And even more it is good news for Proton

I will get my car next week, anything I should know for my inspection before I sign the documents? Apart from the things in post 1 which are meanwhile maybe not that relevant any more.

Anyone installed a running board? Proton seems to offer nothing even they had it in the "utility package". Shopee and Lazada full with it, probably all China stuff for Binyue.

Looks indeed tinted, but obviously it is not when Proton says so.

Wait until the technology is matured more. The x50 autopark is a gimmick, it is not really working yet.

Oh yes!!!!!!! 1 billion times more useful than autoparking, it really makes parking much much easier. And the 360 camera works excellent.

Is it a problem of Proton´s chinese operating system or why are the names of the radio stations not shown, only frequency? Quite ridiculous in 2021, isn´t it?

Yes, probably. But this is absolutely ridiculous. Proton is still a Malaysian car company, this car is manufactored here and it cannot get Malaysia RDS information? The have local contractors and they even should be able to perform this by themselves. Please all complain

Normal. Many branches now fulfill November 2020 orders.

Cabin yes, trunk no Meanwhile I even doubt if it is really 330 liter. Which already is very tiny. But OK if you not plan to drive around a lot of suitcases. With my golf bag and trolley it is full already.

Protons mood to sell these packages seems to have disappeared. Anyway my branch never had any interest to sell.

All colors are popular except Silver. The metallic colors are available without a surcharge, that made it hard for me to choose something else.

By the way, Proton tried to cheat me with the FOC 1st service. Even I booked in 2020 they claimed I was not in the first 30000 bookings. Later they certainly admitted that I am, but this is really disappointing and a shame to treat customers who waited more than one year for the car. I would not be suprised if they do this with all customers, hoping that many will not stand up for their rights.

Another thing is this ridiculous schedule with a mandatory service every 6 month instead of 12. Just a complete waste of money if you are not driving really a lot. But if you not throw away the good oil every 6 months I guess the 5 year warranty is lost.

Overall I am satisfied with the car. Just the infotainment unit is terrible with that chinese system that is about 10 million times worse than others.

Sure, first service after a few weeks / 1000 km is absolutely normal.


Actually this was true some years before. Nowadays with high quality synthetic motor oils and more efficient motors the usual interval should be 10000 km. Under special circumstances it can be shorter but if you drive 5000 km a year like I do by no means you need to change the oil every six months. It is a crazy waste to throw away this oil after lets say 3000 km or less.

OK, things are different if Protons own brand motor oil would be low quality. But as it is fully synthetic and from Petronas (and not cheap!) it is for sure good quality. Obviously the 6 months interval from Proton and others is just to make business for their service centers and some mandatory aftersales income for the HQ

Volkswagen for example is already using oil that can last up to 30000 km and 2 years.

"Their" engine was built without any contribution from them.

And it is not about confidence, it is about the unfair policy that you need to throw away perfect oil after 6 months so that they can make money. Otherwise you lose the warranty, that comes a little bit close to blackmail

Certainly I follow their rules during the 5 years warranty time and donate the money to them. But I have to admit that I did not realize that Proton has this mandatory 6 months interval when I ordered my X50. In other countries nobody would buy a car that you need to bring for service every 6 months instead of 12.

Thanks, I guess Mr Sandqvists answer does not leave any question open.

Or this RM 36.50 per liter super high end fully synthetic wonder oil from Proton / Petronas is worse than the cheapest mineral oil so it needed to be changed every few kilometers / months

Probably this is not normal. Actually I did almost the same after recieving the car. Driving up to Penang, then 3 days around the Georgetown area (absolutely hell meanwhile, traffic jam at ANYTIME, unbelivable they still have not LRT up there), then back. Had about 10l/100 km overall. But for citydrive only it is surely much higher. So check the total trip.

Why this car always lose the internet connection!

Ipoh. But it is not just based on location, because I drive the same road every day. Somedays internet holds, somedays connection lost. Next week I am in KL, will see how it is down there.

Yes will do at 6 month service visit next month.

But why oh why this crappy chinese software is not even able to work properly with JOOX, another chinese app?

The Baidu navigation is not able to speak Bahasa, which is not so good when all the street names are in Bahasa. So the implementation work Proton has done for the Malaysian market is really so far away from being usable. I also would recommend them to just give up and change to Android Auto.

Looks like there is a chance that we get rid of this unusable OS soon:
https://<link removed>/2022/04/29/proton-x50-t...os-by-aco-tech/

If the new one is better, who knows.