By habit I slow down a lot for bad surfaces and take speed humps at an angle (even at times with the Thar) but the terrible feeling of tyre and alloy damage on hitting a pothole is non existent with the Thar.įlag off from Bangalore’s iconic Vidhan Soudhaįrom Nagpur it was a lovely drive through Pench, Sagar, Jhansi to culminate in Gwalior early afternoon. After years of driving low slung sedans with low profile tyres, the Thar with the AVO dampers is a welcome change. After a scrumptious dinner and the usual banter, we retired for the night.* I have driven to Nagpur before but the Thar can be driven in such a carefree manner that the drive is never tiring. There was some political event going on in Nagpur and the traffic was a nightmare. We drove down to Nagpur and it was mostly an uneventful drive. All the images are taken with the phone or my drone. The drive was so much fun and action packed that taking photos took a back seat. I would just like to share some images along with my experience. Good friend and Tbhpian Turbonath has already covered the trip in detail with some amazing drone images ( (36 Thars and a Winter Wonderland) ). After a lot of planning, a group of 33 Thar's set out from Bangalore on an amazing cross country trip. I always wanted to drive down to Spiti and when “Thar Bengaluru” planned a trip to Spiti in December 2022, I signed up immediately. I bought the Thar to do some unique trips once a while apart from the off-road trails near Bangalore and I am happy to be a part of an enthusiastic bunch of Thar owners in Bangalore who keep planning drives almost every other day. Looking forward to driving and enjoying the car even more over the next year. The expensive BMW coolant (just because it is imported from Germany for no reason) I got the coolant from BMW and it is nice that BMW made the process of coolant bleeding so easy in their cars. The best thing is that, it is again a drop in installation without much fuss. I got the CSF heat exchanger which has great reviews and significantly reduces intake air temperatures (IAT) and achieves much faster heat soak recovery (not just on track but also on our hot and humid day to day drives). With our weather conditions, more efficient cooling is always welcome. Together with the M performance exhaust, the car feels like different animal in Sports mode now. The car does feel a lot less restricted and sounds fantastic. Fantastic build quality and extremely simple plug and play. It is one kilo lighter (3.8kg) and has a narrower mid section. Also the weird smells and boost creep of decatted downpipes is not something anyone would desire, moreover it would throw a CEL and I did not want to tune (unlock dme) the car.Ĭomparing with the stock down pipe. I wanted the Active Autowerke Catted (400 Cell GESI UHO series) downpipe as I didn't quite like the harsh sound of the decatted downpipes. The CF Eventuri intake gel well with the grill and panels Hydro-dipped the grill surround and the panelsįinal look of the car after installing the cosmetic bits The finish is reasonably good and you cannot find any difference between the mirror caps and the grill/panel unless you look at it really close. Got the grill and the bumper panel hydrodipped in a dark carbon fibre look. I didn't want to mess around with the stock set. So got a new black grill and bumper panels. But it was a mismatch with the cerium grey grill surround and the lower bumper panels. I got the M style carbon fibre mirror caps. Washed and parked next to an i4 after service Overall quite impressed with BMW service over the last few years (both with the 328 and the 340). They updated the built in navigation maps for free and did a free wash and vacuum too. I did the 2nd year oil/filter service at BMW and it was pretty quick and professional. After I got the Thar, I haven't been driving the M340i much, hoping to munch some miles this year. The M340i completed 2 years few days back and it has been a great journey so far.
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