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Perodua has issued a statement concerning Daihatsu's recent announcement on the company's new additional procedural irregularities that has also affected the Axia, Alza, Aruz, Ativa, and Bezza.
In summary, this new issue (seperate from what happened back in April and May) stems from a recent investigation by an independent third-party committee that revealed 174 new problems within 25 test categories. As such, the committee has saw the need to immediately suspend deliveries of Daihatsu-developed models within Japan and overseas.
Models affected in Malaysia are as below:
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| List of models suspended |
| Model |
Plant |
| Perodua Axia |
Perodua Global Manufacturing Sdn Bhd, Rawang |
| Perodua Ativa |
| Perodua Bezza |
| Perodua Aruz |
Perodua Manufacturing Sdn Bhd, Rawang |
| Perodua Alza |
| Perodua Myvi |
| Toyota Rush |
| Toyota Vios |
Assembly Services Sdn Bhd, Shah Alam |
| Toyota Yaris |
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Perodua's statement in full, by CEO Dato’ Sri Zainal Abidin Ahmad:
"Pursuant to Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd.’s (DMC) announcement today on the suspension of its models due to its “procedural irregularities”.
Perodua’s statement is issued as a response to the third-party committee’s report on the “procedural irregularities” done by DMC when conducting safety tests on vehicles for various OEMs issued earlier today.
The third-party committee report, confirmed by DMC said: “these verifications and tests confirmed that all 174 irregularities pointed out by the third-party committee satisfied the standards set by laws and regulations”.
We are doing a detailed assessment on the matter and are currently in discussion with Malaysian authorities as to the impact of this development to our vehicles.
As background, on 28th April 2023, DMC announced of “procedural irregularities” when conducting safety tests on vehicles in Japan. Following that announcement, DMC has established a third-party investigative committee consisting of lawyers and technical personnel.
We sincerely apologise to our valued customers and the general public for any alarm this announcement may bring. Our intent is to reach out and assure our valued customers.
We will share the outcome of this discussion with the public in due course."
This explains that while there are issues detected with the affected cars, they still meet minimum regulations. However, more discussions are taking place to determine the exact impact to the vehicles' development.
UMW Toyota Motor has yet to issue a statement, and we will share it as we have it.
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