Renault Duster [2012-2015] User Reviews

Exterior

  Build Quality is good and over all styling is remarkable. The front mounted additional lamps are cherry on top which clearly puts Duster adventure edition aside from rest of its models and other suv's in the segment.

 

Interior (Features, Space & Comfort)

  Newly introduced sporty interiors will definately grab anyones attention, Very comfortbale seats and with large leg space.  Overall interios are good but still I felt at price of 13.30L  there is definately space of improvement in terms of features which  even lower segment car offers in their medium range models by other brands.

 

Missing Features:

- Only one Trip trip meter is there. Ideally there should be two.

- No arm rest for front seats

- Automatic locking of doors on starting the engine/ignition

- Driver side window should be one touch down i.e. user has to keep the button pressed till the whole glass is rolled down. Ideally driver side window rolls down automatically on one push of button to minimze intervention during driving.

- The integrated navigation cum sterio display screen should be adjustable at an angle for easy view to the driver. Currently the screen faces straight & its bit difficult to view and drive the navigation.

- Shades/Goggles box compartment.

- Electrically Foldable ORVM

- Display of turn indicator is difficult to see during daylight due to is light shade. Darker color shoudld be used to display the turn indicator in the instrument display.

 

Engine Performance, Fuel Economy and Gearbox

- Engine is very smooth with escellent power delivery. Its just been over a month till now and my persoanl calculations project average around 16km/L.

- Gearbox is excellent with smooth transition of gears. Gearbox is very light and having 6th gear is fun giving adequate control over power delivery & speed. 

Ride Quality & Handling

- Very smooth ride with excellent shockers and suspensions. Handling is also very light. With 100ps power makes riding more fun, enjoyable and very less tiring.

 

Final Words 

Overall a nice car and is best in its segment giving experience of SUV at such a price, styling and comfort. But the downturn is in terms of missing features which is disheartening as those are available in basic models of other brands and are essential.

  

Areas of improvement 

 Should definitely work on Missing Features:

- Only one Trip trip meter is there. Ideally there should be two.

- No arm rest for front seats

- Automatic locking of doors on starting the engine/ignition

- Driver side window should be one touch down i.e. user has to keep the button pressed till the whole glass is rolled down. Ideally driver side window rolls down automatically on one push of button to minimize intervention during driving.

- The integrated navigation cum stereo display screen should be adjustable at an angle for easy view to the driver. Currently the screen faces straight & its bit difficult to view and drive the navigation.

- Shades/Goggles box compartment.

- Electrically Foldable ORVM

- Display of turn indicator is difficult to see during daylight due to is light shade. Darker color should be used to display the turn indicator in the instrument display.

 Also the customer experience was very bad and pathetic when I bought this car from Gurgaon dealership. The sales staff is very negligient and takes things for granted. My excitement for buying a new car was callously ruined by the delivery team. Some tips while dealing with car delivery:

 

- Ensure proper checkup of the car before delivery.

- Ensure correnct delivery time and repeatedly keep tab from your side on progress. My delivery was delayed for 4 hrs.

- Monitor & inspect while car is being cleaned & polished before delivery. (I caught them with filling dirty water in the wiper water dispenser unit)

- Very imp: - Document and get everything in written whatever is communicated in terms of discounts, offers etc. bec they have very good tendency in turning their back on statements not documented at last moment.

- Try to enquire for offers and other discounts which might come as car was delivered to me just 2 days before the Thailand trip offer which they could have easily accommodated by letting me know upfront.

 

 

Exterior Styling, Amazon Green Color, Sporty Interiors, Good Leg & Boot Space, Smooth rideSome basic features missing, bad location of buttons, Showroom Delivery experience,