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Front right bearing & hub replaced on my year old Honda City

I told him had it been an issue with my tyres then it would be a problem throughout the speed range and not just at 80 kmph.

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Well the City turned a year old in November last month and it was due for the 30K service, so I booked the service with Courtesy Honda Okhla.  Jobs to be carried out were just engine oil change,air filter change ,oil filter change, I get the balancing alignment done from my own guy. Only issues reported to the SA were a humming noise at 80 kmph which started coming about 2K kms ago so I thought to get it checked during the next service due at 30 K, and a slight squeaking noise from the brakes up front.

Car was consistently returning an avg of 14.5-15 kmpl with 100% AC city driving, and post October onward with zero AC usage I was getting 16.5-17.5 for the same 100 km daily run. Got the car picked up at 0900 hrs on 06/12 and SA promised delivery by 1500hrs. He called me at 1430 hrs and said that Sir, since you have upgraded to 205 profile Michelin tyres, that humming sound is from the tyres and my senior says that you have to revert to 185 section tyres. I told him had it been an issue with my tyres then it would be a problem throughout the speed range and not just at 80 kmph. I asked him to swap tyres with the demo car and go for a test drive and if the problem vanished i will gladly change my tyres, post doing what I asked him to do in a sheepish voice he says yes the issue is still there on 185 section tyres, and I will keep the car overnight and get it thoroughly checked next day.

Next day around 15.00 hrs on 07/12 he calls and says we have checked the bearing the suspension the brake rotors and everything we could and end result was we have no clue whats wrong, he then says I will write a mail to Honda india and see what they tell me to do. Now today 08/12 I call up to check whether everything has been sorted, he picks up the call and says in subdued voice, Sir, Honda has reverted and asked me to swap the CVT transmission with the demo car's CVT and check if the noise goes away and if it does, they will send across a CVT transmission under warranty and replace. Listening to this just made me like woah what! He is like Sir don't worry it will go under warranty claim, I said well that's not what is surprising, what rocked my boat is the fact you have to change the CVT transmission on a 1 year old car.

Anyways, it looks like the car is going to be with them for at least a week more, It drove like a dream, hoot to drive and I was loving it as my daily beater after driving SUVs for the last 8 years. If it indeed is a CVT issue, I am going to keep it for another 2 years by when it would have touched the lakh mark and sell it off. Will post whatever updates I get in coming days. Time to go back to driving the state vehicle of Uttar Pradesh, the gangsta Scorpio.

Update on the issue of brake squeak and humming sound @80 kmph: After spending 2 weeks at the service centre, the good folks at Courtesy Honda diagnosed the problem to the front right wheel bearing and hub, replaced the bearing as well as the bearing assembly of the front RHS under warranty, and I am happy to say that the sound has absolutely vanished, also no more squeaky squeaks from the brakes, total pin drop silence in the car. Giving the car some tender love and care today will share a pic of the happy Katana once its been pampered.

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