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Originally Posted by PrasannaDhana Wow! I am happy to see an young man opt for a legendary pre-owned small hatch.
Enjoy the car, wishing you thousands of safe and comfortable km in it. |
Thank you so much for your wishes, Sir! Yes, I should stop my mom from driving a manual steering car, but she is determined to drive. Therefore, I go out with her early in the morning and let her drive on long open stretches of straight roads with minimal turns. She is well versed with the pedals and all now so she doesn't mess anything up, but in case a tight turn does appear, I help her steer the car.
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Originally Posted by vsrivatsa Excellent thread - very well written and articulated and a very mature decision taken of going the pre-owned route. While many of the readers took a ride back to the past with your thread, I kind of went into the future a little bit as I am a father of a three year old and wondered what I would do when my son turns 18 (which is still more than a decade away...) |
Thank you for the kind words! I think you should stop worrying about your son, since there's also a chance that he might not like driving/owning cars at all! We even have a thread on the
topic (The Cheapest Generation - Why Millennials aren’t buying cars or houses).
Either way, 15 years is a long way from now, so you should definitely stop worrying
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Originally Posted by aditya.86 Excellent thread Boniver!
Brings back memories of my Santro which was gifted by my dad when i was in 3rd year of engineering in 2006.....One of the best 1l engines of those times and used to be something else with a free flow. |
Glad you liked the thread, and I'm happy to have rekindled such happy memories! A free flow would be great, but I'm currently shying away from all such modifications which would bring the car under the scanner of the local cops/govt. Anyway they don't like cars older than 15 years, don't want to give them a reason to pull me up
I checked your gallery out, and your Santro was extremely good looking!
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Originally Posted by livetodrive Congo to another WB 24 (Barrackpore) registered 15 year old Santro owner from another one......Words will fall short to share so many stories. So ending here and wishing you more happy miles and hope , as you said government remains kind to us to preserve this gem. |
Hey, thank you so much! I didn't know about other WB24 registered vehicles on this forum, so it's great to hear from you. I actually live very close to the Barrackpore RTO, so I'd love to check your car out if you come here for your car's CF or something. If your car was registered in Barrackpore from the beginning, we might even have had similar or very close registration numbers! Hope to be in touch with you, Sir!
Those are some very impressive statistics. Why don't you put up an ownership thread too? Would love to read it! Your car looks great, and the wheels look really good too.
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Originally Posted by knrn It felt great to read your thread. I too learnt how to drive in 2003 on a santro. Both me and my father loved the car so much that presently we are on our third santro model 2007.....Reliability par excellence. I have driven it even up to the mighty rohtang pass. This car makes you appreciate the small things in life. Still my daily driver. Nothing can beat the cosy feeling of sitting in a small hatch and driving on a rainy day. Your thread really brought out the nostalgia in me. Happy driving and enjoy this wonderful vehicle. |
Wow, there must be something about this car that made you buy it three times! Is there a travelogue/report about your car at Rohtang Pass on this forum? Would love to read it and go through the pictures! I'm so glad I could rekindle so many happy memories on this forum. Thank you for your wishes, and I wish you countless more miles with your Santro too!
UPDATE: There's a reason I decided to sit up and complete this thread ASAP after letting it lie on the assembly line for half a year. I got my Santro home exactly a year ago (on 23rd November, 2018), so I wanted to go on a road trip with her today. We decided to go to a place called Shantiniketan in WB where someone in the family owns a farmhouse. We couldn't go to a hotel since I really wanted to take my pet Labrador along on this trip. Unfortunately, we got to know that someone else has gone there for the weekend, so we shelved that plan. By then it was 9am and we still hadn't decided on a location. Decided that it'd be too late to go anywhere, and that we should just go on a long drive to some far off dhaba for lunch, and drive back. BHPian NaXal recommended an alternative route to Hotel Hindustan on NH-2 that passed through many villages, and we decided to take that route.
It was a lovely 3-hour drive through wonderful, empty village roads. My father enjoyed the drive a lot, and I maintained a speed of 50kmph all throughout, barring the slowing down to let the occassional goat/hen pass. Reached Hotel Hindustan and had a sumptuous meal! Heartfelt thanks to NaXal for recommending this route!
Returned via NH-2 (Durgapur Expressway) and it took us a shade over an hour to get back home (~70kms). I maintained speeds of ~100kmph all throughout the highway and it didn't feel uncomfortable at all. Also gifted my car a free Fastag from a Fastag kiosk at Dankuni toll plaza. Experience narrated
here (FASTag: All you need to know about procuring & using it!).
The current tankful involved a lot of driving (60% highway, 40% city) and I achieved a mileage of 16.3kmpl, which is the best I've gotten till date, and also much better than my usual average of 10-11kmpl. Would have definitely used an emoji here had I not exhausted my 2 emoji per post limit *bangs head against red wall*
Now, time for some pictures!
What are you waiting for? Let's go! Driving on empty bridges Through empty, picturesque villages Driving on the completely empty NH-2. Notice the fuel gauge; it remained at the same position even after 80 more kilometres! Looks so young, even at the age of 15! The new Fastag adorning her windshield Crossed 96000 kms somewhere along the way and decided to reward her with a fresh, full tank of petrol! Petrol prices are on the rise again, kill me!
All in all, a good day for both of us. A proper road trip is coming up in early January, when my sister visits us. Looking forward to it!