Proton cars are apparently known for their substandard quality control.Till today, one of my back doors do not close properly though there is a nice "OK" approval decal on the side window screen.
If your car was built in the year 2000 and before, apparently there was a botched up work on the steel used to make the car. The anti-rust was so badly done that most of these cars yuo see on the roads are pocked mark with rusted roles on all the doors, bonnet and roofs!
And so I decided to get rid of the pock-marked bonnet and do some spot welding on the doors. The quotation came back.
To get an original Proton bonnet and do the spot welding, I would have to fork out RM2,600. The Taiwan alternative with spot welding cost RM2,450, a mere RM150 lower.
Since the car is hardly worth RM10K, adding RM3k on to give it a face lift is certainly fool-hardy.
Best option-let is rot and then touched it up occasionally and perhaps do a more extensive job before selling it.
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