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Originally Posted by AutoIndian On a side note, few days back I had sent a nasty e-mail to CUSTOMERCARE@mahindra.com, on Seat Belt issue on my TUV3OO-T8 not resolved since last 1.5 years.
Finally when the car was handed back to me, to my utter dismay the belts were still not retracting on their own.
I am planning to write back to the Area Manager- Customer Care and see what he has to say. |
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Originally Posted by sathyasuri Ditto here Autoindian. My driver side belt was replaced as it (strangely SA refused to accept that passenger side belt was not retracting) completely failed to retract about two months back, a new one was ordered and replaced but it's behaviour is only marginally better. I pointed out to the SA that it was due to the projection/ bulge in the lower half of the panel covering the seat belt and he accepted it. Most of the times I find the seat belt jammed between this panel and the seat. |
AI, Sathya, got both the driver and passenger seat belts changed. The service personnel came to my office and did the exchange from the parking lot. So far it has been holding good and retracts well. Keeping fingers crossed that it remains that way.
Wonder how the rear seat belt quality would be, since they hardly are being used. I get the children to buckle up when on the long highway drives. Need to teach them to buckle up regularly when ever in the car.
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Originally Posted by sathyasuri On the positive side, I purposefully did a 612 km run in the ECO mode . It really seems to work as far as a fuel consumption is concerned. The TUV returned a fuel consumption figures of 16.8kmpl with 3 adults and 3 kids with the boot loaded fully, AC working hard in Chennai and further south's heat and some bumper to bumper traffic for about 15 Km. |
Sathya, you sure have a lot of patience to have done this. In the initial days of ownership I tried to drive on the ECO mode, but could not last for more than a few kilometers.
And now after fixing the RD tuning box and driving in P2, I cant bear driving with it removed. (I take it off when going to MASS
). So now I can not imagine going to ECO mode. But I still have to do it once, (in my BUCKET list) just to check what is the FE improvement going to be. I have not got more that 12 kmpl, the best, and the worst being something close to 10 kmpl.
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Originally Posted by mi2n Friends, sharing some good news.
All the owners who received the new part has reported that the wheel spin issue has been totally solved. Kudos to Mahindra for providing a prompt and effective solution and as always, reacting positively to user's feedback and complaints. The replacement part is seemingly major and it is really appreciated that Mahindra has not only worked on the issue promptly but also did not shy away from providing this expensive fix to end customers totally free of cost under warranty. |
This is real good news and thanx to Sathyasuri for keeping me informed on this. From the initial stages with the TUV, I have been trying all across to see if either a LSD or a MLD was available for the TUV. I had my share of tense moments with the TUV getting stuck badly a few times, and that too, with the family, the last being 2 weeks ago in Kerala, where I had to drop the left wheels off the narrow road to allow another car to pass, and we got stuck in the loose sand on the road side.
Muscle power alone could not get us out and finally a combination of coconut leaves, small boulders and the muscles helped see the TUV get unstuck.
As someone had mentioned in some thread here, tried pumping the hand brake to try lock the free wheel and give power to the other wheel which was on the tarred road, but this too did not work.
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Originally Posted by dieselburner Went to service centre yesterday for the following changes-
1. MLD
2. Gear lever mounting.
3. Vacuum Modulators along with kit. |
dieselburner, did you have to inform them earlier for the axle change. What was the procedure? Please PM if you do not want to put it up here.
Otherwise the TUV has been doing well, except for one new 'niggle', which I will mention below. Getting close to the 30K mark, and the 3rd service.
Did a 750 km, 2 stop (breakfast n lunch) drive from Chennai to Kasargod, Kerala 2 week back. The car behave well, did good speeds till Bangalore and then managed close to 100 kmph till Mysore. After that roads gets bad. Managed the stretch in 12 hrs including the stops. FE hovers just below 12 kmpl.
The new niggle - noticed water dripping into the cabin from the front panel and from somewhere close to the 'Bonnet Open' lever, when the car is washed. Happened to notice this drip after seeing the floor mat get wet. Both occasions were in the past 3 weeks, and the car was washed using a normal garden hose, and not a High Pressure wash. Need to check on this.
And Congratulations to the new TUV owners. Wishing you all miles of smiles, now that the majority of the initial TUVs faults have been rectified.