Life With Chevrolet Sail: Ownership Review

[sacbiker]

My OE belt was Made in France. Hutchinson make.
Optibelt is a well known brand. There is another brand Bando as well which is pretty popular. Almost all of these brands have some Western country's name written on it and it supposedly makes it stronger.

 

[sacbiker]

Wiper blades were juddering and making a lot of noise despite cleaning them thoroughly. They were only 4 months old. The car was never parked under the sun or extensively used. Is was only used for about 2000km. I feel the Spark Minda wipers (bought from boodmo) were of poor quality.
I replaced them with Bosch Eco wipers from Amazon.

The car originally uses 22 and 15 inch, since 15 inch was out of stock in Amazon, I got the 16 inch instead.
It fits.

 

[deville_56]

Whenever I bought older than one year stock of Spark Minda, they tended to fail early.

 

[sacbiker]

FE update.
The vehicle returns 17kmpl while cruising in 5th gear at 65kmph with AC on. Constant gear changes brings it down to 15. Not bad considering that the manufacturer claimed figure is 18kmpl.
Something that amazed me is that of we wipe a clean tissue paper on the exhaust tip of the car, there is literally 0 soot. None. There would just be some brown dust!
It shows the tolerance of the engine and it's burning literally 0 oil.

 

[sacbiker]

4PK865 I ordered on boodmo was Gates brand. But I was given a Continental belt which was 2 years old.

A new issue has popped up. This occurs only when the vehicle has been parked under the sun for while.
The AC pulley belts start making a squealing (slipping) sound. It goes away after a few seconds and never comes back. This does not happen when the engine is cold or when the car is not parked under the sun.