Whenever I turn on the air conditioning, a few moments later smoke starts coming out from the engine bay. When I check, there's water everywhere around the area below the A/C compressor, and there's a strong unpleasant smell. After this happens, the A/C stops blowing cold air.

At the same time, the engine behaves oddly, it feels like it's in "power mode" (very responsive throttle) even though I'm in normal driving mode. The RPMs or engine sound seem off when I lightly press the accelerator. However, this strange behavior goes away after a while.

I brought the car to a Proton Service Centre, but they couldn’t find any clear issue. They diagnosed the air conditioning system, did a refrigerant flush, and refilled it with new gas. Everything seemed normal again, cold A/C and no weird sounds, until I switched off the engine and restarted it. Right after restarting, the same engine behavior returned, and the second time I turned on the A/C, water gushed out again, followed by smoke in the engine bay.

I believe the "smoke" might actually be steam from water evaporating off hot engine parts, but I'm not entirely sure.

Has anyone encountered this kind of issue before, with water or refrigerant leaking, strange engine behavior, and a temporary loss of A/C cooling? Would really appreciate any insights or suggestions

If stay in Selangor, will suggest go to Puncak Merak Semenyih SC, SC at Ioi Putrajaya mall or Bangi The Apple SC

X50 Flagship, 2 years, 80k mileage

I just changed my car tyres, and this happens after I went pump petrol

warranty already over i suggest you sent your car go AC shop check.
as proton SC follow their SOP book i don think they can solve it in short time. especially after that probably coming with whole list of part change.
(example like master brake pump dead, they wanna to quote you whole brake system)

X50 Flagship, 2 years, 80k mileage

I just changed my car tyres, and this happens after I went pump petrol

Ya, i think im going to check from AC shop outside, thanks bro

Does anyone know how to set the unlock button to only open the driver’s door?

Does anyone know how to set the unlock button to only open the driver’s door?

You can set child safety lock on the rear doors.

You need to use the physical key to turn the slot.

You can watch it here:
https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.kereta/video/7291946251250175250

you guys know any walnut blasting on northern johor or melaka area?
wanna to clean throttle body or intake.

because sometime on traffic light, on auto hold D1 or N
car will vibrate with fixed interval, slightly giving it a little throttle/accelerator vibrate will gone for now.

at first i tot rpm dropped too low, but after observation..rpm still same.
changed sparkplug like 5K mileage ago, so i suspect throttle body or intake dirty now.

issue: it doesnt happen on every traffic light stop, so reproduce kinda hard as it random appear

update on these situation.
just now replaced alternator pulley, it seem like the random vibrate 'solved', drive 40~50km stopped few traffic light seem like the vibrate almost not exist(back to normal feeling)
100% not sparkplug as i switched to original plug weeks ago and not solving that vibrate.
tldr: alternator pulley fault.
will update after days of use.
Edit:
I did notice my right side engine mounting (driver side) sink slightly, probably one of the reason the vibrate i mention previously transfer into cabin
still observing until i change the timing/fan belt..will change that mounting together too.

How to turn on back seat door lights? When ever someone opens the back seat doors, the light don't turn on automatically.

family members buying x50 facelift premium spec, any idea the spec, tint brand, as told factory installed the tint.

Ask SA, as usual, no idea.

I picked my X50 3 days ago. No idea about the tint brand, but it's well done & sufficient. Very satisfied with the performance. Absolutely love the digital interior. Just managed to get my head round the digital controls, love it! 

by spec look decent budget tint. at the end depend on quality of the glue.
as long as not super hard to remove. people will satisfied