The flip side. Review on Mahindra Bolero

Having read the various reviews on the Bolero, here's something I would like to add. I own a Bolero GLX or whatever, and this is a serious warning to all Bolero users while driving it in the rainy season. I have used it for more than 50 000 Kms Now, I have not faced any maintainance problems so far.

I live in the costal belt, we have some good national highways here, unfortunately, these surfaces of the highways do retain shallow puddles of water upto eight feet in Diameter at some places, we even have water flowing perpendicularly across the road at some other places in the rainy seasons. The road surface being smooth without any pot holes one tends to speed up to or above 70 Kms/Hr. At these speeds if unfortunately one happens (like it happened to me) to go over any such puddles of water then God alone can come to his rescue, the splash created by the front tyres cutting into the water puddles, rises quite high and splashes on to the windscreen glass, blinding the driver completely, to the entire stretch of the water puddle untill you come to a dead stop, its seems like someone is deliberately spraying a high pressure water jet at your windscreen glass while you are driving at 70 Km/Hr. The windscreen wiper is of no use whatsoever.

To be more precise, the feeling is more like someone has held a opaque white/muddy cloth screen right where your windscreen glass is. Looking to the left or the right is of no use as the water is splashing all around too.

This is my advise to all users of the Mahindra Bolero, keep a watch for water puddles like these on roads while driving in the rains & slow down, drive slowly in the rains especially at nights when its difficult to identify water puddles on the Highways.

I do have a first hand experience of being a victim to this design flaw, where, while driving on the Karwar High way, got into one such water puddle at night, I had travelled around ten to twelve meters before I could manage to get the vehicle to a dead stop, after I had stopped & the splash had died down, I was close to only a few centimeters from falling off the road into the fields twenty meters below the road level.

Even after having this dreaded experience once, the same incident has repeated five times thereafter due to the unpredictability of such water puddles on Highways.

So that gets us to the question as to who is responsible, The department of highways or the R & D at Mahindra, or should the R & D department at Mahindra be considering watery sitiuations like these while designing their vehicles.