A (quick 'n' dirty) JRS car review - Dacia Jogger Expression TCe 110

mid_gen said:
Interested to hear how ownership goes. Happy with my Alphard at the moment, but it is a bit thirsty and have idly looked at the Jogger configurator a few times, keep meaning to test drive one.

I literally couldn't care less about performance as long as it can do 70 on a motorway comfortable and overtake a pushbike that's all I need.

Need something cheap to run, with a big boot I can chuck a few bouldering mats/mountaineering gear in. It's a reasonable looking motor too, especially for the money.

Definitely loads of Dusters and Joggers on the roads these days, so they much be doing something right.
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They‘re still excellent VFM and have been in the top 3 most reliable brands/models for years now.

Not because they‘re built to Swiss watch/Swedish car levels of over-engineering, but because they’re built using Renault and Nissan parts which have been around for yonks and got the kinks ironed out of them long ago.

For example, the Renault K9K 1.5 litre DCi engine has been used in at least 10 million cars since 2011.
 
Rroff said:
Personally not a car I'd want to be eating up the miles in - fine for running around town and trips to the dump, etc. or if like a poster on here you want something to bang about on back roads and farms kind of setting without caring too much about it.
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I'd be interested to try one tbh. The ride in my Leon is pretty poor (low power model so no independent rear suspension) and the upgraded alloys my one came with compound the issue. Road noise is pretty horrendous too. Power is in the same ball park as the Jogger... as I say, would be interested to try one.
 
Terminal_Boy said:
For example, the Renault K9K 1.5 litre DCi engine has been used in at least 10 million cars since 2011.
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Used in the Qashqai as well - fairly smooth, reliable and gets great MPG but I went for the 1.6 as personally I just need something a little bit more especially if you need a little poke for overtaking.
 
Right, up in Bury now.

Terminal_Boy said:
Hopefully, the visibility of the media console has improved in the Jogger as it’s set far too low in my Duster and can’t be read using polarised sunglasses.
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Can confirm that media screen is perfectly visible while wearing polarising shades.

And also...

Rroff said:
Personally not a car I'd want to be eating up the miles in - fine for running around town and trips to the dump, etc. or if like a poster on here you want something to bang about on back roads and farms kind of setting without caring too much about it.
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...this appears to be absolute balls ;) It ate the ~100 miles of A50-M6-M60-M66 just fine. Perfectly comfortable, nice and quiet at cruising speeds aside from some tyre roar on that bit of weird road surface near JCB. The cruise control is easily one of the better I've used in manual 'box cars as well - never been particularly happy with CC when not paired with an automatic, but this worked fine.
 
Really quite interested in this thread / these as a replacement for the cmax to do kid ferrying / dog ferrying / roof box and stuff laden camping wagon in a couple of years.

Totally appeals as a zero frills, but assumedly perfectly tolerable transport.
 
One to potentially add to the 'annoyances' pile while I'm thinking about it - Android Auto isn't wireless on this trim level any more (reserved for the Extreme thanks to the Great Worldwide Chip Shortage™), and the placement of the USB port for the cable leaves it hanging in column stalk country. Additionally, the USB-C cable I was using isn't the best, and with the angle I had it bent at it decided a couple of times to disconnect-reconnect. That's mainly a cable issue though so I can't really knock the car for that one.
 
Rroff said:
Used in the Qashqai as well - fairly smooth, reliable and gets great MPG but I went for the 1.6 as personally I just need something a little bit more especially if you need a little poke for overtaking.
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Fair point, the 1.5 DCI Duster (even my 110bhp version) doesn‘t exactly shove me back into the seat when I put my foot down to get out and around a vehicle sitting around 125-130kph on the Autoroute.
 
JRS said:
...this appears to be absolute balls ;) It ate the ~100 miles of A50-M6-M60-M66 just fine. Perfectly comfortable, nice and quiet at cruising speeds aside from some tyre roar on that bit of weird road surface near JCB. The cruise control is easily one of the better I've used in manual 'box cars as well - never been particularly happy with CC when not paired with an automatic, but this worked fine.
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To be fair I come from mostly driving ~3L V6s with better than average seats. The 1.6L Qashqai is the minimum I could put up with :s and that being the n- vision spec has nice seats.
 
@JRS Used the car yesterday, and remembered two things I hate. It has an appalling turning circle and that stupid electric handbrake!

One thing I noticed straight away was an issue with the accelerator, and would be interested to hear if yours is the same. When pressing all the way down you reach what feels like full throttle, but if you push a little harder there's another half inch of travel. Dealership said it was intentional, as it's the kick down threshold for automatic Dacias...
 
Dyson said:
@JRS Used the car yesterday, and remembered two things I hate. It has an appalling turning circle and that stupid electric handbrake!
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Turning circle...meh, I daily drive a 1st gen Kia Soul so I'm absolutely used to cars with truly pathetic manoeuvrability.

The electronic handbrake sucks. Because all electronic handbrakes suck. Literally, all of them. It's the answer to a question that no bugger was asking in the first place.

Dyson said:
One thing I noticed straight away was an issue with the accelerator, and would be interested to hear if yours is the same. When pressing all the way down you reach what feels like full throttle, but if you push a little harder there's another half inch of travel. Dealership said it was intentional, as it's the kick down threshold for automatic Dacias...
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I haven't needed WOT yet to be fair. But even getting on it to overtake dawdling Audis on the M6 it didn't need anything more than a quick prod from a 71mph cruise.

Speaking of - can't say enough about the cruise control implementation. Even with a manual 'box it actually works. I've driven a whole bunch of cars with cruise control, and almost without exception the only ones that actually worked had automatic transmissions. This is one of the precious few exceptions.
 
Dyson said:
@JRS Used the car yesterday, and remembered two things I hate. It has an appalling turning circle and that stupid electric handbrake!

One thing I noticed straight away was an issue with the accelerator, and would be interested to hear if yours is the same. When pressing all the way down you reach what feels like full throttle, but if you push a little harder there's another half inch of travel. Dealership said it was intentional, as it's the kick down threshold for automatic Dacias...
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Possibly the same as on my Hyundai, if you've got the speed limiter set then that extra travel allows you to override it without needing to turn it off
 
950 miles in two days, now in the south of France. And the Jogger can lay claim to being the first car anyone in our family has had in forever that doesn't give my mother a bad back.

Averaged about 47mpg down country, not bad considering how much mountainous stuff there is. We've left the rearmost seats home so the boot is in cavernous 'bringing wine home' trim, we'll see what loading it up does to the economy later in August.

The electronic parking brake still sucks. They don't work on any level - they're not safer than a regular manual one (if anything they're much less safe), they're no more convenient, I don't know what question they were the answer to.
 
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