My Safari Dark Edition AT at 9000 km: Observations post second service

I am still adjusting to power and torque it generates in Sports mode. I feel at home with the beast in Auto drive mode even on highways.

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Update at 5 months and 9000 km on ODO:

Post second service, took the beast on religious circuit with my parents to cover all three jyotirlingas. So, this was the first time it was used as 5+1+luggage with one of last row seats folded down. Comfortable ride for parents too, drive was excellent. No issues during the trips.

Few observations:

• Infotainment v18.17 has gone bad from v18. Now I cannot open Amazon Music menu via Android Auto and scroll on infotainment screen. With v18, it was smooth. I am also observing lag sometimes. On first day of the new year, wireless Android Auto and bluetooth stopped working. Did factory reset, removed all pairing, but could not get them working again.
• On 2nd day of new year, MIL lamp turned amber after starting engine. it showed-up as first thing in the morning. Based on info from Safari groups, switched off the engine few times and started back. MIL amber lamp turned off. Checked with SM and he mentioned that it happened sometimes when there may be some shoot residue still left. In case, amber MIL lamp stays ON continuously, I was asked to bring-it to service centre. A day has passed and it did not show up again after the 250Km trip. Just to cross check whether IRA diagnosis works well in sync with warnings shown on MID's, I check IRA and it reported warning in power rails, which went away once MIL lamp turned off.
• I am still adjusting to power and torque it generates in Sports mode. I feel at home with the beast in Auto drive mode even on highways.
• Also did Samrudhi e-way from Shirdi to Aurangabad with full load and cruise control. It touched max speed of 99 kmph. Beast was planted till that speed and gave good confidence. What I like mainly about it is the feedback it provides about they type of surface its going through allowing me to intervene if its out of my comfort zone.
• Till now no left or right pull issues. Please note, wheel balancing and alignment has not been done till now even though suggested during second service.
• I have been using the Tata inflator kit to top-up the tyres pressure in cold state regular by myself. My trips to local the tyre filling shop has stopped for some time now.

Overall, enjoyable ownership till now and ASS has been good too. Now I don't go berserk when issues like the above show up. Check the groups and most probably you will get a solution. Else SM has been positively responding till now.

An observation about after the market dash cam installed from Poona Motors camp It stopped recording videos since 28 Sept 2022. I found out while trying to check if latest videos are captured. Worst thing is that looks like the 32GB SDHC card I installed has gone bunk. Till date, I have not been able to format it, even though I could see that videos on it. I have replaced the SD card with original 16 GB SDHC card which came with it and it is working fine now. Based on costing of RoaV C1 by Anker, I was not expecting this. What's the point of installing a costly dash cam, if it can just stop recording without providing any warnings either on app or dash cam screen.

Overall, with time I am getting less worried about these random issues popping up as they seem to be minor ones and SM is already aware of issues till now. Hope it remains that way. I am now around 70% confident in trusting the beast to take long journeys (1000 odd km in 3 days). Will slowly test its patience and limits by slowly increasing the burden on it. Hope, it likes it that way before I overwhelm it with any stress testing.

Will share more updates once I find any more issues with it.

Till then,

Keep Revving.

Negi

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