[Resolved]  Chevrolet Captiva — severe turbo lag problem

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Namakkal, Tamil Nadu

Please be beware before taking your chevrolet captiva 2WD ( LT ) to hilly regions.

You will experience nightmares while driving in sloping roads. If the road is wet you are out, then you should take a crane with you to help your vehicle.

Even though they say captiva provides maximun torque of 320 Nm , it is available only after 2000 rpm,
whereas while your vehicle is standing in traffic it will idle at 700-1000 rpm. There the 2.0 litre engine of captiva provides very less torque so you have to pedal your engine above 2000 rpm to get that torque within that you ll hit the vehicle parked behind you in traffic.

When the slope of the road is little high you have to engage half clutch ( smoking and burning it ) even in first gear inorder to pull the vehicle to move and get a decent speed.
if you think your vehicle is moving and take your legs from clutch again it ll lag and engine switches off in heavy slopy road.
Atleast we have to reach more than 25km/hr to allow the vehicle to move within that you ll experience heavy smoke from clutch and heavy tire skidding which ll create nightmare for the driver and passengers.

Even tata ace went with an ease in that road. From stand still and go, it went without any trouble.
But this bloody 20 lakhs worthless machine failed to go normally.

It got worse when i tried it in reverse gear, as we all know that reverse gear is not exactly equal to first gear ratio. Reverse gear is little powerless.

I had to noise the engine like a race car to take it from that spot.

Really a poor driving experience from chevrolet captiva.
Buyers of captiva please be aware.

IT has poor service support too due to spare unavaliability and poorly trained service engineers.