Brought home my new darling RedFiat Palio Stile 1.8 Sport from Concord Motors. Paid the money and completed paper work in the morning and took the delivery at 7PM.
The PDI (ARTICLE: Pre-delivery Inspection & Check List) list was of lot of help, it gave me an idea of what to look out for.
Tough I did not need to take out the check list. Salesman guided me through everything.
Am pretty impressed with the salesman who complete the deal and delivered the vehilcle. If anyone is planning to go for Stile 1.6 here is Hyd then do vist Concord at Khairatabad and check out with Kiran(Palio salesman). He gave me a good deal od 30K cash dicount along with proper followup.
Traffic in Hyd was at its peak, it was worst took 2 hours to reach home(Kothapet) from Khairatabad i.e. 13 to 14 kms.
This is my first 4 wheeler.
There are not many that I have drove just a Maruti 800 as part of driving classes) and an Ambassidor(I loved driving this gentle car)
Engine was smooth and cabin was so calm. No rattels. These are the things that I have observed in yesterdays ride will come up with more as I get know my baby more.
Since it was dark I could not click lot of pics here is one the few.
Its been 15 days since I have my Stile 1.6 home and off these 15 days I got to drive it for 8 days. Now my Km count has 740.
I had to wait for 3 long days to drive my car. Brought it on 7th, now I was not the one who drove it home. As per my parents 8th 9th and 10th werent auspicios so could not drive the car. But I was allowed to click pics and check my car( I feel lucky for that). All I did on these days was going through the Users Manual.
Then came Sunday the 11th. 97 was the count on Odometer when I started off on Sunday for my first drive.
Only cars that I got to drive prior to this point was a Maruti 800(at driving school) and a Ambassador(I prefer driving an Amby over 800).
We got the pooja done at 7:30Am on 11th and headed to a relative’s marriage cerimony. I was a 60km(to and fro) long drive. I been through topics related to "Running_in" period and knew the limits. 2500 RPM seemed a lot to me, I was more than happy driving it below 2500 RPM. Was wondering what can this car do if it crosses 7000 or if utilizes to the max that would be mind blowing. Yeah I still maintain that. Agreed that am not expert but for a person like its a dream come true driving a beast like this. Then I realised that there is lot more to be explored in this dream.
I like the way it sticks to road. I need not metion bout its built quality, so well built. Loads and loads of space. 3 adults can comfortably sit in back. No shortage of leg room and head room for 6 feeters.
AC was chilling I had to switch it off for a while.
I had great time riding it. This one was mix of both city and highway.
My 2nd ride was on 12th when I took to my work. I stoped by Secret Lake here is what I did..
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Got lot of compliments at work for the way this beast looks. All of my collegues were drooling over it. They were shocked to find so much space in the car. But most of them were bugging me bout its being low mileage car. I asked them to check users review on Team-Bhp.com. They were pretty impressed with the RED color of the car.
I was lill worried if I can handle my car in traffic. But there were no issues it behaved so well in the traffic and guys I was shocked to see so many heads turn as I moved on. I was 100% satisfied and sure that I have got beautiful beast.
I took it to work for 4 days so that I can get used to it. I realised that I was driving it pretty well on day 2. But still I had to take it to work "Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahi". It been smooth ride all 4 days.
I planned to go for a long drive on 17th a place around 120 kms from Hyderabad known as Mehboobnagar along with my collegues.
We planned to start off at 8am but I forgot that others follow IST and our journey begun at 8:30am. I picked up my collegues at BanjaraHills and drove off towards Banglore highway. It took us a hour to reach the open road.
Its pretty good road a 4 lane and half of it was under construction.
On the way to destination I managed to keep the RPM below 2500 and achived a max of 90kmph @ 2500 RPM in 5th gear. I had that greed to rev it more but I some how kept it undercontorl.
After reaching the destination we spent a half an hour there and started our journey back.
Then again set off to Hyd, this time it was different I could not control my greeed for speed and couple of times I crossed 3000RPM and once 4500 but again I kept the speed below 95. Now am worring is that gonna hurt my car?
By the time I reached my home after droping my collegues Odometer showed 670kms and Trip meter had 260kms.
On 18th a friend of mine called up asking for a ride. I said that that right time to get it reviewed by experience guy. He owns a Swift VDI. I tought that it would be perfect because I saw most of people comparing Diesel Swift with Stile 1.6.
After the drive we took out his car for spin. Felt Swift falls behind Palio on space front.
Now Odometer reads 1000 kms, am goin get it serviced for first time.
Naveen