High fuel consumption.
Poor after sales service.
Seat squeezing sound.
Badly fitted windscreen stripe.
It is a clone of Daihatsu Terios. Made in Malaysia, as Perodua Kembara. Good handling especially cornering. Overall, deserves praise for being stable and reliable. Basically no bad comments on the product but the aftersales service of the manufacturer is unsatisfactory.
Perodua Kembara is too expensive for us... maybe around 29 k is OK...
The Kembara is a very nice car and it's more suitable for girls to travel in.
It's too expensive... because it's quite a small car.
I am looking forward to getting my Kembara, hopefully it can be delivered to me before the coming Chinese New Year.
The key reasons for me to select a Kembara include the following:
1) Safety aspect as it looks tougher than general the sedan cars available. This is particularly important in the consideration of a collision.
2) Functional - it should be rugged enough due to its 4X4 feature and and should give a solid feeling on bad road conditions.
3) It looks nice and cute.
4) Supposedly easy manoeuvre.
Hopefully the Kembara will stick close to my expectation!!!
To all Kembara owners and would be owners, for servicing and repairs of your kembara, look to the workshops who are well versed with kembara and minimum requirement would be the ones who knows realllly well about its injection system. If not, they're are just another workshop playing with trial and error thing.
In servicing, selection of engine oil is important. Get at least 15/40W. Don't go for 20/40W, its too heavy. There are 2 types of oil in the market, the cheap ones are with carbon bonds, like those under petronas, shell, etc. It is so simple chemistry, carbon bonds wouldn't stand on high temperature. Once its broken, your oil is useless. Good oil are those of brand like OMEGA, Mobil etc. Get advise from the dealer of the good oil. Getting advice on oil from workshops are not advisable. They're not a chemist. When your oil turns black, it is similar to newspaper being burned and turned black. Its carbon ash, and that could stick inside your engine layer to layer. I've done research on grease and lubricants in labratory during college days oversea. I've did the mileage test on grease and lubricants. I've used OMEGA engine oil, and it won't turn black even after 15,000km. But with the cheap ones, 3000km already turn black. Happy motoring!
It is a very lousiest car I ever bought in my life!
I changed my auto gearbox for my Kembara EX last year and now still spoilt again!
Lots of problems!!!
1) Windscreen leaking that cause the rain water to leak to my car. Then the whole car is like flooding!
2) During warranty, the car dealers or the head office can't even know how to remedy the windscreen problems!
3) The air con is not good. Even the leaves, debris, smoke can be breathed go through this air con valves!!! So, the car dealers & mechanics can't remedy it!
4) The car seat is terrible!
5) Have you ever get stucked your foot in between those fuel and brake paddles??? Gossh!!
6) Then now the gearbox! There's no more recon, but rebuilt ones!!! Worst, after fixed it for a year, I got to change another one again. The engine is a VERY old technology from Japan as I have checked.
Last... This is no ending stories... It is the worst car and the last car of Perodua I ever bought!
If anyone of you wanted to buy this car, please don't buy! You heed my advice!
Priscy.
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