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Originally Posted by sv97 Had the Kia dealership and service centre been in your city would you have gone for the seltos over creta? |
It would have been a strong contender, then. Possibly I would have.
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Originally Posted by pgsagar Do share your driving impressions, Raven. Like, acceleration, 0 to 100 timings, overtaking ability etc. Like I said, IVT is the one to go for, for peace of mind. No turbo worries. No transmission heating issues. You will have a blissful ownership. |
Well, the IVT will see most of it's duties inside the city limits for now. Also, we are going to go through another 15 days of lockdown from 21st July. So the 0-100 timings + highway performance feedbacks will have to wait.
I shall compile a report though, time permitting, detailing the urban performances of the IVT.
Thank you, bud.
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Originally Posted by dark.knight I was completely unaware of this, and if I recall, you bought models which in general are perceived to be fairly trouble-free, if not extremely reliable. That shows that reliability is only a luck of the draw, and no stereotyping will help zero down to a good car. I also agree that if the ownership is not perfect (in terms of reliability) then owning the car is pointless, fun to drive or not. |
The only one which stayed with us for a fair bit of time between 2012-2020 was the Maruti Swift, from 2014 to 2018. Car had absolutely no issues either, and the dealership service backup was stellar. Sold because Dad was having real trouble driving a manual and he needed to have an Automatic.
If only I had known back then how bitter my future relationship with the Tata dealership was going to be..
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Originally Posted by dark.knight In the end all car manufacturers and service stations will stick to their stubborn opinion and not do anything to make a car perfect, they will either replace the parts fully or say the existing car is normal and good enough. |
What do you do when you are called up and told that your car's VIN is part of a company recall and needs to be brought in for some urgent fixes, car's taken in and fixes are done, and only later you are told by the company itself that it was a mistake and your car wasn't supposed to be fixed?
And then the people involved in this entire mess dump all blame on you and tell the company that
you forced
them to get those fixes done, just so that they could save their own skin?
As if a new car owner is mad enough to take his 1 month "new" car in and get it opened up from head to toe.
That was the Tata dealership, and the car in question was my 2018 Tata Nexon XZ+ diesel.
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Originally Posted by dark.knight Now I agree with your decision, since reliability is of special importance this time around, its better to buy a car with bare minimum superfluous features since there'll be less that'll go wrong. I've personally had no problem in a Hyundai, so here's to hoping that you'll get the same experience as well with the present garage of i20 and Creta, the IVT is the least temperamental of all auto transmissions so that's a bonus too. |
Thank you, my friend. I am hoping for a long ownership this time around, so praying sincerely too.
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Originally Posted by rkv_hunter Yes, I have traded marginally higher reliability of the IVT and additional features of SX(O) for the driving pleasure of the 1.4. |
The 1.4 Turbo is not a city machine. It begs to be floored on open highways. In these Covid times, I doubt we will see many highway runs for the next year at least, if not more. Maybe, except for emergencies.
Also, like you said, city traffic specially B2B might tend to overheat the DCT. Not sure if Hyundai's tech would be much different than the VAG's - the DCT here is a dry-clutch unit too.
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Originally Posted by Ankur@VNS Sir, last time, You were considering Creta S/SX diesel MT, but now, it seems you are going to have Creta SX Petrol IVT (CVT). Any specific reason for such change, or because of petrol-diesel price parity, diesel engine has lost its sheen. |
Requirements were different then. Now the plans for a big 7-seater diesel are on hold for at least a year, and the main requirement is for an automatic urban runabout which can be driven by 3 driving members of the household, 2 of whom are more comfortable with an AT and the 3rd member (myself) has developed sacro-lumbar problems (levoscoliosis) lately which has progressively worsened in the past couple months, making driving an MT a really laborious task.
And, yes, the running doesn't warrant a diesel + the close pricing of petrol-diesel is also a factor. Plonking extra money for a diesel which won't see much running would be foolish now.