My friend just now mentioned nowadays korean built cars are better, in terms of pricing, in car entertainment technology, reliability and also petrol consumption

Is it true? I plan to buy a car for my sis and if korean is better, im willing to give it a try

Jav >kav

Ioniq 5 and 6

sei sohai hamkaling datang lagi

If you buy now, you probably missed the ship. They are focusing on EV now.

Cutting edge less reliable

Older tech, proven, issues mostly ironed out - boring but dependable

Kimchi cars, experienced once - I am traumatised till now. Need longer time to accept it back.

Kia Forte

Go to hell

I drive K car my wife drive J car which I also drive on weekends. If I change car will definitely stick to K car but nowadays they focus on EV only....

Why?

Their NA car with 6 speed auto probably as reliable as japanese brand.

Peace of m8nd only relates to japanese car

my friend celato 2019 dunno what mileage la already got greyish metal in engine oil. sc said need to overhaul.

hopefully wont happen to mine. same year same model same engine oil used also. haihz scary

Korean car --- water tank always kaput early ..

enlighten me please.
my brother just bought used Forte,
clocked at 120k

just now got ECU problem
car will jerk when accelerate.

Hyundai and Kia pretty much all in on EV right now…

Can gib try to ur sis ukeke?

No, she's mine

1st page?

Regret, part replacement and mechanic is hard to find. I have central locking and automatic sliding door problem after a few month.

yes true starting from Kia Forte onwards.
do you still need another 14 years to review Korean car?
luckily I did my own research based on Forte in US and SG.. and I already enjoy driving it since the last 14 years.

If Korean car boleh pakai, their wimminz no need plastic surgery ady

EO should be replaced every 6 months or 8k km

All the news about IONIC 5 battery costing more than the car itself is no longer rumour. And the condition/ warranty T&C that makes it need replacing with questionable damage is really stupid. I like the look and tech of this car a lot. But this single thing uncertain warranty T&C and high cost of battery makes it a NO RECOMMEND to anyone. I am sure the IONIC 6 and above would suffer the same fate. At the moment cases seems to be isolated to Canada.

which car is this
jalan ipoh is your fren

his mileage only 50k. if he stretch engine oil to 10k km also wont till like this lo.

be worry if you buying japanese related cars or parts, alot of their safety tests were faked.

https://japantoday.com/category/business/to...ed-safety-tests

https://www.drive.com.au/news/daihatsu-halt...eating-scandal/

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/editorial/y...20211006-31426/

https://japanantifraud.org/warning-on-risin...fraud-in-japan/

This post has been edited by narf03: Dec 24 2023, 03:00 PM

Starex from Sabah, everything need to order from Semenanjung. Service center need to keep your car just to fix things. First major problem is central locking and automatic sliding door, now it's starting to be faulty again, i need to fork out money because its not under warranty anymore.

korean car mahal leh, mana ada good pricing?

Kesian...

2 years own Kia Carnival KA4 11 seater since 2022. Bought it for the 5 years free service voucher and warranty.

Trade in Estima Acr50 2010 use for 7 years. Recond give big headache once need major parts replacements. It was clocked 189k km mileage when I trade it off for Carnival.

Yes. I’m a kimchi car owner and I agree that Korean car is more reliable and better quality than Japanese

I recently rent Kona, ICE model. Performance not bad.

This post has been edited by mick84: Dec 24 2023, 04:18 PM

ayamz noe a few fren drive killed-in-action kars.. always got electrical problems..

finally they all sold and some of them upgrade to merc and beamer..

aiseh sorry to hear that bro. that bad eh

Clocking my K at 300k km.

Those kopek2 one, stick with your wira please

Korean

More technologically advanced yes.

More reliable than Japanese? Subjective. It's more reliable than Nissan, Mitsubishi and the WRX Subarus.

Certainly can't beat Toyota and Honda in terms of reliability.

Drive Hyundai Getz for more than 6 years and Accent version 2 for more than 7 years without any real problems at all. All the talk about more expensive service is quite untrue as I faced more or less the same cost driving Honda. What is costly is they only have ori parts unlike Japanese and local brands which cause people to think they are costly to maintain.

All the Hyundai KIA made before 2008 are really bad. The Sephia, Accend, early version S Coupe, early version Elantra, early version Sportage & even the rebadged Atoz had bad reliability issues.

All that seemed to change after Forte arrived in 2008. The the 2 door Forte came and the Veloster later on. All these cars can still be spotted on the road from time to time. Even the Matrix & Sportage that came after 2008 has improved a lot.

The new gen Kia just 5 years ago looked really good and by then the brand had at least 10 years reliability record from USA.

The Gets 2002 was launched 2 years later than Toyota Passo 2004. And we get the improved version from Toyota/ Daihatsu Passo/ Boon in 2006 in the form of Myvi.

At that time Hyundai was not really improving anything from their range until after 2008. My relative had a Getz and a Myvi in the same household. The Gets is a money pit. You can argue the Getz was already 5 years old (when she bought it) compared to the 2008 Myvi. But the repairs cost a lot more for same situation repairs like worn bushings. somehow it was quite costly to repair the engine oil leaking issues on the Getz. Even the shock original absorbers cost more than myvi.

All I can say is you buy second hand cars and you bear the risk. It all depends on how the original owner maintain the car. Plenty of people got burned too buying second hand Japanese or local brands. A 5 year old cats are usually the time where major parts need to be changed and that’s why people change cars after 5 or 6 years. Maybe I was lucky as even driving Getz for 6 years and Accent for 7 years, I did not encounter any major parts replacement problems.

As for parts, like I say it’s all original and it’s more costly than local or the 2 famous Japanese brand because they have non original parts.

The biggest problem with Korean brands is they got screwed by Malaysian distributors. Kia was badly handled by Naza while Hyundai distribution was not united until Sime Darby took over the whole franchise. Sime Darby is one of the worse car distributor in Malaysia as they have too many brands under their care. Over time, the sales never picked up and Korea never really bothered with Malaysian market.

If Korean cars are so bad, they would not have penetrated the western car markets including US. Malaysian has always been stuck with the mentality of Japanese cars are the best. You can see the same happening to China cars as well but China brands seems to be trying very hard to change that mentality.

see many old japanese cars or korean cars?

yea the parts are more expensive than japanese brands.
i have an old matrix & vios still driving around not much issue same same as japanese car just that its more expensive on the maintenance.

It’s more due to distributor. Sales volume is not big enough like Japanese cars where they can store lots of parts.

yea, even for the old car its quite alright.
I did try the KIA forte last time but i feel the steering bit too light.
KIA RIO has feels weird ,gearbox like it hesistates to change gears when i test drove my friends car when he bought new few years back.

Korean cars are generally pretty reliable nowadays. The most serious one is some KIA model might run into ecu problem few years later which requires a repair but nothing major.

I think if you're okay with heavier fuel consumption, then you can buy a Korean car. I personally prefer the seats on korean cars, more ergonomically compared to Japanese namely T and H. Korean cars generally came better fit internally such as auto headlight and wiper. Heater also included. Sun roof. Other than pricing, there's really not much between Japanese and Korean cars.

4 gears and they were long gears. It's a design choice. Vios (Old model) on the other hand also had 4 gears but shorter gear ratio. Not only that, vios is also lighter by 100kg iirc. Hence the old vios is very responsive up to 120kmh.

Later breakdown, no spare parts, need wait few months to come. And then expensive spare parts.
Even China cars better lah.

I saw that the USA made Korean cars all had serious oil burning issues, that dealerships refuse to fix, giving all kinds of excuses to not honor the warranty. Apparently then newer SmartStream engine fixes this. Not sure if Malaysian CKD models have this issue too?