I have been using Tata Manza from 2011 Dec. This was my regular use car. 2012 was suuper and I was very happy with the car . I regularly took it for long drives it went really good. I loved long drives in my MANZA . The back seat was super conmfy .The music system was good, the AC was suuper good . Even the mileage was close to 20 KMPL on highway which was enough. But after the honeymoon period she started showing her true colors and towards the end of 2013, it started getting bad.
The tin sheet door was having dents even if someone tapped it with slight force . The fuel injection pump broke down which gave a lot of trouble when we use to start the car after long stays of 3-5 hrs because the pump didn't worked properly.
Oil leaks became regualr . once on a long drive after filling petrol, after sometime I started getting smell of petrol . When I checked the petrol inlet had a pretty big leak and it was a cheristmas day so I ended up being stuck up in the middile of nowhere for 7 hrs .
After 3.5 yrs I passed it to our office driver .
After around 4 years the power steering also started giving a lot of trouble and the mechanic said that the whole steering set will be replaced which was costly. Finally everyone got fedup with the car and we decided to sell it .
Problems did no end there. when we decided to sell it, no one would buy it! Everyone who came to see told [ its a TATA CAR ] Finally we managed to sell it off for 1.5 or 1.8 lakh[ I don't remember exactly how much that was ] I think we bought it for 6.6 - 7 lakhs [ on road ] . A normal decent car 4-5 yrs is sold at 50% - 60% of the buy price . We ended up selling this for 33% .
May be because People have a very bad impression about The TATA bRAND of cars .
Don;t know how good they are of late .
Trial drove tiago last weel . Loved it . But, scared to buy!
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