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Old 8th September 2023, 15:42   #556
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Re: 2023 Kia Seltos Facelift Review

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How do we switch off the emergency breaking?
Go to settings > Vehicle > Driving safety > switch off 'Forward Safety'.

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Many congrats and wish you happy miles. Do keep updating the thread as you spend more time with the car. Your inputs, especially on the new 1.5 L turbo motor will be very helpful.
Thanks. I'll start using the car 4 days a week for office starting this Monday so will understand the engine + gearbox behaviour better and share my thoughts. I had a short sprint today and would like to reiterate my earlier comment that picking up speed on this car is effortless. Right now, I am trying to understand the gearbox tuning plus how it behaves between D, manual and when I start flipping paddles. A quick comment to share is that although TBhp review mentions there is no "S" mode for the gearbox, my car does switch to Sx from Dx when I move the gearbox to manual (pull lever towards the right). This, plus the instrumentation changes to sport view (as it does when we change modes via drive / traction rotary dial). Post switching to manual, if I use paddle shifters or the lever to manually up / down a gear, instrumentation switches back to normal view but the gearbox stays in manual.

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What settings to switch this off? every 50 meters its keep saying children crossing ahead, guess its warning from MapMyIndia.
Settings > Navigation > Safety Alerts > Uncheck all under both daytime and night time subheaders.

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Old 9th September 2023, 08:25   #557
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Since there are not too many delivery updates on the thread, let me share a pic of my GTX+ that I received on 1st of this month.
Congratulations on delivery of your car!

Had few questions -

1) Is there a way to disable adaptive cruise control and use normal cruise control?

2) Can you enable Google maps/mapmyIndia maps in instrument cluster like we have the option in Nexon facelift?
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I understand that smart key has a physical key that can be used to unlock the car if the smart key is unable to because of low or dead battery in smart key fob.

However, will the physical key also work in case the battery of the car itself is dead?

The reason I ask is this is because some cars do use electronics to unlock the door even while using the mechanical key.( Watch the embedded video from 3:00)

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# Ventilated seats work, can evaluate better after a long drive. I am one of those who would end up with sweaty back within half an hour of driving, sitting on leatherette seats. I really wish these seats would be a boon for me.
Appreciate if you can provide your opinion on ventilated seats. I don't need bling so the only reason of buying top variant is ventilated seats.
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My first outstation trip in my New Xline 6AT around 100km away from my town. It was rainy day, when we went to visit our ancestral village that has holy place for blessings.

The journey was partly on a 6 lane highway and partly on unmatlled road.


PS: The pics might not reflect the natural colour of the car since the pics were taken by my wife whose default camera apps are Instagram and Snapchat which filters on. :-)


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My first outstation trip in my New Xline 6AT around 100km away from my town. It was rainy day, when we went to visit our ancestral village that has holy place for blessings.

The journey was partly on a 6 lane highway and partly on unmatlled road.
Hi Mr Anderson, it would be great if you could share a few insights about your drive especially this being the BS Ph-2 D AT motor; in terms of performance, whether it met your expectations, highway / city driving, etc. I’m sure your experience will help the other BHPians too.
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Appreciate if you can provide your opinion on ventilated seats. I don't need bling so the only reason of buying top variant is ventilated seats.
Ventilated seats work great, with AC circulating from the seat as per settings, there are two different buttons next to gear lever for each front seat which needs to be pressed to activate ventilated seat.
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Appreciate if you can provide your opinion on ventilated seats. I don't need bling so the only reason of buying top variant is ventilated seats.
Incidentally, today I used it for the first time (other than trying it just to see how it works). I don't like super chilled AC air blowing on my face, so I always keep the AC temp at around 23.5. I was in driving in peak Bangalore traffic for about half an hour, intermittently stopping at traffic signals and was beginning to feel hot, may be just getting tensed due to stopping at signals more than actually driving. I closed the sunroof and within a minute felt better but realised my back is still warm. Just then I remembered "I am sitting on a ventilated seat", so I put that on and in a few seconds thanked Kia. The effect was almost instantaneous.

I believe most people in India still feel this is a nice-to-have feature. My question to them would be this - would you say heated seats are a not-so-necessary feature if you were living in say, Canada? It's probably a luxury feature right now, just as automatic transmission and power steering used to be sometime back.

What I consider "bling" are those stupid chrome all around, those red, blue, copper lines that some manufacturers add to distinguish the models from their usual ones in the name of giving them "sporty" look.

What I think would be a good reason to buy a lower variant would be the tan interiors in HTX+, compared to black in GTX+ (may be 17" alloy wheels make the ride better too).
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Uff... quite a looker she is
Oh absolutely. It's a head turner for sure. Hands down the most beautiful and feature rich car under 25lakhs.

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Hi Mr Anderson, it would be great if you could share a few insights about your drive especially this being the BS Ph-2 D AT motor; in terms of performance, whether it met your expectations, highway / city driving, etc. I’m sure your experience will help the other BHPians too.

I have absolutely no problem in terms of performance and milage. It gives around 13 kmpl in city and the above trip returned a milage of 17.5 considering half of it was on unmetalled road and the car hasn't even gone through its first servicing I was fairly happy with it, although my father still compares it to the the 26 kmpl my cousin got in his strong hybrid grand vitara and still tells me we should have gotten that instead.

There is no lack of power either. Press the pedal and it downshifts smoothly, if required, for overtakes. Also the cabin noise after driving a Honda city diesel for 7 years feels like I am driving an EV now

It was breeze to drive on the highway. On un metalled road I was extra careful to slow the vehicle down even for the smallest of pot holes may be because it's a new car only 10 days old and I was trying to treat it with utmost care. But yeah didn't feel tiring at all and it's overall a comfortable car with very good seats and under-thigh support and legroom considering none of us in our family is over 5ft8" tall. It could be different for people who are over 6ft tall.

The dual zone ac is a blessing since I can't remember how many times I've had to argue with my wife over the temperature we want. I usually start to feel cold a lot sooner than her. We both were very happy with this feature. Only gripe is they should have given fan speed also to be controlled separately for the two zones, but it's ok since the air blowing on my face isn't from Antarctica anymore

Ventilated seats work like a charm you start to feel the cold in your back within seconds.

They interior quality is top notch for X-line variant. Very premium, it feels like your sitting in a car way over it's price point. The colour combination of black and sage green/grey along with the red stitching looks stunning.

All the features of ADAS work flawlessly but can sometimes be very aggressive when it comes to breaking especially if there is a car in front of you that you might believe is still a fair distance away, the adas system feels otherwise. It's highly advisable to switch ADAS off when driving in the city traffic.

Also the in-built map/navigation is decent enough. It covers most of the places and the best thing is that the HUD shows you directions during navigation and you don't need to take your eyes off the road when looking at direction.

Overall I have no complaints and I'd put his car under the highly recommended category.

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Also the in-built map/navigation is decent enough. It covers most of the places and the best thing is that tha hud shows you directions during navigation and you don't need to take your eyes off the road when looking at direction.
Congrats! Your car looks awesome.

For me, the built-in navigation is not able to search for some destinations within the city. I had to use Google Maps, although phone connects wirelessly and gives voice navigation output but I don't want to look at my phone at all while driving. This is one thing I'd like to be better.
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Overall I have no compailnts and I'd put his car under the highly recommended category.
Thank you for your quick and detailed response Anderson, much appreciated!

I wish you a long and blissful ownership with your stead.

Also, I missed to mention earlier; your car looks stunning! Keep updating the thread as you cover more miles.

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Congrats! Your car looks awesome.

For me, the built-in navigation is not able to search for some destinations within the city. I had to use Google Maps, although phone connects wirelessly and gives voice navigation output but I don't want to look at my phone at all while driving. This is one thing I'd like to be better.
Yeah Google maps is still a million times more detailed than the built in kia navigation. It would have been perfect if the system could somehow display directions from Google map on the instrument cluster and hud.

Until then I'd prefer to use the in-built map and hud instead of taking my eyes off the road by using either the phone or the infotainment system for Google maps, if traveling alone.

What I do is incase I need to find something that is not available on the kia map, then I search for some big landmark near that location in Google maps and enter that landmark on the kia navigation . It takes me close to the actual location and then the good old way of asking people where the exact location is helps a lot.
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Took delivery of my White GTX+ 7DCT yesterday on 8th September 2023. Had done a detailed PDI in the stockyard on 29th August 2023 for which my SA happily obliged. My car was dispatched on 10th August 2023 from the factory. Having found everything in order as per T-BHP check list, gave the go ahead for delivery on 8th. My SA (Jayanti Kia, Mathura Road, Delhi) though hesitant to allow insurance from outside finally gave in to match the other quote and got a 32K reduction. Purchased some required accessories without any compulsion from the SA.

For people still waiting on their booking, my booking was almost 1.5 years old as had made up my mind to wait for the facelift long back basis the leaked images from Korea. Was surprised I didnt get the first car from the showroom, but such is the market these days

Me and wife are completely wowed by the car and it seems the initial excitement will continue for some days. The sheer number of features and gizmos to understand is keeping us busy. I drove close to 30 kms after delivery and will update on my initial impressions in a couple of days upon taking some longer drives over the weekend. Meanwhile attaching some pictures for everyone.

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Hence, changed the booking to HTX+ again though will miss 360 camera and EPB (ADAS isn't of much use in Indian conditions as per my experience with XUV) but just can't compromise on interiors which will be user's primary touch/interaction point.
So I got a call from SA last week and was informed that my vehicle has been dispatched. It arrived dealer's stockyard on Thursday and I went for a PDI yesterday. The vehicle looked fine and I was told that I can switch on the ignition and test if systems are working properly, however, I cannot drive the car even for like 10 feets within the stockyard area. Found most of the things in order especially the ac which cooled the car parked in bright sunlight in less than 2 mins.

However, I am slightly concerned on the following:
1) Cooling effect of ventilated seats was not noticeable although I could feel the vibrations. I was told that seats are hot owing to car being parked in open area and should be running fine as you drive it for sometime.

2) Stock tyres are sourced from JK although previous batch (of HTX+) had Good Year tyres. Checked with a tyre shop for replacement and he told that he can buyback at 4,000/piece though he suggested to continue with JK tyres suggesting that both Creta/Seltos higher models have these tyres and are one of the best tyres supplied by JK and customer feedback isn't that bad.

3) Has someone tried converting wired Android Auto to wireless using some adapters. Amazon search yields some adapters enabling the same.
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What I do is incase I need to find something that is not available on the kia map, then I search for some big landmark near that location in Google maps and enter that landmark on the kia navigation . It takes me close to the actual location and then the good old way of asking people where the exact location is helps a lot.
There is no wireless Android auto/carplay right? How big a miss is that? I have never used AA/carplay, so don't know what to expect.

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Took delivery of my White GTX+ 7DCT yesterday on 8th September 2023. Had done a detailed PDI in the stockyard on 29th August 2023 for which my SA happily obliged. My car was dispatched on 10th August 2023 from the factory. Having found everything in order as per T-BHP check list, gave the go ahead for delivery on 8th. My SA (Jayanti Kia, Mathura Road, Delhi) though hesitant to allow insurance from outside finally gave in to match the other quote and got a 32K reduction. Purchased some required accessories without any compulsion from the SA.
Many congratulations on the new car! Happy and safe miles!
Can you provide more info on the insurance? Which company insurance quote did you show to get the reduction? Also, what all insurance add-ons did you choose?

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