Test drive Nissan Terrano II 5 doors 1996 - 2000 SUV

"Nissan-Terrano"

Model - Nissan Terrano; manufacturer - Nissan; year of release - 1990; in operation while driving - from September 1997; The mileage at the time of the report is 50 thousand km on the meter (the actual is probably much more); Previous publications - ZR, 1997, No. 12; 1998, No. 1.
It has been six months since the Japanese emigrant changed the soft climate of his homeland to the harsh living conditions in Russia. Knowing that they are met by clothes, and the first impressions are the strongest, the former owner took care of the welcoming reception of his faithful friend in a foreign land - he conducted the appropriate pre -sale training. The main attention, of course, is the appearance of the car. Classes and chips of paint, fortunately, a little of them, expertly chopped by the means of modern autocratics, and the entire body is covered with a layer of varnish. Only minor intersperses of sand and dust in it suggest that the coating is not factory, but is made in a hurry on its own. Perhaps, of course, that our Far Eastern dealer engaged in the sale of used cars was varnished. The costs are minimal, and the revenue is significantly higher.
Today, when the first enthusiasm for driving in a real jeep has subsided, you can summarize some results.
As to any good car, you get used to terraran literally in the first hundreds of meters. The impression is that all my life only went on it. It does not matter at all that the steering wheel is right. Talking about what its location in right-hand movement increases the likelihood of an accident, as it seemed to us, invented by the domestic automobile industry in order to somehow protect the market from Japanese expansion. In fact, you didn’t have to get used to the entrance to the right - you just go in the place of the passenger, except that you can’t doze.
The rest of the labor costs are the same. To moderately, a light steering wheel with a hydraulic wrap does not try to break out of the hands even on full -scale potholes of the road. A suspension that has two stiffness modes easily copes with them: sports - for fast driving and ordinary - for normal. In the first case, the car is noticeably tougher and does not roll in corners at high speed. In the second - smoothly licks unevenness. Electric modes switching - a key near the lever of the automatic gearbox selector.
The latter has several fixed positions that are common for all automatic boxes. P (parking) - parking with the transmission brake on, r (reverse) - reverse, n (neutral) and D (drive) - movement with an automatic selection of gears; 1 and 2 - modes for heavy roads. Regulation 1 allows you to move only in first gear, 2 - in the first or second. Using them, you can avoid unpleasant jerks in the transmission on off -road.
Next to the gearbox selector is the distribution box control lever. He also has several provisions: 2n - the rear bridge works, an increased gear in the handout; 4N - the same, but the front bridge is also included; 4L - both bridges and a demultiper. Well N - neutral. Such a wide range of traction adjustment, or, in a tractor, forces on the hook, is more than enough. You can implement it, except that by towing a medium -sized truck.
Another pleasant feature of the selected transmission scheme - in position 2H the front bridge is completely turned off. Unlike the well -known UAZ, where for this you need to remove the hub caps and manually dilute the couplings with a key, they are automatic on terrarano. That is, they are turned on only under load, and without it they do not twist the transmission of the front axle in vain.
The reverse side of the medal is that it is almost impossible to swing the car in the mud, alternately, including the first and rear gear. Firstly, the front bridge is turned on with noticeable delay, and secondly, the gid-converter of the gearbox is not as fast as a rigid mechanical connection in ordinary boxes. This smallness is not enough to get into resonance. However, so you still need to be able to plant a car.
We advise lovers to conquer off -road to carry a shovel with them. Real, Stakhanovskaya - after all, in which case, half measures cannot be dispensed with, you will have to dig a long time. ... or not to take any - without it it is better thought and there will be no desire to tempt fate.
But back to the asphalt, where the car still spends most of his life. On it, the behavior of terrarano causes only positive emotions. Describing them is the same as explaining the taste on the fingers of the native, for example, ice cream.
Here is exactly the case when it is better to try once than to see a hundred times. The trip after Terrano on UAZ is impressive no less than the race at the excavator.
Unfortunately, there are few free pleasures. In our case, the board is a fairly high consumption of gasoline. With a neat and leisurely (up to 90 km/h) traffic on the highway you can meet 12 liters per hundred, there are only 16 in the city, and if you start from each intersection for the last time, sometimes such a crazy driving style is called sports , then 20 liters will be quite on the shoulder.
But after all, our analogue, UAZ, with much more modest possibilities in consumption, is by no means ascetic. Well, probably, an ideal car was and will remain Emelina Stove. She moved, capturing brain biocons, and provided proper comfort. Let's see how close to this terrarano.
It is spacious in it, except the driver, more precisely, his legs. All kinds of adjustments to the back of the back and pillows of the seat do not save. A man of medium height at the wheel has to stretch his neck like on Zaporozhets, otherwise the nose of the dreadnought is not visible, and is very uncomfortable for off -road. High now there is nowhere to put your legs. The pedals are too close, and after an hour of movement you catch yourself thinking that you need to go out, to stretch. The adjustable slope of the steering column does not help.
A small, skin -covered MOMO steering wheel has one insidious flaw - the sound signal button. She is the size of a button and drowned in a hub. It is impossible to get into her with a finger in an emergency without training. With a palm, too - sits deeply. In addition, the button sometimes sticks. And not immediately after use, but after a few hours. The algorithm is as follows: if he beat off at least once during the day, then at night, be sure, you will jump out by alarm and run to the car to pick it out. The roar of the signal will wake the dead, not to mention the neighboring house holding a brick for such a case.
The rest of the features against the background of this fun are the mere trifles. Just think, ashtray. It is located under the air deflector of the heating and ventilation system. In some positions, the lever of the blowing direction to convey ash to the allotted place is impossible. The flow of air picks up and carries it anywhere, but always a clean ashtray can be used as a box for trifles.
With the onset of cold weather, they noticed that in the mode of fence of outdoor air, the heat from the stove would not be raised. With internal circulation, it blows perfectly. The reason for this was the foliage, seeds, and poplar fluffs scored with autumn. After cleaning them, the air went normally.
From the ventilation grilles at the bottom of the doors, on the contrary, the siphonite is always. In the cold I had to choose: either seal them with tape, or put on cotton pants. They chose the first, since then the legs have not freezed.
There are other problems with ventilation. Under the rugs of the front passenger and the driver in winter are always damp in winter. Therefore, sometimes you have to raise them in order to dry the air from the stove. The same story with the trunk. Under his carpet glued on a waterproof base, condensate accumulates. Especially intensively near the back door. Rust has already appeared in places. To stop it, the policeman was processed and plastic grilles were placed - now dry.
The ventilation holes of the rear lights go into the salon, from where warm air enters them. In the summer, of course, it is convenient. Neither rain nor spray is scary. But in winter, the insides of the lanterns plunge and condensate accumulates a little. True, there is no traces of corrosion yet, but for a long time? Lighting holes with a construction sealant slightly reduced the loss of dew, but to the end did not solve the problem. Apparently, you have to look for another way out.
And several more features of winter operation. After a snowy night, before opening the door, you have to sweep away the snow from the roof, because the upper part of the door forms a horizontal site from the roof. Otherwise, a snowdrift inevitably falls on the seat. Therefore, leaving a car, a broom, like a personal weapon, always take with us.
Brushes of windshield in snowfall are very quickly covered with a crust of ice and only smear dirt. There is no warm air supply from under the hood to them. It is just right to stop and bite the ice with your teeth. Note - this is tasteless. The design of the rear door brush is very successful. In the starting position, it becomes on a special stifter and glass and glass, which means it does not freeze. However, it is rare to use it. A simple deflector on the roof deviates the flow of air so that the glass is always clean. But only if the rear mudguards are in place. You will tear them off and no deflector will save them - glass and reserve are instantly covered with dirt.
Powerful water nozzles support the purity of the headlights. The jets of them even knock down clumps of dried dirt. It is very convenient - you do not need to jump out in the rain or thaw and wipe the headlights manually.
The situation is worse with the winter sink. The porous door seals absorb water and froze to the openings. If the car is not immediately dried, open the door is problematic. As a rule, the seal breaks out of plastic holders on the doors and remains where the frivolous The door locks are also insidious. Once, after washing and ice, I had to steam them with boiling water from a teapot. For the future, the lessons were removed and the locks and gum with water-repellent grease WD-40. It was processed by a latch and a gas tank hatch - he also sometimes froze.
Otherwise, the winter did not deliver any trouble. The engine easily starts in any frost, if only the battery was enough for three or four turns. The one that stood in a car, apparently, summer, the size of a loaf of bread, and the motor started in his last breath. But with this, they were successful successfully. Summer ahead. We will definitely tell us about what it will bring to us on the pages of the magazine.
The dumped mirror grabbed with tape.
It is better to seal the door to the door for the winter.
 
Andrey Sidorov
 

A source: The magazine "Driving"