Pandupedia is a reference site for people who own a car in Malaysia. It records what the Malaysian-market car actually is: the specs as printed, the part numbers a counter will recognise, the fluids the manual names, and the faults owners keep running into.
Who runs it
Pandupedia is an independent reference site, run by a Malaysian owner. Nobody else signs off on a page.
It is not affiliated with Proton, Perodua, Toyota, Honda, or any dealer or workshop. No manufacturer pays for a page, reviews one before it goes up, or sees it before you do. Trademarks belong to their owners: we write about the cars, not for the companies.
How figures are sourced
Every number here carries a source line, wears a label saying approximate or unverified, or stands bare. Bare is the case to watch. The order we look in:
- A Malaysian document first. Owner’s manual, service booklet, price list, brochure, parts catalogue, dealer counter, invoice. If the number is printed there, we copy it as printed.
- Malaysian secondary sources next. A listing naming the OEM number, a job sheet, a thread quoting a document. Two of these have to agree before a number goes in.
- Another market only with a note. A UK or Japanese figure explains a difference, it never fills a gap quietly. Where the Malaysian car differs, the page says so next to the number.
- Owner reports for behaviour only. A forum post can say a gearbox shudders when cold and what fixed it. It cannot supply a capacity, a grade, a part number or a price.
When a number has a source, the line sits under it: Verified against the Proton service data, checked 2026-10-26. That line means someone opened the named document and matched the figure to it. It does not mean the document is still printed, or that nothing changed since. A line older than about 90 days is stale by our own rule and gets re-checked, or rewritten as unverified, when the page is next visited. Nothing runs that sweep on a schedule. So a checked date is the last time someone looked, not a promise about next month.
A figure with no line was never checked, and nothing here calls it checked. Where we know a number is approximate or unverified, the page says so. Prices follow the document, not the calendar: an undated price carries no as of date, and that gap is the warning.
Words get the same treatment. The glossary explains OEM, aftermarket, CVT and the engine codes in plain language, so a term carried over from a parts catalogue can be read without one.
How we measure
Page views are counted without cookies, in aggregate, through Cloudflare Web Analytics. The report shows visits per page, which page sent the reader, and how fast the page loaded. No cookie, no profile per visitor, no ID that outlives the page view, so there is no consent banner and nothing to dismiss. It is how we know which pages get used, and which ones nobody opens. The privacy policy has the detail, including how to block the count.
What the coverage tiers mean
Not every model has had the same work. Each model page carries a badge for its state.
| Badge | What it means |
|---|---|
| Coverage reviewed | Sourced specs, distributor part numbers, fluids and service intervals, five or more documented faults, and a source line on the numbers. |
| Coverage in progress | Nothing known to be false, but the review is unfinished. Indexed and comparable, a starting point. |
| In progress | Not reviewed yet. Live so the URLs stay stable, and every page says so. |
A model moves up when the work is done, not when the page looks finished: one line of frontmatter, changed after the review.
Only the In progress badge is held back: noindex, out of the sitemap and out of /compare/, because a comparison built on unreviewed numbers is worse than no comparison. Coverage in progress is the middle state and stays in the index and in /compare/: nothing known there is false, so it gets a fair hearing with a notice that the review is unfinished. Either way the URLs stay up and stay labelled, because a page that tells you what it does not know beats a 404.
Verify the price and the part number on the day you buy. A counter can settle either in a minute, from documents this site never sees.
Out of scope by design
Some things are left out on purpose, not forgotten:
- No torque specifications, no tightening values. Engine output figures (power, torque at rpm) live in the engine specs; they are ratings, not repair steps. Fastener figures are not published at all, not even as “about right”. A tightening value anywhere on this site is a leftover, and worth reporting.
- No rebuilds. Engine, gearbox, brake caliper, steering rack, anything resealed: machine shop jobs.
- No brake, steering or airbag procedures. No safety-critical walkthrough at all. The page says what the job involves, what it should cost, and when to stop.
- No diagnostic-tool routines. Relearns, coding, live data: not here.
The reader owns a jack and maybe a socket set. When a job needs a lift, a torque wrench or a scan tool, the page says so and stops.
How to correct us
A wrong part number costs someone money. Write to corrections@pandupedia.com with the page URL and what is wrong; if a document settles it, quote it or attach a photo.
What happens next: the report gets read, the claim gets checked, and the page is corrected or the correction is refused with a reason. A corrected figure gets a new checked date, so the date you see is the last time someone looked, not the first.
No ticket queue, no promised reply time: one mailbox, read by the person who runs the site.