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Toyota Hilux ownership update: Quick drive to Kalasa with friends

4th January 2025, 17:18 by Kanad Kalasur

Nice weather and some good roads. Had a great time chit chatting and a quick drive. Took the Charmadi route while going and returned via Kudremukha/SK border.

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Drive to Kalasa

Week before, went for a quick drive with friends near Kalasa. Nice weather and some good roads. Had a great time chit chatting and a quick drive. Took the Charmadi route while going and returned via Kudremukha/SK border. While Charmadi road was excellent, Kudremukha road was a bit patchy. The road got better few KMs before SK border checkpost. Hilux returned a decent 13KMPL fuel efficiency.

The Gang @Kalasa

Kudremukha with ScorpioN

Drive to Bangalore with Fortuner

Had to drive to Bangalore, took Sampaje road. There was a massive traffic jam at Kushalnagara due to year end vacation. Took alternate road to Channarayapatna via Ramanathpura/Holenarsipura. Had used this road long ago, due to changes in road, missed a diversion and ended up driving through scenic internal roads. Zero traffic, fantastic roads and awesome weather. Coincidentally both Hilux and Fortuner returned 12KMPL fuel efficiency.

Near Holenarsipura

Beautiful Sampaje ghat

One of the stock tire gave up and got it replaced. Spare tire wasn't used, hence paired it up with new Bridgestone dueler AT. The stock tire had puncture about 2 months back and got a mushroom patch. The truck was used to haul a lot of load since then and on a highway drive, the patch gave up. The tire would have lasted another 15K KM's. Got alignment and balancing done too. Hilux has clocked close to 17.5K KM's, with almost all miles munched inside Karnataka.

Damaged tire