Honda City Diesel Review - Vasantha Ashtra – Golden Brown

[gandhi]

Re: Vasantha Ashtra – Honda City i-Dtec 2014 – Golden Brown



Ashtra, crossed the mark of 3000 KMs on the Occasion of my Weddining Anniversary.

 

[gandhi]

Re: Vasantha Ashtra – Honda City i-Dtec 2014 – Golden Brown

How to delete the Paired Mobile Phone from Head Unit.

Background: My brother has tried to pair my phone. Then I had started moving the Ashtra. The pairing was not completed successfully (This has happened on our Maiden Voyage) . Then we tried to pair the device, we could not get succeed.

Referred the Manual. Final result is useless, the manual is not able to address our issue. Even deleting the device is not mentioned in the manual.

I took this issue during my first service with Service Adviser. He could not able to delete the my device. He called the expert who is used to work on Honda Headunits, tried for 45 mins but could not make it success.

Finally the service Manager did the job in just 5 mins. I was so happy. On the other side Honda placed this option where the user will not access to delete the paired devices.



List of Paired Devices. I want to delete Wave 525. Because not connected properly.


Now I will tell you the process to delete the paired phone.


Press the Phone icon button.


Phone Menu Opens.


Go to Phone Setup & Select Phone Setup


In Phone Setup menu, Select Bluetooth Setup


Bluetooth Menu opens


In Bluetooth Menu, come down and select Delete Device.


In Delete Device, list of paired devices will be shown. Select the device (Wave 525) and delete.


Confirm the delete.


Now the device successfully deleted.

 

[gandhi]

Re: Vasantha Ashtra – Honda City i-Dtec 2014 – Golden Brown

High Beam Upgrade

Background: As my projector is spreading the white light with 5000 Kelvin. The Stock high beam was yellow colour. When I switch on High beam, the white & yellow combination doesn't look good. Stock high beam bulb replaced with white light with the tint of blue. The Kelvin Rating is 4300.



Now the results..

Low Beam


High Beam


Only Yellow Fog.


How my Ashtra looks when her eyes glows at night.

Low Beam + DRL


High Beam + DRL


Low Beam + DRL + Fog


High Beam + DRL + Fog

 

[Indian]

Re: Vasantha Ashtra – Honda City i-Dtec 2014 – Golden Brown

High Beam Upgrade

Background: As my projector is spreading the white light with 5000 Kelvin. The Stock high beam was yellow colour. When I switch on High beam, the white & yellow combination doesn't look good. Stock high beam bulb replaced with white light with the tint of blue. The Kelvin Rating is 4300.

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Looks really great gandhi, the light spread looks now powerful
But now it looks like you have to change the fog lamps to white light!

 

[Dr MUDHAN]

Re: Vasantha Ashtra – Honda City i-Dtec 2014 – Golden Brown

@ Gandhi

Your bulb upgrade is really interesting.
Hope, it must be a plug and play.
The ‘ultra’ must be better than old Philips crystal view type and now should have no issues like narrow and focused beam..

Hope, You would have also seen this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPNk-qdpvHw
Regards
Dr MUDHAN

 

[gandhi]

Re: Vasantha Ashtra – Honda City i-Dtec 2014 – Golden Brown

Looks really great gandhi, the light spread looks now powerful

Yes Indian, Now the throw of the light very good. Now I'm relaxed while driving.

But now it looks like you have to change the fog lamps to white light!

Yes. If I have go for appearance sack, I need to change it.

But the White fog light will not perform his duty much better during the fogs / Mist / Rainy. Technically we should maintain Yellow. Yellow light to penetrate the fog much better than white light.

Kelvin Rating with Colour of light.
3,000K – yellow
4,300K – pure white
6,000K – pure white with a subtle hint of blue
8,000K – baby blue
10,000K –deep blue
12,000K – purple

@ Gandhi

Your bulb upgrade is really interesting.
Hope, it must be a plug and play.
The ‘ultra’ must be better than old Philips crystal view type and now should have no issues like narrow and focused beam..

Hope, You would have also seen this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPNk-qdpvHw
Regards
Dr MUDHAN

Thanks Doc. The bulb is plug and play only. Already I watched this particular video.

When I decided to upgrade the light Kelvin rating, gone thru Philips web. It given the details about the Crystal Vision. I could not see any "ultra" in their web. In market also I could get only Crystal vision. Not Crystal Vision Ultra. Mostly the both bulbs Specs are also matching. May be they could have changed the name.

 

[gandhi]

Re: Vasantha Ashtra – Honda City i-Dtec 2014 – Golden Brown

Horn Upgrade

Background: During our journey from Pondicherry to Hyderabad, my Ashtra was driven by a driver. One of the first thing he commented is horn was not audible / effective to make a way. But I'm not in favour to increase the noise pollution level. Really not interested to make others runaway while honking. So I am continuing with stock horn.

Here the situations were started changing slowly. Thick skin People (the thickness of the skin grows on daily) were not moving / giving way at all to my Ashtra. When I drive the Ashtra, my ashtra uses to tear the wind. It really demands the way when it asks for a situation.

So one fine day, changed my Ashtra's whistle.

I looked for Hella / Roots reliable horn. Not so interested on electronic fancy horn which whistle horribly.

In my search, I'm not able to find Roots horn near my home. I got good Hella horns.



The below horns were called as Skoda type Horns.




The Red horn sound is not impressed me. So I gave red signal. Finally I chosen the Black Hella Whistle for her (Ashtra ) to coolly blow it whenever & wherever his master needs it.

The both horn were installed under the hood directly in-front of driver. The driver can hear the sound very clear than others.


I hope it looks like a bike horn. I was surprised to see a 10 lac car is having a horn like 2 wheeler.

The new whistle


Result: Ashtra whistles very nicely, and seen people started respecting her presence on road.

 

[harry10]

Re: Vasantha Ashtra – Honda City i-Dtec 2014 – Golden Brown

Nicely done. I am thinking of doing the same. Some details please-
Cost
Which model
Did you go with a relay
If possible a small audio clip of how the horn sounds now.

 

[mgobinathbe]

Re: Vasantha Ashtra – Honda City i-Dtec 2014 – Golden Brown

Nicely done. I am thinking of doing the same. Some details please-
Cost
Which model
Did you go with a relay
If possible a small audio clip of how the horn sounds now.

+1 , Even i want to upgrade. Gandhi, details please

 

[gandhi]

Re: Vasantha Ashtra – Honda City i-Dtec 2014 – Golden Brown

Nicely done. I am thinking of doing the same. Some details please-
Cost
Which model
Did you go with a relay
If possible a small audio clip of how the horn sounds now.

+1 , Even i want to upgrade. Gandhi, details please

Model: Black Twin Tone Trumpet Horn
Make : Hella
12 V, 500Hz,
Power Consumption: 2 x 72 W
Cost = Around 1000 with installation.
As per spec it comes with relay. I was not able to watch the installation (Thanks to long office call).

Audio clip - currently planning to go to native, will soon post the audio clip.

How to post the audio clip, please guide.

 

[gandhi]

Re: Vasantha Ashtra – Honda City i-Dtec 2014 – Golden Brown



Ashtra crosses the 4000 KMs on 26 Sep 2014 after visiting Ethipothallfalls during our trip to Pondicherry from Hyderabad.

 

[gandhi]

Re: Vasantha Ashtra – Honda City i-Dtec 2014 – Golden Brown



Ashtra crosses the 5000 KMs on 29 Sep 2014 after visiting Chidambaram, Tamilnadu during our trip to Pichavaram & Chidambaram.

 

[CRACING]

Re: Vasantha Ashtra – Honda City i-Dtec 2014 – Golden Brown

Good choice on horns gandhi. Skoda type horns are very good and doesn't hurt ears. However, should be installed in such a way that water doesn't get it.

I have got Bosch symphony horns many months back. Check the following posts, #270, #281, #282 for details and #547 for snaps.

harry10, mgobinathbe look for both brands (Hella and Bosch) and choice which ever is cheap. I believe both are good in quality and sound same.

 

[harry10]

Re: Vasantha Ashtra – Honda City i-Dtec 2014 – Golden Brown

I read somewhere using the relay will void warranty. That's why i am not getting horn changed till this is confirmed. Is it true?

 

[CRACING]

Re: Vasantha Ashtra – Honda City i-Dtec 2014 – Golden Brown

I read somewhere using the relay will void warranty. That's why i am not getting horn changed till this is confirmed. Is it true?

Indeed but relay is not needed. At-least we (I and Dr MUDHAN) didn't used. For red grill and bigger horns, you may need relay.

Go ahead and fix some good horns. Front bumper has to be removed so best if its done in service center.