please do not buy

A user review on Maruti Suzuki Wagon R Duo. Written by Prakash on 03 September, 2008

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i ve had the duo now for 25 months i ve run the car for 29000 kms and all self driven single handedly. The verdict Do not buy. If you want to buy a car that you need to retain for a long period of time and not want to junk your hard earned money on some stupid maruti engineers who have taken some italian lpg lit and tried to mate it with a japanese petrol engine with out knowing shit about lpg or petrol engines. Then go ahead and junk all that money. I ve had other cars ranging from the 800 to the scorpio but i tell you this duo is the greatest con job in town. The car is a good car if you do 20 km a day. But you dont pay the price of a vxi for a standard trim level lxi duo to do 20 kms a day. 18000 kms a year is the number of kms yo need to run the duo to make the purchase of the duo any financial sense. They cant even make their own diesel engines. How can you trust then with something like lpg. The service stations dont even know what maintenance needs to be done with respect to the lpg kit. What needs to changed checked and cleaned periodically. The air filter has blown itself up many times now. And every time maruti replaces them under warranty. Suddenly there are huge explosions in the engine and then the ignitors are replaced under warranty. And then they say that there is no problem with the design of the lpg kit. The fact is that there is a huge design issue with the air filter. The filter is made of cheap plastic. Every time the engine back fires (common with lpg vehicles or on lpg mode or that is what the regional manager service says mr basant kumar patil, bangalore) the air filter explodes and lets the engine suck in dirt particles that get sucked in to the ignition chambers and damage your engine for good. My service history is perfect. Never have missed or delayed a service. So what does maruti do Changes all spares till your warranty expires and then you are doomed. U pay thro your nose. And please do not forget the bore the pistons in your engine have anyway taken a beating by the time your warranty expires. Serious advice Do not run your duo on lpg if you want the car to give you good service. Since you have already paid for it now and want to realise your investment. If the car is not yours i.e. company car. Use it on lpg and junk it later. If you can afford to sell it now , do it. Sell it wash your hands off. If anybody from maruti is reading this 'get in the ring with me' is my offer. Biting my ear will be your only option.

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Ajoycemal on 18 Dec, 2009 at 06:22 PM

My good friend advised me against going for LPG. His car on LPG had very poor pick up. Eventually he sold it off and became wiser to advise me

Ajoycemal on 18 Dec, 2009 at 06:21 PM

My good friend advised me against going for LPG. His car on LPG had very poor pick up. Eventually he sold it off and became wiser to advise me

Naveen on 16 Dec, 2009 at 04:01 PM

thanks prakash for your email...

Prakash on 15 Dec, 2009 at 09:16 AM

you can mail me on pvmblr@gmail.com I can share the complete information on what problems have persisted and also will answer your other queries about the LPG spark.

Naveen on 14 Dec, 2009 at 04:20 PM

Friendly, If the problem still exit, then I have to weigh. Naveen here....

Naveen on 14 Dec, 2009 at 04:15 PM

Prakash, I'm not sure if you're talking of older version or new k - series engine estilo, personally I had a TD of the latest version, didn't find problem in space at front but space is definetely lacking in rear seats. I'm 6 ft tall. Do you still believe, what problem is with maruti LPG, has it not been rectified after long period it's sale? I found one of your review, recommended spark LPG, can there be any difference.. I personally love wagonr, and duo because we encourage to be enviroment.

Prakash on 14 Dec, 2009 at 06:23 AM

Naveen, The issue here is only about the LPG variant. The car by itself is a good car and the petrol only version is sure a good "city only" car to buy. The myth that turning the car at 90 kmph may topple a wagon r is really not to be bothered about, cause it is not true. Any sane driver will tell u that. The Estilo is very congested for slightly taller people. Please consider the Wagon R if you are looking at the petrol only version.

Naveen on 13 Dec, 2009 at 01:59 AM

Some expert say to avoid driving wagonR >90 km/hr speed, as it is prone to accident esp. While turning, if this is so I m very scared to buy it, and go for new zen estilo though, not much discount offered, as compare to wagonr. Can anybody throw some light on it, I m planning to buy in coming week.

Gm Rahnuma on 08 Nov, 2009 at 02:31 PM

Very informative passage. Was planning to buy one, but now I have to think thrice....

James on 31 Oct, 2009 at 05:22 PM

I wish ,this review was there 2 yrs back when i was breaking my head as to which make/model of car should I go for. I thank i have made the biggest mistake in my life going for a DUO. I even for an extended warranty paying some 4000 bucks. now the @#$%ing this giving gas leakage. the guys at MASS are telling that the GAS kit is not covered under warranty. On top of this, they are asking me to shell out Rs 3000 for fixing it.i haven't saved that much by running it on LPG,believe me. James

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