Same as what happened to Kia when the Dewan group exited. Somebody else will take up the representation of Chery in Pakistan if Chery still wants to do business in this country. Just like Kia is now assembled by the Lucky Group of Companies.
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X7 definitely is a wonderful vehicle. Very torqy and you just love to throw it around. Changan has good infrastructure and the 3S dealerships seem well equipped with modern tech.
But probably their weakness is in implementation of organizational procedures and protocols. They also have finishing issues (paint, DRLs) and I have posted on that in the X7 fan thread regarding the 1k service experience of my friend at Adil Ashraf motors here in Lahore.
New Models Coming?
“Ghandhara will introduce new Chery models in the first quarter of 2025, and these might be hybrid models,” the reliable source mentioned. This means Chery is going to be a new entrant in Pakistan’s developing hybrid segment, where companies like Toyota, Haval, and Hyundai are major players. This is very exciting news.
The dealership’s expansion is a part of the overall product expansion strategy for the Pakistani market, and to promote its product, the company has recently launched a number of sales promotional campaigns on its existing line-up, and these campaigns have provided quite positive results, showing the people’s interest in these cars. Earlier this month, Ghandhara announced an enticing installment offer on its prominent crossover SUV ‘Chery Tiggo 4 pro.
According to the company’s notification displayed in its social media post, customers can cease the installment plan paying 50% down payment of Rs. 3,650,000. Moreover, the offering comes with 12 equal installment starting from Rs. 175,000.
With expansion in dealership network and hybrid cars, Chery Pakistan will emerge as an important player in the local market.
https://www.pakwheels.com/blog/ghandhara-to-launch-hybrid-cars-in-pakistan-in-2024-reports/6
Given the debacle that chery is facing in Malaysia over its cars incl. hybrid Omoda (breaks failing, rear suspension ripping clear off), I would not touch a chery with a million mile long pole
@hendrikdupscholtz I might have cracked this issue. To sum it up the solution in one sentence: the rear alignment was way off. The car was suffering from rear wheel steering. Once the alignment was brought to spec, the car now no longer needs constant steering inputs to keep it in the lane. Here is some more on what happened:
The Chey dealer in my city has a laser 3D 4 wheel alignment machine. Till date despite 2-3 attempts and alignment that car was not right. Up to now my normal practice was that I would leave the car with the shop and collect it later. But this time I went into the shop and had a good look at what was going on in the alignment bay. What I found was that, 1) The machine had an old software which did not have the 2022 Tiggo 8 Pro data fed into the machine. The latest car they had in the machine was a 2015 Chery Tiggo. 2) They were setting up the car to the specs of a wrong model. 3) The readings displayed on the machine monitor were in degrees whereas the alignment data in the owners manual is in minutes.
As a first step I converted the alignment data from minutes to degrees so that the tech could disregard the 2015 Chery Tiggo data and follow the reading I supplied him.
In the table above, the first column is from the owners manual and the second column are the same reading converted to degrees.
A picture of the alignment reading as is without doing any adjustment
Attention is drawn the the rear data. Look at the last set of numbers (Rear Toe). Left side is -0.36 degrees while the right side is +0.34 degrees. From here we can see the rear of the car is trying to push the tail of the car out. The correct spec should be +0.083 +/- 0.16 degrees.
Then we look at the second from last display (Rear Camber). This can be seen to be (left) -1.27 and (right) -1.33 degrees. Again this number is way off from the factory spec. Correct alignment for rear camber is -0.7 +/- 0.5 degrees. The tech was able to bring the alignment of the rear of the car within specs and then moved to the front. He informed me that on this car one cannot adjust the camber or castor. The only adjustment available was toe. I find this hard to believe and requires some more digging into the front geometry to see if he was telling the truth. But that is for a later date.
The front toe reading is the top most reading on the screen. It is showing (left) -0.98 and (right) -0.42 degrees. The book calls for +0.083 +/- 0.083 degrees. The tech was able to get front toe reading within specs. Now the only thing remaining is the front camber.(second row from top on the screen). The book calls for -0.42 +/- 0.75 degrees. If we look at the right side camber, it is -0.42 degrees which is absolutely correct. However the left side camber is -0.98 degrees. Here if we factor in the tolerance of +/-0.75 degrees we can work out the range of acceptable camber angle. Based on this the camber can range from +0.33 to -1.17 degrees and still be within spec. So the reading of -0.98 degrees is within spec range but I would have been happier to have left and right camber to be equal to each other.
For now the car is driving really well and the three hours spent in the shop did not go to waste.
sir @msabbasi salute. sir please send Gandhara an email for their 3S shops using obsolete data to attend vehicle issues reported by customers in 2023 onwards.
Several reviews have reported some problem with Chery Tiggo 8 Pro brakes like late braking etc. Any feedback on this regard would be helpful. Is it too much of a deal or just initially till one gets used to it?
Someone please share ride comfort level of Chery Tiggo 8 Pro like Suspension performance, seat cushioning, etc. Comparison with Sorento, Haval, Changan X7, etc. is appreciated.
Thank you.
Actually the alignment machine is property of the 3S dealer. I have brought this mater with the owners of the dealership, they inform me that the company rep of the alignment machine (based in Karachi) does not have any later software. Of course I don't believe that.
I bought this car used with 12000km. Certainly this car's brakes felt strange compared to our other cars. I had to really press hard on the brake pedal to get the thing to stop. This was most apparent when I changed cars and drove one of the others. When in a different car if I pressed the brake with the same force as the Tiggo 8, the car would jerk at my applying the brake. I had to relax my foot force to the other car. Now the Tiggo 8 has covered 38000 km and I no longer have to adjust my foot force when swapping cars from Tiggo 8 to another car. I cannot explain this phenomenon.
@msabbasi Kindly comment on its ride comfort level w.r.t. to road irregularities felt to driver/passenger in comparison with other Crossovers/CSUVs?
Sir if you scan this thread, there is much written about the suspension of this car. No point repeating it.
13 days later
Back in post number 462, I went into much detail about the alignment of the Tiggo 8. Maters ended with the front camber being within spec but not with agreement of each other. The left being - 0.98° and the right being - 0.42°. The tech told me thaI it was not adjustable so had left the situation saying that I will dig into the matter to see if he was telling the truth or not.
We it turns out that there is adjustment for the front camber but not easy. This I found out from the online service manual. Here is the screen shot of the relevant section:
So back I will go to the dealer and see how they feel about this.
SERVICE MANUAL OF CHERY TIGGO 8 1.6 with 7spd DCT (and others)
https://cardiagn.com/chery-tiggo-8-t1d-1-6t7dct-service-manual-2020/10
This link is tricky to open. You have to play around a bit to get it to work.
Not adjustable in all cars. But yes that was the question I had put to the technician. and now armed with this new information I will go and have a chat. My 40,000km service is just 700km away so when I am there I will surely bring this up.
