Perodua Raya Fiesta

If you are looking for a new local car now, you might consider Perodua. I'm a perodua car owner and I have good experience with Perodua, overall quality is good, maintenance cost is low and is fuel economic.

Perodua is having a Raya promotion until 19 August 2012 and the discount can be up to RM2500. If you are interested, you may just walk in to the nearest branch to enquire about this.

Malaysia Car Plate

The "WWW" car plate was a hot discussion topic in the Internet for the past few weeks. How much do you know about the car plates in Malaysia? I'll show you the common car plates in below table.

Alphabet	Remark
A	Plate for Perak state
B	Plate for Selangor state
C	Plate for Pahang state
D	Plate for Kelantan state
H	Plate for Taxi
J	Plate for Johor state
K	Plate for Kedah state
KV	Plate for Langkawi (duty free)
L	Plate for Labuan
M	Plate for Melaka state
N	Plate for Negeri Sembilan state
P	Plate for Penang state
Putrajaya	Plate for Putrajaya
R	Plate for Perlis state
S	Plate for Sabah state
T	Plate for Terengganu state
W	Plate for Kuala Lumpur
Q	Plate for Sarawak state
Z	Plate for Military

Other than those listed above, sometimes you will spot cars with "SUKOM", "BAMbee", "PROTON", etc on the road. The most recent one is "G1M" and most of them are luxurious cars.

These special plates are used to denote the vehicles' brand or special event.

Alphabet	Remark
Proton	Plate for Proton
Perodua	Plate for Perodua
Waja	Plate for Proton Waja
Chancellor	Plate for Proton Chancellor
Persona	Plate for Proton Persona
Satria	Plate for Proton Satria
Tiara	Plate for Proton Tiara
Perdana	Plate for Proton Perdana
Lotus	Plate for Lotus
Kriss	Plate for Modenas Kriss
Jaguh	Plate for Modenas Jaguh
Naza	Plate for Naza
SUKOM	Plate for 1998 Commonwealth Games
XIII NAM	Plate for 2003 NAM Summit
X OIC	Plate for 2003 OIC Summit
XI ASEAN	Plate for 2005 ASEAN Summit
BAMbee	Plate for 2000 Thomas & Uber Cup
XXX IDB	Plate for Islamic Development Bank conference
G1M	Plate for 1Malaysia

Road Tax Renewal

In my previous post, I shared about how to renew your car insurance online. The next thing to do is to renew road tax. There are 3 ways to renew your road tax:

1. JPJ

2. Post Office

3. Myeg

To renew through JPJ and post office, you need to bring your car grant together with the insurance cover note. The renewal record will be printed on the car grant as a proof. If your car is under hire purchase loan, your car grant is usually kept by the bank. Anyway, you can get the car grant from the bank by contacting the branch which processed your hire purchase.

However, if you do not have time or do not like the hassle of going to bank, you can renew your road tax through myeg. The road tax will be delivered to your doorstep by courier service, you just need to pay the RM8 for the courier charges and save the hassle from travelling to bank, JPJ or post office.

No matter how busy you are, you still can DIY for renewal of car insurance and road tax online. You can save around 15 ~ 20% from the traditional method of getting a runner's service.

Renew Your Car Insurance Online

Do you know that you can get additional 10% discount when you renew your car insurance online through Motor Takaful? The renewal process is very straight forward and you can save 10% by DIY. I'll show you a step by step guide as I myself have just done it and got total 65% off (NCD 55% + extra 10%). You need to have either your car grant or previous insurance cover note for car information.

• Once you log on to Motor Takaful website, scroll down to the Check Your NCD now section and key in your plate number, IC and choose your previous insurance company from drop down list.

• After you click the Confirm NCD button, system will display how much NCD you are entitled.

• Click GET IT NOW to proceed.
• The next screen you will need to key in below information:
  a) Contact Information
  b) Vehicle Information
  c) Your Coverage Information
  d) Your Sum Covered Information - Proposed sum insured. Key in the sum you wish to cover.
  e) Additional Coverage - Remember to select Numbers of Drivers (free for first two).
  f) Amount Payable - Click on Calculate, System will calculate the final amount based on NCD.
  

• Then the next screen will display all the information you entered. Double check the information to make sure that they are all correct. Read through terms & conditions and tick I agree to the agreement, click I agree.
• The next one is payment method selection, you can make payment through Maybank2u, FPX/MEPS or Credit Card. Choose and click proceed to pay.

• After payment is successful, system will bring you to transaction receipt information where you can print receipt and e-cover note on the spot, you can choose to renew roadtax through myeg as well.

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Hyundai Elantra test drive and feedback

Today had tested cars on New Hyundai Elantra 1.6 and 1.8. Below are the feedback:

Exterior (4/5)
-Look sporty, solid and nice build quality.
-Lack of exhaust pipe design.
-Solid door and handle but there was crispy sound when closing the door.

Interior (4.5/5)
-Very solid interior and design but door paddle handle was too light and plastic.
-Having large passengers space and Very huge boot size... that can place around 3 to 4 golf bags.
-Nice and comfort leather seats.

Handling (4/5)
-Excellent smooth response either in low speed or high speed.
-Gear shifting response was not direct and slightly delayed due to automatic 6 speed gearbox.
-Suspension setting was good in road ride.

Performance (4/5)
-Engine power is stunning. Good in pick-up and high rev. Feeling almost like 2L engine car performance.
-Engine design and performance setting is much more better than Kia Forte in 1.6L and 2.0L

Sound proof (4/5)
-Good sound proof from engine bay, gearbox and external environment.
-Air-conditional noise slightly loud but still can acceptable.

Price (5/5)
-Worth to buy it in 1.6 high spec and 1.8L.
-Should not compare this price with Kia Forte or Honda Civic or Toyota Altis because it was different driving experiences and very good in ergonomics.
-Fuel consumption was good and almost in middle of Toyota Vios and Honda Civic 1.8L.

Overall/Conclusion (5/5)
-Very recommend!
-Value for money, in term of car design, performance, fuel economy and maintenance cost.

Proton Preve test drive and feedback

Today had tested cars on New Proton Preve. Below are the feedbacks:

Proton Preve (1.6 turbo high spec)
Exterior (3/5)
-Overall looks nice. After close look, it feels very plastic and low cost in certain area/portions (door handle).
-Door handle feel will going to tear off when open it. When close the door, it feels not able to close tight.

Interior (2/5)
-Very plastic and not solid at all.
-Having large passengers space and huge boot size.

Handling (2/5)
-Lotus handling steering?? Nope. Very jerking in response and not so smooth.
-Gear shifting response was fast but the paddle shifter slight lag of feeling when tab on it for shifting.
-Suspension setting still can acceptable for the road ride.

Performance (4/5)
-Engine power is excellent when around 2500-3000rpm. It was powerful to stick you on seat.

Sound proof (1/5)
-Absolutely bad. Huge noise when cross over road bump. Totally cannot acceptable for this kind of price range.
-Able to heard noise from engine bay and gearbox revving.

Price (1/5)
-Not worth to buy it. Quite expensive with this price range and specs.

Overall/Conclusion (1.5~2/5)
-Not recommend.
-Drive it to believe it. It is sucks.