Team-BHP - Mahindra XUV700 Review

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Originally Posted by sandeepmdas (Post 5504265)

I understand the BS6 level 2 is about to kick in by April 2023. Let us ignore the BS4 talk from the abovementioned, (they're certainly not aware that she's a TBHPian-wifey :) ), but is the rest of it true? MM is not shipping cars for an entire month? What to do?

I will be receiving my XUV700 D AT AX7L this week. It is Feb Manufactured, but the booking says BS6.2

Has anybody faced these two issues?

1. Every now and then infotainment system throws the error "Syncing metadata" and you will be not be able to browse through the folders/songs. Solution is to unplug the USB or switch of vechile and restart. Its painful.

2. Android auto - Sometimes it throws "Searching for GPS". Facing this often. Not sure whether this is phone issue or android auto issue in the car.

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Originally Posted by Bit (Post 5506652)

What's the asking price on that?

So this is from Mahindra First Choice, their sticker price was 24 Lakhs.

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Originally Posted by Aviator_guy (Post 5506713)

It looks like a vehicle registered to a business (hotel). Are you sure you want to buy a car which is not from an individual but a commercial entity? Not that I'm doubting anything but we never know how it was driven and maintained over its ownership? Then there is doubt about the gap between the manufacturing date vs actual registration date. Unless you know the owners, I am not sure buying a commercially owned car is a good idea.

Thanks. Yeah the problem solved itself for me, the people from First Choice called me and told me that someone has already booked the vehicle.

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Originally Posted by joethedriver (Post 5507096)

Yeah. I was facing this issue for a while and with every passing day,this started happening more frequently. Now I am not using pendrives anymore and play songs only through Apple CarPlay.

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Originally Posted by haribalram (Post 5470044)

I have an automatic and it has the Stop/Start button. During the car demo, the advisor had recommended that this be turned off by default and only switched on during the wait at long signals (say 60+ seconds).

For lesser wait times at signals or bumper to bumper traffic situations, the Auto Hold should serve the purpose.

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Originally Posted by abirnale (Post 5470072)

The old batch does not have the Micro-Hybrid feature. I have personally seen the Micro-hybrid thingie in latest ATs. Super-irritant if you have to switch it off every time you start the car. The manufacturers claim all good with it but to me its detrimental to Turbo - after a hard run on highway, as you get closer to Tollbooth and stuck in the queue, this thing will switch off the car. The part of the country where I experience the jams, it takes about 2-5 minutes to clear a toll booth or some “world-famous” traffic hotspots as soon as i enter the city back from the highway drives!

I noticed something about the Auto Start/Stop in my AX7L P AT.
When the car comes to a stand still the auto stop kicks in and switches off the engine. Releasing the brake pedal will start the engine again.
I found two other situations when the engine starts back up after a auto stop:
1. When the gear is moved from D to N - don't understand why the engine has to start (as per the manual, engine actually stops in N in the Manual variant)
2. When the steering wheel is turned in any direction (with the breaks still pressed) - I am ok with this and actually like this method of restarting the engine than releasing the break

I hope Mahindra can update the software (if possible) to stop the engine when the car comes to a complete stop and the gear is shifted to N. This way in a very long traffic signal, the break can be released (with auto hold ON) and the driver can relax a bit instead of keeping the break pressed continuously.

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Originally Posted by amahale (Post 5507454)

I have another observation on the "stop" case. After an auto stop/start sequence, the next stop is unpredictable. As an example, 25-50 metres before a signal, in very slow moving traffic, I auto stop/start. When I eventually brake at the signal (for e.g. 1.5 mins), the car doesn't auto stop off. Surely, there is some logic (time lag?) built in, to avoid frequent auto stop in very slow moving traffic. Have you observed the same?

Your tips [1] & [2] are handy, will check. Agree to your suggestion on giving "N" some purpose in the decision making lol:.

Stop/Start button ON:

Auto Stop - Vehicle halt -> Brake Pressed -> "N" mode (Release Brake after this)
Auto Start - Brake Pressed -> "D" mode (This is anyway an expected operation to shift the mode).

Stop/Start button OFF:

Engine keeps running between D->N->D shifts.

Makes sense?

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Originally Posted by rs_cockpit (Post 5507431)

Hi, Has anyone faced issue with microphone volume being too low? I couldn't find any setting to control it and the other person can barely hear me when I speak through car's Bluetooth. Thanks.

Can you check under the Settings -> Audio -> Individual volume settings?

Surely, there is setting for BT audio. I don't remember if there is something explicit for the microphone.

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Originally Posted by sandeepmdas (Post 5507289)

clap: Mine is also "promised" for this month. BTW, is there any price hike ?

Hi.. this is my first post here. My car is reaching the dealership tomorrow. However the delivery date is not yet finalized since there is some issue With BS6.2 and TN RTO approvals. The confirmation from the dealership is that there is no price revision as yet.

Hello!

I am posting for the first time on Team-BHP regarding a small but irritating issue that I have noticed on the Mahindra XUV7OO.

We had a Skoda Rapid as a daily driver but the car had covered 1.3L km in 10 years, so we started searching for a new SUV in the budget of 30-40 lakhs. We test drove a few cars namely:

1) Skoda Kushaq (1.5 Monte Carlo DSG)
2) Volkswagen Taigun (1.5 GT DSG)
3) Mahindra XUV7OO (AX7L Diesel Automatic)
4) Tata Harrier (Diesel Automatic)
5) Jeep Compass (Diesel and petrol Automatic)
6) BYD Atto 3 (Electric of course!)

After a detailed research of all the vehicles we zeroed in on the Compass and the XUV7OO, the latter is no doubt the most value for money car in the price bracket I mentioned. But, there was one issue with the car which hardly anyone has pointed out on the internet i.e. the problem of ingress for taller passengers in the front row of seats (For some context, me and my dad are 6 feet tall). Every time we tried to sit in the front row of seats our head banged against the A-Pillar, we tried every possible adjustment on the otherwise very comfortable seats, we moved the seat completely backward and set it to the least height but the problem was still persistent. We still had hopes as a side step would somewhat eradicate the problem but then came the waiting period of one year, this was just not ideal for us and we decided to move on. Later, we booked the Jeep Compass Model S 4x4 AT in the devilish Black colour, we were given the delivery of the vehicle within 2 weeks :Cheering:! I will be posting another detailed thread regarding the car buying process and the options that we considered. Also, has anyone else experienced the same issue with the 7OO?

Thank you for reading,
Nipun
:)