6 months with a Mahindra XUV700: Ownership experience & 5 issues faced

Initially, it was scary but once u get the hang of it, you know when to trust the ADAS and when to step in.

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Another update after 6 months

• Haven't still done any long drives till now since the last post 5 months ago, 4.5k done and mainly home-office drives through traffic
• Still liking the vehicle and also benefitting from the ADAS usage too in the daily traffic. Find it quite useful with its adaptive cruise mainly. The only thing I have to do is to put the car behind another car (bigger the better - which ensures no one juts in) and it reduces more than 60% of the driving effort. Of course, I have to be vigilant in crawling traffic where other vehicles try to squeeze every inch and the ADAS system gets confused. Initially, it was scary but once u get the hang of it, you know when to trust the ADAS and when to step in. Works both in slow and decently moving traffic. I have got so used to it that sometimes when I drive my other Beat car Alto AMT, I tend to forget to apply brakes.
• Now that many vehicles get the ADAS features, it would be interesting if all drivers were in that mode. Probably would be good some kind of an indicator light that says the vehicle is in ADAS mode like in the 90s when the Ambys had a warning for "power brake"
• Got the rear sequential indicators too (but the second key has not yet been delivered even 6 months post-delivery)
• Unfortunately, the car has got some cement drops on the left side mostly on the glass & sunroof glass- some concrete lorry around the metro constructions might have strewn this but mainly on the glass area. Was already dried when I got to notice them - and need to be taken to 3M. Tried DIY by going through team bhp posts and found the vinegar+baking soda combination but didn't work.

Few issues still

1. Thud suspension in the front - the first service seemingly reduced it but it recurred again and I had to get it retorqued - but not fully satisfied. I recently drove the new Scorpio and it had no such issues. Wondering why can't Mahindra fix this.
2. Apple Carplay - too glitchy and now I have turned this off and switched to plain Bluetooth connectivity. Especially the google maps would hang many times. The unit got the latest update (March 1st week).
3. Car GPS - sometimes is off by 100 meters in some specific places (BTM layout road between Jayadeva and Silkboard and few areas in HSR) and hence not usable (and worsens with Google maps when Carplay is connected).
4. Wireless charging heats up the iPhone - so using cable only
5. AC cooling is a bit erratic - even with 28C it is quite chilly. However I am happy with the overall cooling and compared to Ertiga, even if left under the hot sun, the cooling is very fast - within 2-3 min the cabin gets a lot cooler even without the 2nd AC on.

Hopefully, I get some plans going to take the car on long drives during the summer holidays.

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