{"id":269281,"date":"2010-02-03T02:54:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T07:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.team-bhp.com\/forum\/what-car\/74805-help-seeked-upgrade-matiz-wagonr-budget-8l.html"},"modified":"2010-02-03T02:54:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T07:54:02","slug":"help-seeked-upgrade-from-matizwagonr-budget-8l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/269281","title":{"rendered":"Help seeked, upgrade from Matiz\/WagonR: budget 8L"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Hi tbhpians,<\/p>\n<p>I am using WagonR for over 4 years(39K ODO) and Matiz(43K ODO) for 9. Now I am terribly bored of them, so planning for atleast one replacement now and another after 3 years.<br \/>\nThis new car should cost ~8L. <\/p>\n<p>I seek <b>advice on two fronts<\/b>: which one to dispose earlier and what to buy for replacement?<\/p>\n<p><b>About my usage<\/b>: <br \/>\nMy driving is just 600Kms per month in city and another 600KM highway leisure trip every 2 months. Till now i was using Matiz for city and WagonR for highways+wife commute. I would keep the new car for atleast 6 years, so I can replace the other as soon this one&#8217;s emi are over. I do not mind using one for city use and exploit the newer for leisure trips.<\/p>\n<p><b>Driving condition\/habits<\/b>: <br \/>\nSelf-driven, I feel lucky being able to skip peak hour traffic chaos. <\/p>\n<p>I have to encounter 20 speed breakers every day spread across 1.5 KM stretch. Overwhelmed I ocassionally speed-off at the breakers. <\/p>\n<p>No. of occupants in car would be 3 for long distance+ lots of luggage while in city it would be 1-2.<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Deciding factors<\/b>:<br \/>\nNew car should have low running cost (including maintenance), strudyness, good resale. Purchase would be company lease so has to be brand new. I strongly feel its high time I should upgrade from the hatchback.<\/p>\n<p>I am unable to decide which one to dispose now as both gives good mileage Matiz gives me  16-17 and WagonR 14-15 in city.<\/p>\n<p>In WagonR i got the michelins, clutch and brakeshoe changed 3 months back. It would fetch me more in resale, but seems more reliable.<\/p>\n<p>Matiz, does not have power steering and had developed a crack in the windscreen at driver&#8217;s corner. If i get windscreen replaced and spend another 35K on refreshing its interiors it can also work well for next 3 years. It&#8217;s resale is already low and won&#8217;t change considerably in next 3 years.<\/p>\n<p>please:<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi tbhpians, I am using WagonR for over 4 years(39K ODO) and Matiz(43K ODO) for 9. Now I am terribly bored of them, so planning for atleast one replacement now and another after 3 years. This new car should cost ~8L. I seek advice on two fronts: which one to dispose earlier and what to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}