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Old 11th August 2008, 14:31   #436
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i paid 10k for mine at G-Sport, Bangalore.
OMG!!
Ten Kilo for me means a five day trip, with family, into Himachal!!
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Such leather type seat covers can be had for 4-4.5K in Lajpat Nagar Delhi. 10K is too much to pay for some plastic
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But G-Sport is known for its quality & always expensive than the the normal Art Leather Seat covers.
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Even the best quality ones are less than 5K.
You can choose the quality yourself and get one made on order if you don't find a ready piece.
Moreover the factories supplying to many brands are the same supplying to lesser known brands. After brand embossing, the price doubles.
By feeling and touching the seat cover its very easy to make out how good or bad the quality is
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Well Mathur Saab
youve been showing us some amazing pics of your scorpio at various locations.
Heres some from me.

Scorpio at Khardung-La


Scorpio at Munnar


Scorpio at Jaipur


Scorpio at Jaipur II


Scorpio off the Road at Shekhawati


Scorpio at Shekhawati


Scorpio at Lalgarh, Bikaner


Scorpio at Mount Abu


Scorpio at Lonavala


Scorpio at Table Land Panchgani


Scorpio at Mahabaleshwar


Between Panchgani and Mahabaleshwar
Hats off ! thats a lot of places. cheers:
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Even the best quality ones are less than 5K.
You can choose the quality yourself and get one made on order if you don't find a ready piece.
Moreover the factories supplying to many brands are the same supplying to lesser known brands. After brand embossing, the price doubles.
By feeling and touching the seat cover its very easy to make out how good or bad the quality is
but brand value speaks mate! an accord from honda has more features and is much more spacious than a merc C-class which is priced much higher, but a merc is a merc... you cant ignore brand value!
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thanks jk das
actually it has been to kargil and kanyakumari and has always been a pleasure to drive
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... thats a lot of places...
I would say, it has been to most of the place!

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...actually it has been to kargil and kanyakumari and has always been a pleasure to drive
That is one hell of a driving experience. Covering the entire length of the country; you my friend, need to hit the travalogue and ownership section. I am sure you have a lot of surprises in your hat!
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i paid 10k for mine at G-Sport, Bangalore. Here are the pics when it was brand new:
Beautiful. I hope it still looks the same
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Right, then, that is settled. The only thing we discourage is monkey business, like this:
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So, let us get on with pics for this page.
Here are a few from the recent trip.

Stayed in a quaint very 'woody' place called Shringi Vatika.
Lovely terraced garden, flowers a-plenty and a river in full spate gushing down below!
My biggest grouse was that there was no parking area and my poor Scorpio had to be left on the side, dangerously close to the narrow road. Luckily the road does not see much traffic.
This place is at Ghiyagi, 12 kms from the Jalori Pass (towards the Kullu valley side).

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WOW Beautiful pictures. Please let me know more details of the place. I really want to go there.
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Here is my machine! I call it the devils machine as the number plate reads MH XX X 666.

The car is 2 yr old.
Drives on Michelin Lattitude
K&N Apollo Universal Filter

Just added a pic as i really clipped on Mumbai - Pune expressway. This was before he K&N went it.

Comments pls. Will post more pics!
He is beautiful.There is no more words to say !!!!
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WOW Beautiful pictures. Please let me know more details of the place. I really want to go there.
Thanks, Ramkumar.

You can read the log here: Jalori Pass beckons .... monsoon trip. - India Travel Forum, BCMTouring.com
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NIP Nice interiors! Just dont keep your ambipure right above your deck cause there have been cases of ambipure leaking and damaging the music system panel!
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Just dont keep your ambipure right above your deck cause there have been cases of ambipure leaking and damaging the music system panel!
Now, 'damaging' might be a bit strong!
What happens is that the flavour of the music changes significantly!
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Old 18th August 2008, 14:30   #450
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Such leather type seat covers can be had for 4-4.5K in Lajpat Nagar Delhi. 10K is too much to pay for some plastic
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Even the best quality ones are less than 5K.
You can choose the quality yourself and get one made on order if you don't find a ready piece.
You can either wear a HMT watch or a Rolex. I dont know what your idea of 'best' or 'quality' is, but I've seen lots of crappy 5-6k jobs also...not upto my mark. Besides, if you see my pics, the doors, gear knob, grab rail etc. were done in 10k too. Its been close to 4 years and there's not been a single rip anywhere. Still looks new. Totally worth the price for the quality. Its nothing to do with an 'embossed' brand - G-Sport is known for quality here.
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