TATA Xeta - Misery will continue the day you buy it

Exterior The car has good exteriors!

Interior (Features, Space & Comfort) Spacious and comfortable!

Engine Performance, Fuel Economy and Gearbox Engine performance was pathetic, fuel economy was 9 KM/L, gearbox was good! I thought of buying a small car in 2007. I short-listed Wagon-R and Santro. However at that time it was out of my budget. I thought to check out the TATA's Xeta V2, which turned out to be the biggest mistake.

At first, I found the car attractive and spacious. I made up the decision to buy this car; I bought it for Rs 3.30 lacs on road. I bought the car in Feb 2007 and the first problem that came was overheating, which came in Nov 2007 only. Than my misery continued till I sold off the car in Aug 2010 for just 80K.

If I tell you my experience with that car, I almost spend close to or may be more than 1 lac on its repairing and maintenance in 3.5 years. After the repair from the company as well as the local mechanics, the car used to give trouble.

I opted for local mechanics coz whenever I use to give the car in the TATA repair centre, they always exceeded the rough bill and the final bill used to be double or triple of what was initially quoted to me.

I won’t even recommend this car to my enemy. In few instances the TATA’s own engineer told me why you bought this car. Never heard even a single good comment for the XETA in the period that I owned it. Finally when I was tired of all those repair works and everything, I planned to sell that car. But that was not the end to my misery, what I got to know that no auto dealer wanted to buy XETA for more than 90K and even or few of them offered a mere 60k. When I contacted them they said we can only sell that if we have a buyer waiting for it.

At last, I exchanged that car for a mere 80K for a new car. Please if you read this never ever try to even think of buying TATA Xeta.

From

Gaurav

Areas of improvement Stop manufacturing this car & in 1 word everything.