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12,600 km in just 6 months with my Safari: Ownership updates

31st January 2024, 17:12 by Rahul Nagaraj

The indicated fuel efficiency is not that far off from the actual tankful-to-tankful method these days.

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Another month and another couple of thousand KMS. The car is performing OK and is at 12600 KMS in about six months. Yet another roundtrip to Chennai from Thrissur in Nov. I enjoy driving the car, and the convenience of an automatic is just awesome, especially in the city.

Onwards stats. I travelled on Sunday, the 19th of Nov. I patted myself on the back while starting early in the morning from home to reach Chennai in time to watch the World Cup finals. A lot of other people too had the same plans and I encountered significant traffic till Salem. Turns out everyone's too clever by half these days.

A Tata without niggles is like masala dosa without the masala. I observed that sometimes one of the headlamps was turning off when in auto mode, mostly the one on the left. The first time I encountered it I switched the headlights off and then back to auto again and the issue cleared. This time that didn't work. I also tried switching the headlights to "ON" from "AUTO" and still only one headlamp was working. Restarting the car(switching the engine off and then back on) fixed it. I took pictures of it, hopefully this can be addressed during the first service that will be due soon. The other interesting aspect is that both instances of the left headlamp turning on happened in similar conditions, once at dawn and then at dusk.

The return stats. Drove out of Chennai as there were heavy rains predicted for the first week of Dec. Was bogged down by heavy rain for the first hundred km and took it easy after capping my speed at 90 km/h. The result was my best-ever FE so far. The other noticeable thing is that the MID seems to have learned how to do its job and the indicated FE is not that far off from the actual tankful-to-tankful method these days.