Hey Motoringlover! Nice to see you back on this thread after a long time!
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Originally Posted by Motoringlover Hey Spadix, I can totally understand your feeling, I guess in a place like hyderabad, i have all most made up my mind, you need two cars - A. Weekend car for pleasure (hopefully less trafic) and then a commuter car (Small Hatch). |
I did think of that but I worry about using both vehicles enough. For all my love of riding/driving out, I've managed very little out-of-town weekends over the last many years. In fact, my motorcycle has done only 18100 kms in over 7 years of ownership. The old 800 did around 19k kms in my care in a little less than 4 years. So for such light usage I can't really think of spending a chunk of cash buying/owning two 4-wheelers, even if one of them is a used vehicle :(.
If one can afford it, what you have said is a very wise thing.
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Originally Posted by Motoringlover Hyderabad overall has been a big disappointment and has been the single biggest factor dettering my purchase decision. Sorry if i hurt your sentiments about hyd. |
No issues at all. There was a time when I used to get worked up hearing negative stuff about my home town, but that was because I was immature (primarily) and the town was very good (at least compared to now). Now I've become a bit wiser (I hope!) and you know how Hyderabad is.
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Originally Posted by Motoringlover On the A/T front, i dont know, if you can still drive in peace especailly when you know you are driving a car north of 15 lacs. I dont know how the A/T will help you build revs, when you are almost moving in knee deep water.
Hope you have been well, good seeing an update on the BQ. |
Good point - I didn't think about that! I mean it can be done on the AT Civic perhaps (slot the selector into 'S', select 1st from the paddle shifts and hope the computer doesn't automatically upshift to 2nd) but on most other AT cars this side of 10 lacs that may not be an option, which means you have to use brake + throttle which is a bit hard if you ask me.
As for BQ, she's like fine wine. Getting better as the days go by, and begging me for that elusive out-of-town trip. The last weekend was particularly bad. The road outside the apartment gate was getting converted to concrete and there's no alternate road so BQ was under forced house arrest for 3 days. We had to miss the TBHP drive meet to Bidar and back because of this.
I've learnt to outgrow the negatives of the car (lack of remote release for boot and other things I've written about earlier) and the positives of the car floor me every time we're out on the road.
Two months and 2000+ kms later the novelty still hasn't worn off. That's enough for me. I hope the ownership experience continues in this same vein forever.
The attachment keeps getting bigger. One of the contributors to that is the fact that we wash and clean the car ourselves. The resident car cleaner was sub-par and we didn't see the point of paying him when we could achieve the same quality ourselves! Of course, time constraints prohibit us from doing this daily. BQ gets a bath around twice a week.
There are two or three minor issues which I'll get fixed during the second free service due at the end of this month.
She took one hit today from a rogue biker who was crossing a median (you know, over the divider). He was stationary and the front of the car cleared him easily, but then he decided to lunge forward and his front wheel caught the rear bumper. The bumper got loose by a millimetre or so on the right-hand side, so nothing major. It could've been much worse (especially for the bike and its rider) so I'm thankful.
Regards,
spadix