Our First Automatic! Honda Brio VAT

[nishantsoni]

Congratulations on the new ride buddy. Honda surely makes one of the finest petrol engines and I am saying by experience as I am a proud owner of Honda City 2012.
Driving an Automatic would be very convinient as I also booked AT version but delivery was getting delayed hence settled for V MT Exclusive.
Wishing you many happy miles ahead. Cheers!

 

[VivekRj.Dieselhead]

You can get a decent HU from Pioneer starting from 10k budget, give it a shot know.

But check for 3 RCAs at least, i think that'll cost you somewhere near 14-15 grand, recently bought one for my friend from Driven.

 

[munish_26]

Called honda dealer and they are offering Mega Audio HU for 23k with gps,bluetooth and its a touchscreen one.So is it the good deal and whats the performane of Mega Audio?????

 

[VivekRj.Dieselhead]

Can't say about mega or caska as i have not seen anyone using them.

 

[jaixon]

@jaixon: What FE are you getting brother and whts the best way of driving to get the better FE.And also let me know the FE in the city aswell on the highway separately.

I'm getting 13 KM/L overall using full tank to full tank calculation. I haven't checked my city and highway mileage separately though. Kerala doesn't have many highways per se especially where I live. Its more like start stop traffic everywhere. I drive with a very light and steady foot with AC at "1".

 

[munish_26]

Can't say about mega or caska as i have not seen anyone using them.

Will check other brands next week nd den decide which one to go for.

 

[munish_26]

I'm getting 13 KM/L overall using full tank to full tank calculation. I haven't checked my city and highway mileage separately though. Kerala doesn't have many highways per se especially where I live. Its more like start stop traffic everywhere. I drive with a very light and steady foot with AC at "1".

Well thats the good FE you are getting.But here in delhi I am gettin approx 10 nd it may be due to heavy traffic nd readlights in every 5min.I guess it needs to go for a highway drive then only I can check the real FE.
First service is in a week time any suggestions for that what to go for??????And I will also try to be light footed to get better fuel efficiency.
Is there any after market product which we can use as d illumination in steering music control or the other parts where the illumination is missing.As sometimes I press wrong buttons nd I really hate dat part

 

[munish_26]

@jaixon: Hello.....Plz temme the mats you bought is that reliable.As I am not happy with mine as dust enters the OEM mat and it takes lot of time to clean that.So your Sigma mats are useful or no and do they cover all part of the OEM mat.Plz reply back with the pictures from front and rear.

 

[cooljeba]

Congratulations! On your purchase

Hope you are enjoying your ride

 

[bReeze AkA brIo]

As I am not happy with mine as dust enters the OEM mat and it takes lot of time to clean that

You can check out the mats (4 nos, no boot mat) available with Honda. Good quality mats (1500/- is what i remember). I couldnt find proper after market mats for Brio, as the shape was a little out of the box.

 

[srid68]

I would not recommend Caska. I had enough bad experiences on my Polo. Paid about 57K at the dealer. On paper it is great, every feature such as DVD, Ipod connector, USB, GPS, Rev cam is provided. The sound quality is not so good. My unit concked off in 5 months (no sound). Sent it for repairs under warranty to Caska in Aug 2012. It was returned back to me in october 2012 after numerous follow-ups. When it was returned, I found the GPS SD card missing. It took me another 6 months to get a replacement SD card from Caska, that too afte corresponding with some senior guy in Kolkatta. The SD card replacement was given in March 2013!
Need to add that I was not charged for anything, however, the harrowing experience left a bitter taste.
Beware of Caska. It is better to go for branded units such as Pioneer, Kenwood, JVC, Sony, Alpine etc

 

[munish_26]

I would not recommend Caska. I had enough bad experiences on my Polo. Paid about 57K at the dealer. On paper it is great, every feature such as DVD, Ipod connector, USB, GPS, Rev cam is provided. The sound quality is not so good. My unit concked off in 5 months (no sound). Sent it for repairs under warranty to Caska in Aug 2012. It was returned back to me in october 2012 after numerous follow-ups. When it was returned, I found the GPS SD card missing. It took me another 6 months to get a replacement SD card from Caska, that too afte corresponding with some senior guy in Kolkatta. The SD card replacement was given in March 2013!
Need to add that I was not charged for anything, however, the harrowing experience left a bitter taste.
Beware of Caska. It is better to go for branded units such as Pioneer, Kenwood, JVC, Sony, Alpine etc

Right now I cancelled for the Head unit as I guess I can adjust with the one which is company fitted as all the time I will drive the car so I won't be using the touchscreen part and always I will be using steering controls only so why to spend 30k-40k for this.So I saved my money

You can check out the mats (4 nos, no boot mat) available with Honda. Good quality mats (1500/- is what i remember). I couldnt find proper after market mats for Brio, as the shape was a little out of the box.

I just got the black colour mats and they are perfect in size and covered the OEM mats fully.Problem was the mats which was given by honda were smaller in size and dats the reason dust particle enters the oem mats.Now I am satisfied.I also looked for 3d mats but they look good on the websites only.I personally don't like them so went for the black plastic mats costing 700 bucks.And they are non slipperry as compare to the other one which was given by Honda.

 

[munish_26]

Today I was driving and suddenly I drove the wheel over white paint lying on the side of the road and few drops touched the right side door.I tried to remove it but its not going out.Any suggestions what to do to remove those spots.

 

[Vishwas]

Today I was driving and suddenly I drove the wheel over white paint lying on the side of the road and few drops touched the right side door.I tried to remove it but its not going out.Any suggestions what to do to remove those spots.

Apply some petrol slightly over the body and wipe the surface gently, if nothing works then take it to the workshop, nothing to worry, but be careful before doing this procedure and confirm with other people whether this works or not because your's being white in color(probably non-metallic the paint comes off soon).

I feel we should open a thread for Brio's issues and solution and discussions, what say guys?

 

[bReeze AkA brIo]

I just got the black colour mats and they are perfect in size and covered the OEM mats fully.Problem was the mats which was given by honda were smaller in size and dats the reason dust particle enters the oem mats.Now I am satisfied.I also looked for 3d mats but they look good on the websites only.I personally don't like them so went for the black plastic mats costing 700 bucks.And they are non slipperry as compare to the other one which was given by Honda.

Strange , b'coz what i got from Honda covered the carpet (jute) perfectly, and had spikes beneath which made it sit over the carpet without slipping off.