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Good to hear the news. :D

On a side note, what's up with the different grille on the Endeavour? Is it an aftermarket add on? I must say it looks quite cool.

All the best,
Regards,
Vishy :thumbs up

Full report here;

http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/test-d...-fortuner.html

Yes, its an aftermarket Ford F-150 style grille.

While searching for my tires for my Scorpio, I casually happened to check tires in size 265/60 R18 for the new Fortuner & Endeavour and there are not many options for AT's even abroad [as compared to 265/65 R17]

I found 3 tires
BFGood rich
GoodYear
Pirelli Scorpion ATR

Can these be imported as you had imported your BMW tires? If someone really needs one.

Import option is always there but with the high $ price & high freight cost + duty it will shoot the tyre price too high.

In fact irrespective of that i had thought of importing the BFG T/A KO2 but then found out its speed rating is only 180km/h so dropped the idea.

Early Last Month i had made a road trip to Udaipur;

Started not so early around 7:15 am and reached Baroda for lunch around 1:15 pm.

Post lunch we stopped by at Laxmi Vilas Palace for some sightseeing;



Mr & Mrs Karan561;



^ Supposedly the largest private home built till date, being 4 times larger than the Buckingham Palace where the Royal family of Baroda still reside :thumbs up

After spending some time here we then left around 4pm as we were suppose to take a night halt Ahmedabad;

On the beautiful NE-1;



The next Day, Entering Udaipur;



By the lake;



Trip Log;

Mumbai - Baroda - Ahmedabad - Udaipur: FE 11.1 km/l

^ Total Time Taken: 12.5 Hrz

Udaipur - Mumbai: FE 9.5 km/l

^ Total Time Taken - 9.5 hrz

A question to the Guru's of Off roading

Does the older version of Fortuner 4x4 Auto (2015 model) come with Rear Differential Lock? What about MT version? Did it come with Rear Differential Lock?

No Rear Diff Lock on any of the Fortuner variants in India.

The car recently crossed 5000km and it was time for its 2nd service;

At Millenium Toyota Express Service centre, starting off with the interior vacuuming;



Inspection/Top Ups;



Underbody Inspection;



A much needed wash to battle the dust & heat :thumbs up



Total Time Taken - 1.5 hrs

Cost - Nil (As it was a free service)

While taking a quick left turn in my office parking, the right rear seat got unhooked & dropped down flat;



Makes me question this mechanism;

Today was a good day off the road;



More pics shortly:thumbs up

Awesome Karan! Very nice click of the fun!

Did you get to the root cause of the rear seat unfolding by itself ?

Thanks Get :thumbs up

Yet to happen again so felt no need to investigate the root cause :thumbs up

In continuation of from my above post here are some more pics of all the action from yesterday's OTR;

En-Route Lonavla;



The Line-up;



On the way to Rajmachi the regular route was dug up & hence we took a detour;



To this slope;











One of our cars got stuck badly in the slush pit;



Finally we had 2 cars to rescue;



An oops moment;



Held this pose for about a minute to get some clicks :D



Some nice wheel articulation there :thumbs up



A Final parting shot;

As usual brilliant clicks, seeing the images I have a silly doubt, did it scrape anywhere?

How good is the low end torque?

I'm sure you had a wonderful time. Nice clicks!! clap:

7 cars in all - 6 Fortuners and 1 Endeavour; the same ratio as sales (6:1).lol: