Test drive UAZ Hunter 315195 2003-HB SUV
Hunters on the counter
Even today, when the market is teeming with a wide variety of cars, UAZ is still the cheapest offer in its class. Moreover, the difference with closest competitors is almost double. It's not about the new UAZ Patriot model (more precisely, the UAZ Patriot manufacturer writes the name Latin). Let's talk about the old UAZ, who underwent another modernization three years ago. Now he bears a foreign name Hunter (Hunter, a hunter in Russian). Although the factory indices still remained (see table with the manufacturer).
In the arsenal
First, let's figure out who is called the Hunters. Here are the main differences between hunters and relatives are more victorious, who are still produced in small batches, mainly on military orders. Firstly, the appearance of an all-metal body with plastic overlays on bumpers and a lattice, the rear hinged door, with new external mirrors. The salon is ventilated
through the sliding windows, ahead of the fog lights in front, and a hydraulic tank is assigned to the head lighting with halogen lamps. In addition, in the arsenal of the Hunters, new unusable bridges such as spaiser, disk front brakes, and a power steering. The place of the old handout was taken by not such a noisy unit with the braids. So you will see an UAZ with an awning and hinged rearboard, with front spring suspension and drum brakes, with detachable civil or gearboxes, know this is not a Hunter, but just a UAZ. A poor basic package (by the way, it is the only one) is happy to replenish dealers. Even approximate prices for the proposed additional equipment are difficult to name: they sometimes differ manyly. For example, to establish additional seats in the trunk so that Hunter can take seven, one metropolitan seller costs 2 thousand rubles, and nearby is almost three times more expensive. Would you like to save money, do not be too lazy to raise the phone and feel the market. Dealers offer kangaroeners on the nose and stern, thresholds, plastic (instead of a regular cloth) cover wheel cover,
alloy wheels. Sometimes cars are already sold with some options, the cost of which, of course, is taken into account in the price of a car, some call this a luxury set. EQUIPMENT
Most Hunters install a gasoline 2.7-liter injection engine ZMZ-409.10. Despite the fact that the motor was strangled by power, so as not to break an old transmission, not designed for such serious loads, the largest herd of horses and a high torque of the proposed units in it. Hunter with this engine is about 265280 thousand rubles.
Those who wish to save on fuel are offered a new Volga unit Diesel ZMZ-5143.10 (ZR, 2006, No. 9). For every hundred kilometers, this motor consumes 23 liters less fuel than a gasoline modification.
Moreover, the diesel fuel is even cheaper than ninety-second with the Moscow difference in prices for these types of fuel, an all-round with ZMZ-5143.10 is equal to the cost with gasoline modification by about 4050 thousand km. Hunter with a diesel engine is offered for 280300 thousand rubles. Although the cubes that make up a decent traction, the diesel engine is still not enough in some modes, the motor does not have enough power and torque. However, the magazine will tell in detail about this modification in the near future, when Hunter with ZMZ-5143.10 will visit the test. Hunters are still found on sale and with other engines deremitted from production, they were still with dealers. Ulyanovsk carburetor UMZ-4218.10 with a volume of 2.89 liters operates on AI-80 gasoline. Modification with this engine is cheaper than an injection for about 20 thousand rubles. Another 86-horsepower diesel of Andria (more details ZR, 2005, No. 10).
On the Hunters with the Zavolzhsky engines, only the Korean Dimos Korean box is the same as on the perpetrators of Kia and Hyundai. It is possible that dealers can also surfacing the old vehicles with Arzamas boxes of their unusual switching scheme. Our advice look for a car with an import unit. It is more reliable, besides, it does not require dexterity to accurately wield a lever. Hunting tricks
Hunter is a car with army genes, and you always see a military man from afar. For example, landing in a car requires a soldier’s training, without it you can’t get into the salon through narrow doors. However, modern concepts of comfort are not applicable to Hunter. Of course, the modernization made adjustments new comfortable chairs appeared, many controls began to look humanly, the instrument panel was covered with plastic, the floor is covered with flesh carpets, but to a generally accepted level, alas, far. What are the wires hanging from under the torpedo and
air ducts. Or devices from the middle of the last century. Here the question of airbags does not even arise. It is enough to look at the location of the top of the belt attachment between the tape and chest of the driver, the palm passes. Manter Hunter on the highway Doubtful pleasure. The driver here acts as a navigator: he set an approximate course after that the car is better not to interfere. At a speed of about a hundred, the dynamic corridor, in which the UAZ walks around, hardly fits in the width of the row. Do not think about any sharp detours of obstacles! Adds unpleasant sensations and the slurred steering amplifier, with which you completely cease to feel the connection with the wheels. Although in parking lots, such an assistant is in the way, and on the off -road he damps the blows transmitted to the lamb. Below all criticism of the brake, the Hunters who came to our tests stopped with 100 km/h at a mark of 60 m! For a modern car, the indicator, to put it mildly, is mediocre. At the same time, you often also have to fight the car when it begins to baptize it due to incorrectly adjusted brakes.
Double door seals conscientiously fulfill their duties. Our winter tests confirmed the heat in the cold in the Hunter. Yes, and dirt after a long wanderings on lanes do not have to throw handfuls from the cabin. But in the heat, a saddled hunter is pretty faded through narrow sliding windows weak.
The inexperienced owner of the Ulyanovsk Vyno -grown will throw another riddle from which side to drive up to the fuel column.
The engine sucks a fuel from one tank, which is constantly replenished from the neighboring it and will be empty in the first place. Before refueling, carefully study the operating manual to know exactly which of the two necks to insert a gun Having reached the broken country, you forgive the UAZ. Large road clearance, good geometric patency, a rigidly connected front bridge and a reduced row excellent arsenal of a rogue. Hunter uses this set with dignity, unless, of course, the tires are suitable. However, modernization nevertheless caused slight damage to all-resistant qualities. Modern machines are inferior to predecessors in low speed traction.
Where the old UAZ calmly rides on even gas, the new requires to constantly play with a clutch. In addition, plastic bumers and a fashionable sparkling color suggest a neat appeal to scratch such a beautiful side,
with a brush or a roller on the metallic, do not swear. Yes, and the boots should be overwhelmed from the dirt in front of the entrance to the car carpet no longer so dragged from the hose. Hunter car is specific and certainly not every day. If only because UAZ is not famous for reliability. The new imported nodes have slightly corrected the situation, but did not radically change. And the owner will have to be carried out with the keys in his hands or in anticipation of the service station, and not at all while driving. Hunter is good on off -road, but the car drives the asphalt most of the time. This distinguishes it from special -purpose techniques. There are enough constructive shortcomings of half a century ago, which, alas, cannot be fixed with small modernization. But, despite all the shortcomings, the Hunters still take, apparently, the price is attractive.
Hunter in life
The factory warranty is 1 year or 30 thousand km, depending on what will come earlier. There are no single recommended prices for that, so the prices of dealers vary greatly. In the capital, the price order is as follows.
TO-1 (2 thousand km) with consumables and original spare parts costs 55008500 rubles, TO-2 (10 thousand km) 55007500, TO-3 (20 thousand km) 75008500, TO-4 (30 thousand km) 850010 500.
Maxim Sachkov
Source: The magazine "Driving"
