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Pune dealer Sky Moto confirmed to me that Blue color has been discontinued from this year. Is it true? Can anyone please confirm?

Blue looks killer in Compass and I'm eyeing that.

I took delivery of the Sport Plus last week and while booking they confirmed that the blue colour has been discontinued.

It seems like the most liked colours are Exotic Red, Minimal Grey and Magnesio Grey.

Congratulations! What are the deals/offers available on the Sport Plus? Would you mind sharing what you got.

Jeep’s focus for 2020 will be to bring out the heavily updated Compass, Seven-seat Jeep Compass India launch pushed to 2021.


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There was a discount of 50K on the Insurance (Zero Dep or otherwise). Also a cash discount of 25K and 25K worth of free accessories (Mats, anti-rust coating, teflon coating etc.). I also exchanged my older swift hence there was some more cost reduction based on the value of the car.

• More Diesel automatics - A welcome thing I'm sure. About 2 years late, but still...Good
• Sheet metal changes - :Frustrati The one thing that they got spot on from day one. I hope they don't change these. Not just yet at least...

No surprise that the rumored 7 seater isn't coming just yet. It is bound to fail unless they rejig the pricing bottom up. It won't be properly be able to fight with the Fortuner-Endeavour otherwise in the big boys' group.

The weirdest thing happened in my car, which could be a potentially huge issue. This incident has happened twice so far, and around 10 months apart, while driving vigorously. The first time, I was in third gear, floored the accelerator, and the power was generated by the engine and the engine revved very quickly, while no power was reaching the wheels, as if the clutch had been depressed and the acceleration was given. I managed to drive it under low rpms and took it to my place, after which the issue disappeared when I turned it on again.

The second incident was yesterday. I was doing around 120 kmph and fully depressed the accelerator, when i noticed the vehicle speed wasn't increasing, but the engine sound got really loud and the RPM was at 4000, but no increase in speed, the same behavior as if the clutch was pressed. It happened once more, after which it didn't happen again. Could anyone explain this? It's just come out of a service recently, although this issue had cropped up long before as well.

RPMs increasing without a proportionate increase in speeds is an indication towards the transmission system, more precisely the clutch and the drive shaft and nothing else. You will need to start from there.

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Most likely, this is a symptom of clutch slippage under heavy load (read heavy acceleration) condition.
You can do a prelim clutch braking effectiveness test yourself before heading to a workshop - gradually depress the brakes while in 1st or 2nd gear to assess effectiveness of clutch holding back on engine rpm. If the friction plate is worn out, it will be less effective in braking the engine (and the clutch pedal will also become a bit hard). You may have to run a comparison with a newer vehicle if you haven't experienced this before on your car.

Other reason for such a behaviour could be inadvertent slippage of gear selector forks to neutral position. It would be a less probable reason though and you would anyway come to know by seeing the gear position.

I will rule out other possible failures (of gears/ drive shaft etc.) as these are all positive drives (which don't allow slippage). If there was any damage in this area, the car will not return to normal state on its own, like what is happening in your case. Keep us posted once you find out the root cause.

Compass, 1.5L off.

Sheet metal changes? What does this mean?
They will cheapen it or something else entirely?

Completed the 60,000 kms service on Nov 2nd which also marks the completion of the 2 year ownership!

As always the compass has been munching miles without a fuss.

Did the service at True Sai in Salem (as usual) and the workmanship continues to be topnotch.

Total bill was Rs. 12,856/- (without alignment & waterwash)

Couple of days before the service, the battery gave up. Lucky me, it happened at home and hence no troubles. Replaced with Amaron (pro) DIN 74.

So after 2 years and 60,000 kms, below is how the compass has fared:

1. Tyres - Stock
2. Brake pads & Rotors - Stock
3. Battery - Replaced after 1yr & 11months of usage with odo at 59k
4. Clutch - Replaced under warranty when odo was 20k

Recently faced a minor issue with the fuel flap door that was acting in-consistent where it refused to open occasionally. This was replaced under warranty at the 60k service.

Front brake pads would need replacement in the next 3-5k kms.
Tyres looking good for another 10k at least. Just that they are getting a bit noisy than usual.

Tyres at the time of service:


After the service:


Service Bill:


Few days later, a quick blast to Valparai for tea lol:

That for a 60k Kms service. Most of the Maruti owners (me included) will go into a mind-palace for few minutes after seeing this number.

Well done Jeep.:thumbs up

Late October, they have offered me the same 1.5 L discount on vehicle price and an additional 50K off on insurance. I'm waiting to see if the discount increases during Nov/Dec however it seems unlikely now.