First Service Update Sorry for being out of this forum for a while. Was busy with some works here. In the mean time, I've completed my First Service few days back from SS Motors, Aalapakkam. I chose this as it was closer to Koyambedu and I couldn't find a great review about any service center in Chennai.
But this service was a little weird I would say. The ASS is quite new and they had never seen a GenX till now (can't blame them, who thought I would complete 1250 kms in 10 days of ownership haha). All the service people, the cab customers, the Manager of the ASS start peeping into my car, in awe, "oh the boot is opening hurraay" kind of expressions in everyones' face. It was funny indeed. The manager said he'l return the car in one to two hours so I decided to wait there.
I did have a couple of complaints - 1) Noise when the Air Con is switched on - Cooling was perfect and the fan speed was consistent too. But there's some boom noise (i guess from the compressor) that's got some vibrations too. So while driving, this has increased the overall NVH in the past 300 kms . This increases along with increasing throttle too.
2) Whining noise even otherwise - There's some sort of a whining (very slight) even otherwise and increases gradually with acceleration.
3) Grinding noise with vibrations once in a bluemoon - This happens mostly in third gear between speeds 20 to 40 (happens after i shift down from third too). It's like something jamming the brakes with a shudder but the car drives properly itself. But there's lot of vibration felt in the feet along with a slight boom noise. Feels just like the shudder you experience when you brake extremely hard. But here the car doesn't loose speed or anything.
These are extremely weird and they couldn't find a solution within two hours and the first noise seems to be from the compressor itself. This was letting me a bit down and I hope it's just a small issue or something. I'l be taking it to more competent Concorde or TAFE when time permits.
Otherwise, I'm literally enjoying the car with it's awesome AC, smooth steering and I find the brakes to be quite ok after so much city driving. The engine feels good but not as free revving as my old Nano (maybe since its new). Gears are much smoother and the quality seems pretty good. Overall a great experience except the above mentioned issues, which should never come up in such a new car.
BTW, I will never recommend SS Motors - not competent enough, difficult to convey stuff to the engineers as they dont understand basic english terms even. They don't let you watch your car getting service nor do they have a good customer lounge. It's all together a tiny space where you wont feel like being in.
One good thing was the person who accompanied me for the test drive to find out the noise - he was ready to drive how much ever needed to find the noise and spent almost 20 kms to find it out. Kudos to that guy. And alignment was a little off right from delivery, so pushed them to do it for free and got it done.
If anyone has any idea about what the issues can be, kindly let me know.
Regarding the EPS, I just realised it's there in other EPS too, for example my aunts old Zen and it works only after a Full Turn of the Steering wheel too, but is no where as convenient as the one in the Nano - its quick and more precise. Fuel Efficiency
Right now an average of 14.6 kmpl for the last 140 kms - almost 50 kms was spent sight seeing in chennai on sunday with more idling and thinking beside the road than moving - FE was 13.5 then. Later, a movie at Ampa Skywalk Mall with 7 or 8 stories to climb up to their roof parking with blocks in the Ramp. That was a horrible experience.
Rest was all peak time city traffic. I just realised how to manage traffic in my office route - Koyambedu to Adyar - Start between 8.30 and 8.45 and commute will take just 40 mins. Any other time, it'l take over one hour. Return in the evening is horrible always, unless I start before 6. In total FE sounds okay to me.
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