8 years of love-hate relationship with my used Terrano: Why I sold it

Here I am, after 9 long months since I sold the car, having test drove all the sub-15-lac cars on sale, having bought another car, but still grieving for the departure of the Terrano.

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It was a Love-Hate story all along... where I only remember the 'Love' now..

I am threading this 9 months after I sold my Terrano since I can't get over the fact that it was the Best car I have owned till date!!

Me and my family were peacefully living with a 2016 Ford Figo Petrol. Although, I was quite unhappy about the poor Performance the Figo offered added to the low FE numbers. That's when I started looking for a car with a decent FE and good low end performance (since 90% of my usage was within the City). I started exploring the used car market and finalized on a Diesel Figo (Yes!! Mad performance, Good FE while still having that champ-like handling).

The Love-

Just when I was in the process of making the deal, I came across a used Terrano with 83k on the odo. I always liked the road presence of the car but I had never driven a Terrano/Duster before. I decided to give it a try...and the rest was just a roller coaster ride from there!!

I drove the car for a few kms and I loved it to every bit. I did all the mandatory checks, booked a mechanic to inspect it, got in touch with Nissan to check it's history and booked the car - all within half a day of time!!!

The car had its own issues - the clutch was giving up, the tyres had worn out, the alternator was making a noise etc.

Yes, feels like an impulsive move now, felt like an impulsive move back then too!! It was a trance state all along where you fall in love with the car and develop that un-real courage to face anything that comes your way.

Since then, It was all LOVE!! I enjoyed the car in every way. As It was my daily driver, I got to spend alot of time with 'him'. There were times where I got annoyed due to the issues that popped up then and there. But at the end of the day, after I park the car and go to bed, all I would have in my mind was 'can't wait to drive it again tomorrow'. I can't believe I used to make plans to take my family out just so that I can spend as much time driving the car.

Family's Love -

He slowly turned into everybody's favourite. When my sister wanted to be picked from her college, when my mother wanted to buy pots from the nursery, when my dad wanted to take the family out for a dinner and many more occasions. It served wonderfully well with the ample amount of space inside the cabin, good FE (16+ in city rides), humongous boot (it could swallow anything my mom and my wife could throw in together), great ride comfort and brilliant handling!! (Yes, coming from driving a Ford, I could still say it is a great handling car)

The Hate-

It was all good until the car started to surprise me with issues every now and then. It all was clearly due to aging, wear and tear. But my life got busy and It was hard finding time to attend to the issues. Parts were expensive (started to feel if I have bought a used premium car whenever I got a service quote), service was not that great. Eventually I started to think out of the trance and decided to let go for our own good. I had driven it 15k kms in less than a year. I did not think it would be hard to let go, cauz I thought I could always buy another car and have the same joy all over again.

But here I am, after 9 long months since I sold the car, having test drove all the sub-15-lac cars on sale, having bought another car (a Ford Freestyle this time)...but still grieving for the departure of the Terrano.

I test drove all the sub-15-lac 'new' cars on sale and nothing gave the commanding feel, ride comfort and space that the Terrano offered. Hence decided to stick on to 'pre-owned' untill I am convinced to pay 'new-car' price for half of the pleasure of driving a Terrano.

The Terrano has spoiled me in all ways and will stay benchmarked in my memory forever.

But, Do I regret buying the car? Definitely Not

Do I regret selling it? No

I am glad that I got to live with the Terrano atleast for a while.

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