I hadn't looked at this thread in a while. Wow, it's a little ugly.
I had a laptop giving me some issues at about 9 months and I didn't call or do anything about it until it had a major failure at 13 months. I called, I was out of luck. My fault for not acting in the warranty period. My 2006 GMC has the fancy dual zone climate control. Every once in a while, the left side goes nuts and blows really hot air while the right side blows cold. Happens about once a month and started while under warranty. I slacked and didn't get it in to GMC in time, now it is my problem. My bad on both. I may ask the GMC dealership to try to cover it, but if they don't, how can I demand that they do? A warranty is a contract of sorts. You could see the issues if we could all just go in and tell a company that the problem really happened during the warranty period so they should believe us and cover it. If everyone was 100% honest, and the OP probably is a very honest man, then this would work, but in our world, this is often not the case.
Should Mahindra cover this? Maybe a goodwill sort of thing? Maybe. That is their call. If it is clearly a manufacturing defect it would be a good call to help with the repair. If it has been overheated, hydro-locked, has contaiminated oil, etc., then I'm not sure any help is due. We don't know all the facts. We do know that good or bad, they need to communicate quickly. Make a decision. Bad news is often better than no news and waiting.
To those who say "I'll never buy a Mahindra because they won't cover a failure out of warranty", I don't quite understand that position and I wish you felt otherwise. At our dealership and the dealerships of the Mahindra dealers that are regulars here at TBN, you wouldn't be waiting more than a few days for some decision.
By the way, we have sold a lot of Mahindras and we have never seen a rod cap failure. If there was an issue with them at some point, we have never seen it.
To the OP, we are sorry to see you having this problem. I hope it gets resolved soon.
