I care about details; my experience with Tata so far is that they don’t.
BHPian nikhil_ag recently shared this with other enthusiasts.
What’s build quality expected from Tata? So far I’ve found a number of issues, some of which I don’t even know can be fixed in service.
- Rear parking camera doesn’t turn on every time. 30% probability of failure.
- The horn on steering wheel takes way more effort to engage than I’d expect. It’s uneven too. Normally I’d expect with a little pressure the horn will engage but here the horn button has to travel down a lot before the horn engages. Weird!
- The trunk doesn’t close until I slam it. The removable trunk partition seems to make it worse.
- The wireless charger is unreliable for my iPhone 14 without case.
The round dial gear takes a little longer to change the gear than expected, which I don’t think is a defect, just poor engineering. When I turn the knob, I have wait for a split second before I can start reversing or driving forward.
Previously I posted that I had rejected a car after PDI due to external defects. I was taken to the stock yard where I wasn’t allowed to check the interiors on second PDI and thus accepted it based on exterior inspection.
What I’ve liked so far: It drives quite well. It’s zippy, easily maneuverable and fairly comfortable on bad roads and jams. Seats are comfortable and interiors look great.
I care about details; my experience with Tata so far is that they don’t.
This is experience is from the dark edition. I have a theory that Tata’s special edition cars are worse than their normal builds.
Here’s what BHPian rahul1407 had to say on the matter:
Congrats on your new purchase, Wishing you many happier miles with it. Yes, Tata’s attention to detail is something which would leave any person wanting more. Based on my limited 3 months ownership of the MAX, I will share my comments on the points listed below
- It had worked fine for me except for 2-3 occasions where it blanked out. As far I remember, Toggling between P & R solved it for me, but yeah it’s bad when really needed.
- This is something you would need to get used to, it presses well from the sides and it’s a tad too stiff if operated from the centre to the point of causing discomfort on prolonged usage. But honestly speaking, I find that to be better given we don’t have to take our hands off the steering and its conjunction with the use of steering-mounted controls.
- Compared with my other car which has an electrically operated boot, I did not find many issues here albeit on some occasions where the boot didn’t close on soft push and I started driving only to realise this later and had to pull over to the needful.
- Facing the same issue with my spouse’s 13pro with or without case, but honestly speaking it’s very unintuitive to slam a wireless charger when you cant use Apple Carplay or Android Auto wirelessly. It’s just like another feature addition from a checklist to stay relevant without putting a lot of thought behind it.
Here’s what BHPian chocko96 had to say on the matter:
Having had my Max for about 4 months and with almost 5k on the odo, you have echoed my exact thoughts on the car. And another very annoying problem I have been facing is the sudden drop in charge. Usually the car loses around 15% in 1-2 km of normal city driving all of a sudden. And it tends to happen in the 30’s. Goes down to the teens. Since I tend to be planned with my driving, it hasn’t been an issue as of now but would definitely bring on some serious anxiety if I was far away from home.
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