Maruti Celerio 20000km update

It's about a year and 10 months and the car has crossed 20000 km. It was overall smooth sailing. There were no issues, a few parts were scuffed up and there were few underbody hits. But nothing critical, and the car seems to have survived.

We will be doing 2-3 road trips in the coming year and the car seems like it can take it. I can imagine hitting 30000km next year. One good thing is the car is not driven much in neck-to-neck traffic so the AGS transmission has had it easy. Hopefully, with this work-from-home situation, things will continue to be easy. Also with limited parking space in office premises(my company being a small one), I prefer to take 2-wheeler to office.

I'm getting consistent 15-16kmpl with air-conditioning on. I would try for more, but with the crazy weather and so much dust on the road, we prefer to keep the windows closed and use air-conditioning on the lowest setting.

I tried to travel with windows open a few times but around any city, it's impossible because of the pollution and dust in the air.

Overall I'm satisfied with the car. The suspension has held up well, the interior seems to be doing okay. And this being a value proposition anyway there're no blings. So seems like the car will be able to service us well for the 5-years of time we have thought of. Maybe if electrics don't pick-up as much or don't get cheaper, we may stay with this one for few more years beyond the five.

Cheers!