He attached the rear dashcam wires to activate it while reversing. So now I have multiple views when putting the SUV in R.
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Update on a lovely little event.
Had been fretting about not having any mudflaps despite paying for them and almost been a year since I got our little Love Bug. Despite repeated calls to the SE and taking it to the service centre, no avail. They were passing the parcel – sir, ask your showroom people to fix it; sir, we don’t have it in stock, the service centre will fix it.
I got really annoyed and the person who made the sale of the Jimny stopped taking my calls. I had 2 mid-to-bad experiences at the service centre in Andheri. They didn’t clean the car properly from inside (I still have stains from the delivery day when someone used greasy hands inside the cabin). So this time I decided to take it to the Nexa Dadar centre.
And what a lovely place it is. Big workshop, large waiting area, light and airy. Granted, I went on a weekday since I could swing that and hoped it would be empty. But it was nice not to sit rubbing shoulders with 26 others (on average!)
The exterior
Large, well-marked service bays
Little Jim waiting for a checkup.
The waiting room.
The coffee was really good.
The exec in charge, Ajit, was polite, courteous, understood all I told him and asked me to wait. Being a bit restless and in Dadar after a very, very long time, after a little while, I took off and walked around. When I came back, the little Love Bug was looking fresh and happy. The tiny paint chip, thanks to a stone on the highway, is not gone but at least covered so it won’t rust away till I get some buffing and a ceramic coat done.
And now for the happy event. I complained to Ajit about a ridiculous thing like a mudflap, costing 850/-, being treated like an engine overhaul and people dragging their feet at the previous service centre been 11 months and no one has responded. He promptly started making calls and it turned out the salesperson was cutting his calls too! Then he escalated it and I came to know the guy had left his job! No wonder he had ‘ghosted’ me for almost 6 months. Ajit called up the main office, got me on a conference call and they assured me it would get done ASAP.
I drove back home, loving how the wheel balancing had made the steering a little easy to handle now – and I promptly got a call that a service person would come home and install the mudflaps.
So by evening 5 PM, I was seeing the much-awaited (and rare it seems!) muflaps being put in.
And then, as the installation was done, I casually inquired about how the rear camera of my dual dashcam could be installed more cleanly and if he knew anyone good enough who wouldn’t drill any holes or break anything.
(For context, I had installed the dashcam myself, not wanting to take it to a FNG so soon in my ownership! But the rear camera wires were hanging for the last 6-odd months since I didn’t have the confidence to open any rear panels and thread them enough to make them invisible.)
Front dashcam done by myself.
The rear one. I know, I know the wires are an eyesore, but all the videos I saw involved drilling/cutting of something or the other and my heart wasn’t just ready for it! So they hung out, quite literally, but were not in my field of vision and the rear cam worked flawlessly tbh.
The guy looks at the wiring, says I’ve done it quite well but he can fix it if I so want. He said he does all the PDIs at the stockyard before it comes to showrooms and seemed very confident and knowledgeable about the car. So I took and leap, him being from the company, and told him to go for it. What is the worst that can happen?
And this, folks, was what happened.
Look at the finesse! He did it so brilliantly, it looks like it’s OEM!
I was astounded at how he literally took apart all the rear panels, unthreaded the rear defogger wire from the hole, RE-threaded with the dashcam wire, took my help in one scenario where he pulled apart the defogger rubber seal and made me thread the dashcam wire through it (‘don’t worry it won’t break sir, it’s strong enough for this much force’), and then closed everything neatly.
Threading it through the rear panel and into the door.
Preparing to thread it through the defogger hole..
The painstakingly slow and clean threading of the rear dashcam wire
Almost done..
Mind = blown!
Resetting the panels
I still marvel at it even today when I see it.
And then he attached the rear dashcam wires to activate while reversing, so now I have a multitude of views when putting the car in R. Lower angle from the car’s reversing camera and a top view since my rear cam is installed on the top of the glass near the door.
And the best part – he didn’t splice anything. He used clips to attach the wires since he said it wouldn’t void the warranty.
So all in all, a good weekend and now our Jimny has more advanced features than any car we’ve ever had!
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