I checked many tyre shops in my locality and found the price to be in the Rs 5700-6500 range. In the end, I decided to buy them online.
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93000kms Service
This was just a basic oil and filter change since most of the major work related to suspension and brakes was already taken care of. Procured Mobil 1 5W40 Oil from Amazon like usual at a rate of 2500 and oil filter, copper washer from MGP.
Supervisor Jimmy accompanying me late night during the oil change
This time I left the oil to be drained overnight to remove the old oil as much as possible.
Next day morning, the oil filter was primed and installed in place, the air filter was cleaned and re-installed. Following Vigsom’s ritual of inspecting the Spark Plugs every 5000kms, they looked to be in good shape.
Plugs were cleaned and put back to use.
Tightened the drain nut to 50nm torque and poured in the new oil.
New tyres installed
Finally, the Swift got new shoes, Based on all the recommendations I started eyeing the Continental UC6 with the ZXi Tyre profile 185 70 R14 for better handling. Checked all the tyre shops in my locality and the prices ranged from 5700-6500 for UC6.
In the end, I got 4 tyres from Amazon for a steal price of 4800 per tyre from the seller TyreMandi. My buying experience is already shared here.
Loaded the tyres into my uncle’s Dzire
For installing the tyres I took it to my tyre guy Umesh in my village upon the condition that he would install the tyres for free provided I gave him my 4 old tyres to him. The old tyres were anyway waste for me hence it made sense to give them to him for his usage.
Installed the tyres and made sure the TPMS settings were not changed.
Mr.Umesh Himself, a Jolly fellow who knows me since I was 1 year old
For the Alignment and Balancing, no doubt it would have been done at Jae’s Udupi who did a fantastic job. I opted for the road-force balancing and was amazed to see how it works.
Road Force Balancing
The bill came upto 1070rs and the alignment was on Point
Odometer at the time of new tyres and oil change
G13B VS K12M
Keyword: Got new Continental UC6 tyres for my Swift at a steal price from Amazon