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Go for HID foglight projectors while your car is in warranty. They are good enough upgrade. After warranty is over, you can upgrade your headlights to a good HID.

Hi, will use of HID foglight projectors nor affect the warranty ? and which one do you recommend ?

Brezza indeed has very poor headlight illumination especially in ZDi and ZDi+ variants. Upgrading to HID fogs is a very good option. It's a simple job for a DIY guy or can be easily fixed at a local garage who knows some bits about Brezza or at MASS if you're friends with them.

I started by upgrading to HID fog lamps. Details here. I've even fixed the end to end coupler thereby eliminating the scotch locks. You can see more details on page 6.

But there was an itch to get more which ended up in this. Although the lights are great, the alignment is not perfect but nevertheless, it gets the job done.

As far as warranty is concerned, either you can get them done after warranty gets over or it can be difficult.

If done via coupler to coupler, without splicing any wires, you are good to go. It is easy to replace the foglamps before any warranty claim is taken.

There are lot of DIY threads here for foglight projectors, check them out.

Got new shoes for my brezza clap: contimax 5 and they make the car really well behaved! The noise is almost gone! Given the fact my old ones were run 80k and had become hard. The car feels almost new with these! I'm sure they won't last as long but I'm glad I picked these. (None of the dealers had primacy in stock, they would've been my first choice)
Got them at SLNP pit stop J.P Nagar. This was my first visit there and I actually can easily recommended it. The prices were fair and didn't even feel like bargaining with the gentelman running the place.

I have upgraded low beam projector headlights on my Brezza ZDi (2018) with a set of 4200Kelvin Osram DH7 35 watt Gen1 HID conversion kit, which costed around 6500 INR. Plug & play setup, without damaging warranty. You have to cut a hole in the dust cap to pass the cables to and from the ballast. Dust cap is available for under Rs 200 a pair. Gen 2 Osram HID kit is available now, with enhanced output.



This has considerably improved low beam output with fantastic visibility, a sharp cutoff and all weather colour temperature of 4200 kelvin, which is warm white. Have plans to go for a quad-bixenon projector setup later. But if you want to keep things stock, the HID kit from Osram is adequate enough to increase light output from the stock projector, much more than what you get from a halogen bulb.

Got battery replaced today after running 70K in 3 years. I am little disappointed, as my Swift Vdi with the same engine did 95K with stock battery.

Anyone got similar experience with Brezza battery life ?

Appears nice. Just a word of caution. The stock projectors are of poor quality. The reflectors of mine got some damage due to using Philips Xtreme Vision Plus bulbs in stock wattage. The HIDs will have intense heat, do keep checking the burnout.

Thank you for your advice :) , I'll surely keep a check on the duo. Strangely, I noticed that the beams from these Osram 35W HIDs are a bit cooler than the stock halogens, when I touch the headlight lens after the light has run for a good hour or so.

Not only in Brezza, I have seen that most cars with low beam halogen projectors are not that good in terms of light output and people mostly have to rely on high beams leveled down in order to get a better visibility most of the time. Perhaps the build quality of these stock 2.5 inch projectors are not that great. I'll be retrofitting Hella BRT in the headlights in future; not that happy with the stock projector performance.

Yes - I have experienced the same when I had this Osram kit in my Nexon too.
I think that is primarily due to the bulbs already being of a lower wattage. At 35W, the power consumption is significantly lower. Of course - HIDs and Halogens is not an apple to apple comparison. But still - the lower power consumption certainly results in lower temperature overall.
That is more or less a universal truth. All stock projectors are poor. At least on this side of 15-17L Rupees.

Hello everyone

I had a issue with my Brezza since last 15days, wherein every time I encountered a speed breaker or a pothole, my driver seat backrest would make a strange noise (like a ‘tok’). The issue had increased lately.

I reported the issue during my 3rd free service which was scheduled last week. Luckily the service centre acknowledged the issue after multiple test rides, but were unable to pinpoint the cause. I was again called after a couple of days for diagnosis by the service centre, wherein a third party seat expert was supposed to evaluate the seat. The so called expert removed the stitching of the seat cover and inserted some foam padding between the metal springs, but that too didn’t help. Subsequently the body shop technician was called and told to check the seat, he tightened some bolts and after multiple test rides, acknowledged the issue with the seat backrest. Incidentally he also acknowledged play in the seat base. Finally the service centre agreed to change my driver seat backrest under warranty. Luckily I didn’t install any aftermarket seat covers, otherwise they would have blamed the installation and not honour any warranty claim.

My Brezza is October 2019 make, with 8500km on the odometer. Wanted to know if anyone else had any issues with the Brezza seat, apart from the ergonomics mentioned here, and can only seat backrest be changed, without changing the seat base ?

Regards.

Yes - only the back-rest can be changed. However you must be 100% convinced that the noise is coming from the back & nowhere else in the base (like the recline adjustment / height adjustment or horizontal movement rails etc.). If you have even the slightest doubt of this kind - please demand a complete seat assembly change rather than just the back.

Thank you Reinhard, did multiple tests with the service centre, they have zeroed the issue to the seat backrest, the part has been ordered. I had actually asked them to order the whole seat, but the service guys are confident regarding the origin of the noise.

Thanks you, Regards....

Hi sumitmajumdarin

Are the fog lights, Halogen or LEDs. Can you please provide the details.

Regards

The fog lights are full LED units