Test drive Opel Vectra sedan 2002 - 2005 sedan
Opel Vectra 2.2 /3500 km
If a new car, as it should be, drives without breakdowns, then you can only talk about subjective things - you like it, I don’t like it. More than a month has passed since we got to us in a half -year Opel Vectra test. While he honestly responds to his purpose-he serves as a solid family-office machine.
+ Traditional plus Opel - a thoughtful process of refueling. The hatch is unlocked by pressing the button on the ignition key, along with the doors. On the hatch itself, on the back, there is a nest for traffic jam and a plate indicating the tire pressure.
+/- The central castle on the vector is two-position. From the first click on the key, he remotely opens only the driver's door, from the second pressing all the doors unlock. Thought out, but not to the end. After you got down, started a car and even started moving, the doors themselves will not close. Nothing, we’ll close by drowning the button or by pressing a special key. Arrived. No matter how much they pull the handle, the door will not open until we use the central lock again. But then all the doors will open, which, you must agree, is not always necessary, especially if children are in the car, and outside the fellow citizens are hunting to someone else's property. However, children can be secured by converting the rear doors in advance to the position of the children's lock, and then it becomes impossible to open them from the inside, only outside.
+ On the vector, a convenient windows drive. Instead of the usual picket fence, the driver under the left hand on the door is two large glass buttons: for the left and right window. Between them - the register key. To control the rear windows, you need to transfer it down. Another plus: the glass drive works for another ten minutes and after you pulled out the key from the ignition lock. Moreover, you can raise (lower) glass remotely - from the key. And if you forgot about open windows, then after four hours they will close automatically. +/- Almost all the vector supplied to our market are equipped with regular alarms. Here are its pluses. Once the installation is native, it means that it is unequivocally correct and competent. All on one vein is the lack of need to keep an additional keychain on a bunch. In the case of a siren, the standard 30 seconds screams, but the emergency woman blinks for five minutes - it immediately becomes clear who screamed. Now the cons. At the factory, the alarm is probably put according to the standard scheme - this is in the hands of the hijackers, although we, who are insured, have no reason to worry. The key operates in a radius of not more than 10 meters (and sometimes three, as indicated in the instructions). There is no sound confirmation of the removal/production of security - only an outbreak of an emergency rod. The signaling indicator - a light bulb on the beard - can be seen only by approaching the car closely.
There is no impact sensor in the system: it controls the angle of inclination of the car, the opening of the doors, the hood and the trunk, but the ram seems to forgive the offender. Volume sensors - in case the dog remains in the car - they turn off, although this is not very convenient: the key does not have a clear position like vkl. -OKL .. And one more thing: a siren on the vector is a hoarse croxon of a completely Soviet species, hidden in the trunk. It is good or bad if not the entire 17 -story house wakes up from your alarm, but only neighbors living no higher than the fifth, you decide.
+/- With a mileage of 2500 km, the engine oil had to be added. It's a shame? Not at all. Vectra does not have a traditional postcard then with a run of 1 to 2 thousand km. You can not call up to 15,000 km for the service, unless, of course, it is impatient for other reasons.
Text and photo Sergey Sherestnikov
Costs (August 15 - September 14)
Mileage city/highway - 2000 km
AI-95 gasoline (266 l) $ 103
Moika $ 20
Washing liquid $ 3
OPEL ECOTEC 0W-30, 1 liter $ 11
Total $ 137
A source: "Autopilot"
