Test drive Opel Vectra sedan 2002 - 2005 sedan

Opel Vectra 2.2 /7000 km

This report on Opel Vectra turned out to be very Russian: it is about cold winters, short days and roads that can be stuck at any time of the year.
+/- Vectra does not have a computer. But there is a central display. On it, data on the temperature of the outboard air, the frequency of the radio wave taken, the mode of operation of the climatic installation, but the icons are small, despite the normal size of the screen, and understanding the indications on the go is not easy even with normal vision. It is good that the display has two positions - day and night, and plus its brightness can be adjusted forcibly, along with the scale of the devices. With the onset of the first frosts, an interesting feature was discovered: every time you start a car, an inscription in a foreign language appears, warning that the surface of the road can be slippery. It appears and is not in a hurry to disappear until the driver clicks on the button in the end of the wiper switch. At first, this concern was touched. The first twenty times. But, it seems, the system until April will hold the user as an idiot who is unable to understand that if he got behind the wheel in the earflaps and felt boots, it can be slippery on the road.
- Vectra received slight damage in the parking lot. Of course, I would like to write it off on the goat that shifted part of the carriageway with rusty columns to indicate the place of storage of his real estate - rotten tarantass on lowered wheels, or for engineers who did not provide an ideal overview when moving in reverse, or on marketers who are not not They turned on in the basic, but the most expensive equipment of the vetera - Elegance - parking sensors, or to hapug -communal workers saving in the lighting of yards. I never want to blame myself. In short, the collision at a minimum speed with a metal pillar spilled into a scratched bumper and a broken rear light. Ingosstrakh was delighted (this without irony) by the fact that certificates from the traffic police are not required, because the bumper did not receive serious damage. If there were no insurance, the repair would cost $ 404 ($ 110 for the flashlight - otherwise, and he had to order in Germany, $ 34 - for its replacement, $ 260 - for painting the bumper). But this repairs, quite likely, would have been avoided if the bumper were covered with rubber moldings on Vectra - before, this Opel practiced. After all, the bumper of a modern machine itself without serious damage is able to transfer and not such blows of fate.
 
 
+/- The first snow on summer tires reminded of electronic security systems that vector is equipped with. The first to declare her shocks under the pedal brakes of ABS. With a metal clang, when touched, it periodically reminds of its existence of the anti -operating system - judging by the sound, it not only strangles the engine - as if the driver does not stomp the gas - but also brakes the masking wheel, redistributing the torque. Sincerely thanks for this. But for what to say, it’s not worth it to say for, it is for ESP insolvency (a part of which is the anti -circus system). But more on this last time.
Text and photo Sergey Sherestnikov
 
Costs (October 15 - November 14)
Mileage city/highway - 1500 km
AI-95 gasoline (228 l) $ 91
Moika $ 30
Washing liquid $ 9
Total $ 130

The car is provided for a long-term test by Gema, (095) 775-7775.
 

A source: "Autopilot"