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I just couldnt believe it but it seems to be true. Last edited by chevyman : 11th March 2015 at 19:01. Reason: wrong information by mistake | |
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If Hyundai indeed would have localized the production of the first generation then the price should have been lesser now. But that is not the case. They are still sold at 12k a pop My bad. I meant only the I gen i20. Not the elite. Thanks for pointing out. | |
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Quoted you specifically as you were there at the first accident scene. Any major injuries? I am assuming that this was a W6 variant. So no side airbags. The front being intact, the front airbags are anyways not deployed. | |
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| ![]() Lets face it, potholes are an integral part of our road network. One of the advantages vehicle like the XUV is it's ability to deal with them. If the alloy wheels are not up to the task, M&M must state so. No use of hiding behind (or inside) potholes. And a break at the hub, without commensurate damage at the edges, is plain structural failure. |
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| ![]() I didn't see any airbags deployed. There were two passengers in it - a middle-aged couple. Husband was driving, both survived with minor injuries. When I went, they were sitting on chairs and having cool drink, comforted by local people. The guy was making frantic calls to his kin. My bad, I missed snapping the broken wheel which was lying nearby. All the while I was thinking there was a collision, but really shocking to know the alloys are so brittle, they break while in motion. |
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| ![]() Please confirm when you get the chance to look it up. The OEM and the Original accessory wheels could be from different manufacturers as the volumes will be considerably different. |
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| ![]() What worries me even more is unlike a batch of Cars/TVs etc, where due to some technical glitch, just a batch of Products has unexpected faults which fail to get identified in Quality Control (QC). This issue ( I wish I am proven wrong) seems more serious with shortcoming in manufacturing process or incompetent QC. Even a small quantity of impurity in a huge pool of molten metal can prove FATAL and issues could arise even after years of usage (Metal Fatigue). UV Rays are used during QC to identify the lightest crack, and it is still a very reliable method to identify issues in Metal Products. These kinda failures are just UNACCEPTABLE and can prove catastrophic even for a Robust Vehicle like XUV, no matter how rigid the body is, or how many Airbags the car comes equipped with. Apologies for a post containing throughout negative words, but wish Mahindra addresses this issue with priority over anything, FIRES the parts supplier no matter what, and also, above all, I wish no more such issue is reported in any other XUV. |
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BHPian ![]() | ![]() Folks, I think many here are jumping to hasty conclusions. Mahindra has sold over 100,000 XUVs, most of them with alloy rims. And in this thread I see fewer than 5 instances of cracked rims being discussed, which is a very low sample to jump to conclusions. Granted, alloys can crack due to manufacturing defects, but can also crack due to other issues like hitting an obstacle hard, wrongly centered rim etc. |
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I might be wrong but I think this is probably just a case of hitting potholes at high speeds. We all know how Mahindra owners abuse their cars. | |
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| ![]() two questions : 1) alloys are supposed to be "cast" as a single piece (OR) in case of ultra high end super cars - forged from a single block. Could it be that the alloy wheel supplier is cheating M&M by providing inferior multiple-cast-pieces-welded-together-into-one-wheel ? 2) are the dealers playing a game here, by swapping OEM alloys with aftermarket duplicate ones before handing over the car to the customer, and making a few bucks on the sly ? |
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Alloys collapsing like that of a toy car will be last thing on a driver's mind having paid more than 10L for a car..!! Last edited by poloman : 11th March 2015 at 22:58. | |
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| ![]() Could be inadequate cross section area coupled with some material quality issue in a few units? This type of break is seen earlier as well: refer: http://www.clublexus.com/forums/the-...els-rumor.html In this case such break was common with a specific model batch known to be of inferior quality. Another: http://www.clutchd.com/2008/11/aston...eaks-off.html/ suggests it is not usual to have such a wheel break caused by an accident i.e. only in one-off cases. Official verdict on this case would be good. |
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First of all maximum XUVs on road are W8. The few W6 or W4 on road are either running on OEM rims or are on after market alloys. The people using speed rim alloys provided by Mahindra are very very less in number out of which few instances has come to our notice and there might be many such instances which has not been taken up on social media or blogs. Even if the cases are 1percent or less, who is ready to risk there life and continue using these alloys? When its a matter related to wheels there is no margin of error. Last edited by rahul_kej : 11th March 2015 at 23:29. | |
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There are two instances of speed rims cracking mentioned on this thread. Nothing, absolutely nothing else - had they hit something earlier, were the fitted properly? - is known about what caused it. So why jump to conclusions that it is an OEM problem or a Mahindra problem? Sure, it is a serious issue if rims break. But given the kind of details, can you say it is a manufacturing defect? Can you say all speed rims are faulty? No, no way yet. And that is my point. I drive a XUV, but no Mahindra fanboy. | |
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