A non-modification report in many days. The Punto has been doing office commute duty diligently, and now even doubled up for doing showoff duty trying to impress the town with its hooligan Abarth-tuned look
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The odometer is just a few kilometres away from 5 digits (pictures of that will be put up later). For the past few days I was experiencing a mild shudder whenever I braked lightly and gradually, such as when coasting to a signal or speedbreaker. It wasn't happening on hard and aggressive braking, and there was no other symptom like noise, etc.
I called up Surendra at Vecto motors who promptly told me to bring the car to their service station anytime for a check-up and rectification. He told me that I would have to wait quite a bit since Vecto motors was mostly overloaded on weekends. I told him I didn't mind that. After all, if I am going without prior booking, I can't expect to be given preference to be fair to other customers. I spent the later half of the day at Vecto motors and towards evening time, he attended to my car.
We went for a test drive where I showed him the shudder occurring. It was traced down to faulty brake pads on one of the front discs, which was causing uneven wear. When a slot was available on the service bays, my Punto was taken in and inspected. Then they replaced the entire front disc brakes and brake pad sets in warranty.
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This is what I have liked about Fiat recently. If there is an issue you point out, they don't hesitate to replace parts under warranty. No questions asked, just brute force approach when there is a fault pointed out. Customer is happy.
"Mogambo Khush hua"!
LOL! An imposter at the service centre with a difference! I couldn't trace the owner though.
Brand new Brake pad set getting ready to be transplanted onto the vehicle
Brand new front discs, also replaced under warranty.
The job was done to perfection, although I had to wait a bit. I don't mind that at all, if the outcome is excellent. The entire transplantation would have set me back by ~6k rupees if this job wasn't covered under warranty. Really glad it was.
After the job was done and the car was parked outside waiting for me to finish the invoice/job card acknowledgement work inside, some college kids were trying to pose next to the car and take snaps with their mobiles. I had to shoo them away unfortunately, and I ended up taking that snap without anyone in the frame
Apart from that, there have been no other problems during my intense usage over the past few months (10000 km of pure city driving in 6 months). The car has been perfect and ownership has been delightful without any niggles whatsoever. Even the brake shuddering problem has been solved now.The odometer currently reads 9976 km, and today I will be touching the 5 digit mark, pictures of which will make it to the thread later in the day.