Re: Suzuki Gixxer 155

I was going through gixxer's specs and I was shocked when I came to know that it has just a 3ah battery which comes with 100 cc bikes. 150cc bike should atleast have a 5ah battery so that one can upgrade its headlight or horns without any issue....

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Yes they should have had a bigger battery.... But let me share my feedback with my bike...

I use parking light in the mornings when i come to office & evenings when i get back home... Approx 2.5 Hrs of usage.. In addition to that, am using headlight in the eve/night for say 1Hr 15 Mins every day...

So far, battery is holding up....

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Didn't somebody say that main-headlight is directly fed from rectifier?

Suzuki quotes on-road price on Suzuki-Motorcycles-India on the website including default accessories; I'm a big fan of this approach(transparency). Price tags over there are not same, they vary based on taxes at given area/location and I don't think it's production cost.

Bangalore On-Road : ₹ 87,074/-
Price inclusive of these accessories – Mirror Set and Sari Guard

Everybody cheats, it's what they can get away with really matters.

PS: Isn't/Wasn't it necessary for the owner to be present at RTO for vehicle registration? You're supposed to have valid local address too.

Please post a copy of legit quotation over here for the record.

Re: Suzuki Gixxer 155

Completed my first service a couple of days back. The total damage was Rs 600 (exactly). Although the chain lubrication costs 200/-, they have done a very superb job in cleaning and lubricating the chain. Seriously, life above the 4.5k mark is awesome on this bike! Shifting gears at 6k-7k range is a new experience for a rider like me who rode a ZMA for 9.5 years.

Only one complaint though, the handlebar is not steady (shakes a bit) once the speedo crosses the 75 mark. Don't know if the light-weight of the bike is the reason here, or may be a unique issue I have that I should follow-up and get it fixed.

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What is the real life mileage you gyus are getting on gixxer.
I ride fz (around 6 years old and 73k on the odo).My dad is pusing me to sell my fz get either fz fi or gixxer.

Reason:I am spending too much time on maintaining my bike and fuel efficiency.

I dont wanna go for new bike

Reason:
Dont wanna spend dads hard earned money.
Want to complet lakh kms on fz with stock engine.

I am very much familiar with fz16 ,have got a copy of service manual.
New bikes will be completely new for me and take time to know every aspects.

I am getting arounf 32 kmpl.If the efficiency figure is more by 10-15 kms then i thing i will have to agree with dad.

If mileage figure is not more by atleast 5 kms
I will stick with my beloved fz 16.



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No I didn't say "production cost", I said "cost price". They are different, that is to say that production cost+development cost+advertising cost+company business tax+profit margin= cost price.

So if say the production cost is 40k INR then cost price will be 40k+45k INR= 85k INR.

Company also doesn't set the dealer margin as dealers are "franchise" owners. They set the price as per what it costs them to buy the bike from the company+profit+transport and handling charge+ tax.

That is what is called "dealer margin" which is what is negotiable based on product popularity and the dealer's own wishes. Usually there is no discount, the dealer instead gives accessories worth some amount of the dealer margin in order to promote the business and for this he also gets insentives in the form of concession on the cost price of the bike or as a discount in transport charges.

Customers don't know this so they assume other dealers not giving discounts are trying to cheat them. There is no cheating, just business.

I hope I you understand this explanation as it is business 101.
Btw, yes owne needs to be present at the rto for registration but not for starting the process but to just come and sign for the registration process (end stage).

Cheers

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That's why I hate advertisements & promotions, they come back to bite you in the arse. I'm really glad you taking time to explain things, be it business 101 or x0x. Your patience is what really matters to me, not the difficulty of the subject.

Agreed, however; isn't it naive on Suzuki-Motorcycle-India's part to put up on-road price for all locations without including dealer-margin? What's the explanation for the case of @deepakshankar who seems to have booked the bike for on-line quoted on-road price?

Is there any RTO overhead for cases like say, you're purchasing in Hyderabad(RTO/SVC) and you've permanent address proof(VoterID) of Guntur/Nellore?

And I got curious & got myself a quote(will give it to my friend who owns a Rx135). I wasn't ready for a test-ride, not until GS150R is with me.



Bangalore On-Road : ₹ 87,074/- as per Suzuki-India website.
Price inclusive of these accessories – Mirror Set and Sari Guard

4,588 GiXXeR-155 sold in October 2014

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Thanks a lot sancbein for the information. Yes there are 3 showrooms in Coimbatore as you might know. Goldfinch quoted a price 84569, Classic Suzuki near Lakshmi Mills bus stop (where I have booked), quoted a price of 85067 and Sujatha Suzuki in Singanallur quoted a whopping 90000. When asked for the split up, the guy in Sujatha Suzuki refused to give me. I still wonder what to do with these money grabbers. I'll get a formal quotation from the showroom today and forward it to the mail ID you have mentioned immediately. Please let me know of the procedure to complain. Did you make a call? Or is there any mail ID, to which if we drop a mail, they call back?

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Got a bit pissed off with my dealer y'day, for not even providing a rough date, and making me wait indefinitely.
Got a call today morning, saying in exactly 15 days time i will have my black gixxer.

Seems about right, as most people, who have booked even as early as yesterday, seem to have been informed of 1st week of december at the earliest.

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Same views here regarding gear shifting as i too come from 5.5 yrs of ZMA.....

Check why the wobble happens...I had this issue immediately when i bought the bike and later found to be an alloy-wheel defect which was replaced in the 1st service....

Juz put the bike on main stand, rotate the front wheel & check if the wheel bend is there.....If so show that to service center & get it replaced.....

Re: Suzuki Gixxer 155

Just call their customer care : 11-43127109
Tell them the issue, ask them to give the mobile number of concerned Sales manager of your state and talk to him.

Keep us posted !

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As far as [MENTION=7399]Deeps[/MENTION]hankar's case is concerned,............. Let me put it this way, when you goto ant wholesaler to purchase an item you get it cheaper than you would if you get it at a retailer. Because with retailers all the stuff I mentioned add to the cost of the product but with a wholesaler only cost of godown storage and handling is charged. So he will get it cheaper but you'll see there will be processing and delivery charges and he won't get any help with permanent registration or any accessories either. Plus he'll have to run about for insurance, temp registration, road tax. So most likely at a later stage he'll be sent to a dealer to complete the process.
And as for Suzuki's naivety is concerned, all manufacturers quote prices online but not on road (they may present it as that but other hidden costs exists). For example I resently bought a vw polo high line (the model advertised on tv as the new polo) it has all the features as shown on tv. But the price quoted on tv was to start from 4.89lakhs. However that is for the low end model and its the ex-showroom price only (though advertised as on road its advertised with an asterisk *) and the actual advertised car comes out to 9lakhs odd on road minus permanent registration. So do you see the difference.
Actually its the customer who I naive because he believes the world to be perfect (there's a lot one can learn in the retail line and it'll give you nightmares).

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yeah , better get your front forks checked...could be dangerous at higher speed, or check for any wheel bend sort of things...

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Here are the copies of two quotations I got from two dealers. Basically there is a margin set by Suzuki is the exact showroom price quoted that is the reason for variance is ex showroom price for each state and city as they include all costs like transportation handling etc etc. Other than this manufacturer gives various incentives to dealers based on dealership volume of sales how many vehicles dealer takes so the argument that a dealer charging upto 5k is fine as it is business is farse. Dealers are trying to reap benefits on the success and as a informed customer you are well within your rights to question the excess charging. As far as the argument about buying a car goes it is not cheating its prudence if you read the ad it would say starting from which means you have models starting from this price. It's marketing if you put the price of the high end model you loose prospective customers of base and mid range models. Doing business and cheating are two different things don't confuse your self

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Incase if the opinion is that if a Dealer sells a bike at zero profit/no profit if he sells the bike at OTR price as quoted by Suzuki then its totally wrong.Margin profit and commission is there in all sales that is why some dealers give you certain stuff like seat cover number plate etc as free.They dont reduce the OTR but give certain freebies out of their margin so both dealer and customer are happy and a happy customer says if you go to this dealer you get such benefits and this helps in more sales and this is business

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You just basically said exactly what I said in slightly diffrent words. But as long as your clear on what is going on its ok.
As far as the car thing goes, I was trying to say the same thing. That dealers don't cheat, that its a bid to attract buyers (I mentioned the asterisk they put next to the price to signify that its not the actual price). However I having bought the car would like to point out that for vw the price quoted on tv as starting from in fact doesn't exist on their pricing chart for any model and lowest ex-showroom starts at 6lakhs, which any way you look at it pretty much is cheating.
There is no confusion in any of this. I was explaining how an ill informed customer can form ideas based on internet speculations and tea time rants. Ideas which couldn't be further from the truth. So I really don't understand why you felt confused.