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And more than OE these are imported rubber made for Japan (mostly) and will not last half as much in Indian rural conditions. | |
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| ![]() @Samuraisan: Any updates on your tyre change? |
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Team-BHP Support ![]() ![]() | ![]() Since Last month, GV has been racking up lot of miles. After driving 20,000kms in 2.5 years, I have driven 2500kms in the past 30 days. And not a complaint from the GV. Consider this, I am yet to face a single problems since my purchase. The only part changed so far is the tyres. I am not including consumables like oil, filters, etc. How precious is that? ![]() Quote:
My tyre saga was not a good one: https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/tyre-...cceptable.html (18 months old Michelin LTX AT2 - How old tyres are acceptable?) I never got to replace the old tyres Michelin gave me since the supply was not there for months. Then I gave up on replacing them. Last edited by Samurai : 25th May 2010 at 11:12. | |
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| ![]() Samu the hard water issue can be easily rectified by giving it a 3M treatment. Do it along with your next service after the monsoons and she will look like she is just out of the showroom. |
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Now, none of these are high quality GQ kind of roads. I am mostly driving in twisting roads and GPS is just going numb on me. The GPS has many times given up navigating. This saturday I decided to take a few breaks and shoot some snaps along the drive. These are Coorg roads: Even my HTC Touch2 automatically knows where we are, despite not having GPS feature. ![]() The road between Ammathi to Polibetta ![]() ![]() ![]() The main street of Polibetta ![]() On the Polibetta-Tittimathi road, yup GPS is clueless. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Couple shots from previous drives on the same stretch. Then of course the Mysore-Mandya district, they too are beautiful in their own way. I guess not many of you have seen or heard how these places can look if you pause and look around as you drive along. So here we go. The stretch between Hunsur and Tittimathi ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The stretch between Yeliwala and Srirangapattana ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |
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| ![]() Beautiful pictures, Samurai. Love that "going to rain" look. Was that the E-3 or E-500? -- Torqy |
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| ![]() OMG!! Gods own country? What happened to wheel cover? |
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No, this is in Karnataka. After upgrading to 235/70R16 Michelin LTX AT2, it didn't fit. | |
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Team-BHP Support ![]() ![]() | ![]() Yesterday I traveled from Bangalore to Manipal without paying toll at any place. That's a rare thing. My route was Bangalore-Mandya-Srirangapattana-Elivala-Hunsur-Piriapattana-Kushalnagar-Kudigee-Somvarpet-Shantalli-Kundalli-Handalli Koodige-Bisle Ghat-Subramanya-Gundya-Dharmastala-Ujire-Beltangady-Naravi-Bajagoli-Karkala-Manipal. These are the good stretch, I didn't bother getting down to take bad roads shots this time. I have covered it last year. ![]() ![]() Phew! It took 12 hours due to numerous photography breaks. The 30Kms between Somvarpet and Handalli Koodige took 1hour, and the next 30kms to Subramanya took 1.5 hours. I was following a bus in Bisle ghat, it was amazing to the speed the bus could maintain in that totally destroyed road. I have finally seen a bus doing offroading. I also forded a waterfall in Bisle and a flooded bridge near Dharmastala. Driving in monsoon is really fun if you have a SUV. Now for the bad news. Like most BHPians, I am very sensitive to even a slight unfamiliar noise coming from the car. While driving on the Bisle Ghat cow trail, I felt a dull unfamiliar noise sometimes on bad terrain, but very silent on good roads. As many of you are aware, I drive very regularly drive between Bangalore-Manipal over really bad roads. And I don't pussy-foot around the potholes, I smother them in decent speed. Some might think it is abuse, but SUVs are supposed to take that in their stride. So far GV has withstood all that over 25K of mostly bad road driving. Not a single mechanical part has been changed until now. Yesterday evening I dropped the GV at Abharan Motors, Udupi. My regular SA who used to handle the GV has been transferred to the newly opened Karkala branch. Now I had to deal with a different SA. We went for a trial and I couldn't demonstrate the dull sound no matter how much I tried, I didn't miss a single pothole, but no luck. Sometimes, this self healing property of GV drives me nuts. Anyway, at the end of the trial I asked them just examine everything in the suspension system just to be safe. Today morning I got call with the following info: 1) Tie rods on both sides have too much play, needs to be replaced (roughly 2.5K each) 2) The bushes on the lower arms on both sides are gone. Both the lower arms need to be replaced (6K each). 3) Stabilizer link bushing is also gone, the link needs to be replaced (1.9K). Looks like if the bushing is gone, the whole assembly needs to be replaced, not just the bush. Then I asked them to show the parts to their DGM Nagaraj Kamath, whose advice I can really trust. He was the one who built the skid plates for the GV in 2008. He used to be part of Rally support teams in the 90s and understands vehicles that undergo extreme stress. When I called him later, he advised me to go with items 1 and 3, but he felt the lower arms can wait, it still has lot more life. It can be looked into if the sound gets bad. Therefore I will be replacing some mechanical parts for the first time on the GV. They don't have any of the parts, everything has to be ordered from the factory stock. It might take 3-4 days before I can get the vehicle back. Last edited by Samurai : 11th May 2011 at 08:17. |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() | ![]() Sharath, lovely pics again, please pot other pics too ![]() ouch! so you start with a bang, but dont you think that these parts have given up pretty soon? Last edited by lohithrao : 17th August 2010 at 14:34. |
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