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Proton has refuted claims that the cost to maintain its Perdana model was high and reiterated that the fee charged was reasonable. In a statement here Tuesday, Proton said the maintenance cost-effectiveness of a car depended largely on regular servicing at authorised service centres every three months or every 5,000km or as recommended by the manufacturer.

It said the mileage per year and the driver’s driving habits would also determine the car’s maintenance cost. According to the statement, each regular service was normally in the RM200 range. This included oil filter and labour but excluded parts and components, mechanical failure and collision repairs.  It added the typical mileage for a car under normal usage was between 20,000km and 30,000km per year and average total maintenance cost is estimated to be at RM2,300, based on records collated from authorised service dealers and branches. However, it said, cars older than four years that were heavily used without proper and regular servicing would incur higher maintenance cost.

I am quite agree with the statement that the cost is low if we compare to continental and japan’s  car but the frequency of break down cases are high for Proton Cars. I’m using Wira since 2001 and sadly to say that my power window problems occured every now and then and i ‘d forgot how many times that i’d repaired it. I think more than ten times already. The other things that makes me irritated is how the Proton service centre operates. The level of courtesy-ness is low and some of them look unprofessional because i have met one Proton technician with a hair likes  Slash of Guns and Roses.

I’d know that their CEO tried his best to improve the standard of Proton and hope he can do better than what Steve Jobs has done to APPLE. After all only Proton is the only one proven car-maker in SEA and pleaseeeee make us Malaysian proud and hopefully starting with new MPV model early next year.