[Vmk1950]

Good Idea!. Will try it soon. Thanks.

[Visvesvaran]

Planned for a long road trip during the 10 day mandatory block leave period at work. Had a long dream of visiting Indore, Mahakaleshwar , Omkareshwar and Maheshwar with family on a 1500 kms road trip in the new Nexon.

I have a 2024 Jan manufactured Nexon Fearless Petrol DCA which had put in 5900kms before I started the road trip.

I am a happy customer of the Nexon facelift. The only grouse had been the low mileage (CSUV had been thru two services so far). In suburban driving pattern (I drive always in Eco mode) the car never went past 12.6 kmpl. However during the bumper to bumper crawl between Chembur and Kalina in Santacruz Chembur Link Road the mileage went as low as 5kmpl. Fuel calculation was done tankful to tankful method. MID always shows 1- 2kmpl more than the actual mileage.

The car was sturdy, built well mechanically, drives planted on the road, handles easier in good as well as bad roads; the DCA gave very smooth city driving experience.

The software side of the Nexon had some niggles that keep popping now and then. They were minor irritants but never a deal breaker. A technologist-banker profession helped me to empathise the software behaviour better.

A. Preparation for the road trip
1. Before the road trip did a tyre rotation, wheel alignment and balancing and filled up all the 5 tyres with nitrogen - 33psi.
2. Tanked up the fuel and topped up the wiper washer tank.
3. The tyre inflator was also charged fully.
4. Google maps was downloaded for offline use.

The car had 3 pax and boot full of luggage (clothes, water and knick knacks for a 5 day trip)

B. The trip
The road trip started from Mumbai from Chembur on 23rd December 2024 0615 hrs. Crossing Thane, the Google Maps routed through Bhiwandi to exit MMR.

Radisson Indore was reached exactly in 12 hours with 5-6 breaks enroute for breakfast, lunch, tea, fuel top-up and bio breaks.

Barring a 30 minute traffic halt at the Maharashtra MP border the overall journey was uneventful.

During top up, noticed the car gave a mileage of 16.6 kmpl in mostly highway driving. The MID showed mileage of 18.1kmpl.

Indore to Ujjain and back happened thru a local cab.

Indore to Omkareshwar drive was not enjoyable. The under 90kms distance took nearly 3 hours to complete.

Broken roads, ongoing roadworks, heavy traffic congestion especially while entering and inside Omkareshwar, disgusting road manners of fellow drivers all lead to fatigue and frustration. the roadworks also created a 45 minute jam in between.

Omkareshwar was literally a dust bowl with poor town infrastructure and traffic management when compared with Ujjain.

The same road conditions continued all the way till Maheshwar 84kms from Omkareshwar - the erstwhile capital city of the Holkars dynasty. Maheshwar is a small town with a beautiful palace inside a fort, lot more temples on the banks of Narmada river.

The town offered great food and retail therapy of Maheswari saree purchases.

The return trip from Maheshwar started on the 27th Dec early morning and took 12 hours to reach Chembur.

C. Money savers

Reliance Jio petrol pumps give ₹3 discount for every litre of petrol and the cost of petrol was only ₹100.x at Malegaon. Petrol costs ₹107.xx in MP and ₹104.xx in rest of Maharashtra (as of 27th December 2024) . Topped up to full tank.

Due to heavy traffic congestion, bad roads and hilly driving conditions in the Indore-Omkareshwar leg of the journey, the mileage dropped to 15.5kmpl. MID was showing 16.7kmpl.

After Shahpur, the traffic entering to Mumbai got intense and was literally crawling in the outskirts of Thane.

D. Highlights:
1. Great ergonomics and ride handling.
2. Nexon has great suspension. Except few rumblers that gave competition to Great Wall of China in height and design, most of the rumblers were only heard, not felt.
3. Engine has sufficient grunt and the overdrive gear at D7 comes handy for highway driving. 80kph is achieved in under 1700 RPM and 100kph speed is achieved in under 2000RPM. 120kph happened at 2200 rpm. The user manual says the car s top speed is limited at 165kph. Don’t want to take that risk to test the user manual.
4. The engine is good enough to drive all day /night long.
5. The return journey had more downward slopes and the MID which was showing an increase of 1-1.5kmpl as compared to onward journey. After crossing the Kasara ghat, the MID showed 19.9kmpl (real world mileage could have been 17+ kmpl easily. Have not topped up fuel till I write this. Hence, mileage figures could not be conclusively ascertained in tankful to tankful method. Nexon indeed delivers great mileage - at the overdrive D7 gear!
6. The audio system was so good and Apple CarPlay came handy to keep the travel well entertained.
7. Ability to move the navigation maps to instrument cluster came handy while navigating in Indore. No more, I was losing the map while using turn indicators when the video feed was overlaid in the infotainment panel.

E. Lowlights
1. The Eco mode sucks while handling the hills. Most times, in uphill drive the car just stays flat in the 55-60kph band in D6 and the car just refuses to accelerate any further. I had to shift to City or Sport mode to speed up further.
2. During one aggressive overtaking manoeuvre (gearbox shifted down 2 gears down when the accelerator was floored). The dreaded “Transmission malfunction detected. Contact service centre “ pop up appeared. The mode shifted to City and the gearbox did not shift up. I had to bring the car to the kerb and another pop up appeared “ pls keep the car in D for 20 seconds” . I was deeply worried. After 20 seconds, everything was back to normal. I had to drive more sedately and cautiously thereafter - (home minister started to provide more aural warnings while trying to get adventurous again)
3. The same malfunction alert came once again while tackling a ghat section near Igatpuri. Perhaps Eco mode does not like being pushed hard. Otherwise the overall gearbox performance was very good
4. The one touch up down window has a mind on its own and I am yet to figure out how it works and adapt to it


F. Post drive research on the gearbox issue

On Googling, I figured the car gearbox recalibrate itself the power-torque parameters when the boundary conditions exceeded (read as hard driving). Had the issue persisted, I will have to take the car to the service center who might clean the Gearbox sensors (2-3 days downtime) and worst case scenario the gearbox needs to be replaced. (7 days+). These kind of experiences make manual transmission feel like gold. DCA robs away confidence due to such errors. Since the issue did not persist, I decided to postpone the visit to the service center.

Nexon keeps throwing such surprises once in a while - few weeks ago the low oil pressure lamp stayed lit and I was thinking of all possible scenarios including rats chewing up cables. However on shutting down and restarting the car, the oil pressure lamp started to behave normally. Sensor /software issue?

Overall the road trip was memorable, the family enjoyed well and driving Nexon was indeed pleasurable. Looking forward to more trips.

Thanks for reading this far.

[mjkaushal]

Hi Guys ,

I have a Tata Nexon 2022 diesel model and pretty much good with all the aspects of performance of the car.
I am not new to driving and this is my 6th car in which the earlier ones were Duster, XUV 500, City etc.

I'm facing a peculiar issue with the Nexon i.e, whenever I apply brake near the hump or say a pot hole or a ditch, I get a very distinct rough felling and a chatterring sound from the front brakes. I even feel my legs literally grinding some stones or a similar feeling. It just lasts about for a moment or so and when on the roads , its absolutely fine.

Tried getting this corrected a couple of times, during services and sometimes I had to literally laugh at the kind of explanations given to me by the service advisor, but till date the probelm continues.

Could somebody enlighten about this strange issue happening , as this is the first car, I'am encountering this problem.

Thanks.,

[theGoanGuy]

Originally Posted by mjkaushal

I'm facing a peculiar issue with the Nexon i.e, whenever I apply brake near the hump or say a pot hole or a ditch, I get a very distinct rough felling and a chatterring sound from the front brakes. I even feel my legs literally grinding some stones or a similar feeling. It just lasts about for a moment or so and when on the roads , its absolutely fine.

It's not an issue. It's the cars ABS System working. You don't need to be worried. The car is working as designed.

[Rasmo3689]

Hello Folks, I have a Nexon FL Smart + Petrol, the car is adequate and fulfills my requirements, however, I have noticed the panic braking hazard lights setup is too responsive to my liking, it's like the hazards turn on whenever the car hits a pothole, whenever I brake hard(not really really hard though). Is this normal on all FL Nexon's or mine needs calibration? Also, when going over a rough patch, the first jerk is accompanied by a clicking sound from the front suspension, no other noises or impacts though, is this normal as well?

[Jordygt500]

I have noticed the panic braking hazard lights setup is too responsive to my liking, it's like the hazards turn on whenever the car hits a pothole, whenever I brake hard(not really really hard though). Is this normal on all FL Nexon's or mine needs calibration? Also, when going over a rough patch, the first jerk is accompanied by a clicking sound from the front suspension, no other noises or impacts though, is this normal as well?

Don't know about the clicking sound it wasn't there in my friends car but yes the hazard light is touch too sensitive, it comes on as soon as there is even slight slide of tyres in the potholes. Just observed this while Trip to Goa from Bombay.

[myavu]

2025 Tata Nexon Update

Two new colours - Grassland Beige And Royale Blue

Three new variants - Pure+, Creative and Creative+ PS

Pure Plus @ Rs 9.69 lakh

Creative @ Rs 10.99 lakh

Creative Plus PS @ Rs 12.29 lakh

Powertrains remain the same petrol, diesel and iCNG

New Brochure attached.

[AbhishekNigam]

Originally Posted by Rasmo3689

Hello Folks, I have a Nexon FL Smart + Petrol, the car is adequate and fulfills my requirements, however, I have noticed the panic braking hazard lights setup is too responsive to my liking, it's like the hazards turn on whenever the car hits a pothole, whenever I brake hard(not really really hard though). Is this normal on all FL Nexon's or mine needs calibration? Also, when going over a rough patch, the first jerk is accompanied by a clicking sound from the front suspension, no other noises or impacts though, is this normal as well?

Yes. That’s normal and happens with me as well. That’s called Panic Brake Alert.

For the second part, I haven’t noticed any clicking noise from the front suspension while going over a rough patch.

[cncmachinist]

Got third paid service done for my Nexon DCA. It has clocked 15600 Kms in 11 months!. No major issues so far. Most of the issues has been with entertainment system. During service software was updated to August release. Hopefully minor issues will be resolved.

All four tires were rotated during service, but they missed re-configuring the TPMS. Had to take it back again to get it corrected

[green tea man]

Originally Posted by DicKy

4. The roots of the X1 platform continues to show up here and there. The Altroz and Punch based on the newer Alfa platform have far better ergonomics. Something like a useable dead pedal placement or legs not hitting the centre console.

I went for a test drive of the new Nexon few days back and compared to well designed dead pedal in for example the Altroz, the absence of the dead pedal and the randomly cut edges of the central console in the footwell that are almost waiting to cut your skin with their oddly protruding edges if you dare venture anywhere left of the clutch pedal seems almost intentional by design or even malicious.

The problem maybe a little more worse for me who wears footwear with 10+ size footwear , but even an average person would definitely face this issue I feel if they were to make the mistake of trying to rest their left leg anywhere near the now missing dead pedal in the latest Nexon.

Please feel free to dismiss my speculations, but I feel this is some warped form of greedy planned obsolescence to make obsolete the manual driving enthusiasts and help increase the sale the high maintenance automatics more.

[rnaduthota]

Dear all,

I am facing an issue with the 2023 model Nexon diesel. The Nexon comes with three different drive modes: Eco, City, and Sport. After every restart, the drive mode is supposed to revert to City mode, which is not always happening (refer to Case 3 below). I showed this to the service center, and they checked everything, including the relay and sensors, but they were unable to diagnose the issue.

Case 1: Unlock the car >> Press the start button (without pressing the clutch) >> In the instrument cluster, you can see the drive mode switching back to City.

Case 2: Start the engine >> Change the drive mode (say to Sport) >> Stop the engine >> Start again - In this case, the drive mode also switches back to City.

Case 3: Start the car >> Change the drive mode (say to Sport) >> Stop the engine >> Lock the car >> Unlock the car >> Start the engine - In this case, it holds the last drive mode (Sport) and does not revert to City mode automatically.

The service center did a complete software update and checked the relays, but they were unable to find the root cause. Please give your valuable suggestions.

[rnaduthota]

Originally Posted by rnaduthota

Dear all,

I am facing an issue with the 2023 model Nexon diesel. The Nexon comes with three different drive modes: Eco, City, and Sport. After every restart, the drive mode is supposed to revert to City mode, which is not always happening (refer to Case 3 below). I showed this to the service center, and they checked everything, including the relay and sensors, but they were unable to diagnose the issue.

Dear All, Issue is resolved after flashing the SW and reprogramming it.

[ransomware]

I bought Nexon Creative+ DCA Dark edition in September 2024. After 5 months ODO stands at 11,000 KMs, overall very happy with the whole package except the mileage figures, I get around 8-9 KMPL in city, 13-14 on normal highways and 15-16 on the expressways (with cruise set to 100) by looking MID figures. Tank full method is showing even lesser figures.

I feel that mileage is bit on the lower side, can other DCA owners please confirm if this expected?

[cncmachinist]

Originally Posted by ransomware

I bought Nexon Creative+ DCA Dark edition in September 2024. After 5 months ODO stands at 11,000 KMs, overall very happy with the whole package except the mileage figures, I get around 8-9 KMPL in city, 13-14 on normal highways and 15-16 on the expressways (with cruise set to 100) by looking MID figures. Tank full method is showing even lesser figures.

I feel that mileage is bit on the lower side, can other DCA owners please confirm if this expected?

Your mileage matches with mine too. I get around 9-10kms in city and around 15-17 in highway driving. I always fill full tank and MDI figures are always on higher side by a km or two. 95% of my driving is in City mode. I have not seen improvement in ECO mode!

[ransomware]

Originally Posted by ransomware

I bought Nexon Creative+ DCA Dark edition in September 2024. After 5 months ODO stands at 11,000 KMs, overall very happy with the whole package except the mileage figures, I get around 8-9 KMPL in city, 13-14 on normal highways and 15-16 on the expressways (with cruise set to 100) by looking MID figures. Tank full method is showing even lesser figures.

I feel that mileage is bit on the lower side, can other DCA owners please confirm if this expected?

What a luck just a day after I made this post my car broke down in middle of the road today morning.

I was commuting to office, driving in ECO mode, stopped at a red light and then put the car in P mode and engaged the parking brake. As soon as I wanted to move when signal changed, my MID lit up with multiple warning lights and messages, all related to "Transmission Malfunction". DCA horror just hit me pretty bad. Car refused to slot into any D mode and gear indicator was showing
F (failure).

I was at a pretty busy stretch of the road, in the middle lane. Since I couldn't move the car the junction got jammed and everyone started honking. I restarted the car several times but no luck. Got out, placed the hazard triangle at the rear and started to redirect the traffic piled up while simultaneously trying to call the TATA RSA. 2 good samaritans came to my help trying to push the car to side of the road but it quickly realized that the car is stuck in gear and not in Neutral so it was impossible to move it . I was kept on hold for about 25 minutes by the RSA supposedly trying to verify my details but thats another story which we will come back to later. I then remembered that there was another warning related to transmission that I got in December 2024 which put car in limp mode for 2-3 mins and it was recovered on its own. It was highlighted in the 2nd service which happened in January 2025, SA told me that there are no DTC recorded in the history and asked to ignore that as a occasional sensor issue. I think it was a mistake on my part that I did not pursue this further which lead to today's situation.

Coming back to today, after about 30 minutes I tried to give it one more chance and started the car again. But this time there were no errors at all and car slotted in D as if nothing happened. taking this chance, I quickly drove down to my usual TATA ASC which was luckily only 4 KMs away. They hooked it upto the laptop and found there were some faults stored in history DTC. Service Manager told they cannot let me take the picture of the DTCs for some "privacy" reasons but I managed to get the DTC noted down as follows.

- P0796-77 something related to pressure above normal range
- P0968-71 something related to actuator being stuck
- U0404-01 related to gear lever
- U0416-00 related to ABS/ESP

Got a response from them saying it happened due to a software bug in ABS and Brake Module softwares and an update would solve this. I don't trust this but I have kept the car with them and will visit the Service Head over there in some time to understand more.

Sorry I couldn't click the pictures of the MID warnings as I was too focused on getting the car to the side.

Can some fellow owners give their insights on this as to how to move forward? is there a known software issue which is causing this. I have a hunch that there is something wrong with the DCA unit and a SW update would fix this temporarily. This time I was lucky to have this incident in the vicinity of my home and service centre, can't imagine happening this on a long tour, which I plan to take this weekend (especially with the pathetic RSA service that I got today)