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Could you explain what are these?

Yes, these were given to me at the time of delivery.

I had a similar experience last year with SVM KIA in Chennai. I booked Sonet on Jan 28 2022 with a promise of delivery within 45-50 days despite the official waiting time being more. End of Feb, I got a call from my sales guy saying the car would be available for delivery in a week and I should be ready with financials, etc., I sold my car to prepare for initial payments. I sold it for a lesser amount because the timeline was so near.

Come Mar 4, the date mentioned by sales rep, he said there was a delay and they are planning for a bigger delivery on Mar 15 for 25 ppl. I was angry but then waited. On Mar 14 when I called, there was no response. Finally, when I caught hold of him, he said the car was allocated and would be delivered after formalities. I didn't believe him and asked for an email and he backed off. I lost my patience and went to the showroom. The team lead and manager were testing my patience. Had to give them an earful and cancel my booking. Despite that, I took 25 days to get back my booking amount.

While that is done, I still get calls saying the car has been allotted and I can take delivery. It's such a pathetic trend set by KIA.

When my neighbors bought a car from them last month, there was pigeon shit which had stained the roof. The showroom guys were negligent to clean that or inform the customer. The rear door was offset towards left and they blamed us saying these things were perfect when delivered. After giving an earful, and raising to KIA, they agreed and fixed both the issues.

I have a question regarding the in-built map/navigation. I remember someone has already raised this precise issue and got a solution, but for the life of me, am just not able to find that post. Have searched for almost an hour, nogo. So dear Mods, kindly excuse.

I got my GTX+ on 19th Oct, but it's only today that I noticed that the map navigation is upside down. So instead of the arrow going up (as I move forward), it actually heads downwards. It was super confusing when I had to turn left of right.

Request someone who is aware of the prob and solution, kindly help.

I was shown a set of Alloy locks by the Accessories team who said there are 4 special nuts for each of the wheels which can be opened only by a specific key. The set contains 4 special nuts (see picture below) and 1 Key. Without this key, you can only cut the nut off damaging your tyre and alloys.

I'm annoyed with the same as well. Since most of my driving is on the highways, the warning message pops up quite often:Frustrati! I tried playing with all the ADAS settings but nothing worked.

I've been tinkering around the entire settings to figure it out but there's nothing that I've been able to spot that turns it off. I believe its not under our control. Or the only settings it can be is in Driver Attention Warning - maybe if that's completely off it might not pop up.

However i've noticed it doesn't come up too often so haven't really turned DAW completely off - Parking, rear collision and blind view monitor for turn indicators. These primarily as the major running is in Delhi city itself.

Yes, I received a manual with the car (along with a mug and chocolates :) ).


Maybe try turning of DAW, however i doubt that's worth the trade off to switch off such key systems especially on the highway which is the only place where the ADAS in India is helpful.

End-to-end experience of our Seltos Facelift (GTX+ DCT)
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Got the car delivered to me and my family on Nov 1st!! Within 5 weeks of the booking date to the committed 15-16 weeks - which is honestly remarkable IMO.

Listing down my entire booking and pre-delivery, delivery and experience till date with our Pewter Olive GTX+ DCT.

A. Booking and pre-delivery

• Reached out to Frontier Kia first, we weren't impressed by their handling and proactiveness - so contacted Jayanti KIA and it was probably a great decision keeping in mind that we had absolutely 0 issues or niggles with the entire experience.
  
• Booked in the last week of September, the SA came to our house to take the booking. We paid 25k amount and then waited till we were messaged around oct 3rd week to get the CSD procedure initiated as the car is available to be allotted within a week. TBH i thought there's something fishy as its been less than 1 month since the booking (p.s. there was nothing as such).
  
• The SA was throughout communicative and responsive to all our questions. PDI was scheduled, via Zekardo (in detail in post #975). All smoothly done, delivery was scheduled for 4 days later as BH registration from RTO office took a while due to public holidays

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B. Delivery

• Car was ready for us. Looked gorgeous.
• Paid for the accessories, logged into MyKia and Kia Connect. Kia Connect didn't work for first 1 week, they fixed something on the back end - however it still wasn't fixed at my end. I called the customer care through the website number and they helped me figure it out and its now connected end-to-end.
• Took delivery of the car, turned off forward collision warning, had barely any petrol so got that filled too.

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C. Experience till now

1. Drive -
   • Driven around 350kms only. For city (delhi) errands i can't seem to get my head around not taking out my i10 for many a reasons so our Seltos hasn't been getting much runtime.
   • What a beast of a machine, idk if i'm biased or the delta from my 10 yr old i10 is that great but driving the turbo petrol dct is just so fun and easy. Pick up is great, power delivery is great - bare minimum lag is there but just about to the limit to not hamper those split-second decisions.
   • Can reach 80kmph is absolutely no time without the slightest of discomfort or hesitance.
   • Overall mileage to date has been 9.9/10 KMPL. Driving was completely in the city with probably a stretch of 2-3km once or twice in the past 2 weeks without any traffic or stoppages.
     
   
   
2. Space - Front seats are extremely comfortable, viewing angle height everything works for me / my family. Back seats are decent at best, leg room is more than adequate, however centre seat is stiff. The least recline angle is a bit too much as it eats up into the boot space. Boot space could've been a bit more i feel the 433L tag isn't justified due to the dimensions.
   
   
3. Features / Functionalities
   • 360 deg cam: I can't drive any decently sized car without a 360 camera due to its sheer convenience. I use it in case im in a tight spot just to be sure that as i've turned off most DAW features. I take longer in my i10 to reverse out of my parking spot than the seltos due to the ease it provides (I'm not a relatively new driver, have been driving for over 9-10 years).
   • Auto hold: makes you feel like we're karting - that system is best made for Indian roads and traffic.
   • Maps / Navigation: POOR. Quite unintuitive, lacks many basic locations, gives out multiple results with bare minimum tagging to be able to select the right destination. The route choices are questionable too. As someone who has more screentime of google maps than say instagram - this is something that really put me off. Having to use my phone to navigate isn't ideal or safe.
   • Kia Connect app: can start, stop the engine, AC, honk all remotely. More than that we can pre-send our location to the car and upon entry just gotta select the location on the popup for direction. Also gives the absolute peace of mind in case of key being left inside we can remotely unlock it.
   • Dual zone AC: was under the impression that it might be a gimmick but came in handy on the 2nd day on the drive itself when my co-passenger was feeling cold whereas i was driving with 19C and ventilated seats.
   • Wireless charging: Great utility, and speed of charging is impressive.
   • Keyless entry: Auto unfolding of SVM and unlocking of door is great and honestly gives me the kicks. Lacks memory seat option which would have been great but not complaining.
   • Sunroof: Shade (only, not the glass) is open 24/7, gives an airy feel to the cabin. However one-touch functionality isn't working but i can't be bothered to get it fixed as it's not adding any discomfort.

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D. Summary - Can't be happier with the choice we've made vis-a-vis the other cars (creta, kushaq, slavia, xuv700, harrier) that were in our consideration bucket. Ticks all the boxes, gives you joy upon driving and any thing that feels could have been there is completely overshadowed by the abundance of the host of must-have features that this car provides.

Happy driving to the rest of the forum!

Congrats. Similar experience for me too.:)

Can the car be locked inadvertently if the key is left inside?

From when i tested it, it didn't lock on its own with the key being inside. However, I locked it using the Kia Connect app and it locked. And was able to unlock too using the app.

No , The navigation is fine the arrow moves upwards only. There are some options buttons on the screen try tweeking.

to minimize this warning, keep both hands on the steering wheel at all times.

Has anyone managed to test drive the Seltos 1.5 turbo-petrol and the Verna 1.5 turbo-petrol back-to-back? I took a TD of the Verna turbo a few weeks back and had some fun driving it. I was blown away by the 1.5 turbo motor! However, the local Kia dealer surprisingly doesn't have the Seltos turbo-petrol for TD and hence I cannot check one out in person.

Can someone, who've got their hands on both can share their experience? I'm sure though both the engines are same, their driving characteristics will be quite different.

Thanks.

I had test-driven them upon the initial launch of the Seltos back to back, I had driven the Verna first and it was surely the more sportier of the two, and the Seltos later, which had the usual issues associated with the SUV body style like body roll and the stiff suspension against the more compliant one in the Verna.

In my opinion, if you are after a fast and fun sedan, the Verna is the way to go, else if the SUV body style is more important, then go for the Seltos. Our family members were not in favor of the sedan and favored the Seltos due to ease of ingress and egress, better ground clearance, and looks.

For me, Verna scores over Seltos in the following parameters

1. Sporty
2. Ride quality
3. Dashboard layout
4. Looks
5. Huge boot
6. 5 star GNCAP

PPF Coating

Has anyone got PPF done for their new Seltos? Which brand PPF you went with and what was the cost?

A friend referred me to a detailer in Bangalore. I met him today and to the best of my knowledge, he sounded knowledgeable and more importantly, GENUINE. He recommended me to go with PPF instead of ceramic/graphene coating.

He's quoting 95k (as a special price) for the whole car. He's using "Knight Skin" ppf and it comes with 7-year warranty. While I find some good reviews on YouTube, hardly any mention of it on TeamBHP. Anyone has an idea about this?