I thought that the maps, if paid on Medianav Toolbox, should be available for download more than once.

The documentation says .... does this means that once you install a map, you will no longer be able to download it again if your usb is faulty? I found that hard to believe. Please tell me.

If you purchased updates and/or added free updates to the installation queue, you will be redirected to the "Updates" screen. In case this would not happen, please click on the "Updates" button in the menu bar on the left hand side. This is the last step to update your navigation device.

The "Updates" button will open a screen which shows all available updates, including:

• items that you have purchased but not yet installed (updates or extra content),

• free updates and extra content that you added to the installation queue from the "Catalogue" menu,

• and special free updates (which are normally paid updates but currently provided free of charge due to a special occasion).

The list shows all available updates.

In my case the maps which are missing are those already installed when new which I would assume are UK maps. When I use the update function I get the message telling me that my maps are updated yet no maps are present although the GPS is operating albeit showing on a white screen.

I may try again and follow the process of buying maps for western Europe to see if this solves the problem but won't appreciate it if I'm charged for these.

An account of my problem can be found in the "Sandero electrical sub-forum" misplaced there by me I'm afraid.

 

Not happy with my Stepway 1.5 diesel.
Had it 6 months and checked fuel every fill up and not returning good mpg.
My 12 year old megane with 190000 on the clock returned 60 mpg last tank on Stepway I got average 50.
Seriously thinking of getting my original choice SKODA YETI instead.

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Had stepway 1.5dci with careful driving could get 55+

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Well thanks for that.
Considering Stepways are just over a ton in weight I think they should return what the manufacturer states.

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As we known the manufacturer claim 74 mpg but they tell lies you should get 50+ and on a run 60+
Remember for £11500 you get a lot of car a yeti is £16000/21000

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Try flooring it turbo kicks in and on t. Motor way I can hit 90+
Had mine 3 months now done 2.5k

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One of the best car I've had now on my second one
The best was a fiat Tipo 20 valve back in the mid 90 s
The motoring press do not help a lot of cars or makes
Unless you are spending £30000 and have 3.0 liters under the HUD then they are rubbish

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Thanks Prince for your feed back but my last car Renault megane had same engine same power and weighed 300 kg more and I still got 60 mpg on the same run as I do every day.
50 mpg for such a light car is not very good.
I spoke to my garage and they said it was the same engine as the megane just set up different but based on old tech.
Probably why they are not more efficient compared to German technology

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I get 70 mpg on motorway speed with a speed of 55 mph (85 km/h) in the 5th gear and ECO on. That is the sweet spot of the fuel consumption. A higher speed means more fuel. I get to 45-50 mpg when using 75-80 mph speed. In urban mode, I only get 45 mpg but the average speed in crawl mode around the city is 10 mph (16 km/h).

My car is 40k miles old. How old is yours?

http://www.daciaforum.co.uk/forum/topic/25737-dacia-sandero-diesel-mpg-consumption/

 

Very happy. Very good value.

The complaints I have are first world problems

- no auto lights (I live in Switzerland and lots of tunnels)

- intermittent wipe interval not adjustable

9000km since August, 45-50 mpg but I'm on Winter tyres and have a lot of mountains to go up and down

 

Just some thoughts on my '17 stepway laureat dci. I bought the car about six months ago as a 2 berth caravan tug. I fell in love with caravanning about three years ago and had kitted myself out with a Santa Fe 2.2 deisel and an old avondale 4 berther, fantastic rig and not too expensive to put together. I got the four berth not out of necessity but just because of the the extra space (novice, greedy, old, fat bar steward). However, one word, thirsty. The frequent stops at the govt. rape stations soured the experience to such an extent that I ditched the rig. Back to the drawing board, lots of head scratching. I looked at tents, trailer tents, teardrops, gopods, freedoms and older, lighter vans as well as lusting after the knaus travelino. With all these options whiring away in me noggin I was about to plonk for a hyper mile golf 2 litre diesel when tragedy struck and my lovely auntie Joy passed away and kindly left me a huge chunk of change. Well you know what happened next.

Anyway onto the oh-so personal review.

Looks: I think it's a handsome beast that holds its own against the best of them.

Comfort: A real winner. The seats are not only the right height for the, shall we say larger frame, but are also extremely comfortable. The suspension verges on witchcraft in its ability to isolate you from the rumble strip that passes for roads now but also handles the corners (in this class). Truly remarkable.

Economy: The old Hyundai suggested 35mpg book, perhaps half that towing. Of course I love the economy! Keep it under sixty and level and you can get astonishing results (HonestJohn). I am as politically incorrect as it is imaginable to be but I'm now a fan of 'ECO', God help me.

Practicality: Well, .. fifth injector .. SOLD, SOLD and SOLD. And it's a hatchback. Did I mention the road tax?

Tow Car: I phoned the insurance peeps as you do and said I'm towing this baby, she said "If you fit a tow bar we'll give you a discount". I booked the bar the same day. The day after the fitting the Holy Unicorn of all vans appeared on fleabay, a mint-ish '92 Lunar meteorite 'S' plopped into the ether. It was like the scene in the conversion of St. Paul by Caravaggio (minus the horses arse, or not). Anyhoo, I have a full scale two berth @61% kerb weight with consequent control and economy.

The downsides, glove box, cup holders, cubby holes and perhaps the worst instrument binnacle visibility I have ever come across. Overall I'm like a dog with two appendages. Ahem.

Thank you auntie Joy.

 

I bought a 2016 1.5 dci manual last March for my wife and trusted the seller, unfortunately.I really like the car but the non working aircon and the unreliable clutch engagement are issues that are proving hard to address as wiring diagrams do not exist and Dacia are of no use at all. But I do like the car and will continue my search for solutions.

 

I had same problem with aircon, turns out mechanic had jammed the pollen filter on against the air system, removed pollen filter problem solved.

 

Car with many problems...driveshafts gone to the horison in under 100000km...clutch also...

(have trailer towing) thin paint that easy get lots of scratchs...Bought this car half a year ago.

Dacia Dealer is Volvo/Renault in sweden...they never get answer on questions about messurments

and other tecnical questions only with answer "Can not get or get you that information"....And many garages

..even the dealers is not happy to fix car problems on Dacia cars...and dealers garage take proper pay

for the work and replacementparts on Dacia cars. And if you search parts on internet several models of

the same piece is showing and how can i get the right one if I can't get the oem nr from dealer or elsware.

Not many information on internet on Dacia care even.

Red Stepway 2013 Sweden

 

Forgot to say that Dacia is a car that you should buy brandnew and not used.

Dacia is cheep at dealer as new ...but costs lots more money as used when the

age problems is coming on and it must go to a garage for replacements parts service.

 

I've a 2015 Stepway 0.9 in blue, bought new. Low mileage average 4000/year

Been to Holland and France fully loaded with bikes hung on the back and happy to cruise at 70 for miles, literally all day Scotland to Portsmouth

Good economy, cheap insurance £30 tax what's there to complain about I hear you ask.........

Well, not much really, brake discs made of cheese and dissolve in rain, and rear springs can't cope with Edinburgh cart tracks, possibly first world Rumania has better roads than St Nicola's capital But that's probably for another forum???

Give it a go you won't be disappointed and new one looks great

 

Eastern Europe cars had a different higher suspension. W Europe were 14 mm lower.

 

Interesting that the new model has an electronic handbrake. Scrapping my wife’s ancient Laguna meant she had to drive our Passat. That had an electronic handbrake, which she hated - it was either on or off, and the button was on the dashboard - so as it was 12 years old we decided to switch to a smaller car, the Stepway II with a normal handbrake. No more juggling at hill starts.
I’d be interested to read what owners of the new model think, and how it works in practice.

 

This car has hill hold on the foot brake.
You can do hill starts without the handbrake.

 

Yes, our Stepway II has that two-second hold feature, I was more interested in the usefulness or otherwise of the new electronic handbrake, and if it was similar to that on the Passat.
When we bought the Passat years ago, I thought at the time it was another one of those unnecessary gimmicks you can't manage without.

 

I had a Passat SW company car. I found it no problem it auto applied and released when you moved off. Much the same as HSA. You just ignored the On/Off button on the dash.

HSA is an upto 2 second hold and releases as soon as you move off, just like electronic handbrakes but uses the ABS.

 

I really disliked the electric handbrake on a recent Qashqai rental car. Definitely another nanny state item I'm happy to do without, along with lane keeping and active cruise control.

 

@Daedalus: The handbrake on our Passat (2007) was governed solely by the button - it didn't work until you pressed it, and would not release until you pressed it again, so it was either on or off.

I remember the ads for an Audi, I think it was, where the car was parked on a slope, and the car stayed where it was but the driver's case rolled down the hill, which leaves me wondering why, if yours worked as you described, there was any need for a button?

We had our Passat until we bought the Dacia in 2020, and it definitely had no form of hill-hold.

Sorry, getting a bit off-topic.

 

@Daedalus: You are correct, and although I didn't expressly disagree with you, I nevertheless owe you an apology.

Having sold the car a couple of years ago, and having a clear out, I was in the process of throwing my English driver's manual away (the original was in French, of course, which went with the car, and I got an English one from ebay). Re-reading it, it definitely states, as you say, that it is auto release. It can't have been a fault because the car was regularly serviced by VW and I'm sure they would have noticed it.

I don't ever recall it auto releasing, whether by accident or design, but if it did we sold the car unnecessarily! The only upside to this is that we've now got a Stepway, and we're both happy with it. Shan't say anything to my wife though. . . .

 

@Daedalus: just to draw a line under this, and to make my excuses!
In January 2020, a couple of weeks after we swapped the Passat for the Sandero, I underwent a scheduled major operation (not life-theatening), which put me out of things and meant my wife running-in the Dacia. Shortly after that it was Covid (France shut down about a week before the UK), so for me the Passat became a distant memory - until now. Last night it suddenly dawned on me that, of course, it was auto-release. The problem was having to put the clutch right to the floor, as opposed to just putting it down far enough to comfortably engage first, as on the Laguna. I recall saying to my wife to treat it like a foot-operated switch and imagine it clicking off, something she was never really happy wiith (she used to drive 20k miles a year when we lived in the UK, so is competent at the wheel). I have to say it caught me out occasionally after driving the Laguna. I wonder now whether I could have got VW to adjust the point of contact with the clutch pedal, but it's a bit late now.
Best wishes.

 

Not thinking of buying a new car, but how do Dacia's cars (and prices) compare with the small Chinese MG in the UK? Did anyone consider buying one?

 

Sorry - meant to add; Sally has covered 2130 miles in five weeks, and according to the onboard computer she averages 51.3 mpg.