Trying fuel from different pumps & brands in my Mahindra XUV700 petrol

With the unleaded petrol, the engine responsiveness of the SUV was the same but I did notice a drop in the mileage.

BHPian rudra_shiv recently shared this with other enthusiasts.

Been two months, no big tripping as expected, just usual city drives.

ODO stands smiling at 11k now.

Last ~850kms was done gulping the Shell V-Power. As everybody praised, could not find a major difference in the power or the mileage. In fact, I am still getting between 11.3-11.5kmpl with Shell V-Power too.

My observations with the different pumps I tried for quite a while are below:

IOCL

Almost 50% of the fuel that RUDRA drank belongs to IOCL - XP95. Tank to Tank was always between 11.5 and 11.8kmpl in the city drives. The highway maxed out at 13.5kmpl. The point to note is XP95 is 109.4 comparing the normal petrol 103.2 at Coimbatore. The engine was very smooth and responsive. Could feel the engine a bit (when I say a bit, it is A TINYYY BIT) torquey until 3-4k rpm. Using AXIS Bank Petrol Card for about ~4 months and by rewards + IOCL Xtra Rewards recovering the additional cost invested per liter of the petrol. I used to fill the petrol at the same bunk since the delivery which is the very famous Shanthi Social Services Bunk at Coimbatore.

BPCL

30% was with BPCL - Unleaded Normal Petrol. What makes me wonder was, FE stood almost the same as BPCL. But the engine was not that smooth with this. Considering the price and the FE, BPCL suits widely.

IOCL

Unleaded Normal - Costing around 103.2Rs. The engine responsiveness was the same as the BPCL but could easily see the drop in FE numbers. MID itself dropped 1-1.5kmpl easily.

Regarding the bumpy ride, one of our XUV700 TN community members and our brother Vinod (who has munched 50k kms in a single year with his AX7L AT D) recommended wheel rotation at 10k and keeping a bit lesser air pressure considering the harder compound property of MRF Wanderer. Based on his suggestions and a few trial and error, a 30psi driving a car to the pump which is 5kms away from my home at 39deg hot summer seems to be fixing the bumpy ride issue to an extent. Glad and happy that this has worked out making our rides more breeeezzyy now.

With that, took a small video with joy after a short 100km ride.

After a quick wash happened to notice a minor niggle. I am discussing this with ASC now, the tail lamp plastic is not snapping rightly resulting in water droplets entering the tail lamp. Somehow snapped it to keep it and sealed the lamp for now. But when the boot is closed a couple of times, it is getting unsnapped.

The clips and snaps are all intact, I sense this has something to do with the shape of the plastic as it looks a bit different. Managed to snap it now to keep the tail lamp intact and away from dust and water from entering it. But a heavy shut of boot would again unsnap it.

Discussed this with Mr. Ronald, and he assured me that this will be taken care of. Will check it when I am around CAI or Peelamedu next time and would probably get it fixed before the monsoon hits hard.

Few clips here:

• XUV700 tail lamp unsnapping
• XUV700 tail lamp snapping

More breezy rides are to come in the month of June and RUDRA is all set to celebrate his first year anniversary, fortunately, it is our first year anniversary too.

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