Story of my Tata Indica DLG Turbo: 125k km done in 17 years

Now you know why I'll never buy another Tata car again. This is not the first time a brand new genuine spare part experienced immediate failure.

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Car crossed 125k and 17 years last month

And the gearbox refused to shift one fine day.Either 1 or 3rd gear would refuse to fall into place. Rest were fine. Coincidentally, this happened just when my etios was facing shifter issues.
Unfortunately in this case, my mechanic deemed my current gearbox too far gone. While they did not go into specifics, they said it was too worn and not rebuild able.

Thankfully they were able to source a used gearbox (7k - a new one is 48k!), and i had a spare clutch lying around ( how many people keep a spare clutch just in case )

Anyway the work is going on, and I'll update

The car was delivered on Saturday with everything working fine. However on Sunday it stopped shifting with the engine on. I got a house call from my mech who tweaked the play in the clutch to enable shifting again. Things improved after that, but then on Monday the car started jerking violently in the middle of a u turn and stopped. A couple of passers by helped me push it to the road side. The car would not go into neutral. The clutch pedal had gone fully depressed. I couldn't start in gear because the car would attempt to move and stall. I could start in neutral but there was a strange noise coming. I left the car on the roadside and had workshop pick it up.


After a couple of days, this is the update. A failed release bearing. This is a brand new bearing from a clutch kit I bought from boodmo last year. The clutch has a manufacturing date of 2022. It's being replaced. I'm rather disappointed with a brand new bearing failing in one day, but that's how Tata spares are. Even the genuine ones. Now you know why I'll never buy another tata car again. This is not the first time a brand new genuine spare part experienced immediate failure.

It's being replaced. I will update.

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