Test drive Daewoo Tico 1991 - 2001 hatchback

"Lux" on four square meters

The first paragraph should be devoted to sighs and aham. Opening and closing the doors (the word is not suitable for clap), blowing off the dust, accompanied by an explanation for others: this is not a stool - this is a machine! We skip the first paragraph. Such a non -literary technique will save the author from the wordobludy on whether it is correct to compare the Korean machine made in Uzbekistan, with Mercedes and Lada. But some comparisons with the Oka cannot be avoided. For example, Tiko is 140 millimeters longer, 20 - wider and 5 - below the Oka. Or ... however, while the parallels are enough. Let's look at the car by not gloomy eyes of satisfactory inquisitors who dream of Crash tests and non-stop runs, and the loving look of the owner of a new foreign car.
The editorial life of Tiko began 8 on the Chekhov branch of Logovaz. The seller of the company, representing Uzdaoavto products in the Russian market, immediately made it clear: we were not going to buy a miscarriage of the Soviet industry, but a real foreign car. The argument was simple, but significant - price. Estimate: basic equipment - $ 6900, plus luxury interior - $ 1200, fashionable paint - $ 200, air conditioning - $ 700. Total - $ 9000. So: this green bug is standing like a slightly used Opel or Volkswagen! What is the difference between the STD base and our dlx luxury (for some reason, DX is written on the door of the trunk, which in its own way harmonizes with TSO instead of TIOs on the radiator), in addition to painting the body and air conditioning? The fact that the upholstery of the salon and seats is not from the leatherette, but the fabric, five -speed gearbox instead of a four -speed; There are lateral pockets on the front doors, rear window heater, built -in receiver, antenna, two speakers and caps on wheels. Of course, without all this you can live and ride. Only the heater is in vain to elements of luxury. As, however, the wiper of the rear window - it is absent on the Uzbek tiko. I'm afraid that trips on dirty roads will deliver a lot of trouble. It’s good that protective metal bars were left in the front doors.
Although we were warned that Tiko did not require running -in, 70 km to Moscow, we tried to go no faster than 90 km/h. And the first thing the driver said, having parked Tiko at the editorial office was: what, in Korea, they could not grow - should I steer with my knees? Sorry, Boris, you are wrong again. Korean designers did not assume that your boss would select employees exclusively in the heroic complexion. Look at me. Slender, medium height, handsome man (though some say small, thin, evil and bald, but this is from envy). You see how conveniently I got a job. Why did the side support rested on the shoulder blades? Well, go to your Muscovite, and we are very comfortable here - in the technological design chair with the ensuing head restraints. You have to be more modest. Now we will adjust everything. We shift the seat ... Ah, there is nowhere to go. Then, with a tilt of the back, we will correct the business - we pull the pen and ... we fall back. N-yes ... However, young people will like it.
Of course, this is not a European car, where, to please the driver and front passenger, they are deprived of the convenience of sitting behind them. Planting, as on the bus: almost vertical. But two adult passengers sit in the back with well -known comfort. If we were talking about how softer to say, stern, look into the trunk: small, of course. You will not carry cans, suitcases and garden equipment in it. So, a couple of bags with products and a box with tools. But in life everything happens. Therefore, having thrown back (only entirely) the back of the rear seat and taking off the hard shelf of the trunk, you can, remembering 150 kg of carrying capacity, throw three bags with potatoes.
Several days before registration in the traffic police, ironically -minded ZR employees did not miss the case of speaking about the car. Yes, now you will ride a tick with a horse, ”one computer genius grinned. The engine is troit! - Cut the AC from the test department. Three cylinders, volume - 0.8 liters, 41 horsepower ... Not otherwise, the latter is yours. A lot more had to be listened to. And the wheels are small (like Oka, R12, but the clearance is 160 mm), and the steering wheel is hard, in addition, the rail without hydraulic power steering, and the pedal are tender (and what to put pressure!), There are no shelves, cigarettes, cassettes, large armrests in Doors, small glove compartment, interior so -so. When registering Tiko in the traffic police, it was not laughing. The body number was found quickly, but the engine ... how to make out the sign through the hole in the bumper! Stampovka for a number (with that same hole) is designed for a small square tin. I had to fix the number with the adapter, trying not to block the left turn signal and air intake. With the rear number is easier: there is a place, but make holes yourself. Lightly cut nine rugs were laid on the floor in front, and back on the Volgovsky half - very successfully. Only now, carpet upholstery in the place where the driver's left leg rests (on the front wheel arch) is doomed to gradual baldness.
Tiko does not have a central lock or something anti-theft (a children's lock of the rear doors). Therefore, an expensive visit to the specialists in security things was required. Moreover, he was associated with hope to dismantle the temptation for a bully - a built -in receiver. After installing the alarm, electric shocks on the front doors, radio tape recorders with a removable panel and two speakers on the trunk shelf (front, full -time, left, and it turned out wonderful quadro) asked the masters: how was it difficult to install? It turned out simply - figured out without an electric circuit. The harnesses are laid very carefully, and the connections are covered with foam rubber. The regular ends were only on the front doors; On the two rear, the hood and trunk had to be mounted. Moreover, the thresholds turned out to be the most suitable place (except for the hood). On domestic machines suffering from praising dirt, such an installation would lead to a premature death of the switches. On Tiko, the rubber door pads provide enviable tightness. While water and dirt are not afraid of the ending. The fuses were surprised: on such a baby from 15 to 40 A. What kind of electric circuits are there?
Following the logic of the owner of the new machine, the anti -corrosion was to be the next step. However, the factory was assured: all the machines were processed so carefully that rust does not shine. Honestly, we doubt. Suffice it to say that when driving in the cabin you can hear very well how small pebbles and sand are beaten along the bottom. Well, let's see, the Moscow winter is the best tester.
When traveling to the traffic police and the company, Vist -Auto often had to open the hood, together with the curious once again to look at the units - and tell, tell ... No, the air filter from the Lada will not work, like the oil, and the latter can only be taken out from below. And the battery is small - 35 Ah, normal in the basket will not fit. But it starts up from the half -turn: here is the semiautomatic device launcher instead of leaks. And these causals are from the air conditioner, the second radiator is from him, and everything else is like in the Oka, nothing cunning. That's just a wonderful washer tank - hid under the wing. In the observation window, the level is visible, but if you will pass by the winter and do not flood the non -freezing liquid in time, you will have to thaw the tank with the machine.
From the study of the engineering and luggage space, we go into the salon. The review is good! Not glass - windows. With external mirrors, I agree, not everything is okay. The old design: there is no hard, fixed on the body of the case, in which a mirror would be used from the cabin. I touched a little outside - open the windows, put it again. Especially annoying the right. The inner mirror would not hurt to do more. You need to get used to the steering wheel switches: a kind of mixture of Japanese and domestic schemes. It remains to remember how to use a stove, a fan and air conditioning. Yes, the latter costs its money: say, Moscow traffic jam, I could around, and you moved the lever to the internal circulation of air and turn on the confectionery. By the way, I recommend an economical regime, less likely to catch a cold. This mode, unlike constant cooling, supports the climate with periodic inclusions. Since the interior is small, the cold (or heat) quickly and evenly diverges, giving pleasure to the rear passengers. However, it is necessary to consider that under the hood forty horses wake up only at 5000 rpm, usually there are much fewer. Therefore, the inclusion of the air conditioner significantly affects the dynamics: the car, as it were, plugs. The consumption of gasoline increases not much, but for a spectacular jerk from a traffic light, promotion is required, as in overtaking.
Stop pulling the box lever! Like one movement of the brush to change the gears - long and comfortable? .. Where will we go? Well, backwaters. The key is one: from ignition, doors, a gas tank and trunk hatch. First, click on the gas, let go, then give the pedal slightly: the startup will work. The suspension is weak, the wheels are small, the rear shock absorbers are too soft, so try to go around the pits. This is not difficult: Tiko reacts sharply to the steering wheel, but with sharp turns - more carefully: the car is too fraught. And yet she provokes an active ride. The transfer numbers are brought together, and the dynamics of acceleration (to a certain limit) is not inferior to Samara. At the same time, the engine sound is very reminiscent of motorcycle. It sounds insulting? Then - a sports map. But quieter. With the fighting character of the owner, Tiko differs from the map only with comfort and front -wheel drive - in any case, you do not feel lonely in the flow of cars. I don’t understand only for which the last divisions are drawn in red on the speedometer. Instead of a tachometer? On the other hand, they don’t lie: it’s already scary to go 140 km/h. I didn’t try anymore: the maximum speed is 143 on the passport, but the impression is like a muzzle lifted and you are about to take off. In such a living car, it is difficult to resist and drive slowly. It can be seen that specifically for hot Russian guys and their friends on the instrument shield, there is a light bulb will not fasten the driver safety belt. Very persistently burns red. But there is no indicator of the inclusion of dimensions, and if the street is not too dark, then the soft illumination of devices to the forgotten owner is not an assistant. With an approximate average consumption in the city (with the inclusion of air conditioning) - 7.4 l/100 km - a thirty -liter tank should be enough for 400 km. Although the promised appetite should not be above five liters. I hope further operation will clarify the picture.
In our plans to compare Tiko, firstly, with a similar Korean, and secondly, with classmates (however, conditional). In the meantime ... a frisky and a terrible machine has already forced the witches to change their opinion.

Under the hood, everything reminds of the Oka, but one cylinder is more. In the right (upper) corner of the motor compartment, the neck of the glass of the glass gunner whites the neck.

Everything is very simple: three dials (a speedometer, an indicator of the temperature of the coolant and fuel level), two switches, a steering wheel and three pedals, but how were appropriate near the shelf lever, cup holders ...

Under the bottom near the gas tank is a fuel filter. Original, isn't it?

The trunk with a low threshold is convenient, but small, although the Oka has even less. In the far left corner, a handbag with a factory set of tools: a cylinder key and a combined screwdriver.

In the arch of the left rear wheel, a clustard of corrugated plastic hoses. The thickest connects the neck with a gas tank. The thinnest is the wiring to the rear lights.

The seats are beautiful, but so small.

 

 

Dmitry Zhernov

Source: The magazine "Driving"