I want to tell the story of a friend of mine who lives in India. Indian giants like Tata, Maruti and Mahindra have filled the country's car markets, leaving a small niche for Volkswagen, Honda, Hyundai, Toyota and Chevrolet. That's all the major brands of cars that are manufactured in India. Only now, having passed through the thorns to the stars, or rather after a year of torment with a European car, it looks favorably on the Indian car creations.
When she arrived in India, she and her husband decided to get an iron horse. As he planned to move to Mumbai, the desire to buy a great European car was understandable. Neither she nor her husband wanted an Indian car. So her husband went to meet her and allowed her to choose the brand of the car. Without thinking for a long time, she stopped at the Chevrolet Camaro.
Her disappointment was not limited when she found out that such models were not produced here. She resented the whole world and gave her husband the right to choose.
And he made that choice, which they soon regretted. He bought Skoda Octavia in perfect condition, as I was told. Most interestingly, Hindus don't know how to watch cars. Before buying, the Slavs will examine every detail, climb under the hood, and under the bottom, examine the body on the subject of the presence of bugs.
And they, Hindus, and in particular her husband, do not practice this. The best they can do is drive, open the hood, look at the engine and close it with a smart look. That's what her husband did. I brought a piece of prey at 2 a.m. - Skoda 2010. She, outraged the whole world, nicknamed the car Bumblebee. They were happy to buy the machine for 2 weeks. During this time, they changed the wheels to new ones, had a lot of suspension, cleaned the candles, changed the oils, filled the air conditioner and did a lot of work.
And then they drove to Mumbai in a car. The distance that had to be covered was only 800 km. She was glad and thought they would sit on the balcony and admire the Arabian Sea in maximum 12 hours. But it took 36 hours on the Indian roads.
What's most terrible here is the roads. Before they reach their destination, a wheel burst. The self-supply was enough for another 150 km. Then she started lowering it. And from that moment on, their problems with the little Bumblebee began.
One by one, all the parts of the car began to fail: for example, by changing the clutch on Monday, it did not start on Tuesday because of the battery. Having bought and installed a new battery, it requires repair of the hydraulic fracturing machine, and then the windows and doors are not opened.
Thinking that maybe it's the mountain-master who can't fix anything, they found the Skoda service center. There they were provided with a list of parts to be repaired, consisting of 25 items. And this is the car, which at that time was 2 years old. If five of them could be ignored (painting scratches, cleaning the car, polishing and washing), what to do with 20 points? Of course, to repair. Having invested almost 2000 dollars in the repair of the car, they were already hoping to breathe a sigh of relief.
It wasn't here. Getting ready for another trip, Bumblebee stopped working clutch (which had been changed three months earlier). Having spit on everything and decided that nerves are more expensive, they decided to sell their swallow. They even found a buyer.
Without hiding anything from him, they explained what was wrong and where the problems were. After examining the car (opening the hood and looking at the engine) and making a test lap, the buyer decided to buy it. Having agreed with its price of 4 thousand, they gladly gave Bumblebee.
Not even two weeks after the angry new owner of the car calls them and, spitting saliva, says that they deceived him! You see, they slipped him a bad, faulty car. And began to demand his money back + 1000 dollars for moral damage.
Thank God that they had a legal document with a description of all the problems of the car and the signature of the new owner that he is familiar with and has no claims.
However, they took their former car and sold it to a couple from Nepal who had a son who was a car mechanic. He fixed Bumblebee and she hasn't been a problem for her owners for almost a year.
I don't know why, but now she's only sure of one thing - what the Hindus produce, only they can fix. What is produced in Europe in India cannot be repaired.