Test Drive UAZ Patriot 2005 - HB SUV

UAZ Patriot in Mountain Altai

We had another test in more than three thousand kilometers from Moscow. We flew to the Altai Territory to climb the Aktra glacier at the UAZ Patriot UAZ Patriot. The way to the actru more than 700 kilometers on a variety of roads. In total, in four days, we drove about 1,500 kilometers.
Traveling with UAZ in Altai The first trip from the Severstal-car tours in the picturesque Russian places.
Severstal-Auto company improves UAZ Patriot SUV since 2005. From the moment of entering the market in the construction of the car, a huge number of improvements were made. No domestic car is upgraded at such a speed as Patriot.
When a famous foreign manufacturer updates its products, there is a lot of disgruntled, ready to declare that it was better before. In the UAZ spoil nothing.
This time, the most important update is air conditioning and the upgraded cooling system. Previously, the removal of hot air from the windscarette was a problem.
I started my test drive from the rear seat. Here, as it should be a big SUV, much space. From the facilities of the stove with an individual fan. It is a pity the air conditioner through the chimney deflectors does not blow. Separate unregulated air ducts are laid for it. While the colleague ruled, I managed to even sleep. Move at the rear places is very comfortable. On moderate speeds, no suspension, nor external noises disturb the rest of the passengers. In fairness it is worth noting that the roads almost until the very foot of the actru were excellent. It would not be on the UAZ, and to drive on the roadster. However, the patriot is positioned as a universal SUV, capable of delighting not only outside of roads, but also on asphalt. The next privala moves the wheel.
A new Patriot is installed good seats from the Korean SUV SSANG YONG REXTON. By driving per day for a few hours, we noted that the back was not tired. I configure the steering column, mirrors with an electric drive and on the road. Patriot wheel survey excellent. Side mirrors are pleasing to the large size. Clearing me at the back sofa colleague immediately warns: if you want the car to keep a straight line, do not try to grup. Indeed, in order for the UAZ speed right, the hands in the brushes should relax, allowing the Baranka to live his life. However, it is necessary to distract how the car floats to the neighboring strip, or grabs the side. In the steering, the noticeable backlash, due to which there is no zero position of the ram. It is here in a very wide range, universal tires are also played.
Engine ZMZ-409.10 2.7l volume, with a capacity of 128 hp It is not bad from the bottom, the peak of the torque (217nm) accounts for 2500 rpm. Transmission in rear-wheel drive mode does not remind himself. Transfer is included easily. But what do not really expect from a 2.5-ton patriot on the highway, so it is wonderful brakes. Designers worked on fame, replacing the main brake cylinder and vacuum amplifier imported. The brakes became truly indirect, there are even an ABS with a braking effort distribution system.
In the interior you can only answer the minor disadvantages: diverse plastic, tightly switching climate handles, etc., but you do not pay attention to it. Still, Patriot is an honest utilitarian SUV with an adequate price. The only interior puncture heating the driver's seat. The driver is heated by a catalyst, unsuccessfully located below the bottom. According to engineers, transfer it, closer to the engine, for example, making a catcolektor, like a viburnum, combining a catalyst with an exhaust manifold, is definitely impossible. Despite the heat insulation and the shield, the guide counter stream of air on blowing the catalyst in the summer on the seat is very hot. If in addition to operate a car without air conditioning, with open windows, the stream of hot air rushes straight up. In this case, there are two exit or apologize to Greenpeace and dismantle the catalyst, or to put up with heat.
Meanwhile, on the highway, we left for the historic Chuba path. Pine forests resembling the proximity of Siberia, replaced the mountainous terrain, which is surrounded by the steppes of Kazakhstan and Mongolia.
Before lifting one of the serpentines, we stop, our guide offers the Chica-Taman on the old road. The inconspicuous trail goes into the field and climbs to a height of 1460m. Only the lighted concrete blocks on the side of the roads remind that the road connecting Russia with Mongolia was once here.
On the track, along the way to the actru, we have found a torrential rain several times. For convenience in Patriot, even implemented a regulated pause between the brushes, for example, not in Kalina, for example. But there is a serious miscalculation. At the maximum speed of windscreen wipers, the bimetallic fuse overheats, the erosion chain. The wipers are for a minute freeze, after which they cool and accepted for work again. So we drove in the rain, with pauses every half hour. This could be written off on the lack of refurbishment in a particular machine, but recreated on the way back to another car, we were convinced of the presence of the same shortage. Unfortunately, thus confirmed the promise of representatives of Severstal, who have been confirmed that it is impossible to feel it from one machine to another difference.
Another obstacle on our path was poor-quality gasoline. Surrogate Patriot kept or at the first refueling at the factory, or at local gas stations. The symptoms are the same - the car ceases to pull on the lines, slowly accelerates, and then starts moving at all with a skipper. Cause of the scored mesh-filter of the submersible fuel pump. As a rule, it is clogged by non-large particles, but resinous impurities weighted in gasoline. White mesh becomes yellowish or brown. To eliminate the problem, the filter can be produced by its compressor, but it is better to have a spare. By the way, there are similar problems with VAZ front-wheel drive models.
The portion of the path separating us from the mountains was passed. The snowy tops of the Altai Mountains are rummaged on the horizon. We overcome a couple of small brodes and find ourselves on the road that runs straight along the Kuraya steppe. The surface of the steppe is practically devoid of vegetation, while it is in lowland and surrounded by mountains.
Raised a few kilometers along the steppe in the rear drive, we got to the first off-road site with steep lifts. I get out of the steering wheel and connect the front semi-axes, rushing flags on the hubs. Here, when approaching the glacier, we were waiting for the most difficult areas.
Moving the rise, we went to the crossing through a wide mountain river. As a bridge between the shores, a log-made flooring was performed. The water level in the river was small, but it did not want to slip into a stormy stream at all. Therefore, without unnecessary brewing, all the crews, with the exception of drivers, moved along the bridge on foot.
If the road was complicated before the crossing, then she ended and moved to a mountain stony trail, laid through a pine forest. Due to the fact that the path was dry, the UAZ on the reduced transmission will make it very confident. This confidence for us and became fatal. The reserve of thrust is excellent, despite the fact that in the cabin he is seriously swinging, the suspension silently swallows pits and bumps. And if the first time we collapsed on the tiptoe, occasionally chirk thresholds about stones, after some time the permissiveness relaxed and the right side (where two passengers were sitting) I choke about the next boulder, who traced out of the ground. At first, everyone seemed anything terrible, just crushed the footboard. We pass another 50 meters, and a strong smell of gasoline is pierced to the salon. Colleague noticed in the rear view mirror dark path on dust. I pop out from the car, and below the fuel harvester. Someone grabs personal belongings, and I am a fire extinguisher. I put it nearby and start to fall asleep the road dust formed a puddle. If you get to the catalyst immediately flashes!
The most vulnerable place at the UAZa Benzobak, and the exactly protruding drain plug, here I was crushed on the stone. Need to repair.
We substitute a trough, drain gasoline from both tanks. Lata hole with cold welding. Pour gasoline back and continue the path to the camp. Everything leaves for minutes forty. After this incident, the wounded Patriot was able to drive about 800 km away with its move. to Barnaul. Get to the camp last. In the morning we are waiting for a walking walk to the glacier and the right way to Barnaul. In the meantime, dinner: kebabs by the fire, sauna.
Despite the fact that in the mileage, new cars were participating that did not pass the running, nor the first so., Despite the tough exploitation, it can be said that there was no damage due to disadvantages. The most unpleasant moment overheating wipers. For spectacular photos on the UAZ even made a couple of jumps with a separation of all four wheels. For all nodes, the experiment passed painlessly.
What awaits UAZ Patriot? First of all, modifying the real construction, it would be possible to pay attention to manageability on the asphalt. Still, even on a patriot, most owners move on asphalt roads, and in the existing form on the car comfortable to ride off-road. Today, new SUVs from China and the Second-Hand SUV market are considered direct competitors of the patriot. So far, in Russia, demand for all cars, including UAZ, stable. But it will take several years and the car market will be satisfied. It was by this time that the Patriot should get rid of the shortcomings listed. Then the patriot is forgiven and outdated design, and the lack of an electronic connection of the front axle, and a modest interior. But in return will require the absence of unexpected breakdowns and high-quality auto service.
 
Yaroslav Marshallkin
 

 

A source: AUTO.Mail.Ru.