Terms of Use

Read this site as a reference book, not as a work order. Everything published here is general guidance for owners and independent workshops: it does not replace the manufacturer’s documentation for your own car or the judgement of a qualified technician. There is nothing to buy here, no account to create and no payment detail to enter — the site sells nothing and holds nothing of yours (see the Privacy Policy). And one boundary — high-voltage systems, brakes, airbags, ECU programming and ADAS modification — is where our guidance stops and a certified professional starts. It is printed in full below, in the words our Editorial Policy uses.

What is this site, and what is it not?

• It is a reference. Specifications, service schedules, warranty terms, fault-code explanations and running costs, each traced to a dated document. How a figure earns its place — and what keeps a figure out — is set out in our Editorial Policy.
• It is not a service. No accounts, no logins, no bookings, no repairs, no parts sales, no subscriptions and no payments. No page asks for a card number, and no page collects one.
• It is not your technician. We do not diagnose your car, quote your job or approve a repair.

There is nothing here to sign up for.

Whose document wins — ours or the book in your glovebox?

Yours. Always yours. The standing disclaimer we publish on our Corrections Policy page puts it plainly:

“Information on this site is general guidance only and does not replace the manufacturer’s official documentation or the judgement of a qualified technician. Specifications vary between markets and production years — always confirm against your own vehicle’s manual before servicing.”

That is not boilerplate; it is how these cars are actually built and sold. One model name can hide a different generation, a different engine, a different fluid specification or a different service interval from one market or production year to the next. Where our record and your handbook disagree, your handbook governs your car — and we want to know: tell us.

Where does our guidance stop? (the safety boundary)

From our Editorial Policy, in its own words:

“We do not publish procedures for high-voltage battery systems, braking systems, airbags/SRS, ECU programming or ADAS modification. These require certified professionals, and pages touching these systems say so explicitly.”

And the line printed under our technical pages that touch high-voltage hardware: “Never open, touch or work on any orange high-voltage component.”

This is not a disclaimer we shelter behind — it decides what gets written in the first place. Where a job crosses the line, the page stops and names the specialist instead. High-voltage checks an owner can safely perform at home: none. If you ever find something on this site that reads like a procedure for those systems, treat it as an error and report it. We will take it down.

Who owns what is on the page?

The words, the tables, the diagrams and the verification records behind them are our own work — © 2026 Dragon Automotive Research, publisher of Dragon Auto Guide. The diagrams are SVG drawn in-house from figures already published on this site; none of the artwork is lifted from elsewhere.

What you may do: read it, print it, take it to your workshop, quote a figure with attribution and a link back. What you may not do: republish pages wholesale, scrape our tables into another database or reproduce our diagrams as though they were yours.

Brand and model names — MG, BYD, Chery, GWM, Deepal and the rest — are the trademarks of their owners. We use them the only way a reference can: to identify which car is under discussion. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or acting as an agent for any manufacturer, distributor or dealer, and no manufacturer pays for or approves what appears here.

What are the limits of our liability?

We publish our own corrections, by name and date, on the Corrections Policy page. That is the standard we hold ourselves to. It is not a guarantee. Specifications change. Manufacturers revise their documents. And printed manuals carry errors of their own, which we transcribe as printed rather than silently tidy.

So the decisions stay with you. Parts you order, intervals you stretch and work you attempt are yours, and so are their consequences. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Dragon Automotive Research accepts no liability for loss, damage or cost arising from action taken on general guidance published here without confirming it against your own vehicle’s documentation or with a qualified technician. We make no promise that the site is available without interruption or that every page is current on the day you read it — each page prints its own last-verified date, and that date is part of the information.

Found an error?

Tell us. Email info@dragonautoguide.com with the page URL and the problem; a source speeds it up — your owner’s manual, a dealer document, a part label. We acknowledge within 2 business days, the claim is re-checked against primary sources by our technical reviewer, and if it is confirmed the page is corrected, its last-verified date updated and material corrections noted on the page. You get an answer either way, including when we conclude the original figure was right. The full process is on the Corrections Policy page.

A correction is not an embarrassment here. It is the method working.

When do these terms change?

Before the practice changes, not after — the same rule as the Privacy Policy. Using the site means accepting the version published on the day you use it.

Last updated: 27 August 2026. Published by Dragon Automotive Research — info@dragonautoguide.com.