Krash Test Renault Espace 1997 - 2002 Minivan

Protection of the driver and passenger

Frosting, driver

Front punch, passenger

Side blow, driver

- Fine - Good - Satisfactorily - Badly - Very bad

Children's holding devices

Child up to 18 months	Kiddy 2000, face forward
Child older than 3 years	Kiddy 2000, face forward

Pedestrian safety

- Fine - Good - Satisfactorily

Comments:

Espace has become the best car among the whole group that has been tested simultaneously with it. It provided good comprehensive protection and best with a frontal impact of the entire group. However, even with such results, the front test had to be repeated due to Renault to verify the effectiveness of advanced belts and other security systems installed on the later versions of the car. Also, the manufacturer recommended to use other children's chairs. Protection of pedestrians is not the strongest side of the car: experts came to the belief that in the development of a car, little attention was paid to this issue.

Front punch:

Espace body very well suffered a frontal blow. The driver's door opened without difficulty. However, there was a place for criticism: the passenger's face fell on the seam of airbags, which, theoretically, can cause injury. Also disappointed the presence of only the belt seat belt for the central place of the back of the seats. There are hard elements in the field of knees, a blow to which will cause injury, however, the driver's feet are more security than any other car.

Security of passenger children:

The front passenger airbag enters the basic configuration, so there is a danger to any child placed in this place in the chair "against the direction of movement". Warnings in the cabin and at one of the children's chairs did not comply with the requirements of Euro NCAP. Renault declared its intention to finalize them. In the second test, new chairs recommended by the manufacturer took part. They were established "against the direction of movement" and relied on the A-shaped backups installed on the floor. When hitting both backups shifted forward, and for a 3-year-old child's chair, this displacement occurred for a long distance. In addition, the instruction on the installation of the chair "in the direction of movement" is posted on its right side, which makes it a practically inaccessible figure of a person trying to install it on the left side of the car.

Side strike:

Maximum scores were accrued for the side blow. Of course, the driver's position above the point of impact of an ordinary passenger car is a great advantage of any minivan, but Espace has demonstrated good protection and besides this feature. When hitting the driver's door opened, which may be dangerous. The manufacturer declared amending aimed at eliminating this shortcoming.

Pedestrian safety:

More than half of the checkpoints provided poor pedestrian protection. The overall result of the Espace turned out to be at about the middle level for cars of this design. There is no doubt that to reduce the risk of injury to pedestrians, it is necessary to make more efforts.

General information about the car

Roelf location	Left
Tested model	RENAULT ESPACE 2.0 RTE
Body type	5-seater minivan
Year of publishing data	1999
Curb weight	1520
The results are valid for VIN, starting with ...	Jeogt002646, jeoato46210, jeontoo1413, jeohtoo8329, jeoet055954

Installation Systems:

Pretensels of front seat belts	There is
Front Belts Load Loaders	There is
Driver Front Airbag	There is
Passenger Front Airbag	There is
Side airbags	No
Side Head Airbags	No
Driver's knees and feet airbag	No