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SsangYong Musso (1994-1998 release)

Awarded nicknames is the most ugly of all cars of high passability, it is nevertheless considerable popularity in the secondary market.
Among all the products of the Korean Auto industry, SsangYong Musso stands out not only by its heavenly appearance. Motors from the car are German, under the Mercedes-Benz license, the elements of the transmission were made by the American company Borg Warner, however, the development of the appearance of the Koreans car, it seems, did not entrust anyone and carried out on their own. Oddly enough, such a vinaigrette on check turned out to be quite viable.
Hanging bridges. Musso suspension combines unhappiness and good smoothness. Rear stands the undiscriminated bridge on the spiral springs, so it is easy to break and wear there, except for racks and stabilizer bushings. And in the front suspension, torsions are used as elastic elements, so that the car can be adopted as you want. Also, the suspension allows you to play with the corners of the wheel installation angles - if you wish, the Castor value instead of the factory two-three degrees can be brought to six, after which Musso begins to behave perfectly on the track. But there is also their own features - the weak place of the front suspension are the upper silent blocks (about $ 35 per set), which do not have an outer sleeve, which is a frank design miscalculation. As a result, even a new detail is in a maximum of 60 thousand km.
MISSION POSSIBLE. The SsangYong Musso transmission is two species - with a constant full-wheel drive or with a plug-in front axle. If you want to buy SsangYong Musso, but at the same time not to have problems in operation, it is worth staying in the first version. True, only cars in the most powerful version were equipped with a permanent full drive system - with a gasoline engine of 3.2 liters and an automatic transmission. Options with more weak engines are equipped with a plug-in full drive - most of the time the machine drives on the rear drive, and the front axle can be connected on the go, at a speed of up to 80 km / h. The process of connecting the front axle is engaged in the electric motor in the dispensing box. Like all the electric, the motor does not like dirt and moisture, which are out of construction for 3--4 years. The engine itself costs $ 200, so when buying it is worth checking its performance before installation: if the 4WD Hi and 4WD LOW lights light up on the instrument panel simultaneously, then by 99 percent it says that the electric motor is faulty.
The front wheel clutches are connected using a vacuum drive, while the driver does not have any indication, whether the couplor connection occurred. You can check if you can see, row the front wheels or not. In addition, if everything turned on, then the steering wheel becomes very difficult. Unfortunately, this system retains its performance for about two years of operation. And then you begin to age seals and seals, which should keep pressure up to 0.45 bar. The bulkhead will cost about $ 200 or it is possible for $ 500 to put wheel clutches with manual inclusion.
Well, the system of permanent full drive can be killed, only putting the rear and in front of the rubber of different diameters. Checking the operation of the transmission is quite simple - at the beginning of the movement and when the slip should not be heard by strikes, otherwise the repair will cost a minimum of a thousand dollars.
Teach scientists. The inspector during the passage of inspection may find fault by the large way of the parking brake lever. The fact is that the mechanism is made as on Mercedes - in the form of its own separate drum, that's just his drive Koreans brought not to the pedal, but on the lever. If, when you press the pedal, the free course of such a design is almost no felt, then when the parking brake is twitching, the parking brake begins to hold at least 7--8-m, although he is also twice as much as the crime.
Brake discs grabs three or four sets of pads, which roughly corresponds to 100 thousand km of mileage. But even if you are very sleeves and experienced, the replacement of the pads is better to entrust the specialist. On the part of the machines there are anterior caliper of very cunning design consisting of a large number of corners, latches and clamps. Such a designer is very easy to incorrectly assemble, and the consequences can be the most deplorable: kilometers after 500--600 after repairing the caliper can self-induce directly on the go, which will lead to the wheel encoding at best.
The most troubledness is considered the BTRA Australian Firm box, which was put on a version with a gasoline engine with a volume of 3.2 liters, "it serves 200 thousand km and more. The manual box is aggregated with more weak engines, but she does not deliver the trouble. It should only remember that the box, though manual, is still poured dextro into it. The clutch serves about 100 thousand km, and the dashing riders are about 60 thousand km. Change it assembly stands in the area of \u200b\u200b$ 400.
Disease license. The engines that for SsangYong Musso were made under the Mercedes-Benz license, there are five options - two turbo diesel and three gasoline. By choosing an option with a diesel engine, you will actually get a tractor - a colossal moment from the bottom and absolutely empty top of 4500 rpm. With a row 4-cylinder diesel engine with a volume of 2.3 liters, 80 km / h is simply not going, there is a 5-cylinder volume of 2.9 liters at least a little bit, but exhausted. The advantages of both diesel engines include their omnivities - you can refuel from any barrel. Another advantage is reliability: nozzles go to 100--150 thousand km, the turbine in the presence of a turbotayer will live as much as the last replacement of the WFT in Moscow services was recorded in 1997. However, when buying a state of the turbine, it is still worth checking - you need to remove the air filter and drop any pipe from the turbine. If an oil is inside, the price can be boldel like a minimum of $ 500 - to these turbines it is very difficult to find spare parts. However, diesel can be remade from turbocharged into atmospheric, but it will cost it slightly cheaper - about $ 400. It is also worth listening to whether there is no metal knock from the engine - this gives the voice of a broken drive of the vacuum pump, and the repair can do from $ 200 to $ 500.
From buying a car with a gasoline 2-liter engine worth refraining: the next day you will understand that this engine is catastrophically a little, but it will be too late. All the motors have generic Mercedesian sores - sweating front and rear crankshaft glands (approximately $ 6--12 without the cost of work) and the pump ($ 70), which flows somewhere when running at 70--80 thousand km. Approximately the same, about 75 thousand km, serve as high-voltage wires and ignition coil ($ 57), which costs one into two cylinders. At the most powerful motor, in line six volume of 3.2 liters, the forever current gasket of the front cover is added to this ($ 11.5); Gasket replacement grabs maximum year. But the risk boil the motor is practically no - the protection system is very perfect and when the temperature is raised above the critical begins to disconnect the load until the engine is stuffed. Candles will have to be changed every 20 thousand km, and nozzles every 100 thousand - approximately $ 450 with work.
Text Alexey Kresin, Dmitry Nazarov drawings
 
SsangYong Musso 2.3 TDI 2.9 TDI 2.0 2.3 3.2
Working volume (cube. Cm) 2299 2874 1998 2295 3199
Power (hp) 100 119 126 140 220
Maximum speed (km / h) 143 156 171 176 190
Acceleration up to 100 km / h (c) 21 16 13.5 12.5 10.2
Fuel consumption (city / highway, l / 100 km) 11.3 / 7.7 12.0 / 7.6 16.0 / 9.7 16.4 / 9.4 14.0 / 20.0

Every 10 thousand $ 200
Every 40 thousand $ 500--550
NORMO-HOW $ 30

Ignition Candle $ 10 ($ 3.5)
Front pads $ 45 ($ 38)
Blocks rear $ 40 ($ 35)
Oil filter $ 10 ($ 8)
Air filter $ 18 ($ 26)
Fuel filter $ 20 ($ 25)
Filter salon $ 40
Front hub seal $ 5
Ball support $ 16
Bearing needle swivel fist $ 6
Front hub bearing (outer / ins.) $ 17 / $ 18
Shock absorber (front / rear.) $ 45 / $ 40
Stabilizer bushing (front / rear.) $ 4 / $ 6
Stands Stabilizer $ 20 ($ 8)
* In brackets indicated the cost of non-original spare parts
 

A source: "Autopilot"