Zoom Car - Self Drive Cars Rental

Zoomcar Bangalore - Xuv 500

Zoom car is new start up from Bangalore, Which provides cars on self drive. A great news for driving enthusiasts. If don't own a car?? no worry. Zoom Car is here.Book a car online and zoom off. The services is very good and transparency in booking system gives you all the trust on Zoomcar

How it works?
Many People are confused on what is Self driving,  Well zoomcar website gives a brief idea on that but here are some points.

- Select a pickup locations near to you (there are 20-25 locations in Bangalore) .
- Book a car with refundable deposit of 5000/-.
- Go to pickup location and fill a checklist on their for and zoom off.
- It also gives a max speed limit of 125kmph and age limit of 25yrs to the driver to just make you safe from their side.

Zoomcar Bangalore - Xuv 500

Pros Of Self-driving with Zoomcar :
* Pull-up wherever you want.
* No Extra BATA for driver. Its always one of you.
* No maintenance: From my experience Zoom cars are very well maintained.
* Zoom car also pays for your fuel filled. So this makes it very cheap self driving rental.
* Best Cars -Ford Figo, XUV5OO,Merc Benz, BMW Etc.
* Transparency in booking is a plus with zoom car. everything happens online. No hand Cash . so customer will always have a proof of bills.

Cons from zoom car:
There are not much as i am a big fan of this. Still i could find some.
 * Returning deposit money has eaten up lot of time for few customers. So always be ready for some delay in refund.(But they will keep you posted on everything)
* Lack documentation on cars and their features.its very difficult to go through manual.Zoom Could have kept easy summarized handbook.
* Lately few customers have complained on worn out tyre or clutch plates etc (all minor).

Zoomcar Bangalore - Ford Figo

As i have followed zoomcar from its birth and the way it has grown is tremendous.They have gone in to multiple states Pune and Gurgaon . Zoom car has become one of the famous and promising start up Self drive rental in India.

Mullayanagiri..At Zero Visibility..

Vehicle: Ritz VDi

Route taken :Kundapura->Agumbe->Chikmagalur->Mullayanagiri->Kundapura

Total Kms:350Km

speed: 90-110kmph Avg
Top speed:130kmph

Mileage:20km/litr

Temple on hill top

This drive was planned long back as i had been to mullayanagiri with friends on College trip. My cousin wanted to take his new Ritz for a drive, so took his car than mine(zen). started early morning from kundapur, reached agumbe and checked in to Doddamane(big house). Kasturamma's warm welcome and kashaya was awesome,i stayed there 6 months back with friends.Staying at this place gives you a combo offer " Sunrise at Kundadri and suset at agumbe view point ".This house is famously known as Malgudi days house,Many episode's of shankaranna's malgudi days were shot here.

En route Agumbe 

Asked for route in agumbe, people advised to take balehonnur road to reach chikmagalur.This stretch gives a good view of tea plantation. we reached chikmagalur at 12 had lunch. Post lunch we headed towards mullainagiri.Distance is around 15kms from chikmagalur,First 5-6kms drive was smooth through estates .As we started going up the hill, Road became narrow with sharp turns and hairpin bends.Last 5km were toughest as it was single road and no space to give way for the oncoming vehicles. 

Zero visibility

It needs a lot of experience to drive on this stretch(*fresher better take a driver). Last 2 km visibility became zero with dense fog, even the fog lamps won't help.Once we reached top, It was worth the effort, lush green forest and deep valleys with fog covered mountains. We couldn't drive to hill top due to fog ,we parked car on the way and started trekking to the peak.

Lush green Mountains

Place is best suited for adventurous drivers.Funny part is driver will enjoy the beauty of the road and people on board will enjoy the greenery. 

Green Route

way to Temple 

Reached the hilltop around 2, Standing at 6300ft(Highest peak of Karnataka) the view was breathtaking.Way to the temple is a trek through steps,Even steps were not visible because of fog.  We didn't waste much time there came back and headed towards seethalayyanagiri. 

 The advantage of having power steering comes to the rescue, it was easy to take quick turns on those narrow roadsand even  mag wheels offered smoother steering and braking performance.

Ritzz...

We didn't risk going to kemmangundi from here ,as i heard the roads are very bad and ritz was new. I would have definitely tried if it was my zen.
So skipped kemmangundi drove back home. 

Highlights
*Dont miss the route,some deviations doesn't have direction boards.
*Loved the pickup (80-90kmph on third gear)and handling of Ritz.
*Last 1.5Km in mullainagiri use lower gears(1st)and engage handbrake properly while      parking.
*The trek route SARPADRI gives  more chance to explore these mountains.
*No barricades, so drivers be sure when taking car on the edge.