Namaskaara, Petrolheads of Team-BHP!

Join Date: Jun 2024

Location: KA05/KA09/KA45

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Namaskaara BHPians!

I americium TurboTorque, 36 years old, calved and brought up successful Hunsur, Mysuru. I graduated with a postgraduate grade successful Embedded Systems from Manipal University, Manipal, and I americium presently moving arsenic a bundle technologist successful Bengaluru. I archetypal discovered Team-BHP erstwhile I was researching motorcycle reviews for a acquisition I was considering backmost successful 2009. My interests different than automobiles are traveling to caller destinations, delving into history, idiosyncratic concern and investment, and keeping up with the latest successful tech.

My story:

From a young age, I've been immersed successful the satellite of automobiles acknowledgment to my father's ownership of trucks, tractors, and JCBs. Although helium sold the trucks a fewer years back, helium inactive owns 2 JCBs and a tractor for his civilian declaration work. My involvement successful automobiles began early. Throughout precocious schoolhouse and college, I often tagged on with the trucks during weekends and summertime holidays. This vulnerability granted maine penetration into each facet of motortruck maintenance, from gearbox and motor repairs to axle enactment and implicit assemblage build. My experiences weren't solely positive; I encountered some mishaps, specified arsenic being progressive successful 2 accidents, and late-night breakdowns. Nevertheless, I was afloat immersed successful this situation until I near to prosecute a B.E. successful a metropolis located 400 kms distant from my hometown. Every year, connected Ayudha Pooje day, a contented since childhood, we cleanable and adorn each our vehicles. Following the Pooje, we embark connected a thrust crossed town, eagerly anticipated by each household members. This yearly festival holds a peculiar spot successful my heart, and adjacent today, careless of our location, we marque it a constituent to instrumentality home, platform retired our vehicles, and thrust crossed the town.

Photo taken astir apt astir 30 years ago. That's maine sitting connected the near side.

Photo taken astatine past year's Ayudha Pooje.

1st Bike: Throughout my B.E. and M.Tech studies, I was distant from location and not progressive successful my father?s vehicles. I ever dreamed of buying my archetypal motorcycle and car with the wealth I earned. In my last twelvemonth of B.E. successful 2009, I started looking into which motorcycle to bargain and that's erstwhile I recovered retired astir Team-BHP and it helped maine to finalise the bike. However, aft B.E., I couldn't find a occupation owed to the recession/job slowdown successful 2009, truthful I decided to prosecute M.Tech instead. In the 2nd twelvemonth of my M.Tech successful 2011, I got an internship successful Bengaluru wherever I received a stipend of 15k. By the 2nd period of my internship, I bought my archetypal bike, a Hero Honda Karizma, with an EMI of 8k. The remaining 7k covered my accommodation and nutrient expenses during the internship. I loved riding this bike, particularly connected trips betwixt Bengaluru and my hometown, a 400 km roundtrip travel I made each different weekend. Fast guardant to 2016, I sold this motorcycle conscionable earlier my matrimony and bought a Jupiter, reasoning that some my woman and I could thrust it. However, aft marriage, my woman ne'er touched the scooter. This was a large realisation of the proverb "Don?t merchantability the bear?s fell earlier you hunt it"

Photo taken erstwhile we were riding backmost from Chamundi Hills, Mysuru to Bengaluru, 2013.

1st Car: I got a full-time occupation close aft my internship successful 2012. It was a bully occupation with a decent salary. A fewer months into this caller job, I started speechmaking car reviews online, including connected the Team-BHP portal. Whenever I had immoderate escaped time, I recovered myself either watching car reappraisal videos oregon speechmaking blogs. Finally, connected November 1st, 2013, I bought my archetypal car, a Hyundai 1.4 CDRi Sportz MT, for adjacent to 9 lakhs connected roadworthy including accessories, with an EMI of 15k. This EMI was astir a 4th of my income, and I knew it wasn't the champion fiscal decision, but I followed my heart.

I kept this car with maine successful Bengaluru until 2016. During those archetypal 3 years, my friends and I explored astir each tourer spots crossed confederate India, covering 51,376 kms, with 90% of those trips done with friends. One of those friends, Madhu (abhayankara), is simply a BHPian, and we had immoderate unforgettable experiences.

In 2016, owed to my father's wellness issues, I had to permission the car astatine my hometown. It's inactive there, being utilized by my member and father. Whenever I sojourn home, I usage the car for getting astir locally. I inactive support this car till contiguous and person a implicit work record. As of today, it's been astir for 10.7 years and has driven 1.05 lakh kms. Sometimes, erstwhile I deliberation astir fiscal planning, I wonderment if buying this car aboriginal successful my vocation was the close choice. I deliberation astir however if I had invested that wealth successful 2 plots of onshore successful Mysuru instead, it would beryllium worthy astir 1 crore today. But whenever I thrust this car, those thoughts slice away, and I don't regret it. This car means a batch to me, and I don't program connected selling it; we'll support it until it can't tally anymore.

Photo taken erstwhile I was taking the transportation of the car on with my friend.

2nd Car and 2nd Bike: I utilized the Jupiter for my regular bureau commute, covering astir 30 kms circular trip. Around the opening of 2017, I started experiencing cervix and precocious backmost pain. After consulting a doctor, I was advised not to usage a scooter for regular trips of 30 kms arsenic it could exacerbate the cervix and backmost problems. The doc suggested that if I wanted to proceed utilizing a two-wheeler, I should see purchasing a due bike. At that constituent successful my life, I didn't privation to walk wealth connected a caller motorcycle and alternatively opted to hunt for a utilized one. A workfellow who was moving to the US offered maine his 10-year-old Honda Unicorn, which had lone 28,000 kms connected it. I inactive usage this bike, and contempt its property 17 years arsenic of today, it remains successful bully condition, highlighting the reliability of Honda bikes.

As GTO says, it's ever a bully thought to bargain a utilized conveyance arsenic it offers worth for money. Keeping that successful mind, successful the mediate of 2018, erstwhile my woman was carrying our archetypal child, I began searching for a utilized car with a fund of 5 to 6 lakhs, on with Madhu (abhayankara). After a mates of months of searching, we came crossed a year-old Skoda Rapid MT 1.6 MPI with lone 3000 kms connected the odometer. It was practically new, with the integrative wraps inactive intact connected the seats and floor. I purchased this car for 7.5 lakhs. Although it was a large car, I wasn't wholly satisfied with the mediocre 1.6 MPI engine. However, it served our household good until the COVID-19 pandemic deed successful 2020. After the pandemic, erstwhile we moved backmost to our hometown, the car remained idle for a year. Since I wasn't satisfied with the motor and it had been idle for a year, and considering a power to an automatic car, I sold it successful 2021 for 6 lakhs with 27,000 kms connected the clock.

Photo taken astatine Ayusha Pooje, 2018.

3rd Car: In aboriginal 2022, erstwhile I was asked to instrumentality to Bengaluru for hybrid work, I began searching for an automatic car wrong a fund of 15 lakhs. This time, my household insisted connected buying a caller car, whereas I was inclined towards a utilized one. Ultimately, I decided to acquisition a caller car, the Skoda Slavia Ambition 1.0 AT, connected June 1st, 2022. As of today, it has been 2 years since I purchased it, and it has clocked 17,000 kms. Touchwood, determination hasn't been a azygous contented with it truthful far, and it continues to tally smoothly.

Travel: I person a passionateness for traveling to caller destinations. Since 2012, Madhu (abhayankara), on with a fewer different friends and I, person embarked connected galore trips. Among the notable agelong roadworthy trip:

• Road Trip from Bengaluru to Leh Ladakh successful May 2019, which Madhu documented successful a beneath Team-BHP travelogue. It was genuinely a once-in-a-lifetime experience. In the travelogue, you'll find a squad subordinate named 'Sandesh,' which is me.
  https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/trave...-dusted-2.html (Bengaluru to Leh Ladakh (Fortuner, S-Cross) - One unsighted summit, done and dusted!)

I would accidental that Team-BHP has been an integral portion of my automotive travel since 2009. From purchasing my archetypal motorcycle to navigating done the complexities of buying my archetypal car and consequent vehicles, Team-BHP has been my go-to resource. Thank you truthful overmuch moderators for making maine a portion of this fantastic forum.

Thank you for speechmaking my introduction. Looking guardant to the Team-BHP experience!