Does anyone know if there are any Perodua shops / salesperson with ready stock Ativa? Parents want to get one next month and I heard the waiting period is still rather long, like a 3-4 months wait but heard from some people online there are places with ready stock.

Do you actually believe it was a real long term review and was purchased with their oun fund without any prior engagement with other parties?

Hi All,

Just got new my car last week, direct trade in my old car to Perodua Sales branch. Initially i plan to wait around 1 to 2 months. I was surprise the SA call me my car has arrived just in 3 weeks only.

And for the Perodua Smartlink i google for this app call easy connection apk file version 3.0.3 (both are develop by the same company) and install in my android 11. Its working flawless and can use the Mic button on steering for Google Assistant.

Dont use the newest version 4.0 and above. Its 60mb and buggy.

Were you doing some work with the components there?

Those brown marks are rust at welding areas. Wonder what will happen a few years later with those rust? Hope Perodua will improve on its QC and QA.

Ed209,
Can explain about the shortcomings of the ACC and LKA?

u pay what u get.... msian like car that has more gadget , lajulaju and cheap cheap.

I'm not sure if you have come across this already or not, but seems like there's a DIY method to fix the rattling noise from the dashboard. Taken from Ativa Club Malaysia fb group page.

have u reset throttle position memory before

Hey all! Has anyone received their car booked in march or April 2022?
Or looks like we are going to wait another 6-12 months?

50k

Lol, I commented not happy w their service, and ticked yes on if I want them to call me back, tak call pulak.

My survey for 10k was last week I think.
Regarding wind noise do you mean the wind noise that come from the rear like a window not closed properly? Driving me crazy.
My complaint with my SC is that I complained my steering wheel sounds like there is a screw loose inside, they helped me replace. But the replaced part is the outer wheel, where the sound is from the center (horn and button area).

Anyone here own both Ativa and Yaris/vios? Are they on par? Close to?

Good question. My family has a 2nd Gen Vios and a 5th Gen City.

I drove and sat in the City on many more occasions than the Vios. But i assume both aren't really too far off. The most noticeable is that the Vios's electric power steering is alot heavier than the City.

But anyway, I've mentioned on this thread before that the Ativa is NO WAY NEAR.....NO WAY NEAR as comfortable than the 5th Gen Honda City.

Vibration damping, sound insulation, handling pot holes, driving position, you name it, everything still loses out to the City by a very very high margin.

Not being a Perodua hater, but this is just facts, I am an Ativa owner of 5 months.

The City is already 10 years old and still drives and ride like new, of course there has been some repairs needed. Compared to my brand new Ativa, within 1 month, the dashboard started rattling. And every now and then, I would hear odd mechanical sounds.

Of course, the only aspect where the City loses out to the Ativa is through electronic features. But even this, where the Ativa should hold advantage, a lot of those features fall flat on their face. I've mentioned before, the turbo engine doesn't vibrate as much on idle, but the vibration is more noticeable when driving, which all car reviewers failed to point out. The engine vibration is enough that it can result in dashboard rattling. The ACC is so harsh that as a cruise control lover, I never use the ACC at all. LKC also doesn't do much since its essentially a slightly more proactive version of the lane departure prevention feature minus the visual and audio warnings.

And don't even get me started on the silly in car head unit. Unless you're STILL running android 10 below, or you're extremely lucky, or you have an iphone, you're not going to be successful in mirroring your phone to the head unit.

The Ativa is the perfect car for the marketing and sales department. New DNGA platform, 33% more stiff, ACC, LKC, BSM, RTCA, LDW, LDP, ADB, turbo charged engine D-CVT, Llumar tinting, dash cam, premium bridgestone turanza tyres. A whole long list of marketable features. But when you assess the performance of EACH AND EVERY INDIVIDUAL FEATURE that they promote, every single one of them falls flat to the ground face first.

1. New DNGA platform 33% more stiff: who cares if the ride quality is still poorer than a 2008 City and the plastics used for the interior cabin rattle like marbles in a box.
2. ACC/LKC: ACC is too harsh and almost not usable at all, LKC makes steering looser on high speeds when it should be tighter and heavier for control.
3. 1.0 Turbo Engine: still consumes more fuel vs the myvi engine, unnecessarily introduces a bunch of NVH imperfections into the cabin that is non-existent in lower end cars like myvi or bezza. Torque (not sure if peak) only comes in from 2.5k rpm, which is somewhat pointless since most drivers tend to accelerate at that rpm with naturally aspirated engines.
4. D-CVT can still feel like ordinary AT gear box on very low speeds. Every time you move from a standstill at low speeds, you will feel an upshift (yes I know CVT's don't do that but this one does). Because of that, when you're crawling in jams and you're gently stepping and letting off the gas pedal, the car will jerk. 110km/hr cruise is still relatively high for CVT at 2.5k rpm. (Note, speedo on the Ativa is overestimated by 5km/hr to prevent speeding fines, so true 110km/hr will result in 2.7k rpm). When driving economically, the gearbox likes to remain at RPMs lower than 1.8k, this is where majority of the engine vibration is felt while driving.
5. Llumar tinting, you will still feel the sun and you will still sweat unless you turn the A/C up higher.
6. Bridgestone tyres: 205mm width is not common and cost 400 per tyre.

Point i'm making here, every feature on the car that was promoted, doesn't function properly at all to the point that the car is essentially a jack of all trades but literally a master at none.

The features are so half assed that it ends up making such a good looking car a half assed car.

In hindsight, if i knew the Ativa was going to rattle like hell, I would've gone straight to a J spec Yaris, which at that time, was selling under MYR 70k.

Bad car to buy, but fucking good car to sell.

i manage to connect my S20 but along the way, it disconnected sendiri and to re-connect its like 50-50

already change 2 cables (both have data transfer and PD), even original samsung type-C also have the problem to connect with Ativa radio

funny thing is, the same cable works for X70 EasyCon functions  

Not sure why it happen but heard from ativa fb group

the updated version of easycon / carbit release causes an issue with connecting to ativa IFU. Need to download previous version