2 years / 72500 km with my Hyundai Alcazar : Updates & More

Last 4 services have been using synthetic oil and the running has been more smoother than before.

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2 Year - 72500 km Update

It has been 2 years since the car joined our family. Opened the birthday with 72499 km on the odo.

The running has slowed a bit in 2024. After day 6, the daily average running fell below the 100 mark last month and has been on the 99s since.

Tyres

During the Pokhran-Jaipur drive, the TPMS showed an odd 30-31 psi on the rear left for the entire drive. It did not drop. Topped up at 35 psi at a BPCL near Ajmer, and its back to 31-32 psi again. I had a hunch it was a slow puncture. And it was, took it to a local tyre shop near our Jaipur stay. I had written about this here immediately after the trip.

There were 2 more incidents of slow puncture since. On the seminal event at 68K on the odo, I got rid of the JKs (they were fairly worn out and had tread depth around 3.5-4 mm) and replaced them with Michelin P4STs at 12500 a piece.

While the tyre noise is lower. I wasn't seeing the day-night difference I was expecting to see after swapping to a soft compound Michelin from the JK UX Royales. I experienced that when I replaced the UX Royales with Continental UC6 on the S-Cross.

Hopefully can get 40-50K kms out of the Michelins.

NVH

Not as silent as on day 1. There's always been a mild clatter for most of the ownership.

DPF

Though most of the running has been in the city and suburban jungle. No DPF so far. I've been particular on where the car gets refueled. For the most part its been the IOCL COCO at SP Koil. I've ended up finding a COCO on trips too. At the most I would've filled about 5 out of 110 odd tank fills outside COCO. The 600-800 km range does help that cause.

Fuel Efficiency

The last 2 tank fills have been in mid 16 range for a city-suburban run. Overall cost/km stands at 5.09 Rs. That is probably attributed to the crawl at couple of places on my commute, which shot by 10 min in the last 2 months. FE otherwise has hovered around the 17-18s all through.

On a cold Jaipur-Kota-Biaora drive, I extracted 22 without hypermiling (was driving 100-110). We didn't see the sun until we crossed Bundi, and temperature was in the teens. Only after our late lunch at Kota, did we have to use AC on-and-off that day.

Other observations

For a short while around 66-67K, experienced the juddering described here. However the symptoms disappeared after refueling and did not surface again.

I see a slight clutch slip the last 5-6K kms. So far its not been bad enough.

Got the warranty extended for 5 year-140,000 km during the 70K service.

Last 4 services have been using synthetic oil and the running has been more smoother than before.

The rear hatch door seems to have a problem with locking mechanism. Needs a firmer push everytime.

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