I hate to say that being an owner of the new Mahindra Renault Logan 1.4 GLX, I have a car which is not fully usable. The things which are of my concern.
Is the driver, the master of the Power windows, is he fully in control.
Mahindra Renault Logan Dashboard having only front power windows controls
Below is the master control of power windows near the driver window for the Hyundai Accent.
Does the Mahindra Renault Logan door “safety latch” do its functionality, Is my kid safe inside this car.
Watch the first and the second video.
How Mahindra Renault Logan door safety latch works even when child lock on.
Hyundai Car safety latch, how it works
Yo dear, If I am the Driver how do I unlock the engine hood, just scream at the fellow passenger to pull the lever. The lever is placed on the left extreme of the driver.
Hyundai Engine hood and Petrol cap lever right near the foot of the driver.
Just stretch your arms, fiddle around near your leg. You can adjust the light beam.
Mahindra Renault Logan beam adjustment knob
Maruti Swift Car light level switch, Where the driver can reach the controls easily
Problems which you could face, if you owned a Mahindra Renault Logan.
As soon as you turn on the keys of your car and switch on the A/C, you could hear whistling sound.
Seems like that is because of the power steering pump, which does that car wrecking sound, putting you in shame in front of your friends. A brand new car and that too from the power steering, it means either you are bad driver that you screwed up the car or the car, screwed you up, either ways the owner is screwed at the end.
Horrible mud flaps.
don’t know whether it is Mahindra Renault Logan engineers design or the people at showroom didn’t do the proper fittings
Will update you with the photos soon.
Well the Mahindra Renault Logan Engineers need not be mad at me. At least I have done the home work for them. Things can be taken in the right spirits.
Here is my test drive experience on Mahindra Renault Logan
Some more post on Mahindra Renault Logan
- How I bought my new Mahindra Logan – space, value for money
- Why Mahindra Logan, Renault Logan, Dacia Logan?
- Is your Mahindra Logan in safe hands – After sales, What service
- Mahindra Logan – Look out for the new version
- Mahindra Renault Logan free service – unveiled
- The Devil in my Mahindra Renault Logan
- Tested on animals – Mahindra Renault Logan
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December 21, 2007 at 2:55 PM |
Ok, M-R definitely did a bad job. But boss, before you do such a huge investment, you are supposed to test drive the car and then test drive few more in the same segment to compare and choose the best. No? I feel only you are responsible for this; so, don’t blame the company – they are there to sell their products – good or bad.
By the way, thanks for sharing your experience. Those misguided folks who thinks Logan is a great car, they will have a second thought now.
December 22, 2007 at 7:13 AM |
Yes, my mistake. I don’t point fingers. I am only asking them to rectify usability things and come up with a new version.
I still love my Mahindra Renault Logan for the other features. I have put enough days and thoughts before I bought my car. So nothing like guilt.
In fact most of them will accept, that driving for couple of hours will not let you know the top to end info about the car. All situations don’t arise in few hours. It is a simple experience.
What say?
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July 8, 2008 at 11:44 AM |
thank you very much for all the comments you are putting on site for Logan, I am really going to buy 1.4 GLX and our comments are really help
July 10, 2008 at 7:59 PM |
Buddy u suck. check out the pictures about opening the engine hood. in the picture about hyundai, u don have an option at all. one is to open the fuel and another one to open the fifth door at the rear and its not the lever to open the engine hood. do u really have a car?? i doubt it.
and about child lock, according to the safety standards worldwide, a child is not allowed to sit in front at all. they have to sit behind and try opening the rear doors after the child lock is on. if u are that bothered, then follow the rules first.
and about the engine hood opening, its the same for all new cars. all have it on the left. thats again a safety feature. check out dude. don try to misguide us like this.
July 10, 2008 at 8:05 PM |
And ya about the mud flaps, can u point out one single car below 12 laks that has mud flaps better than this?? this is the only car with so much of safety to the engine from the mud. and this is the only car in this class that has a metal engine guard.
July 11, 2008 at 6:49 AM |
Thanks Mathew for being an eye opener. I truly accept about the Hyundai 5th door lever. Where as in Mahindra Logan by default you can’t open from inside.
About the child lock you are completely right, I apologies to my readers that I was ignorant about the child lock feature, because I upgraded from Maruti 800.
try to open the front doors even when the central locking has locked the doors. You will find it amusing that the door opens. OH, That was again a safety feature again.
July 19, 2008 at 10:51 PM |
again!!!! buddy central locking is a safety feature against theft not when u are inside the car but a feature when u leave the car. all low end cars are not affordable to have that as they cant provide such mechanisms cheap. instead what they do is, whether u are inside or outside u cannot open. unless u take a psycho inside, nobody is gonna open the car from inside while on the move. exceptions are the innocent children, and for that u have child lock behind. and to your info, even the child lock is a villain when there is an accident as u may not get out of the car yourself.
March 23, 2009 at 2:42 AM |
Logan
August 1, 2009 at 8:09 PM |
@Mathew
In India, all the cars have the Bonnet Opening Lid at the Driver Side and Not on Passenger Side unlike Logan.
October 9, 2009 at 2:33 PM |
Hey Guys,
I am totally satisfied with my Logan, It’s very good for long drives. Leg room is fantastic. The only thing which i thought missing was the seat adjustment in this variant.
I’ve heard that mahindra renault has launched the new LOGAN PLAY.
It has really trendy look and comes with alloy wheels, vinyls and a host of features like USB music system, parking sensor, driver info system, etc.
I checked it out on http://www.facebook.com/MahindraRenaultLogan