Mahindra XUV5OO: "The Dark Knight" Buying & Ownership Experience [65K Kms Crossed]

[pahujaamit]

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Looks like a great trip !! good write up and nice pics too. TFS.

 

[Iron Rock]

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Wow! great pics Amit. The pics with the row houses at the other side of the lake I take it that the second one is on a zoom. What's the lens that you used ?

Thanks zengetz, yes the second one is on zoom from the same location as the previous - my digital is a simple point to shoot with 10x optical zoom - over 10 years old now and beginning to trouble me. Time for an SLR me thinks
The place is lake palace allepey

Looks like a great trip !! good write up and nice pics too. TFS.

Thanks Amit - yes it was a good trip, only wish we had more time at hand.

TSIVipul -> Any updates sir on ur poll bashing XUV ?

 

[Thetraveller]

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Great pics! It looks like Dark Knight had fun twisting on those roads
Didnt you just love the green all around there? I felt nice seeing all that!!

Anyway, regarding sunfilms, give 3M centers a try. They are thoroughly professional and perform the job perfectly. IMO RE35 and CR70 are best for Pune.

Otherwise you can try Poona Motors, Darshan Motors (JM Road), Car Cupid (Pashan Road). All of these have great staff.

 

[truecitylover]

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Thanks truecitylover hows ur new swift treating you ? am awaiting ur updates on tht one especially internal pics.

Sure buddy, I am as curious as you are.
Will post pictures exclusively for you in regards to the interiors once i get my hands on the car. Visiting this weekend to drive her back to Chennai.

For now, do have a read on my ownership review on my City.

The cheetah was on Iron's leash so the deer's had a field day!!

Ha ha ha. You saved the deers from the cheetah. Good job!!!

 

[Iron Rock]

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Sure buddy, I am as curious as you are.
Will post pictures exclusively for you in regards to the interiors once i get my hands on the car. Visiting this weekend to drive her back to Chennai

Ahh the agonizing wait ...for u and us as well.
Yep checked your thread good going with a honda as nothing goes wrong u seem have to think as to what to post i imagine

Great pics! It looks like Dark Knight had fun twisting on those roads
Didnt you just love the green all around there? I felt nice seeing all that!!

Anyway, regarding sunfilms, give 3M centers a try. They are thoroughly professional and perform the job perfectly. IMO RE35 and CR70 are best for Pune.

Otherwise you can try Poona Motors, Darshan Motors (JM Road), Car Cupid (Pashan Road). All of these have great staff.

Thanks thetraveller, i know exactly what you mean when you refer to the green surrounding - out in pune and mumbai its becoming extinct barring a few places! If you havent visited Kerala already, i wud surely recommend..

I am going to try the 3M guys at Viman Nagar -> had got the civic done there..

 

[truecitylover]

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Ahh the agonizing wait ...for u and us as well.
Yep checked your thread good going with a honda as nothing goes wrong u seem have to think as to what to post i imagine

Yes, need to wait for just 4 more days! Yes, Honda is a niggle free vehicle and thats the reason there is no much cribbing posts.

Lets not go further OT. Cheetah may get angry on me!!!

 

[Iron Rock]

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Yes, need to wait for just 4 more days! Yes, Honda is a niggle free vehicle and thats the reason there is no much cribbing posts.

Lets not go further OT. Cheetah may get angry on me!!!

ohh dont worry abt the cheetah, its very friendly with the hondas, they cuddle together at the garage too

See the pic attached, cheetah acting as a bodyguard to my civic on the expressway

 

[zengetz]

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^^^ Lovely Pic Amit. Im glad to hear there is 'peace' in your garage with both the bad boys under one roof

I'm pretty sure you may have come across after market head lamps for civic that come with projectors and the DRL strips. Would look nice if both the boys sported the similar stance..just a thought

 

[cooldhaya]

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+1 to Zengetz , they will look hot together in a single frame!


Nice picture Iron Rock , have you posted a review of Civic? If yes can you provide the link?

 

[mukeshus]

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@Iron Rock: So Cheetah is controlling the Civic from behind.

So Civic is been given a Royal Escort???

Looks cool.

 

[truecitylover]

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ohh dont worry abt the cheetah, its very friendly with the hondas, they cuddle together at the garage too

See the pic attached, cheetah acting as a bodyguard to my civic on the expressway

Thats a nice gesture by the cheetah! This is one amazing picture that i've come across from your thread. Yes, a honda Civic review thread will be great. Please do get it started.

Just a stupid question though: If you drove the Cheetah, who drove the Civic?

I'm pretty sure you may have come across after market head lamps for civic that come with projectors and the DRL strips. Would look nice if both the boys sported the similar stance..just a thought

Projectors on Civic with DRL strips looks killer! Eventough a Projector would look awesome, i would suggest you to be with the stock kits on the Cheetah for a while.

 

[cooldhaya]

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@ Truecitylover The cheetah comes with a projector setup as standard and DRL'S , the only thing it misses is the HID.

 

[Iron Rock]

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Ohh boy

@ Zengetz, Mukeshus, truecitylover, cooldhaya

you guys are really adding fuel to an itch i am resisting hard - modding the civic is something i have been resisting for over an year now - its fully stock as of today - please please stop tempting me bygiving all cool options lol, i still have kiirus guys chasing me on the tuning part which i was enquiring with them..

Well on public demand have started the 'civic' sense thread :-

http://www.theautomotiveindia.com/f...some-civic-sense-buying-ownership-review.html

Rest of the civic story on there..

 

[truecitylover]

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@ Truecitylover The cheetah comes with a projector setup as standard and DRL'S , the only thing it misses is the HID.

It was meant to say HID projectors.

Ohh boy

@ Zengetz, Mukeshus, truecitylover, cooldhaya

you guys are really adding fuel to an itch i am resisting hard - modding the civic is something i have been resisting for over an year now - its fully stock as of today - please please stop tempting me bygiving all cool options lol, i still have kiirus guys chasing me on the tuning part which i was enquiring with them..

Modded civic will look stunning than ever before. Give it a shot!!!
Lets get a thread rolling for modding your civic and you we have gurus here who could suggest you best ones!

Well on public demand have started the 'civic' sense thread :-

http://www.theautomotiveindia.com/f...some-civic-sense-buying-ownership-review.html

Rest of the civic story on there..

Awesome. Will start reading it right away!!!

 

[Iron Rock]

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Awesome. Will start reading it right away!!!

Thanks truecitylover , my review on civic is done now

Btw yesterday i spent at the Mahindra workshop to try and find solutions to the alarm issue , we checked the wiring near the bonnet and taped it in one or 2 places. Next step would be replace the bonnet sensor if the problem doesnt fix now...

Checked up the entire underbody as i do have some offroad trysts, all looking good...

Also got a software update done 3.0.6 lets see what improvements it brings - i had a good time watching all the mahindra diagnostic manuals and how the mahindra diagnostics works and various modules in it - mahindra have done a good job to make it easy for lay man mechanics to figure out issues. I also played around with the software a bit - it was good fun - the guys at mahindra are chilled out. Learnt the update process which is a 2-3 step process depending on whether u update the maps too. There is also a new flashing tool available now ver 1.4.

1) Flashing from the laptop via the standard port - within this there are several modules that can updated one by one(depending on wherever the change is )
2) Using a USB to update infotainment (using similar files as above) Steps 1 and 2 need to be done back to back.
3) If there are maps update then use the maps usb(top console) to update tht too.

For all the initial folks complaining abt the brake pads grinding noise - good news mahindra is replacing them with modified brake pads free of cost and that solves the problem 100%

Also of interest is they would be opening the bookings somewhere around the 17th Jan and there might be a lower end model launched (probably same time or later) - i am talking of a more stripped down version than W6 which will be the W4 - i am guessing after the price increase this is another strategic move to ensure they have more bookings this time around too and they cover a better price range with XUV. I had mentioned earlier on the XUV thread that the W4 model is already ARAI approved and ready for launch.