Dacia Duster 4×4 of the 1500-KM report! Aloha, after there is an extra 4×4 diesel experience thread in which such experiences are asked, but I call a petroler my own (much more my wife’s own), I just open an extra thread with the experiences of the first 1500 km. Delivered on Wednesday the 15th December from the car dealership, the snow chaos broke out in Saarland just that day, so the thought that the delivery in this season was exactly ri short to model and equipment: Dacia Duster 4×4, 1.6i 105 HP (without ESP, there’s none yet) Laureate WITHOUT LOOKPAKET Leather steering wheel and gear knobs on electric window lift rear middle armrest trunk dirty tub spare wheel floor mats exhaust hood Color: WEISS Price including the transfer and registration costs 16.434 Euro We gladly dispensed with the Dacia radio for horrendous money and carried our own ideas here. In the case of vehicle purchase, we initially AGAINST the light metal wheels, since it is relatively cheaper (in view of the winter tyre obligation) to purchase them extra. Rather, we took the car with the Laureate steel wheels and installed there extra winter tyres on it to then install the supplied summer tyres on LM rims in the spring. But now off on the slopes and “experience what the car offers: At the beginning it is noticeable that the 105 hp is a little tough in the path After approx. 1000 km this will be noticeably better, after approx. 7000 km, according to car dealership again a very big difference in engine behaviour and consumption can be felt. I do not refer here about the quality and appearance of the interior, about this was often reported enough in the trade press, one only: we feel comfortable in the Duster. However, it is also the interior, in which one discovers the first stomachs: the height-adjustable driver seat has in the lowest position too much game, which is why I also have an appointment in the car dealership on January 3rd, a wobbly seat, and if it is still so little tolerable for me. The brown paint surfaces of the dashboard are quite sensitive and not really HOCH-scratch-resistant. If you have decided for the retrofitting of the middle armrest, one gets lost for the compartment for the 1.5 liter bottle between the seats and you can only store a small bottle there. The driver, if he wants to adjust the rear panes, then reach through the seats to the rear, because there are extra switches to operate the rear panes in the front of the centre console NOT. All this may be in need of a little getting used to, but explains how to use the rear panes. one or the other position of Dacia’s price policy, and let’s be quite honest: don’t we buy the Duster to experience a little bit of purism? But what is NOT understandable to me are things like the missing washing system interval automatic, when one finds out in the forums that this is quite easy by additional connection of a cable, as well as the missing bonnet insulation mat, which is installed as standard in the diesel models we d. For me, things that don’t make up for exorbitant cost savings could certainly have been realized in the factory without burdening the end user with a massive increase in costs, just like the installation of sufficiently large wiper blades. If you don’t want to do all these things you have to do yourself, either in the form of self-service or in the form of money which you have to pay the experts for it, which then does not make the favorable purchase price much but nevertheless relativize t. Fahren with the Duster itself, makes both my wife and me really much fun. Of course, we don’t have to deal here with a powerful power SUV, like Q5 or X5 or other vehicle types it are, but the motorization is absolutely sufficient and certainly not weak-brittle. Especially in this weather one learns to really appreciate the advantages of an all-wheel drive. We have here in Saarbrücken and Umland various distances away from the road traffic, the sic h is quite suitable to test if the DUSTER meets his name and his role….here, however, there is only one answer for the four-wheel version: WILL HE!!! We have certainly experienced some routes that are more than off-road for our conditions, partly with proper ascent/falls, partly unpaved, partly snow-covered or fixed snow cover (also on quite impressive climbs)…and so far we have found NO route before our Duster In the normal road traffic there are no problems with the driving characteristics, if you have got used to the changed driving behaviour of the 4×4 compared to single-axle drives. The Duster drives quite fast for its conditions, can be handled uncomplicatedly and what is not quite unimportant, does not encourage to turf around in the area. Rather, I am suddenly The sound of the supposedly so noisy and extremely loud and poorly insulated engine is also very limited. Of course, the Duster is not a leisetreter, but so unbearable that it will never be possible to have a comfortable conversation, even at high speeds. You can hear it and the stuffy, but different opinions that the volume would be partly intolerable. What you have to get used to in the first few days, however, is the short translation of the 6-speed transmission. You should switch up quickly, because from about 60 km/h it is quite convenient to drive in the 6th gear, which makes the speed band of the individual gears quite short, so that you can also from the 2nd to the 4th and then to the 6th (or from the 1st to the 3rd and then to the 5th) without having the feeling to have an acceleration loss here …you have to change your switching behaviour against other gears, which you might have been used to so far, whereby in normal road traffic you can safely avoid starting in the really extremely short translated 1st gear. A problem I still intend to solve (by using the car dealership in case of an emergency by guarantee) is the draught in the car. At such temperatures on the highway and you notice how it is behind the pedals and partly through edges on the sides of the Doors pour in a little cold outside air, while on the other hand the heating naturally tries to keep with warm air against it….and then the driving fun is reduced at -10 degrees on the highway, when it chills the driver coldly into the step although from all ventilation nozzles the really warm air flows. First of all: The Duster is just a lot of fun as a four-wheeled vehicle, but is certainly not a vehicle without flaws and blame. So many points in Dacia’s cost calculus I can only report in the new year and so long I don’t want to judge this girl either. However, he drives very comfortably, he has a lot of space in the interior and his handling is easy. Some chicks, you can fix themselves with quite little effort (keyword to small windscreen wipers), he has a lot of room in the interior and his handling is easy. But for my terms it is not allowed to appear at all in the factory, because it is precisely these girls who have made a really doll business with the car a little dull. Here I hope in the future for the constructive rework of Dacia, especially since the recently calculated price increase could quite keep this small points in mind. Do I regret the purchase? No not so far! On the contrary! We drive the car out of conviction and have ri A lot of fun with it…there are points to criticism and there are points you can overlook….the price-performance ratio is right and we don’t feel like we’re going to be in a cheap fun brake. As soon as I’ve been to the workshop, I’ll report again! and from time to time, of course, one or the other statement will follow with an increasing KM number. So far, everything is still green.