Ford FIGO 1.4 TDCi Titanium Diesel. Review on Ford Figo

I bought the facelifted Kinetic blue Figo titanium diesel on Feb'13. I clocked 2.5 k Kms within  3 months.   I want to share you some important tweaks of ford figo.

TDCI(Turbo Direct Common Rail ignition). Most of the hatch back cars starts the turbo power at 2000 RPM. But in the case of FIGO Diesel. it start at 1250 RPM so you will get quick response of turbo power while driving FIGO even in a low speed. whereas in other cars you will drive without reaching the Turbo limit itself.

Smooth Drive: I red some of the comments that turbo drops at 2nd gear and need to stand on the accelerator to move the car. I do not accept the reason and those who are comments on this issues might be the beginner or a learner. The accelerator pedal should be pressed only if your car is moving freely without the help of clutch. If not so then the gear should be reduced. Almost this is the fact for all the vehicles .

Braking Style: Apply braking whenever it is needed. I have seen many of them applying brakes without guessing the distance between the vehicles. Apply smooth brakings to improve fuel efficiency. I stay in Kerala and the roads are almost up and down, even though I get the mileage overall 17 KM / LTR.  Judge the distance and control your car to stop with minimal effort of braking. This will also increase your car brakes life as well the mileage.

Maintenance: 1 service free @ 2500 kms/ 3 Months, 2 Service Free @ 10 K Kms/ 1 Year(oil charge applies cost around 850- 900 rupees), then keep servicing after each 10k kms.

Note:  3 Year manufacturer warranty is there . So, You need not to worry about the manufacturer defects that is absolutely replaceable free of cost and can claim for insurance for any accidental damage, that too cashless repair done according to the insurance policy agreement  and relation between the dealership and insurance company tie ups .

Spare parts: FORD Started their spare parts manufacturing unit in Chennai and this is the happiest news to all the ford car users that we get the spare part as low as comparative to Maruti.

Rear Window: FIGO can't have the rear power window nor fully opened .It is because of the rear door design. If you look the rear door design closely you will easily notice the reason of 60% open by calculating the glass height. This is not a problem for me coz I always drive my FIGO with full time AC on.

Engine Noise: I would say yes, Figo Makes more engine noise with AC and you will not notice this when you are inside the car. You will feel a smooth drive and hardly you will notice it when you ignite your car after a long gap( a week gap).

Service Centers: It is too bad to get a good service executive at Ford Service center. Ford have to concentrate more on this and need to bring excellent mech at each service centers. Most of the users are frustrated with the servicing part. Ford have given such a good vehicle then it's their duty to also provide pioneer service to the valuable customers. I hope many of the centers are updating the service persons for better customer relationship and also to get a positive feedback in many forums sites.

Pressure on Tyres: I heard a lot of ground clearance issue from many users. I advise the users to have 2 points more pressure on the all the tyre than recommended. This will reduce most of the bump hits. All we need to drive our cars on decent speed brakers. This will also happened in many Sedan class cars since all the cars are designed low bed model. I travelled many times from Kerala to Tamilnadu and I never face even a single hit at bumps. I am Lucky, my state government follows the descent speed breakers height .

I Would like to add one important stuffs .

Playing songs with USB: Buddies from now you all can hear uninterrupt songs using your pen drives in your FIGO . I alway hear songs through my pen drive.

I am using 8GB Moser Baer pen drive without any audio breaks and skips problems. Initially my 8GB Pen drive was not supported. Even it didn't played a bit and I got immediate “USB ERROR”. Then I followed the below steps to rectify the problem .

FIGO music system will support 8GB pen drive.

· Use standard company pen drive.

· Format your pen drive initially with FAT32(Note: uncheck the “quick format” before formatting). It will take long time to format.

· Then  load the songs with proper song folder name. All folders and songs name should start with alphabets. If you find anything starts with numbers or special char, then rename it.

· Delete the unwanted album images or thumbs if you find inside the each folders.

· Avoid multi level folders. That means more than one folder contains songs inside to the parent folder which also contains the song. .

· Then test your pen drive with the FIGO music system .it will play all the songs without any breaks and skips even it start playing on the next startup up where it is left last playing .

FIGO users can now add the wifi connection using TATA photon plus WIFI to enjoy internet connection.All you need to do is, just plug TATA photon wifi dongle into the USB charge point and make use of it.

There is enough positive information is shared and I don't want to repeat the same as I too love all the aspects which is already described.