Jetour, LDV, BAIC, Hongqi, AITO and JAC: A Practical Accessories Guide
CarMoods TeamDrive a Toyota or a Mazda in Australia and the aftermarket has had decades to catch up to you. Drive a Jetour, an LDV, a BAIC, a Hongqi, an AITO or a JAC and you are mostly on your own — these are some of the newest and lowest-volume brands on our roads, and most big accessory ranges have not bothered tooling up for them yet. CarMoods carries dedicated steering wheel covers, key cases and comfort cushions cut specifically for each of these six brands, alongside the full steering wheel cover range for everything else in the garage. Here is what is actually worth fitting, and why a brand-matched accessory beats a generic one on a car this uncommon.
Why Mainstream Accessory Makers Skip These Brands
Accessory tooling is a volume game. A mould for a steering wheel cover or a die-cut pattern for a key case only pays off once a manufacturer expects thousands of the matching car on the road. Jetour, LDV, BAIC, Hongqi, AITO and JAC each sell in the hundreds or low thousands a year here, not the tens of thousands a mainstream brand moves, so a generic importer has little reason to measure their specific fitment.
Several of these brands also share more engineering than their badges suggest. Jetour sits alongside Omoda and Jaecoo in the Chery group, and often shares a wheel diameter, key blade profile or seat rail spacing with those siblings. LDV is built by SAIC, the same parent as MG, and its vans and utes run a noticeably larger-diameter wheel than a passenger car. BAIC and Hongqi are both state-linked manufacturers with long truck and limousine histories, which shows up as firmer, more upright factory headrests than a typical European or Japanese equivalent. AITO is the newest of the six, a Huawei and Seres joint venture built around a heavily customised infotainment stack rather than a shared parts bin. Knowing which family a car belongs to is a useful shortcut when a listing does not name your exact model, since a sibling's fit details often carry across.
Steering Wheel Covers Sized for the Actual Rim
A steering wheel cover is the highest-contact accessory in any car, and the one most likely to be bought in the wrong size. Passenger-car wheels across this group typically sit in the 36 to 38 centimetre range, while LDV's commercial heritage pushes its Maxus range closer to 40 centimetres across the rim. Wrap a cover sized for a 37cm Jetour onto a 40cm LDV wheel and the stitching will bunch at the seam — always check the listed diameter against your own wheel, measured across the rim rather than its circumference.
Material matters almost as much as size. A genuine leather or Nappa-style cover ages with a patina and resists cracking through an Australian summer better than a budget PU wrap, while a carbon-fibre-textured finish suits the more performance-styled dashboards increasingly fitted across newer Chinese SUV ranges.
Jetour Leather Steering Wheel Cover — X70, X50, X70 Plus
Jetour Nappa Steering Wheel Cover — X70, X90, Dashing
AITO Carbon Fibre Steering Wheel Cover
LDV Maxus Leather Steering Wheel Cover — T60, T90, G10
Anyone who drives a Maxus ute or van for work rather than weekend duty should look specifically for a perforated finish. Perforation does two jobs at once: it lets a sweating palm breathe instead of slide, and it stops the wheel turning slick on a 35-degree day after the cabin has been sitting closed in direct sun. A plain wrap looks the part but loses grip exactly when a loaded tray or a trailer behind you makes grip matter most.
LDV Maxus Perforated Leather Steering Wheel Cover
Protecting the Key From the First Week
A new car's key fob is also the part you handle most and protect least. Left loose in a pocket with coins and house keys, a factory fob picks up fine scratches within weeks, and the plastic around the buttons turns tacky after a few Australian summers of pocket heat. A dedicated case closes that gap in seconds.
Zinc alloy cases are the more durable of the two materials commonly used: the metal shell resists impact and keeps its shape if it's dropped on a driveway, and a quality one adds genuine weight that feels deliberate rather than cheap. Leather and TPU cases trade some of that impact resistance for a slimmer profile and a softer feel, which suits anyone who finds a metal case bulky in a pocket.
BAIC Zinc Alloy Key Case — X55, BJ40, U7
BAIC Leather Key Case — BJ40, BJ60, U5 Plus
Jetour Traveler Zinc Alloy and TPU Key Case
Whichever material you choose, check the listed button count against your own fob — a higher trim often adds a button for a powered tailgate or remote start, and a case cut for the wrong layout will cover a working button. Our broader keychains and key cases range covers more general-fit options if your exact model is not listed yet.
Comfort for Tradies, Families and Long Highway Runs
LDV and JAC in particular are bought as much for work as for weekends — a tradie's Maxus tray-back or a JAC Hunter ute is often doing eight or nine hours a day, five days a week. Factory headrests on commercial-based platforms tend to be firm and upright by design, built for durability rather than long-haul comfort, and that firmness turns into genuine neck and shoulder fatigue well before Friday afternoon.
A memory-foam headrest and lumbar set fixes the two complaints that come up most: a gap behind the neck that leaves it unsupported, and a lower back with nothing to lean into on a seat designed mainly to be hosed out at the end of a dusty day. Look for a foam core rather than a loose microbead fill — microbead flattens out within the first hour and stops supporting anything by the second.
Jetour Headrest and Lumbar Support Pillow
Jetour Leather Car Neck Pillow
BAIC Leather Headrest and Lumbar Support
JAC Neck Pillow and Seat Belt Shoulder Pad
The seat belt pad matters more than it sounds. Commercial-platform seat belts tend to sit higher and tighter across the shoulder than a passenger car's, and a thin foam pad stops the webbing digging in on a long run without loosening the belt itself. For more on matching foam density and shape to your own driving position, our car neck pillow buying guide goes into that in more depth.
Keeping a Busy Boot Under Control
A tray-back ute or a people-mover-style SUV from this group is rarely used lightly — tools, groceries and camping gear all compete for the same space. A compartmentalised, foldable trunk organiser fixes the sliding-mess problem in a weekend: fixed sections stop a jump starter cracking a tail-light cover when it slides into one under brakes, and the better designs fold flat when the boot needs to swallow something bulkier instead.
Jetour Foldable Trunk Organiser Storage Box
Pick a box with reinforced side walls over a floppy fabric one — a rigid frame is what actually stops the whole thing collapsing sideways once it is loaded, where a soft-sided box just folds in on itself. Our boot organisers guide covers load ratings and liner pairing in more depth if your car isn't a direct fit for the box above.
Small Details: Branded Umbrellas and a Smart Mug
Not every accessory needs to touch the cabin to be worth having. A branded umbrella lives in the boot and costs nothing in interior space, which makes it one of the lowest-risk purchases here — no fitment to get wrong, nothing to return. The detail that separates a good one from a throwaway is the badge: a woven or embroidered emblem holds its colour through years of folding, where a screen-printed badge starts cracking within a season.
Jetour Branded Automatic Folding Umbrella
LDV Branded Automatic Folding Umbrella
Hongqi Branded Automatic Folding Umbrella
A branded insulated mug earns its keep differently — it's the one accessory you'll use before you've even left the driveway. Double-wall vacuum insulation keeps a coffee hot well past the first long merge onto the highway, and a mug that actually fits your cup holder without wobbling is worth more than its novelty badge suggests.
Jetour Smart Insulated Thermos Mug
Buying Accessories When Your Car Isn't a Big Seller
A few habits save frustration when shopping for a brand like this. Always check the model and year range listed rather than assuming anything badged with your brand will fit — these manufacturers update trims often, and a fob layout or wheel diameter can change mid-generation. If your exact model isn't listed, check a mechanically related sibling: a Jetour owner can often use a Chery- or Omoda-fit product, and an LDV Maxus owner can sometimes cross-reference an MG commercial listing, since both share a parent company. And favour accessories that clip or snap on over anything needing drilling or adhesive — non-invasive fitting keeps a factory warranty intact.
Our guide to GWM, Chery, Jaecoo and Geely accessory basics covers the same combined-brand approach for another set of lower-volume ranges, if you'd like a second example of how it applies elsewhere.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. Will a generic steering wheel cover fit my Jetour, LDV, BAIC, Hongqi, AITO or JAC?
Often not well. These brands span wheel diameters from around 36cm on a passenger SUV to closer to 40cm on an LDV Maxus, so a universal cover tends to sit loose or bunch at the seams. Check the listed diameter before buying.
2. Why don't mainstream accessory brands make products for these cars?
Tooling a cover, case or cushion pattern only pays off once a manufacturer expects a large volume of that specific car on the road, and these six brands sell in much smaller numbers here than an established one.
3. Can I use an accessory made for a sibling brand, like Chery or MG, on my Jetour or LDV?
Sometimes — Jetour sits alongside Chery, Omoda and Jaecoo, and LDV shares a parent with MG. It's not guaranteed across every model, so check the compatible models listed before assuming a sibling-brand fit will work.
4. Do non-invasive accessories like covers and cases affect my new car warranty?
No. Accessories that clip, hook or snap into place don't cut, drill or wire into the vehicle. Anything tapping into the car's electrical system is worth checking with your dealer first.
5. What should I buy first for a brand-new car in this group?
Start with the steering wheel cover and a key case — the two parts you touch every day, and the two most likely to be sized wrong if you buy a generic one.
None of this is about chasing novelty. Size the steering wheel cover to the actual rim, match the key case to the real button layout, and choose comfort pieces built for how the car is used — a Maxus doing tradie hours needs a tougher pillow than a weekend-only SUV. Get those details right and a less familiar badge ends up feeling just as finished as anything parked next to it. Browse the full range in our Jetour, LDV, BAIC, Hongqi, AITO and JAC collections, or the wider interior accessories range.
