Hi bluswhitehat...I think I have the answer to your air-con problem. I personally drive a 1.6 Gen2 manual without IAFM and I suffered the same problem after about one year plus of owning the car. I went to the air-con repairer and the shop owner just swapped a "internal" filter located underneath the front passenger area (it should be somewhere beneath the glovebox if for persona). The cost was around RM60 with installation. According to him, all new proton cars have this filter. Once the filter is changed, the air flow is very good and the air gets cooler real quick. I am driving my Gen2 for almost three years already and it is almost time to change the filter again as I can feel the aircon is getting slower already. FYI, I changed the filter on my second year of usage as well. So I make it a custom to change it every year now and I am really grateful for that filter (some plus points for Proton cars) as when the filter is removed you can really see the dirt that it managed to filter which would otherwise be circulated over and over and we would be breathing such polluted air. Cheers

U're welcome. I think maybe you need to keep the carpet on the front passenger side cleaner. Do clean it more frequently as that area is the nearest to the filter and any impurities will cause the filter to get clogged faster. An accumulation of sands and dust will also cause you to replace the coiling coil (not so fast kaput one the coiling coil...but just mention FYI). Even the aircon repairer recommends that I clean the carpet area so small grains of sand dont get sucked up into the aircon system.

Hi all,

Since some of you guys are talking bout FC I figured I should chip in the data I know from my mum's Persona (I drive a Gen2). Both of our cars are first batch cars and have no IAFM or CPS etc and they are manual tranny. Both the cars are almost similar in FC but I reckon my Gen2 is just slightly better in the FC department.

For the Persona, one full tank of RON 97 costs about RM 70 and can at least reach 400 km. So that would be about 17.5 cents per km. But normally the figure is around 450 km for a full tank which brings it down to 15.5 cents per km. I am talking mixed driving here btw of maybe 70% city and 30% highway.

For my Gen2, I can get about 450km for a full tank normally. I am now using Shell V-Power (previously using Primax3 or Shell Super) and the mileage seems to be the same although V-Power is more expensive

My whole house 4 cars all manual one lol.....