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 they aren't Philips BlueVision or anything. The title of that picture mentioned it "Ikon fogs and strobes". The blue light is of the strobes.Btw it may be possible to have it for the headlights and fogs provided correct wattage and bulb type is asked for. For Reverse lights, I would considering leaving it as it is. cya A | |||||
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16th August 2007, 17:10
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16th August 2007, 17:32
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16th August 2007, 18:03
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There's a thread on this.. Ford Ikon: A/c Water Diverter Valve problem Quote:
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16th August 2007, 20:56
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16th August 2007, 21:15
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I use a FM signal generator from VR3 procured from US thru a friend. Plenty of such FM modulators are available in US. Sound quality is good, but one has to make sure that the modulator generates Stereo signals. Generally this does not catch external disturbance, but has problem near Army areas. The Seats on the Ikon are seat covers, as against complete Seats in the Fiat. I dont exactly remember the price. Actually am pretty bad at it. Will have to check my Invoice, but unfortunately I cannot do that in the coming few months. Go to the Ford dealer, he might be able to help you, but my guess is that this particular set was phased out owing to the ease with which it gets dirty. Infact I was advised against this by the dealer himself, even the workshop guys says why did I get that color. But as for me, I am still in love with it. Last edited by 1100D : 16th August 2007 at 21:19. | ||
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17th August 2007, 11:14
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17th August 2007, 11:52
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| BHPian | Nice rims VC12. Good deal too! Multispokes are cool. Looks like you beat benbsb29 on his dream set of rims?? I'm delaying the 20,000 km service now. Will do later. Besides, Ford hasn't sent me the reminder for service so I'll wait for it. Quote:
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19th August 2007, 12:40
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| BHPian | Pre-service review This morning I had an appointment with Ford at 10am. I went to Ford at 10:30am. There were no Queues. I went straight inside the lobby with my car. One person came and asked me do I have an appointment, he has a sheet of paper which has all the car reg nos written on it that have an appointment. I told Yes. So he calls out one name loudly and one person comes and starts jotting down checklist and damages around the car. After he's done, he asks me to sign it before even getting my complaints about the car. So I'm directed to another person who's known to me to take down the complaints. First I say check the shock absorbers. He asks why? I then say excessive noise is heard from the suspension over bad roads. So then the car is jacked up by the lift. After the car is lifted, he spins each wheel and keeps his hand on one pipe like tube next to the wheel for a few seconds. He's not able to feel any difference. He says front shock absorbers are fine. I'm not satisfied. So he calls one advanced person who deals in the suspension work. He does the same and finds the front wheels okay. But the rear wheels he finds some defect. So we get back to Ford and he doesn't even tell it to be done in job card.. I then tell for cleaning throttle body to be done. He says not necessary. I say please have it done because acceleration is not smooth and jerking is there. He replies its okay its normal. I'm again not satisfied here. I then ask do you decarbonize the engine at 20,000 km service. He says no sir, again not necessary. What the heck..?? What does he do then in the service..  I didn't request for rubbing polish to be done as usual, because I wanted to try 3m car detailing.Also had requested him NOT to change the airfilter because it has a K&N and I'll clean it myself with the kit after it comes back, because they dont' have the kit. Till now the bill estimate has come to 2999.98. Its a lot! I wonder for what..??!  He even said the car will be ready this evening at 4pm. I'm feeling suspicious and not sure of the work being done properly cause its too soon. Atleast 1 day would be a good timing. I then tell him, no please deliver it tomorrow afternoon, because I want the work to be done properly and not fast and improperly. He then gives a suspicious smile which I don't like. So that's what happened. I'm kind of dissatisfied with what happened today. But I hope the car comes out good. I shall update later after the car comes back from service. cya A |
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24th September 2007, 11:18
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24th September 2007, 16:15
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| BHPian | Post-service review Hello! Today I went to Ford around 2:30. The Ford Service Center was SO full of cars. I didn't have a camera with me to take pictures of it. It looked like it had rained Ford cars the previous night! I inform the same person who attended to me when I came to leave the car for service. He told me to wait for a few minutes. The bill was generated in a jiffy, and I paid by card. This was my first time I paid by card. Before always I used to do cash payment. Somehow card payment is faster and much quicker. If I remember exactly, for cash payment, they used to count the cash thrice, write down something in 3 huge books, and then do addition and subtraction on the bill and finally count the change thrice before giving me the change. Used to take minimum 5 minutes. But for today's card payment, everything got over in less than a minute. I was puzzled.. "So quick it got over.." I was thinking. Perhaps I should consider only card payments here. The billing was as follows:  After the billing process, I was given a gate pass that said "I have seen the car and the work is satisfactory to me and the failed parts have been returned.." And I hadn't seen the car and they expect me to sign it. I told First let me see the car then I'll sign it. He insisted to sign now. The same person who assisted me here intervened and told let it be, let the car be examined and then let him sign it. It gave me little confidence and relief. The car took a long time to come though because of many cars in the service centre. I mean, it was all crowded, they had to move some cars for my car to come through. After I saw the car, it was ok from the exteriors, interiors were clean. But I did not drive it for a test drive. So I signed off the gate pass and left to take the car away. When I began to take away the car, in Ford itself, speedbreakers were there, and I could still hear the creaking sound from the steering wheel. Arrrgh! He did say they couldn't find out the sound but he had lubricated the steering shaft!! How can they not hear it when I hear it so clearly and its irritating! I came off, shall complain to them in the weekend perhaps! Other than that, all is good in the car. But still jerking is there, but reduced. However, I don't know if an engine tune up has been done or not.. cya A |
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