My detailed review on Oshan X7. I am sharing my experience after some city driving and recent road trip from Quetta to Islamabad.
- As previously said suv has plenty of horsepower. It is powerful enoigh to overtake any veh during road trip. It takes only a sec delay if acceleraor pedal is pushed to the limit otherwise on routine driving you dont feel any lag.
- Suspension is soft and i didnt notice any bumps. However the tyres produce lot of noise on broken metalled road. I think tyre change to some other brand will reduce that noise to some extent.
- Gear transition from 1st gear to 7th is very quick. It reaches 120 kmpl very quickly at 2500 rpm.
- Cabin insulation is very good. You dont hear the traffic noise inside the cabin.
- Adaptive cruise control works perfectly fine. I used this fearure on mototrway from DI Khan to Islamabad. It detects car at 100 ms ahead on the same lane and reduces speed. ACC is not recommended to be used in city driving.
- AC also worked perfectly fine during peak temp mid day hrs during my journey. The panel is too sensitive to touch. If your fiddling with HMI AC gets on.
- HMI has Car Auto Globalapp which works just like android auto. You have three options to chose from i.e Music, Navi and phone. Futher when u click NAVI you have 3 options i.e Google maps, sygic and waze. In music option you can select local music, spotify and sound cloud. You can connect Car Auto wired and wirelessly as well.
- Sound sys is good. I dont have complaints.
- Seats are comfortable. I didnt got tired during my journey
Same goes for my family.
- Fuel consumption is okay considering the size of SUV. In city driving its giving me 9 to 10 and on long journey 12 kmpl.
- Trunk space is ample as you can place two large size bags and 3 small size bags at once.
Now few things that are bothering me:
- When i recieved my veh it was driven 91 kms and the seat packing covers were torn up due to extensive use. Moreover the seats were too dirty and even on the roof liner i noticed stains at diifferent places. The dealor told me its normal to have this running but i am not convinced. On avg a new car gets driven 40 to 50 kms not more than that.
- The paint quality is poor. When i recieved the veh i noticed the paint surface as rough. The sales rep at the dealor told me that veh has not been washed properly and this problem will go away when you will wash it in detail from a service station. However when i washed the veh next day i noticed that the majority of the paint area was rough especially the roof as it didnt get compound polish or clear coat was not done properly. I used mcguir clay bar at a portion to check wether the roughness will go away and it did but my concern still remains as to how they can deliver a 6 Mn car with this paint quality. Morever there were certain dark spots on the paint area which are permenanent.
- The car ventatillition sys at the driver side is less noticeable as compared to the passenger side.
I will also raise these issue with the dealorship on first working day.