Just to confirm, you guys got GearUp for free from your SA? I've just gotten my Silver AV allocated and have to pay for GearUp so I ended up only gettting Utility Package at my own expense

Finally, after 6 months, I will be getting my silver AV tomorrow.

Like to seek advice on the following:

1. Any specific areas that I need to pay attention to when taking delivery or can revert back on any issue during 1st service?

2. Any accessories that I should look into to make my drive more comfortable? Example - how effective is the window tints or should I go add another layer? What about wind/road noise reduction measures?

Any suggestions & advice will be most appreciated..........

Thanks a lot for your detailed advice & suggestions. Most helpful!

I have taken delivery of my silver AV and have been driving it for a few days now. I have a couple of observation/query that I like to share as well as to look for advice & suggestions:

1. While I am pleasantly surprised with the many features of driving support system & found them very useful, in particular, the Blind Spot Monitor (many of the rest yet to have real-life experience), I also experienced 'engine suppression' frequently while driving slowly, turning or accelerating, instead of the normal smooth driving. Wonder whether this is due to some settings on some features? Anybody has similar experience?

2. The AV model's light switch comes with 'Auto' instead of 'Off' switch, which is convenient. However, I noticed that my head lamps come on as soon as I pass through a shaded area such as driving under a flyover that runs across the road. In KL whether there are many such flyovers & shaded areas such as the 'massive' LRT/MRT stations, the head lamps will turn on & off upon coming across such short sections of the road. There seems to be no way to adjust the 'sensitivity' or 'delay' in this 'auto' function. Is this normal or is my unit especially sensitive? Unfortunately, there is no 'Off' switch. Any suggestions?

3. I don't find the eco IDLE feature useful for me as most of my driving is around Klang valley where continuous start-stop driving at traffic jams are the norm (& the aircon compressor with stop when the eco IDLE system kicks in), it will likely to cause more wear & tear on the battery, starter & probably air-con compressor. There is a third party switch that one can buy to permanently disable this feature (Alza only allows disabling for the drive). Is it more advisable to install this switch or to remember to disable this feature every time we drive?

Thank you.......

Thanks for the advice & suggestions:

1. I activated power mode and the 'engine suppression' is much less noticed, but, occasionally still can feel it. I noticed this happens when the car slows down & the CVT swift to lower gear (can see the rev-counter moves down then up), most noticeable with normal drive mode (didn't try eco drive mode, presumably will be most noticeable).

2. Thanks for the comment. It just feels odd that the headlamps come on full suddenly when you just passed under a short shaded road

3. What's 'ct coil connector' - is it the additional funny device at the positive connector to the battery?

Thanks for your advice & suggestion.

1. I agree with you, probably due to the CVT - less visible under Power drive mode. Just have to get use to it instead of thinking maybe the handbrake is on or a flat tire

2. I have not changed anything in the car yet, so, no change in windshield tint. Thought for AV model, they should provide 'Auto' headlamp as an added feature instead of a replacement for 'Off' headlamp

3. Yes, eco idle can be irritating under hot weather. Still looking for a good solution. For now, just manually disable every time.

Just to share my experience in KL. I got Perodua to organise for trade-in valuation & I also went on Carsome. Carsome quoted me a price below my expectation, then offer me to place my car on their online auction (you give a target price & they will it put up, if no bid, they will re-auction next round with 5% price drop & they'll do this twice) with no commitments. If there is a bid, you can decide whether to take up or pass. If finally you didn't manage to sell your car, there will be no cost to you. But, if you sell via the auction, they will charge you RM500 if price is less than RM50K, else it'll be RM1K. I gave the auction a try.

Then, I went in to Perodua for valuation (and discuss on the delivery) & they quoted slightly higher than Carsome's quote. After nego (managed to get an additional RM1K), I finally decided to go with the Perodua-arranged trade-in option.

It is Perodua-arranged in the sense that Perodua arranged for a 2nd hand car dealer to buy my old car. But, to the customer (that is me), there is no difference on who is the eventual buyer - I just pass my registration card to them & they go to register an intent to transfer ownership at JPJ website, then, I just pay Perodua the price difference for the new car and when eventually the new car is ready, I just drive my old car to Perodua sales office & the 2nd hand car dealer will come to take delivery of the old car & I took delivery of the new car.

Just to complete the story, eventually, I got a bid from Carsome's online auction and after deducting their service fees, I would have got more for my old car than via Perodua's trade-in (around RM1.5K). But, selling via Carsome means you need to deliver the car to them within 5 days (& they'll pay to you within a couple of days) - they'll take care of JPJ/Puspakom side, just like Perodua's trade-in. So, the hassles for selling to Carsome are: you may need to pay the full amount to Perodua first & you'll have to find alternate transport as you will unlikely be able to get your new car at the same time as delivering your car to Carsome. I decided to go for the trade-in to avoid hassles

Hope the above experience is useful.

Hi, went for my 1st inspection (no service) today & raised a few queries but not convinced with service's comments. Hope to get some inputs & suggestions from the more experienced users.

Firstly, I seem to have issues with aircon controls, specifically the memory settings. Set M1 for low then set M2 for high. After that, press M1 to get the aircon back to low, instead, I got the same M2 high airflow & my control shows both M1 & M2 symbols, see image attached.



Secondly, when I washed my car, I discovered very fine scratch on both sides in front of the wheel arches. They are very fine & not deep, so, one will not detect it on casual inspection and the scratch is identical (as far as I can see) on both sides. I asked the Sales when I detected them, she said it is part of the design. So, I double-checked with the Service Advisor this morning & at the end of the inspection, he told me the same story & said he checked his Alza & just discovered the same 'fine scratch'. But, I can't see any logic in having this as a 'design' for a car. Wonder whether anyone has similar 'fine scratches'?

Thanks for your clarification. I just find it strange to have such design.

Don't know. The service centre checked it this morning & they didn't managed to get this, but, after that, I tried to set up myself & hit the same issue. I don't think the console design can't be that bad that it allows M1M2 to be activated together

After using my new Alza AV for a few months, I have a few items that I like to seek fellow Alza owners for advice & comments:

Door Auto-unlock Function
I understand that there is door auto-unlock functions (settings to switch between gear shift position linked auto-unlock of doors, engine switch-off linked auto-unlock of doors or disable function). I like to set to engine switch-off linked auto-unlock of doors but the service rep of Perodua said not possible to set this up. Anyone has any experience in this?

Heads-up Display Function
I discovered on my car that frequently (but still unable to ascertain under what specific conditions) if I shift to reverse very shortly after I have started the car, the reverse camera will come on for a short while then disappear. So, I ended up having to shift out of reverse and shift back to reverse to get the reverse camera. Anyone has such experience? Is this just the Heads-up Display unit taking too slow to fully start up? My previous car (7 years old Nissan XTrail) has no such issue, and the HU display seems to be a lot more responsive than Alza's (hence my suspicion this issue is due to slow start up).

2nd Row Seatback Adjustment Lever
My 2nd row seatback adjustment levers (to fold up the 2nd row seat to access to 3rd row seats) are very stiff. Any suggestion where I can apply some silicon or WD40 to lubricate to reduce the difficulties in folding the seat?

TQ!

Thanks for your help, managed to set up the auto-unlock.

The 2nd row seat = you are right, I meant the lever on the side of the seat that you need to press forward to release the seat for folding. I remember checking with the Service Rep during my first service & he said nothing can be done, it will be less stiff after use. But, so far, I am still having great difficulty to press the lever forward enough to release the seat. You know, when you have kids rushing to either get in or out of the 3rd row seats, such stiffness creates pressures on me