About Us

Dragon Auto Guide is an English-language guide to owning, maintaining and fixing Chinese cars.

Millions of Chinese cars sold since 2020 are now leaving warranty. Their owners and independent workshops face a documentation gap: no reliable English source for oil specs, service schedules, fault codes or parts compatibility. We exist to close that gap. We write for those owners and workshops in Australia, the UK, South Africa and the Gulf.

What makes us different

• Every technical figure is verified against an official primary document or two independent sources before publication — or it is not published, apart from a deliberate departure that our editorial policy names, and from figures we print with a label saying that we have not verified them or that we hold no copy of their source. Our editorial policy also explains when a single official document is enough.
• Every repair-related page is signed off by a qualified vehicle technician (see Reviewers).
• We collect first-hand workshop data: real OBD readings, documented repair cases and part numbers from partner workshops servicing these exact cars.
• We tell you what we don’t know. A missing number is marked as unverified, never invented.

The team

Dragon Auto Guide is published by Dragon Automotive Research, an independent automotive information and research organisation. Our editorial line is four words long: Independent. Technical. Evidence-based. Owner-focused.

Ethan Cole — Editor-in-Chief & Automotive Technical Researcher — leads the research and editorial process: sourcing official documentation, building the verification record behind every table, and deciding what does not get published. His standing rule: every number traces to a document, and where we can’t verify, we say so rather than guess. Technical sign-off on repair-related pages remains with our independent reviewers (see Reviewers). Each repair-related page carries the name of the technician who reviewed it and the date of that review; pages about us, our policies and our team carry neither.

Contact: info@dragonautoguide.com — corrections and questions welcome. See our Corrections Policy.