Honda Malaysia building new PDI Centre and Vehicle Quality Test Course in Melaka, ready in June

Honda Malaysia building new PDI Centre and Vehicle Quality Test Course in Melaka, ready in June

Honda Malaysia (HM) today held a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony for a new Pre-Delivery Inspection (PDI) Centre and Vehicle Quality Test Course at its plant Alor Gajah, Melaka. Expected to be completed by June this year, the facilities will cost HM RM40.12 million. This sum includes land acquisition, building and equipment.

The PDI Centre will do incoming inspection, accessorisation, warehousing, final inspection, car tracking and washing to ensure vehicles meet Honda’s pre-delivery requirements. “With this new PDI Centre, we will be able to expedite the delivery process of new cars to all our dealers nationwide. The new PDI Centre will be able to process 30% more vehicles. This also means that we will be able to offer more job opportunities for fellow Malaysians,” said Yoichiro Ueno, MD and CEO of HM.

The existing PDI Centre operates on a single shift with 51 staff processing 180 units of vehicles at any one time. The new facility is specially designed without sidewalls for good air circulation, but equipped with a roofed loading bay for bad weather. Total built-up area is 6,570 square metres and parking capacity is 1,522 vehicles. Upon completion, it will be able to process 410 vehicles at any one time over two shifts.

Meanwhile, the 2.148 km Vehicle Quality Test Course will be able to fully test new vehicles on various road conditions. Surfaces include slippery, pot-holed, hilly, bumpy and cobbled-stone roads. There are also dynamic testing zones (max speed 140km/h) to check on body noise, wind noise, hard brake, car pulling, steering spoke angle, transmission function and reverse function.

The two new facilities will process CKD models produced in Melaka as the City, Civic, Accord and CR-V. HM has another PDI facility in Bangi that processes imported CBU vehicles. Built in 2008, the Bangi PDI is able to process 60 vehicles in one shift.

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Danny Tan

Danny Tan loves driving as much as he loves a certain herbal meat soup, and sweet engine music as much as drum beats. He has been in the auto industry since 2006, previously filling the pages of two motoring magazines before joining this website. Enjoys detailing the experience more than the technical details.

 

Comments

  • Hope Honda wont recover the additional investment by increasing the car price!

    But seriously, given so many Honda City and Civic are stolen (pics shown in the papers too), Honda should work towards having better alarm system. Whats the point boasting about having immobiliser when the cars still end up in containers!

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  • Koyoworld on Feb 28, 2012 at 4:22 pm

    honda is the best brand…

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  • Wisdom on Feb 28, 2012 at 4:28 pm

    Honda, while u’re at it, why not setup hybrid assembly line….

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  • Nagayaindran S. Narayanan on Feb 28, 2012 at 6:37 pm

    I am disappointed with my Honda.

    1. I have been hearing anecdotes that the Accord brakes have a recurrent judder of the front brakes since 2 years ago. I fell victim to it recently. The service advisor indicated that they are aware of the problem. The advise is that it will not manifest if I had not braked hard at high speeds and cause high disc temperatures. I have never done more than 145km/hr and at that only occasionally. Braked hard? Maybe only once to avoid a lorry that cut into my path at lower speed. I thought that was normal driving and not laps around a racing circuit. Why fit brakes that cannot take meet the performance of the car. To add wound to the salt, my Accord is still under warranty but The Service center insist on shimming the disc at least 3 times before they would consider replacing the disc. That is my Honda Dream which turned nightmare.

    2. Why does my high tech HONDA engines is specified ti be serviced every 5000km instead of 10,000 km like proton’s latest or other makes continental makes?

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  • GT Driver on Feb 28, 2012 at 9:14 pm

    What kind of road conditions we don’t have here?

    Slippery – check
    pot-holed – check
    hilly – check
    bumpy – check
    cobbled-stone roads – does interlocking pavement count?
    dynamic testing zones (max speed 140km/h) – That what our highways for.

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  • seancorr on Feb 28, 2012 at 9:16 pm

    Having some issues with my current gen City too like some grinding noise in my engine bay when I’m accelerating in a gradual manner which the service center could not rectify it because they could not replicate the problem at the center. QA/QC issues have always been a major issue with Honda cars in Malaysia.

    I also agree with Nagayaindran’s comment on the 5,000km service intervals comparing to other manufacturer’s service intervals. Due to this Honda cars have a high maintenance price comparing to other makes. Even with the high maintenance costs we’re still facing issues with the cars! No more Honda for me ever again.

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  • carnoisseur on Feb 29, 2012 at 9:05 am

    Whlist there are recommendations for 10,000km service intervals from many car manufacturers , I would still maintain the 5000km service simply because the heat build up and wear &tear intensity is accelerated in tropical climates like this . Many owners of premium cars do not telll you the problems they have encountered which is partly attributed to this maintenance interval . I would still recommend 5000km , it doesnt matter if i have old school thought .

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  • niuhje on Feb 29, 2012 at 11:05 am

    before completion the PDI cost RM40 mil, after completion RM140 mil! ministers need to eat mah!!??

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  • Crap City on Feb 29, 2012 at 1:23 pm

    I too got intermittent noise coming from the engine bay like yours. Been asking the center to keep checking for the noise to no avail. Sounds like some gear grinding sound in the engine. Warranty also almost expired! WTF honda!!

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  • Vijay on Jan 17, 2014 at 2:09 pm

    I got the same problem gear grinding sound after 140km/h. Do anyone know what is the actual issue is?

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