22nd May 2007, 11:50
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Started off as justification to my better half on the choice of car, later on it became something i could not afford to overlook when the question arises regarding selling the car.  | |
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29th July 2007, 08:47
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| Senior - BHPian  | Update with New Tyres and Rims... Car ODO reads 18450km. I have done 2000 km on the new tyres (Michelin 155/65/13) and Alloys...The drive was mostly city centric besides the tbhp dash to yelagiri and small dash to Ramanagram, Nandi Hills etc... Some observations: 1) The cornering at high speeds has become unbelievable compared to the stock tyres.... 2) I could hardly hear any sounds....Michelin Rocks !!!  3) During the recent TBHP meet at Yelagiri, the speedo went 140+kmph (momentarily touched 150kmph during the downhill drive from Hosur to Krishnagiri).... One thing that fascinated me was it touched that speed without me doing deliberate test, the handling and cornering was so well that I hardly felt that it touched 140kmph and I was throughout on the fast lane.... 4) There is hardly any change in the FE....  Abhi |
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29th July 2007, 09:08
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29th July 2007, 10:40
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| Senior - BHPian  | heheh rudra sir, how could you ask him to take it out when you are posting ??? rather abhi, take it to rudra sir's house, and i betcha you ll come out with awesome snaps out of rudra's cams. or better still put rudra in your car and go off on a long drive say towards hosur reliance pump, there you can get snaps with mountainous terrain all round, awesome!! abhi, you are very very organized w.r.t. fuel reports. i liked your excel sheet, very good work. and your car colour and wheels look great. i agree that michelin rocks !! |
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29th July 2007, 11:06
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Probably during the next meet, I can take your services to do some shoot for my car.... Abhi | |
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29th July 2007, 11:09
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3rd September 2007, 08:41
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3rd September 2007, 10:18
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3rd September 2007, 10:30
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3rd September 2007, 10:52
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People there (right from owner to the mechanics) know me well and everybody greets me with a smile... Plus me and Lokesh go for a juice/breakfast when he takes the car for a test ride, sometimes we have lunch together as well... The empty oil dabbas, replaced pins, spark plugs are there in my boot... Stock Spark Plugs are like new, any takers? I will give it for free Abhi Last edited by akroy : 3rd September 2007 at 10:54. | |
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3rd September 2007, 10:53
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I guess the juice & breakfast settles it then. | |
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3rd October 2007, 15:48
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5th January 2008, 16:03
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5th January 2008, 20:41
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| BHPian  Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Bangalore
Posts: 208
Thanked: 35 Times
| akroy ! So many similarities between you and me !! here it is - Bold letters you and normal me. "My only love since my childhood was bycycles and each and every corner of Hyderabad-Secunderabad has been done in my cycle (BSA SLR... also burned some rubber of my dad's Vespa NV..." I also loved bycycles and indeed had a BSA SLR in my school days. I rode it for 10 years from 7th std until graduation ! And also burned some rubber of my dad's Luna moped in between. "...in one idle month of January2004, me and my friend decided to learn driving and atleast get a license" One fine morning, during my early collage days, don't know why, I suddenly decided that I need to learn car driving, and I go join one driving school. Something went bad in between and I did not finish driving school then. "In between all this, couple of years went by, salary increased too, time to get married, now what? Still no car in mind, OK, I will still manage in my bike. First six months, the newly married couple tried all the trips they can in their bike be it Mangalore, Mysore, Shivasamudram-Talakkad..." As soon as I get married, first thing I did was I bought Bajaj Caliber croma. And in the first 2 years of marriage me and my wifey have done entire Wayanad district of Kerala, Bangalore-Mangalore twice (via Shivamogga - Augombe ghat), 4 - 5 times Bangalore - Chitradurga - Davangere, and twice Bangalore - Shivamogga - Sagar - Siddapur - Kumta - Murudeshwar - Karwar - All on my 110 cc Caliber croma ! "Research: From Day1, it was an Alto as I was in that impression that I cannot afford anything bigger the price of Alto. That’s the typical psyche when you think of your first car. During all this googling, I came across this wonderful site called team-bhp and read almost all the threads in about 1.5-2 months (still didn’t join)" Again, when I thought of my first car, I did lot of research, bumped into Team-BHP, registered right away and read each and every thread for 1 month. I almost bought a used Alto... just then GM came up with adverts of 50k discount on Chevy Spark and me and my wifey ended up with Sparky. As far as long journey, we have just done Bangalore - jog - siddapur - kumta trip. I dream of doing a long journey across India some day. Lastly, I too maintain an excel sheet of fuel and other expenses done on my car ! Only difference, you are an excellent author. All your travelogues are superb writeups. I just don't know how to start. Also I don't yet have a digicam  and don't feel like writing anything without photos. |
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22nd January 2008, 13:43
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