The Bump & Grind Of It All!

The beast has now got a new front bumper. It was done by Friday last as promised. My first experience with Insurance Companies in India. Largely the whole process was quite smooth. Here are the details....

As you know I did have a slight bumping into a few weeks back. Mainly the front bumper bore the brunt of the what I thought was a slight impact. But as the photo below suggests it was a little bit more than slight. Anyways went into the dealers and this is what I needed to get the job done:

1. Un-painted front bumper = 9032.00
2. Sump guard assembly = 2714.67
3. Front LHS Fog Lamp = 1068.44
4. Painting & labour = 3750.00

After Tax my total came to Rs.18,167.00

Decided to go with Insurance as wanted to keep my costs below the 10k mark. I paid 50% (Rs.8208.00) of all the parts mentioned above. As plastics and "delicate" parts are only covered for half their value.

Also got the Front Headlamp changed under warranty. Hope this one don't leak!

The picture of the Newly restored beast will be up soon.

Also, almost reached the 10000 kms mark. So will report on the same as well.

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Back With A Bang!!!

The Beast is at the hospital getting a make over!

Bumper Blues!

I apologize for doing the disappearing act on this Blog. The last six weeks have seen my running around all over the place. Some of it in the Beast. Two Pune-Mumbai-Pune was the main run in the last few weeks. Clocked almost 9500 Kms and the engine sounds good. Opening up nicely and no big dramas. On the other hand the front RHS Headlamp is again filling up with condensation. This was replaced a while back but the problem has returned to the replaced part as well.

Was looking for time to run up to the workshop to get this fixed again and today got a real good excuse to pay them a visit first thing tomorrow. Just heading out of Pune for lunch when at a traffic light the Scorpio in front braked suddenly and I went in to the back of him. I did feel a slight "pat" when I hit him but sounded quite weak to warrant an immediate look at. So went on ahead. The drive there was fine and stayed mainly around 140 on the Express way with ease.

On getting to our destination got out and had a look and was greeted by a huge dent which looked more like a folded front bumper. Believe me it felt only like a little tap inside but outside it looks like a major bang. Anyways taking it in for a new bumper tomorrow at 9am.

Looking at the bright side, at least its got me back on the blog. :-)