Renault Duster test drive since 2012 SUV

Long -term Test Renault Duster. The first 10,000

Renault Duster 1.6 Privilege MKP6 4x4
Total mileage 10,000 km
Mileage from the moment the dough starts 5000 km

A difficult share fell on the shoulders of this Duster. Our ward, on which we have already traveled more than 5,000 kilometers in the framework of a long acquaintance, one of those who participated in the very first test drive in Uzbekistan.


The cost of the Renault Duster 1.6 Privilege MKP6 4x4 starts with 596,000 rubles. But our car is more expensive, here, in addition to everything, there is a passenger airbag (5000 rubles), side airbags (7000 rubles), alloy wheels (13,000 rubles), rear three -year -old parking sensors (7000 rubles), leather steering wheel decoration (3000 rub.) And rear electric windows (5000 rubles). Air conditioning, heating seats and mirrors, on -board computer, front electric lifting and audio systems (reads mp3, has control on the steering column and AUX, USB and Bluetooth interfaces) are already part of Privilege. In addition, our silver color costs 8,000 rubles. For the basic black, white and blue no need to pay extra

And the tests of Uzbek roads are not made of lungs, everywhere exploded asphalt, baldness, waves, potholes all this for every taste, width and depth. Bricks and construction garbage falling from overloaded dump trucks. Just dodge! There was plenty of off -road with deep snow, stones and crossings through the mountain rivers none of the auto -journalists who took part in the test then resisted the temptation to go down in gigantic sizes, where crushed stone was mined.

Now on the odometer 10,000 kilometers. And nothing is ticking, hiding, spinning and working. But the modes did not become much softer in Moscow traffic jams and the torn pace in the flows of city tracks is interspersed with the output sides of fishing and cottage. The average fuel consumption of an all-wheel drive mechanical daster with a 102-horsepower 1.6 engine in this existence mode of 12.2 liters per 100 km. It is clear that on the highway, if you do not drown and adhere to cruising 90110 km/h, gasoline will fly about 8-8.7 per hundred. If faster, consumption grows almost exponentially, alas, the body aerodynamics are not perfect. It is good that in a mechanical box there is a sixth increase in gear.


The 102-horsepower engine Duster is phlegmatic and unpretentious, it seems to him that he is all the same as being flooded in a 50-liter ivere tank. Gasoline with an octane number from 98 to 91 units is digested for a sweet soul, and if the latter from the old regional refueling No Name, our atmospheric sixteen -plastic will not be offended at all. With good dynamics, the engine is able to endow only at urban speeds, and then, if you twist it before cutting off at 6,000 speeds per minute. But at the same time, you need to be prepared to often work as a lever of the gearbox. The first steps are extremely short. After 90-100 km/h, acceleration is strongly sour, overtaking along the oncoming lane, especially if you are driving loaded with the eyeballs, the actual punishment. If it is possible, take a 136-horsepower version, you will not regret it.


The suspension is phenomenal. Long -flowing, energy -intensive, comfortable and at the same time elastic. She digests bumps completely painlessly. The car is comfortable, as if in a full -size SUV. Duster forgives a lot and strongly spreads into the protruding hatches, lying policemen and threatening the size of unevenness completely cease to pay attention. You involuntarily begin to be surprised, but what is all the rest so crawling?

Such omnivorousness is not least contributed to the standard all -season AMTEL Cruise 215/65 R 16. Its size and volume with a small mass of Duster is a great good. Cruise is a good option in the summer. Although in sliding it breaks down earlier than we would like. Saving, you can’t do anything. If you want reliable behavior in summer and winter, you have to fork out for good seasonal rubber.


Gares with this level of comfort Duster are completely cars. Of the features of the rail with a greater than Logan and Sando, a transfer attitude gives somewhat more lazy reactions to the turn of the steering wheel. It is for the better, excessive sharpness is useless here, an inexperienced driver, frightened, can provoke slipping, or even turn over the crossover, especially if it is not equipped with ESP. Previously, the ESP and the anti -wings system were not at all, and now they can be ordered as part of two Express and Privilege performances for 13,000 rubles. The upper version of Luxe Privilege has a default dynamic stabilization system, and in the initial Authentique it cannot be obtained even for a fee.

But what is happening behind the line? Mostly safe demolition of the front axle. To break the back in sliding, well, very frank provocations are needed, perhaps this is possible only under gas at good speed and with a forcedly blocked coupling. What is good? The reactions are unambiguous and safe (with a loss of controllability, the car will go on an obstacle to the safest front part), but somehow all this is without a pepper.


The steering wheel, thanks to other calibrations of the hydraulic wrap, seems heavy, and the information on it is a little lacking the drive of the same Logan or Sandero is much more transparent. But as soon as you get out for a broken primer or off -road, you do not regret it at all. If you were more sensitive, you can already go crazy from the overabundance of information. In general, the settings are optimal, and the rolls with sharp restructuring are very moderate.


A full -wheel drive transmission works in three algorithms that are selected by a puck at the central console. Front -wheel drive mode 2WD is useless. Perhaps he needs it only to measure whether an ordinary monotive car will pass in this place or not. A kind of probe is no more. In universal Auto mode, the rear wheels are connected by an automatically electronic control coupling when the front are sent to the slip. Frankly, this happens gently and with a significant delay. If you gasp in a slippery turn, the crossover in the demolition will have time to make it pretty muzzle before the rear axis finds to row. Keep in mind that in a spectacular vest it is difficult to pass the turn!


On weak coatings, it is better to activate the 4WD Lock mode in advance, it closes the coupling forcibly. Twisting the moment in this case, the rear wheels are constantly served from the moment of start to a speed of 80 km/h. Upon reaching this line, the mode is disconnected, and the drive works again according to the automatic algorithm. The coupling, by the way, is weak, in order to plow it to the blue smoke from under the bottom, you need to gasp a couple of times with diagonally hanged wheels. The off -road mode 4WD Lock also affects the operation of ABS at speeds below 45 km/h the frequency of brake impulses is halved. That is, the wheels remain blocked longer. Such an algorithm to the detriment of controllability allows you to more effectively dwell on ice, in the snow and dirt. Spikes and ceremonials on blocked wheels work more efficiently, the rubber between the disinteriority manages to rake large rollers of soil or snow in front of itself. This creates more resistance and allows you to slow down more effectively.


In the photo at the left, I try to call in the back at an angle to the slope. The motor is torn off, the wheels unloaded according to the diagonal are skipped, the rubber smokes, the coupling slides. The sense is zero. Need an anti -boom system. Her Renault recently included in the list of options with ESP, the cost of 13,000 rubles. But when moving forward, the crossover was climbed into the slope, and this was not without the use of inertia.

The suspension moves are great, the geometry is beautiful, but only the engine and gearbox are protected. Plastic skis is not provided on the surface. In deep sand or snow, a three -dimensional bottom creates great resistance

But still, Duster's main scourge on off-road is a diagonal hanging. It is worth the wheels to break away from the coating the car stops climbing the obstacle. Long -flowing energy -intensive suspension and excellent geometry are saved, which allow many obstacles to passing with a fair supply of inertia.

In general, while Duster remains in our editorial office, we will soon talk about convenience in everyday operation, loading/unloading, about landing, visibility and muddynamics. By the way, later a version with automatic transmission will appear at our disposal. To be continued.

Vitaly Kabyshev
Photo: Vitaly Kabyshev and Renault
 

Source: Auto.mail.ru