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I favour Marutis owing to the plentiful service centres and cheaper, easily available spares over others , but I am also interested in knowing the relative safety and cost of repairs vs other cars ,as a direct consequence of the said lightweight/thin sheet metal of Marutis. | |
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![]() Imagine if Maruti uses some good standard steel / beams in the sides of the car [which is invisible to users] to absorb the impact. Then I will consider this car to be safe because, though the thin sheets will be damaged easily, the major impact will be absorbed by the side impact beams there by making the car safer inspite of low weight & sheet metal. The same way if the crumple zones are working as per the design & safety ratings with thinner sheet metal, the occupants will be safe, but the car wouldn't seem to be safe after the incident [to others]! At the same time a car like Fiat, would NOT show the same amount of damage because of the heavier metal and will be safe to the same extent as well because of the safety stuffs below the metal. And I doubt the safety ratings are given based ONLY on the number of Airbags and the likes. A fair share will be attributed by the components which are part of the chassis, body shell [under the metal] etc. PS:: We [including me] always tend to judge the safety of a car based on the damage caused to the shape & outer shell and hardly bother about the components used for absorbing impacts or making the cage stronger. Many a times I come across situations where people walked out of the accident and such was the damage that the car left no impressions as to one could walk out of it alive. Last edited by swiftnfurious : 8th February 2012 at 00:41. Reason: Adding "PS" portion | |
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| ![]() My booking of ZDi done in kerala last Nov is going nowhere! The dealer is now telling it will take 3 more months, and there is a huge delay for the Z variants and they get just 1 or 2 every month ![]() Adding to that the hunt of bangalore RTO for out of state vehicles, I finally decided to look at other options AGAIN! Test drove Punto, i20 and polo. None struck all the chords but nevertheless, due to lack of other options, I almost decided to book the i20. And that's when my wife who works in Wipro called me yesterday telling that a maruti dealer (garuda) is doing a promo at their campus, offering 90% waiver of the waiting period ![]() I still can't understand how they are able to do this, hope this is not a hoax. Fingers crossed. |
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BHPian ![]() | ![]() I got a call from dealer saying silver color is available. Not interested for silver so still continuing the waiting. jingaboysr what is the price difference between bangalore and kerala? |
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| ![]() When I booked it, it was 7,06,XXX in Kerala. Now it might have increased to 7,2X, XXX. Bangalore booking was done at 8, 16, XXX. So it is close to 90-100k. |
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| ![]() @Jingaboysr Per my dealer, MSIL does not give corporate discount on Swift like other companies but it seems that MSIL is now giving priority to corporate customers in their allocations. I was also promised similar time lines when I booked last month and keeping my fingers crossed. |
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There's a very good chance that this "90% waiver on waiting period"may be to dupe customers. Last edited by shashank.nk : 15th February 2012 at 18:06. Reason: Added a sentence | |
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| ![]() What a scheme ?! Soon we will be seeing big advertisment pages of Maruti claiming Diwali bonanza : Upto 90% off on waiting period duration for Swift diesel* * Conditions apply ![]() |
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| ![]() I got my first service of my Zdi done and I wanted to check the FE. I was shocked to get an FE of just 15! And that too with just about 40% AC . I used the full tank method to measure the FE. It was about 30 % highway driving and 70% city driving. I do understand that FE depends on the driving style (mine is neither sedate nor spirited, somewhere in bet). Is this not too low for the new Swift diesel, whatever the driving style? |
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BHPian ![]() | ![]() Had been to the promo stall in wipro. It is from Bimal auto. Now the offer is only on LDI and VDI varients. SE told ZDI still have the regular waiting period(Might be they got enough number of booking by yesterday). I asked how you are managing to get this when all dealers are demanding a waiting period of 6 months. Answer was it is only for wipro employes. |
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It should be 7% additional to the Kerala rates - Kerala RT = 6% & Karnataka RT = 13% Quote:
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So they are going to bye pass the rest of the customers to prioritize Wipro employees?? What's the logic behind that? | |||
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OT: Did they change the oil during the first service? I read that they are changing the oil now during the 2nd service @ 5K. Quote:
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It may be based on the calculations that Maruti will be able to clear the backlog soon. Or a tie up between Maruti and Wipro. SE did not give more details about that. | |
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Newbie Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Bangalore
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Regarding oil- they do change at the first servie for the diesel swifts. I was asked if I wanted synthetic oil- was not sure I should go for that, so refused. Any thoughts on that? | ||
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