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Originally Posted by vrooooooom  Hey I am also planning to buy a Baleno. But you guys scared me. Its my frens Baleno and is also in a good condition. Any unbiased inputs from the Baleno club will be appreciated |
Baleno is a great machine. My father went ahead for it in October 2005. We have done a lot of kms, mostly on A'bad-Vadodara Expressway and in Gujarat. Once when my parents were returning from a trip to Junagadh, Gujarat was in the strom where the rains played havoc in Saurashtra region, which is typically know for scanty rainfall and draughts. But this time it was bad. My parents had to venture in and they really appreciated the car. Very, very capable machine. I think it is one the favourates of T-bhp.
No other car has such a great combination of Space, Pace, fuel effeciency, ride comfort, The Best A/C.
But the fact is that the car is no longer in production and so procuring spare parts is not a plesant experience. We had a lot of trouble. Add in the fact that there are very less Balenos so obviously Maruti dealers might not be very happy to support( as we found out in our case ). This is the reality. We will have to sell off this car as soon as loan period is over, as spare parts are problem.
Even if Baleno is in mint condition, its not advisable to buy it. For example in Oct 2005,
our Baleno had fully chromed front grille that had three horizontal bars. This grille looked really impressive.
After the minor accident, the grill was not avaliable and when we got the car, we saw that the grille is of older model with only one Horizontal bar and rest portion as black honeycomb plastic,
i.e. the grill with which Baleno was originally launched. It was
procured from some old dealership as it was unused and definatly
the quality was bad and the Suzuki logo came off. Reapplied it, but now you i.e both the persons interested in Baleno know what kind of problems might occur.