I brought a Maruti WagonR on 2008 Jun, paying an additional 40, 000 (not to mention compromise in Boot space) for Gas version Duo, thinking it will be economical in the long run. It is only to my disappointment to find the car running at far below performance levels in Gas drive for initial few months, but I carried along.
Trouble started when I gave it for servicing in ABT Maruti - Chennai. I had got about 3 service done, after each service, there was a problem in Gas drive. After first service, while driving in Gas, there were BLAST noise, which scared hell out of me. The engineers came, looked into it and said its only a Water entering into ignition, they cleaned it and its OK. But within few days, it had problems again. After 2nd service, the problem repeated, this time they blamed it on a faulty sparkplug (I wonder whether spark plugs go off within 8 months), and replaced with a USED sparkplug.
After 3rd service at ABT, the car started giving elctric sparking noise while running in Gas and finally stopped running in Gas. Yet again the engineers came, took it and blamed this time on the faulty wire (now I wonder why a wire would be faulty after a year??). The car has successfully completed a weeks running in Gas and now, it refuses to run again in gas. Now I wonder what else has gone wrong in the Car.
I am going to ask for a refund of 40, 000 and have the Gas attachement removed. I hope they will agree and let me live peacefully, even paying extra for petrol drive!!!
- Ganesh Kini
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