The Grey Skid – Chevy Beat TCDi LS (December 2012)


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Fog Lamps. Paid ₹ 950.00

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Quality was okay but the finished was terrible. Hard to find Chevy parts, anyhow have to close the old hole with broken lamp.
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Came with a 27W bulb. By history these elcheapo bulbs won't last a month.
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Bought Phillips H27W/2 at ₹ 430.52/pair. MRP ₹220.00 per piece.

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First DIY after marriage.
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First trip after marriage
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Car now has a thud when hitting potholes.
 
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The Honeymoon Car
Our first long trip and my longest to-fro drive. Trivandrum-Kodaikanal-Trivandrum via NH44 aka NH7 (Did the same on FZ twice). None of our other cars were roadworthy (read service due), so took the risk of taking the just-out-after-engine-rebuild Bolt 850 km total. Cruise was effortless, maintaining 80 km/h most of the time without straining the engine. Returned 19 kmpl with full AC and 70% highway 30% ghat and traffic.

Checked alignment the night before. Threw away number plate frames.
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All set to go before sun is up.
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Filled up tank just after entering Tamil Nadu, diesel was cheaper by 2.5 and petrol 4.5 there.
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First pitstop. Hotel Sri Gowri Shankar near Nagercoil. (On return trip, got poisoned from there). Been our regular pitstop whenever passing by.
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Served hot.
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Somewhere in between NH66 and NH44.
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NH66. Pure bliss 4 lanes. Watch out for wrong siders and (illegal) crossers (through conveniently cut sections of dividers).
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Reddiarpatti Hill. One of the famous movie shoot spots.
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(Adyar Ananda Bhavan) A2B Restuarant at BPCL Ghar COCO Pump near T Andipatti. Cant imagine getting out of car. Sun was hot like fire. Had lunch from there on return trip.
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Somwhere at the beginning of ascent.
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Lake.
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Bread omelet. Common there, tried after bit of hesitancy, was good.
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Upper Lake ViIew
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Green Valley View. Never seen it clear.
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Beware of these creatures. They will take whatever they want no matter how you try to save. ****** took away my Lays, got a cut in my hand.
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Pine Forest
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Scraped underbody. GC too low, cant even park half off the road.
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Pillar Rocks. Wrong season. No good seeing it out of mist.
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Clear valley. Had bad experience after this. Stopped exploring, went back to room and packed up to leave. Did not see rest of the Kodai, mood spoilt by an ****** constable. Just wanted bribe. All paper clear and every document in original and no fault to find. Ended up in the verge of booking me for drunken driving (I'm a proud teetotaller). Stood adamant and agreed for medical checkup. After another cop intervening, he left me. Missed many places.
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Next was the puncture mafia. The day of check-in, saw the hotel manager changing flat tyre. Thought was because of debris from the construction work going on. On day of check-out, it was my chance. Got a flat tyre, so was sure it was intentional. Had two nails. Paid 250 for fixing them. To my surprise, the small shed guy even had tyre changing machine.
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Silver Cascade Waterfalls.
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Manjalar Dam.
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Some view point.
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After the descent. Plains.
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Saravana Bhavan. I think was near Kovilpatti or Virudhunagar. Forgot. Again, getting out was impossible. Terribly hot. Even the AC could not help. Food was fine.
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Could do this, but was not comfortable with speeds. (Co-driver click) (Don't click and drive).
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I love windmills.
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Reached home safe. Bought a lot of (non)homemade chocolates, fruits, teddies, bags, etc. Tried many cuisines (north indian, tibetian, arabic, etc.).

Whole experience ruined by the Kodai cop and the juice from Nagercoil (one week of Nagercoil belly).

(Had no intention to put up a travelogue and not enough for a separate thread, avoided posting picturique photos, as most of them were personal).
 
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vishnu vichu said:
Probably the monkeys bribed the Kodai Police [lol]

as well as the puncture mafia, just because you fight against them for lays:biggrin:
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Who bribed this monkey [;)]

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bhvm said:
Super pics there. Which camera is that?
And the roads are a complete dream!
Sad to see the underbody hits tough.
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Sony HX90V.
 
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Crossed 50k.
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Congrats on crossing the 50k km mark. [:)] One question - will you recommend the diesel version Beat for extensive usage (upwards of 20k/yr) based on your experience with the product? Most of the people using Beat say that ASS experience is a hit or a miss, and are not exactly satisfied with their purchase.

Also I am not able to view some images, please look into it.

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Alpha said:
Congrats on crossing the 50k km mark. [:)] One question - will you recommend the diesel version Beat for extensive usage (upwards of 20k/yr) based on your experience with the product? Most of the people using Beat say that ASS experience is a hit or a miss, and are not exactly satisfied with their purchase.

Also I am not able to view some images, please look into it.

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I would never recommend one. Service/dealer network is diminishing. Parts prices are going up. Chances of lemon pieces are high. Out of warranty and paid service costs are very high. Resale value is also pretty low. For what we spent till now, we could have bought a Wagon R and ran 50k and saved a lot [frustration]. Total expenditure on car excluding fuel is around 2.31 L till date.

Missing pictures.

Somebody broke mirror glass today while parked.
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Got some Delhi-make duplicate Convex glass. Red FOX. MRP 200, got for 170. Fits and works fine.
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After a bath.

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Wiper change. Bought Bosch Clear Advantage, was looking for Minda frameless, but out of stock. Got pair for ₹ 630.00 after ₹80.00 off on MRP.

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Bulge is through middle, supposed to cut through air. Chinese and Minda got them offset.

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Clip and ends are sturdier than others.

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Initial wipe is neat.

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Gear knob after Hiroshima blast. Comes as full shaft and costs 1.8k plus labor.

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Played jigsaw puzzle with pieces I could find.

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Bought car cover. Rather cheap. ₹ 700.00

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Picked jumbo size, so as to cover other garage mates in case of emergency. Only for parking in sun or hibernation.

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Plastic rivets holding plastic panel went missing, 4 out of 5.

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Inconvenient screw type.

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Replaced with ones from Yamaha Fazer. Push to release type. ₹ 6.00 per piece. Changed all 5.

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Good updates buddy.
And yes I absolutely hate those plastic screw types. Sometimes you have to break them to get em off. They just keep spinning where they are. The trick is to spin them without pressing them at all (seems impossible at times).

I brought a spare dozen from Mahindra Service last time for my XUV.
 
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