Daewoo Matiz 2001 test drive - 2005 hatchback

Before sunset

Daewoo Matiz
Manufacturer: AO Uzdeavto
Year of release: 2002
In operation while driving: Since December 2002
Mileage at the time of the report: 90 thousand km
Previous publications in the journal: 2003, No. 3, 6, 9, 12; 2004, No. 5

On the 51st thousand kilometers there was a fantastic, impossible event: Matiz died.
He died, sorry for cynicism, surprisingly on time. All Saturday, he kneaded the snow with wheels interspersed with dirt, while running 500 km from home and mastered a thousand in the evening. He stopped dozens of times, posing for shooting in a terrible deafomani, then again dashing everything as usual. At midnight, he brought the owner home, habitually extinguished his eyes and the next morning he died: trrr and not a single outbreak.
It became sad at least with a foot on the wheel to knock on our happiness, the Uzdeu service on Dubininskaya works without weekends, we complain and after about an hour we meet a sent tow truck. The goby puffs trimmed, and the driver complains that although the evacuation is free, but the services for loading and unloading, as well as a possible expectation, the Savior appreciated his services at 200 RE.
The defect was not the most pleasant: the gas pump was covered. However, it would be much worse, if it happened in that very deafomani, but without a guarantee, but without a television foon, but there is no problem at home: after a couple of hours, Matizik returned to the usual rhythm of life. To silent, bring, try and experience a bunch of different tires, compete in talents with the Volga (ZR, 2004, No. 7)
However, at the 68th thousand events, a new turn was accepted.
Everything is clear with this Uzbek, the flocks of the council decided. It will not break in a large way, but it is too early to sell it with such a mileage. Therefore, we do this: we will intensively eat another 25 thousand, and there we will organize a worthy conclusion to the Zarulev career. Which one has not yet disclosed!
The task was completed in Stakhanovsky. The baby, which was not accustomed to relaxing, switched to daily run: he woke up, reached out and forward, miles of 800 by the way, the last thousand he wrapped the Tigar TG-621 with dimensions of 155/70R13 on the Yugoslav tires. By August, a solid 90,000 km appeared on the odometer and the car is still warranty! However
However, opinions about the usefulness of the guarantee are diverge. The service has long accustomed us to the fact that it is much more calm and more reliable that it is much more calm and reliable that sad experience is mechanically transferred to foreign cars. We will not impose our opinion, but we will still give several numbers. The mentioned mentioned replacement of the fuel pump, taking into account the call of the tow truck, costs about three and a half thousand rubles, the replacement of the rear hub bearings is about eight hundred, change the speedometer cable of about five hundred. In our case, such services cost a guarantee of 6678 rubles. As for ten planned services, we paid about 60 thousand rubles for them. Detailed financial layout is given in the table.
Save on that? This is done by many, however, in our opinion, the money spent with more than paid off the predictable behavior of a small yellow machine. And the opportunity to emergency repair even on Sunday is very cool. However, back to money.
Throughout the life of our Matiz, 5850 liters of gasoline have passed through its nozzles. In addition, he flew into three unscheduled costs, the bulbs went out, the glass broke and asked for replacement levers of the suspension. The last point, if desired, could have been challenged if one lever really suffered from a date with a pit, a witness to the bent wheel disc, then the second was replaced exclusively through the fault of ball -supported spell: it was exhausted, they have nothing to do with it, but they did not argue. And the replacement of the windshield is simply road bad luck: the car is not to blame! Therefore, those who wish can independently estimate how much every kilometer of trip to Matiz would cost if stones did not fly into the glass, and the wheels did not fall into the underworld. But even in the worst situation, our conclusions are as follows: the cost of a kilometer of 1 rubles. 59 kopecks. At the same time, this is not about a completely killed, but about a technically serviceable car that continues to remain under warranty.
The general impressions of the operation of Matizik in both authors were completely coincided. The kid liked his predictability and unbearable, even with such a solid run, we will safely go on it on any trip. He keeps the road quite decently, we have already said about finances, but you can find a reason for criticism. So, with continuous driving for more than three hours, the left leg flows. If, in addition, the road is frankly crafted for example, as from Vladimir to Vyaznikov, then the constant buildup of the body is somewhat tired. The energy intensity of the suspension, to put it mildly, is not enough, and therefore sometimes I want to stop and stretch.
As for the right slope that part of the mates was famous for, it, oddly enough, became invisible with age! The company also assures that such complaints from uterus are no longer entered, therefore, we will consider the incident exhausted. It is possible that the flaws in the geometry of specific bodies of the first issues are still to blame.
By the way, the Zarulevskaya mail shows that many readers still shun foreign cars, they say, what if it breaks down? Or, worse, they will steal? From this point of view, Matiz makes on many a kind of toy impression, they say, where on our roads, well, and we went through the first trips on a small Uzbek
o-oh-very careful, no further than the Moscow Ring Road, however, after a week, timidity disappeared, and the baby confidently began to go into editorial leaders in medium-monthly runes. As for the theft, alas! We can absolutely everything, but, according to our information, in this nomination, Matiz is not a leader. In addition, who prevents the normal service, where they will competently install an intelligent immobilizer? The cost of a kilometer of mileage will grow into some penny, and spiritual calm, of course, costs more.
Unfortunately, our joint adventures are over.
The fact that Matiz will be next, we will tell you in one of the following numbers of the magazine. He will have an unusual test, somehow he can handle him? ..
Sergey Klochkov, Mikhail Kolodochkin

Source: The magazine "Driving"