Perdana, Carpets Swapped!

NEVER ever I knew that swapping out the carpets would make so much of a difference in presenting your car in terms of cleanliness and tidiness.

It was an impulse purchase. Last Monday I was down at the Proton Parts Shoppe aka Parts Centre in Glenmarie to pick up an engine block. I was looking around their mini showroom and came across brand new carpets for a Perdana V6.

My carpets were 17 years old and looked like crap. The new carpets were from the last model of the V6 variant and I liked the color. Ever since I got my license, I was too stingy to buy myself carpets for both my cars. Even the coil mats from the Charade were FOC from the halfcut shop(they were using it to "lapik" their used windscreens).

Below are pictures of the old carpets :

If you pay attention, it looks old as hell.

 Driver side, old 17yr old Carpets!

New Carpets compare to old :

All items original from Proton :

New carpets in!!

The color matches the interior. The current leather seats are also form the latest V6. On these mats getting dirty; that's another story.

Summary :

If you guys want that refreshed feel of your old car, get yourself new carpets or coil mats. Money well spent. I'm okay with coil mats, but these brown mats simply matches the interior and gave it a fresh new look! The bottom of the new mats are also spiked so it hold in place, especially for the driver side where the old one always gets out of place. Spend that little extra money you have, regain that confidence and represent your car in a much cleaner state :).

You can also get coil mats HERE



Cheers

Elton

Perdana, Headlamp LED

 The previous post was HID, and I've promised you guys that I'd write up about LED in the near future, which will be in this post. LEDs are the future, LED saves power, yet gives better output as well.

Specifications are as per below :

1.Operates with 12V-24V Power Supply
2.Both hi/lo beam included for H4, single beam for other bulb types
3.1800 Lumens, 30% brighter than Halogen
4.Latest CREE COB technology, emitting lighting effects for light source output reach up to 146LM/W
5.Adopted latest EasyWhite skill, ensure the consistence of light color in terms of production and quality
6. Maximum Angle
7. Same beam pattern as halogens
8. 30% more distance for illumination
9. Integrated heat dissipation structure, reduce the thermal resistance, full heat dissipation by running fan
10.Plug and play for easy installation
11. Model: H4-3, H7, H8, H9, H10, H11, H16, 9005 (HB3), 9006 (HB4)
12. Power: 50W
13. Lumens (brightness): 1800LM
14. Chip: 2 CREE-CXA1512 chip
15. Color (Color): 5500K (White), 3700K (Yellowish)
16. Fan cooling, Solid aluminum, Military grade standard cooling
17. Low-voltage protection, high-precision constant current driver chip


 I had a few of these sets in recently with positive results :

 This is a h4 set, for my own usage. It's got a driver, waterproof sockets, proper 12000rpm fan for heat dissipation and also a safety feature where the light does not switch on when the fan stops working.














 Bench testing a 5500k high/low beam. This is High beam with both sides illuminated. The height of the light source is similar to a conventional h4 halogen bulb.

 Low beam, only one side lit up. The upper side.

 And this is a 3700K bulb, similar to the color of a halogen.

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Fitment and testing, Perdana

LED 5500k

HID

 

 

 

 

 

 

From the above pics, these are comparisons of the recently installed HID vs LED. Not much glare.

 Low beam, HID vs LED. LED on the left. No cut off. However, the Perdana is known to have a real crappy reflector design, hence the funny output. This is proven when I installed a set on a Proton Saga SV yesterday. Pics will be in later.

HID High beam

LED High beam

 LED 5500k left, LED 3700K right.
Both low beam

 LED 5500k left, LED 3700k right.
Both high beam

 LED 5500k both sides, low beam

 LED 5500k both sides, high beam

Testing in basement.












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Fitment and testing, brand new Saga SV.

For this car, it uses two pieces of H7 bulb on each side, one for low beam and one for high beam :

 Right LED 5500K, Left Halogen. Low beam

 Right LED 5500K, Left Halogen

 Passenger side, halogen. Low beam

Driver side, LED installed. Low beam

 Right LED 5500K, Left Halogen. High beam

 Comparison, needless to say which is which

 High beam, halogen

 High beam, LED. It's not really glaring

 Cut off line for halogen

 Cut off line for LED. Slight adjustment will be needed to be done in order to get the proper height.

 Cut off line for Halogen, high beam

Cut off line for LED, high beam. Not really a cut off, but hey, a high beam is suppose to shine real far.









 I am so far satisfied with the product and have started selling these for RM350.00 per set, with 6 months warranty. You can look at the proper product, specifications and COD locations HERE


Cheers

Elton

Teaser

A picture says a thousand words.

Just for the fun of it. Guys at the workshop wrapping up a Toyota 4AGZE extractor. Everyone's on it. Don't mind the fat boy back there eating! He's happy :')

Perdana, HID installed

Some of you may have remembered that I once posted on the various types of lights that was available in the market HERE

Two weeks ago, I stumbled upon a set of quite expensive set of hi/lo HID magnetic set in my warehouse which was bought a couple of years ago. So... backside itchy install lah

I did a bench test to ensure that all of it was working and had a visual inspection, making sure that there would be no chances of water damage or whatsoever.

Upon inspection, there was crack on certain items :

 From this picture you can see that this has a hi/lo controller. Iim not sure what't the lil box connected to the ballast though.

Bulbs were 6000k.

 Cracks on this box.

 Cracks again.

 So what i did, I open it up and stuffed it with sealant, just to make sure that water doesn't get in. It seems that it's still working.

 Bottom side, also stuffed with sealant. Looks stupid, I know. But I had to make-do with what I have.

 Cracks everywhere, sealed and held down until it was dry.

I clamped it for two hours as I got sick of holding it. No, it isn't a sex toy.

 Sealed it with transparent tape, and

 All wired up including power and ground. Removed the existing h4 Relay kit.









Testing. White, just like the DRLs.

 Low beam, look at the unwanted glare. As I said in my previous post, most HIDs are not perfect.

 High beam, doesn't look to bad.

And here... the crappy reflector design of the Perdana headlamp.










The output light of the headlamp wasn't well satisfying as I was only installing this for testing and researching purposes. It was white, 6000k. Either the HID output was not strong, OR, it was just the reflector design of the headlamp itself wasn't reflecting the beam properly.

I have already swapped them to LEDs, which will be in my next post. It's something good, stay tuned!




Cheers

Elton