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| ![]() This was a real nice and honest review. If you want to do something about the driveability and FE, you may want to touch base with Digital Vampire. He owns a Tucson and I got my Tucson remapped from him. |
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One thing I am not certain of is, will any changes affect the warranty offered. I'll check and reach you, but thanks for letting me know of an option. Since you are in Pune and I may visit Pune during the monsoons for the adventure thrills/parks and rafting (Kundalika) it offers, maybe I can come over and see your Tucson too. | |
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| ![]() I tried to edit the previous post to upload an enlarged image of the pic posted, didn't realize there is a time constraint. It was clicked on our trip to Lonavala 10 days back ![]() |
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| ![]() I love this kind of fog, it really feels heavenly. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The drive is a joy: ![]() My best friend who's b'day we celebrated in Pune, this is in Corinthians. ![]() ![]() Nothing beats those beautiful minutes you spend here. Last edited by s_pphilip : 16th July 2013 at 03:52. Reason: Pic clarity poor |
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| ![]() I am not aware what your notions were before picking up the Sonata but the cars strong points include Space , comfort , ride quality , reliability and ease of ownership. I had the original sonata gold and covered over 300k kms before selling it and picked up a sonata transform crdi At which has also covered 80,000 kms. It gives unmatched comfort while covering large distances something which the Honda city cannot match. Yes , it is slow to change directions and prefers a relaxed driving style . Give it time and it ll grow on you. |
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First of all, my apologies for the delayed response; busy with work. I've only once ever ridden in a New Honda City (NHC), but that was with a full load of five adults and that car scraped every speed breaker and bottomed into every pothole. I should think your Embera would do much better, ride-wise. I think you reported a mileage of 13 kmpl for your diesel Embera, which sounds pretty good. Its a big and heavy car. I get 7 - 8 kmpl city and 11 - 12 highway, and I'm a *very* sedate driver. | |
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Yes, the remap he did for my Tucson really made it a pleasure to drive. Let me know when your Pune trip is finalized and we will meet. | |
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I don't think I have done that many kms even if I add the kms done by all the wheels I have. You must be feeling really high about Hyundai, one happy customer. I am still getting a hang of it, call it novelty, but these days I am covering distances in it, approx 1k a week, mostly weekend accumulations. Its only 20 days and we have done about 2.3k kms. All that bulk masks the speed and distances well. I will try and see if I can get to drive another Embera from somewhere and that way I can confirm whether I need to get something checked on this. For now we are feeling happy all the way and want that to stay. | |
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| ![]() Thanks Pacifica for your detailed response, my response is included in your message. Quote:
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Also I haven't checked on the warranty yet, won't any mod to the engine void it by default? Even I plan to keep this thread alive, by regular posts. Somebody wanting to switch to a big car (Sonata) can find this helpful. Last edited by s_pphilip : 16th July 2013 at 21:42. | |
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| ![]() I would recommend a thorough check up and service of your car. That way you ll be aware of what needs to be changed and what has been changed. Lubes changed , brake overhaul , suspension re torquing , air conditioner , filters , etc. The service is not very expensive and the general attitude of the dealers is very acceptable. |
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| ![]() Glad to help, thats what we are on this forum for. Mine is a 2.4 petrol AT with only four gears, whereas you have the CRDI with five or six gears. I would think you would be able to coax better performance out of yours. I live in Wakad. Ping me when you are here next; you can try out my petrol Embera to compare the braking. |
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| ![]() Thanks Bigron and Pacifica. Today I visited the 2nd Hyundai dealer in Goa for a general checkup/servicing, so I should take an appointment some time this week or next, lets see. I sure would like to meet you personally Pacifica, loads of know-how I can gather, my next visit to Pune it is, then. |
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Last evening while taking a friend for a spin, since I normally drive at 60/70 kmph, proactively being safe, also because the car mostly feels lethargic, we hence thought of speeding, for the car to display its character. The last instance I had a blast was on NH-4, 2 weeks back. Hence on a straight stretch of less than a km between a speed breaker and junction, I accelerated from 1st gear after the speed breaker and momentarily touched 160 kmph on the speedo in 4th before backing out, I was hesitant as this is a public road and it still was accelerating. I braked immediately to saner speeds so did not observe the rpm. Both me and my friend were pleasantly surprised by the power, he asked me the power rating and apart from the 'cc', I didn't know the 'bhp', I assumed it must be about 130-ish, so I asked him to check the RC book, It is 142 HP, I was like WOWie, that almost double of the Honda City (NHC). Add all that crdi torque to it. I even googled out of curiosity and found the 2.4 VTVT has 165 HP. I must say this must be among the most powerful cars one can lay hands on at good pre-owned prices. On a different note during all that display while dabbing the accelerator on standstill there is clouds of black smoke spewed out of the exhaust. So we went to the other Hyundai dealer in Goa (other than the one we picked the car from, we picked from Hyundai Advantage). He said this is normal when you press the accelerator, he even casually went for a small drive and said the car is in good condition, he said the suspension, brakes, acceleration is as should be. He asked me when have we done the last servicing, I told him we picked the car second-hand recently and the service is due after 6 months. He said he will check his computer records and that is when I was shocked, almost going weak in my knees. He said the car has had a irregular servicing history with intermittent spans of almost 25 k kms. The owner son and the advantage guys had told us that the car is serviced regularly, the owner (I know him through my circle) is a pretty affluent businessman/local politician. Moreover Advantage even offered 12 months warranty at additional cost. Since the owner said he got the car serviced from the same dealer regularly and the same dealer's advantage wing verbally said it is regularly serviced, we did not ask for service records at the time of buying assuming that Advantage will obviously ensure this is taken care of, I think this was foolishness on our part. This has got us a bit worried and I have asked the Advantage fellow to confirm this, on asking even he said the car is in good condition, though he will provide details tomorrow, may be I am reading too much into this. During delivery when asked Advantage only mentioned that a major servicing is due at 90k kms and the next servicing is after 6 months and we get 2 free services as per the warranty. If this is so it will definitely mean that the oil filter and oil change hasn't been done as per schedule, how badly will it affect the engine/mechanicals of the car? Is it possible that they do not update it in the Hyundai service records, and maintain a separate individual dealer record? If it was a Swift I would not be so bothered, this being an expensive to maintain engine with high pressure components, has got us all worried. Even when typing this in, my mind is spinning. I hope I get a positive response tomorrow and can laugh at my imagination spinning wild. Last edited by s_pphilip : 19th July 2013 at 04:10. | |
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