Visiting the Auto Expo was a long time dream for me. This year my friend and BHPian Aj-Got-Bhp told he is going to visit Auto Expo for his business purpose. He is the super distributor of Unocal 76 lubricants in West Bengal and there company was going to put a stall over there. Soon i called up few of my Bhpain friends SS-Traveller, Predatorwheelz and Jkds who are Delhi based BHPian's. They told they were ready to visit the show too! Plus an all India whatsapp group was also made by BHPian's who are going to visit the Auto Expo. But most of them were aiming to visit the Auto Expo at Nodia. I thought when am flying from Kolkata just for this and meet few of my friends why not visit the Ancillary show too along with the main Auto Expo at Noida. SS-Traveller and one of my college friend Samya Dasgupta was ready to accompany me for the Ancillary show too plus Aj-Got-Bhp would be present there at his stall from the beginning. In short it was going to be a mini team-bhp meet in an Auto Expo! What more can i ask for! Even senior BHPian 1100D was supposed to fly from Kolkata but due to some last minute work he had to drop out.
Another unexpected surprise was i saw a stall from Madhus and in Team BHP every one know who the owner is and why its so famous! So yes i met Nikhilb2008 too!
Coming down straight to the show. It was huge, really huge. It's impossible to cover in a single day. Am sharing just as much I could cover. Hope other BHPians will pour in with there coverage too.
The entry pass-
Yes R-Three! Team Bhp promotes safe driving and SS-Traveller is one person who is the mentor of R-Three which teaches safe driving. I was with him and he gave his visiting card for the passes hence i got the honor of the R-Three badge too!
As I was with the BHPians let me start with the two stalls with which BHPian Aj-Got-Bhp and Nikhilb2008 were associated with.
First we went to meet Aj-Got-Bhp at the Unocal 76 stall.
From Left to right- Mr.Madhav Rajgarhia (CEO and director of Raaj Unocal Lubricants Ltd), Aj-Got-Bhp and SS-Traveller
From Left to right- Mr Samya Dasgupta, SS-Traveller, Mr.Madhav Rajgarhia, Aj-Got-Bhp and me.
From Left to right- Mr Ashis Ghatak, Samya Dasgupta, SS-Traveller. Mr Ghatak is the QC Head of Unocal Lubricants and he is a very knowledgeable person. When our Team BHP technical guru SS-Traveller met Mr.Ghatak there was really some brain storming discussion about the technicalities, though majority of that went over my head! But the icing on the cake was seeing these discussions AJ-Got-Bhp and Mr.Madhav Rajgarhia invited me, SS- Traveller & Samya to visit there industrial plant on 8th February when they were having an all India Delegation to visit their plant. We grabbed the offer immediately !
But sadly at the last moment SS-Traveller had to drop out and I visited the plant with my friend Samya Dasgupta in a self driven Duster from Myles and visited Agra too! But more on that later. Will write a different thread on the plant visit later on.
A miniature of their plant
This Lubistrand shows the stickiness of the oil.
This box is called DETAC. When the uv torch is used on Unocal 76 lubricant the oil will show this color. This will prove whether one is using genuine Unocal oil or some counterfeit oil. In a different oil this color will not show up.
Few other oils which caught my attention-
10w-60 synthetic engine oil
This 75W90 gear oil which is now used in many modern cars.
Uno TC Prima API CJ4. Till date i heard of CI4 CH4, CF4.CJ4 was something new for me. This oil is Euro 4 and 5 complaint.
This acts as a cleaner and its a chemical less engine cleaner which will not affect the rubber components like gaskets in the old cars. One has to use this in half the capacity of the oil the sump requires and the engine has to be kept on for 10 minutes and this oil has to be drained out. This will clean the engine.
And few other pics from the Unocal 76 stall.
After visiting this stall we were looking at the other stalls and suddenly we were in front of
Madhus! Another stall from a DBHPian.
From left to right- Aj-Got-Bhp, me, Nikhilb2008
This was really a big stall with all modern equipment's. But the star of all the equipment's was this one-
Nikhilb2008 showed us how this lady could open a tyre from a 19 inch rim and again put it back in an effortless way. This was amazing. Let me share the pics how it worked step by step.