Geely Xingrui is a popular self-brand compact sedan, the official guidance price is 113,700-15.27 million yuan. In terms of price, it has a lot of overlap with the corolla, Sagitar and other hot-selling joint venture brand compact cars. However, with the support of advanced technologies such as CMA platform and 2.0T engine, it is still affirmed by many consumers in the market.
In the past 2021, The highest monthly sales of Xingrui reached 14,400 units, and the cumulative number of units in the whole year also reached 133,596 units. For an independent brand model with an average landing of more than 150,000 yuan, it is indeed proud to achieve such results, and even in the 130,000-17 million yuan model, its sales ranking can reach 6th.
It is reasonable to say that as a hot selling independent brand, Xingrui should be applauded all the way. But in fact, since its listing at the end of 2020, Xingrui has been growing with negative news. Simple summaries such as high fuel consumption, crashing of the car, abnormal sound of fuel tank, abnormal sound of steering, abnormal sound of tail compartment, poor service, fraud and so on.
Screenshot source: Car Quality Network
The above problems seem to be "trivial", and do not involve the core three major pieces. But the viewer has no feeling, and the owner actually buys it back and feels uncomfortable. Therefore, friends who have not yet bought, or are ready to buy Xingrui, see if these problems are acceptable, and then decide whether to buy it.
First of all, let's talk about the most criticized car engine problem, on Geely's official website, it is claimed that Geely Xingrui has created a "new standard of intelligence". Can achieve the whole vehicle OTA, including online upgrades, repairs, function push, performance optimization and other functions, so that your car "more and more new".
But the actual owner's smart experience is, card, card! What's going on? It turns out that the CPU used by Xingrui is the E01 chip developed in cooperation with MediaTek, which is the "old core" of 7 or 8 years ago. Chips that are simply used to run entertainment functions are used by Geely for such a complex computing power work as the whole vehicle OTA. Its use experience is naturally not good.
Is Geely without a core? The answer is obviously no, because the same price level of Hoshikoshi L uses a more advanced Snapdragon 8155 chip, and it will not be as card-like as Xingrui. So if you want to buy Xingrui, and don't want to buy back the "tears on the machine" friends, you may wish to pray and pray, Geely do a person, as soon as possible to replace the new core.
In addition, the recent high number of complaints, the fuel tank is abnormal. Many car owners have reported that when the Xingrui vehicle is braking, it will clearly hear a grunting sound from the position of the fuel tank.
Screenshot of the complaint of the car quality network
What's going on? Many car owners speculate that a certain batch of vehicles cannot work, and a part in the fuel tank is dropped, resulting in a strange noise. So I gave feedback to the 4S store, hoping to recall the inspection and solve the problem.
But the feedback of the 4S store inevitably makes people feel that the store is a big bully! First of all, the manufacturer rejected the owner's request on the grounds that there is no relevant recall notice at present, and said that the product is no problem. Then he said that if the owner really wants to get to the bottom of it, unless someone voluntarily dismantles the vehicle. If the product goes wrong, do you want the owner to sacrifice his car? This unheard-of solution is truly speechless.
Vehicle quality network complaints about the number of fuel tank noises ranked third in the quality problem
So why does Xingrui's fuel tank have a strange sound? According to the explanation of the former geely senior engineer of perception quality circulating on the Internet, the reason for the abnormal noise is two points.
One point is subject to the CMA platform architecture, Xingrui can only design an irregular shape of the fuel tank, so that when the amount of oil is more than half, it is easy to produce the inertia of the car flow due to the liquid level difference.
The second is the design of Xingrui's fuel tank without anti-wave plate, which is actually the structural design that inhibits gasoline shaking in the tank, which is the root cause of the abnormal sound. As a model that is not cheap, and even overlaps with mainstream joint venture cars, it has cut corners on such a simple structure!
Maybe for the keyboard man, this is nothing, Geely is just a reasonable optimization cost. But imagine how a car owner with obsessive-compulsive disorder would feel when he drove Xingrui every day and listened to the strange noise.
In addition to the product itself, Geely's offline services have also been criticized, such as imperfect service processes, additional service fees, non-fulfillment of promises, sales fraud, service attitude problems, etc. have been repeatedly complained about. So Geely just stood up and began to bully users who trusted him? I have to say it's really sad.
Some people may say that cutting corners is not the exclusive property of Geely's car factory, and those joint venture brands, Volkswagen, Honda, etc., are not also reduced? Which joint venture brand is not a big shop bully? How to geely you have an opinion, can not be more inclusive of independent brands?
In this regard, 51 Jun believes that no matter who it is, the reduction is not right, this cannot be advocated, it is not worth publicizing. As a leading enterprise of its own brand, Geely should strengthen itself in terms of self-discipline and set a good example.
Finally, sincere advice for prospective car owners who really want to buy Geely Xingrui, if you feel that these problems of Xingrui are really problems for you. Please wait, wait until the manufacturer solves the problem and then buy, do not believe that the sales tell you that "will be solved later", because deception, only 0 times, and countless times.