Dealership experience: ==
Booked this car in last week of June from HMP-Mathura road, New Delhi this is a company owned dealership. We selected grey color but only white and silver were available for on the spot delivery, sales advisor promised us the delivery in 10days and finally got the delivery of car on 07th July’2011. They honored their all promises till date
Experience with I-10:
Completed more than 5000KM in the car, its lowest power to weight ratio gives run for money to any sub 10L car, amazing pick up. It’s complete fun to drive this car in city, with shot gear throw and peppy drive. We also went up to Auli in this car from one of the toughest route, but this car proved its mettle to us.
Likes
Sedan like two tone interior with good plastic quality
Short gear throw, uniquely placed
Useful gear shift indicator good for new drivers
Amazing compact look and futuristic design
Light steering, easy to maneuver in city traffic
Good leg room space in front and rear
Reliable Hyundai after sales service
Dislikes
Very bouncy ride in rear, rides well on smooth roads only
Annoying noise intermittently coming from steering
Thin tyres though do not face any problem till date due to them
Very bad and pathetic FE for such a small car, 12kmpl with AC in city traffic and 13kmpl with AC on highway
Rear headrest missing in my variant, this should be standard in all variant for safety of rear passengers
Steering noise problem till date they are not able to solve this problem
I suggest everyone to stay from Hyundai i10 and i20 till they are able to find the solution for steering rattle noise. Hyundai still have still to find the solution for erratic noise coming from steering which sounds something like crrrrrr we are facing this problem in our eight month old i-10 purchased in mid 2011. HMP Delhi guys rectified the problem four times in the past(they even sent their engineer at my home) after they worked on the car it will run fine for couple of days but the problem reoccurs and this problem still persist. This noise is quite irritating and annoys me a lot.
And till date those buggers are not accepting that noise are coming from steering, they said some loose cable underneath stereo were creating noise. I got integrated stereo fitted from Hyundai dealer itself and the noise was coming before installation. Will escalate this issue to higher management this time they are selling defective i10 in market with serious design flaws in steering.