ChevroletAveoCNG Reviw after 30000 KMs

 

I purchased Chevrolet Aveo CNG last year around March from Triumph Motors, Shalimar Bagh. My plan was to buy a car which has factory fitted CNG and I was planning to keep the car for at-least 5 years. I am not the ones who change cars frequently.

Please note that I have been using WagonR for more than last 5 years so I was expecting performance at-least better than a hatch back. I have driven the likes of Skoda, Honda city so understand how a sedan should perform...

I have run this car for almost 30,000 KM and after a lot of frustration I am writing this review. In the end of this review I have a challenge for Chevrolet / GM as a company and want to see if they can take up this challenge.

Overview

We purchased this car from Triumph and realized after two months that there is a paint mark on the right front side of the car. I didn’t expect it in a new car so completely missed it. The mark is still there and that make me wonder how it could happen?  Can somebody answer?

I feel like this car has been assembled not in factory but at a mechanic shop. There is noise in all the gates and in-spite of complaining multiple times to service centers (Auto-Vikas, Peeragarhi;  Triumph, Wazirpur) they have not been able to resolve it.  

There is noise in engine also. Even when I am using the car in reverse gear (Back) there is noise in the car. Hold on – Yes, I know CNG impacts performance of Engine but I installed CNG kit in my wagonR after running it 60,000 KM and it is running smoothly without these kinds of noises even after 100,000 KMs. The engine of my Aveo sounds like a diesel engine even when it is on Petrol.  

Recently we have been advised by service center guys to get all the four tires changed to curtail noise coming in cabin. This is again one more reason of noise as specified by service center. Forgot about likes of Honda, Skoda; we got the tires of our WagonR changed after 50,000 Kms so why such a small life span of tires in case of Aveo.

We went to Jim Corbett last year December (in Aveo) and the battery of the car mal-functioned. The battery was replaced as it was in warranty but the whole experience was distressing for us. The car was in warranty however what would happen when the car will not be in Warranty.

Let us talk about performance now – With 9 Lt of gas our car gives a mileage of around 6 KMs which is not bar however the catch us it also consumes around petrol of Rs 1 / KM even when we are driving on CNG so the running cost of the vehicles even on CNG crosses 3 Rs/ KM.

Kudos to Central locking system installed in the car, the lock automatically starts opening and closing when we sit in the car. This problem was resolved once by Triumph, Wazirpur and has re-appeared now. I have nicknamed as “Ghost Syndrome.”

There is a mechanism which I believe if for safety reason that the car will not start unless the knob is placed on the vent through which CNG is filled. This mechanism malfunctioned and we could start our car even without placing the knob on vent.  The service center (Triumph) was not able to resolve that.

Please note we have explained these problems multiple times at different service center but in vain and these problems have not been resolved.  We have taken our car to service centers for 6 times and it has been very annoying.

Interiors are bad and you will be able to notice the space between two joints however not much of complaints as I could figure out these issues right up-front while purchasing the car. This was a compromise that I made.

Final Words / Challenge for GM/Chevrolet

I purchased this car because I saw many AVEOs on the road so there might be problem with my piece only? Can you get it fixed? Tell me the service center where I should take my car to and I will do it.

If you can’t get it fixed and you believe that there is problem with ‘my car’ only then could you exchange this car with a new Aveo CNG. I will pay the depreciation cost if you are willing to exchange at a reasonable value.

In case you believe that you manufacture all cars with this level of quality only then please don’t respond to this review.

I hope you keep a tab on review on these websites to improve.

I will keep everybody posted about the fate of my car.  Further I plan to post snaps of few malfunctioning features next week.

 

Good Style / ExteriorsPoor Performance, Poor Fitting, Too much noise