Daewoo Matiz 2001 test drive - 2005 hatchback

The first equator, boots and screw Archimedes

Daewoo Matiz
Manufacturer: Uzdaeavto
Year of release: 2002
In operation while driving: Since December 2002
Mileage at the time of the report: 40 thousand km
Previous publications in the journal: 2003, No. 3, 6, 9

Our Matizik's birthday is a birthday: he was a year old. This little car is small, and he has small runs are also small. Forty thousand - so, only one round around the earth. But the pace of the run is torn: from 5 to 1300 km per day ...
The tradition of summing up for a birthday sometimes forces to pronounce insincere phrases addressed to the hero of the day. I will try to do without glory - moreover, for starters I will recall all the negative fragments of the last tens of thousands of kilometers. I’ll start with how this lord ... ruined my shoes on one of the business trips!
Matiz and Archimedes
It all started on the 31st thousand kilometers ... from the rug under the feet. He became some strange-his legs slide back and forth. We visited the sink, washed-sprayed-plot, but underfoot still Medeo-the heels still go to the sides. The rug was brought home and washed in the bath with all kinds of peaches and Fayry, receiving a fair crustacean from home. But the next morning, Matiz and I went on a business trip with a parade - sparkling with wings and boots.
Arzamas reached the ultimate goal of the trip easily, but already there, at the company, it became a little ashamed of their own appearance: where did I manage to get into? Either the oil, or something else ... I wipe my shoes with a cloth and look unkindly on Matiz - is silent, does not admit. But we still have to cut back ...
It is very unpleasant, being at the parade, to open the hood and look into various hidden places: the tie interferes, and indeed not from the hand. Nevertheless, I had to conduct an express study - it seems to be all right, all the liquids are in place, the crime was not detected. However, on the way back, the shoes again turned into something, and some kind of obsessive smell appeared ... In short, at the eleventh in the morning patience burst. I brake on the side of the road, I study the steering room to the touch, touch the brake pedal. Here it is - fluid, smelly and slippery!
Now, of course, I agree that operational fluids differ in smell. But when heated asphalt is around, and the daily run is approaching a thousand, then all road aromas are mixed into a single bitumen-oil amber, and the wet brake pedal is involuntarily associated with the flow of brakes. We got to the house with great precautions, and the next day, dissatisfied, appeared on the warranty - what kind of business, they say?
Guarantees showed exemplary endurance - they say, do not worry, such a repair takes two hours from the force. I grin to myself - and in vain: within the specified time I get the keys and the separation. The cost of work is 302-98, the price of the part is 170-52, total - 473-50. The nature of the malfunction is a factory marriage, so the repairs are warranty, read - free. The name of the replaced part is attention! - A speedometer cable !!!
Everything turned out to be much more banal than it seemed on the night stage between Arzamas and Moscow. The brake liquid did not get anywhere, but the sealing cuff of the speedometer cable really died. As a result, the cable imagined himself with Archimedes with a screw and began to slowly supply the speedometer with grease, and at the same time everything from below. And since the defect was not single, the duration of my visit to the hundred could be predicted with an accuracy of up to a minute. By the way, they say, such tricks like to show domestic vehicles of the Izh brand ...
Matiz and self -defense
In my opinion, the only clearly unsuccessful solution on our Matiz is the Daewoo 188 RLI alarm security system. If the car was not editorial, but personal, I would have redid everything for itself for a long time - however, the specifics of the service requires patience ...
Tired! This system behaves just as the wrong guard from popular brochures on anti -theft topics should behave exemplary. Two sustainable states: either reacts with screams and headlights to the trams of Lugansktoplovoz, salts in honor of the day of the city and courtyard cats, or after the next adjustment does not even respond to the blows on the wheel. In this case, you can open the door with the key - the end switches are not provided, and the sensors fell asleep. But to achieve an intermediate position - so that neither crooks nor cats - well, no way ...
The immobilizer also brings to rabies: the thing is useful, but too independent. You will come to the gas station, fill the gasoline, if you want to leave - but no, grab the keychain and crush the buttons: the start is already blocked. The same situation, when loading into the car of the family and things ... to the heap to the list of such trifles, we will include weak electric drives of door locks - with the onset of cold weather, one of them hangs every now and then.
Matiz and the norms of the TRP
There was once such a cheerful complex called to work and defense-all of it was handed over to someone, and the authorities reported upstairs. Matiz sniffed about this business and ... asked for the Dmitrovsky training ground: they say, I also want! Pomegranate height and throwing are not mine, but speed and dynamics - please, now we’ll give everyone. Well, let's go. We adjust the equipment for Corsis, we will get out for a special road ...
Oh-oh-oh ... honey, you have a lot of fee, and you manage to lay the arrow under 160 when you rush with nine, but on an even path, and without a fair wind, and with indignant measuring instruments You look much more modest. The maximum speed - 133.5 km/h, acceleration to hundreds - 21.0 s - is chilovato ... However, here is the table with measurements.
Well - you are inhibited normally, but you run, it turns out, at the level of ordinary boasts, in which Samara in half a man of 180 km/h laid out ... Ah, again the candles die? Perhaps, but in any case, you still do not receive the offset, because you have not met passport data. And there - give him the TRP ...
By the way, for the sake of interest, they measured his clearance in the equipped state - it turned out 120 mm from the protection of the crankcase. With the problem of the right slope (ZR, 2003, No. 9), clarity was not increased, although after many hours of experiments at the training ground they finally made sure that the notorious difference in the length of the wheel drives of the wheels of nothing. And from the guarantee at our request they sent curious paper - we cite an excerpt from the protocol of the meeting meeting without editing.
Matiz and auto industry
Okay, enough criticism. And so it is clear that all of the above problems are just attempts to somehow equalize the chances of our Magaria in comparison with a small anniversary.
Matiz is, sorry for a clumsy comparison, as a room in a two -star foreign hotel. It does not have a satellite communication and phone in the toilet, but by your arrival the bed is always impeccably covered with, in the bathroom, clean towels, and the TV is ready to issue two dozen programs - just pick up the remote control. And no cranes, green graphs and cockroaches ...
Matiz, in my opinion, is a live mockery of our automobile industry from all its upcoming biology - from Kalina to Bear. A simple, inexpensive, pretty and reliable foreign car with a five -year guarantee gives you an unknown sense of confidence in you - almost like an advertising tick -so ... Tell me a couple of years ago that I will have to go to Severodvinsk without a trunk full of spare parts, I would laugh. And together with Matiz drove - and nothing, no feats.
However, all of what has been said is only the private opinion of the convinced Apologet of the Volga ...

The results of measurements driving
Daewoo Matiz
Dynamic qualities
Acceleration, C:
0-40 km/h 4.0
0-60 km/h 7.6
0-80 km/h 13.3
0-100 km/h 21.0
Speed \u200b\u200bat the end of the distance, km/h:
0-400 m 101.0
0-1000 m 124.1
Maximum speed, km/h 133.5
Speedometer error, % 3
Elasticity, C:
60-100 km/h (IV) 16.3
80-120 km/h (V) 32.5
Run, m:
120-50 km/h 1142
50-0 km/h 655
Braking with 100 km/h:
braking distance, m 51.1
slow down, m/s2 7.55

Decisions made:
... 1.8. Bringing the steering wheel to the right while moving in Matiz cars.
Reason: unknown (with short -term rolling of the steering wheel, while driving the car is led to the right, tire pressure, convergence in permissible norms).
The decision made: to conduct a thorough analysis, to notify the results ...
Well, let's wait for the results of a thorough analysis ... Let's hope this does not hurt.

Before the surrender of physical education standards - weighing.
Mikhail Kolodochkin
 

A source: The magazine "Driving"