First few weeks in the Lada Niva
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- čas přidán 3. 12. 2022
- Two weeks of driving the 4x4 Lada Niva. Here is what I like about it and what I don´t like... and some stuff I need to improve on it!
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I have driven brand new VW's suvs, etc. Purchased old Niva, oh boy i fell in love with it immediately. This beast is capable of bringing you anywhere without damaging the underneath and other stuff that cost 4 digits EUR on others. So because of it being cheap and everything can be repaired easily you really don't have to think a lot when going off road.
thats really what I like about it... Had a t3Syncro a while back.. and every time I used in for off-roading somethin expensive and hard to fix broke.... not very fun in the long run!
I own a 4 door 2017 model.All these issues you talked about in your car have been fixed .I just love this vehicle.
Doing the wheelarches properly was such a good decision.
Dear sir... I've even called my second husky dog Niva ❤
I got a 2000 Niva 1.7 in South Africa. bought it 3 weeks ago. Done 1500km in it already. Got some work to do on the carburettor and also missing the vacuum advance on the distributor, amongst other things, and I am getting between 10 and 11km per litre which is not bad considering it's not running at full efficiency yet. I've owned a couple of cars in my life and my favourate is the Niva. This is my second. My first one that I still have, and am using for spares, has a toyota TD engine that is the root of all the problems I have ever had. Still made Mozambique in that one and back which was AWESOME.
People give them a lot of hate but they are so much fun, mine is a beast. Top speed I got her too was 110 KPH and it was scary
I love Niva! My favorite, I have 85 model.
If it's carburated, it doesn't even need 95 gasoline - 92 is enough if you can get it. Glad you like Niva, it's a great car.
Ladas are definitely a bit agricultural to drive that's for sure! but the Niva is great off road so hopefully you get to try out in the snow ❄️⛄🥶🚙
I agree with you that this is the best winter car. I have 2 lada niva and gearbox is often trash because of heavy towing😂, if you are planning to offroad often I would considere putting in torsen differentials. Wish you all the best with your niva!!
Thank you for this lada experience! You managed to accomplish so much with this one! So good to see you enjoying it now. I would fix the heater fan first for obvious reasons 😅. Anyway, it's a rough beast of a car 😆
I will do that very soon! Bwwrrr! its cold now!
Keep that car. It seems to represent you and your channel perfectly. I would be really impressed to see to see one of these cars still working and being used if I ever turned up at the garage as a customer. Good stuff!👍
It fits my taste very good.... its a lot of fun!
Seppo,
Based on my 3 years of running a 1989 Niva...
Take the driveshaft to the rear off at the gearbox end and check the tightness of the big nut..they vibrate loose and IIRC there is a crush cone that has to be replaced and then torqued.
Otherwise 5th gear gets destroyed.
There is a nut on the right side of the block (when looking forward) on the timing chain case area...
with the engine switched off undo this and listen for the PING when the spring pushes the guide out further onto the timing chain
After that do up the nut and the final pressure is from oil pressure when the engine is running.
Stops the engine sounding like a bag of bolts in a tumble dryer...
One great thing is the ability to use low range on the road as the constant 4wd allows this without damage to the drive train.
I towed 2.3 tonnes of smashed up concrete to the dump...in low...really slowly..
I changed the carb to a 32/36 Weber DGV with electric choke..(found on old Ford Cortinas etc)
it made no difference to the fuel mileage but gave smoother quicker acceleration...
The holes in the floor allow the vehicle to sink down so the wheels can get grip...
mine was up to the door handles outside in the river..and up over my ankles inside..no problems...
Just pull the mats up and the water drains out....
I sold mine in the end to a 17 year old who then drove it home 300km...he didn't phone me so I presume it all went well.
About 2006 there was a huge buy up up Nivas in New Zealand...an Egyptian entrepreneur sent two of his mechanics as "tourists" to live in a shipping container in a scrap yard while they dismantled as many Ladas and Peugeot 404s as he could buy... for the mechanical parts only...the bodies were scrapped.
He had a huge market in the Middle East and Africa for those oily bits....
So most of our RHD Nivas left our shores....
have a good look at how tight the right hand side footwell is...and imagine how three pedals fit in there...and your feet with boots on.
Those Nivas originally arrived here as part exchange with the USSR for our butter mountain...which they then deconstituted and made money by selling off the refined "parts" !
Wow must be hard driving it with boots on then!
Yea I plan to remove the gearbox soon to fix the 4 gear.. its popping out, But I would like to get something else road worthy before so I don´t get stranded at home!
The chain tensioner is already done... :)
So cool with the holes in the floor... !
You don't need to remove the gearbox just the transfer box and the intermediate shaft between them including the rubber coupling on the back of the gearbox. Tighten the nut on the back of the mainshaft the lock washer tab breaks off and revolves with the nut slackening it this allows the endfloat on the mainshaft which moves the shaft away from the input shaft and disengages the 4th gear synchronization hub on over run common fault.
10L/100km is good for niva. You have 4 wheel drive and offroad transmission that need power to rotate. My grandpa have niva (carbyrator version) and 12L/100km is normal for 50/50 half road, half offroad. You can get 40L/100km in heavy offroad :)
My niva is niva 1600 and its consuming to much fuel like 5 6 liter per kilometers... what shall I do ?
You mean 56L/100km? If you have carburator version you need to adjust carburator. Bt for off road even 100L not the limit :)))
This Lada Niva is also such a cool car. Greetings from the new owners of the trabant p60😅
Haha! Hey Bjørn! I hope you and the P60 are doing great! :)
SERVUS. Grüsse aus Bayern. Hab Dich beim Kanal vom Ed mitbekommen. Cooler content! Alles Gute!
I met the 1986 model Nivam in 1993. It is a very enjoyable tool. I am addicted and have been using it since 1993
Nice to see it being enjoyed and used after your hard work.
Lovely loud Lada!
thank you for the ride, hopefully you can show us the snowride later this winter.
It's also advisable to overfill the gearbox with ~2 dl of oil :)
Looks like a fun car. Cold War Motors would call that a “winter beater”.
So good to see this little thing being up and about again! 👍
Gotta try out your test track one day!
@@SeasideGarage Any time! :)
Thank you. This was great info.
Lada..... Niva.. Owhh.. I like this car.. I can go anywhere.
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Lada , Give me a pair of pliers and a spool of wire and I'll drive around the world 😅
Are you paying for the petrol? :P
I’ve been a bit of a Lada fan for a lot of years I bought one a cheap run around and loved, I drove Nivas a few times where they were never greatly refined but I think you may find when you change the gearbox the ride will be quieter, enjoy very capable off roaders
Its not bad considering drain holes all over the floor and only rubber mats... ;)
@@SeasideGarage
The drain holes allow the Lada to fill with water so you sink down and the wheels grip the river bed...and you move....
If you are floating...you are a boat with no control.
I had mine with river water level up to the door handles outside...just over the ankles inside...no problems....
Gratulere med fin bil! Har en '94 Niva her i Vardø, Norge. Lykke til ;)
(Congratulations on a fine car. Got a 94 Niva here in Vardø, Norway. Good luck ;)
Thanks! Det er en fin bil sådan en!
I usually dont engage the 5th gear until 90-100, mostly because the 4th synchronizer is destroyed and if I need to reduce from 5th to 4th I need to have some time
what a beast
Daumen hoch !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;-)
Your feet will thank you if you fix the heater fan, plus being able to see where your going would help. Thought you said you had a spare gearbox?
Yea its high on the To-do list!
Yes I have a spare 4 speedbox... but I will try to fix the 5 speed first because it help a lot on the consumption on long trips... :)
Sounds like it needs a valve and timing chain adjustment too.
Fed vogn! ❤
Tak for en god video.
Lada Niva må ligge i top3 efter det bedste, der nogensinde er kommet fra Rusland.
Alene det faktum, at modellen fortsat er i produktion efter 45 år, vidner om et særdeles vellykket, solidt og hårdført køretøj, der praktisk talt kan anvendes til det meste i Sibirien og resten af verden.
Det er en fantastisk bil... Men på den anden side er det måske også lidt nemt at blive ved med at lave den samme.... En nyproduceret volvo 240 ville jo også være fantastisk men langt fra moderne standarder... det gælder også nivaen...
På den anden side tror jeg også at en nyproduceret volvo 240 ville være mere pålideligt end noget andet på vejen idag... ;)
Selv tak!
Hello or hola from Bolivia.
Hola!
Great but fix the heater on the old girl before the snow catches you out
I'm new to Seaside Garage and I like it a lot. Did you notice that your oil pressure light came on as you went round the right hand bend at the end of this video?
Great to hear!
No it's the fuel gauge light! :)
I have niva 1600 and consumption of fuel is to much like 5 or 6 liters per kilometers what do u recommend
Hello, what is that orange and white mo-demon the wall behind you ?
Moby-X
Haha yeah they're loud, I have to wear earplugs when driving mine or I'll get a headache. Sound insulation is on my very long list of things to do, are you considering it?
Love the consistent Niva content 👍
I was considering it actually.... but keeping costs down atm... ;)
@@SeasideGarage Ah yep fair enough, not exactly a quick job either to do it right. Im dreading it haha
Having played many hours of the game "The Long Drive", which features a trio of Ladas (2101, 2102 and 2105), hearing the idle exhaust note at 9:12, yep, they definitely recorded real Lada engine sounds for that game, though I doubt you have issues with boulders suddenly appearing out of thin air 3 feet infront of the car when travelling at 120kmh... :P
Never tried that game! sounds fun!
Woah I love that game, it's very small so it's suprise to see it mentioned in the wild like this !
What’s the E5 situation like in the Nordic countries. Will it still be available for years to come?
Still available :) but more expensive
I love my niva but the carby fucks up every 500 km , might need a new one
Sounds like its on its way out.... or maybe dirt in the tank?
Does it fill with crap?
Put in TWO decent in line fuel filters.....
and clean out the where the fuel line enters the carb (gauze screen).
Put a golf ,1,9,desel engine
I'm 1 meter tall and 85cm, will such a car be comfortable in the driver's seat?????
You won't be comfortable in a niva... But you will fit just fine.. 😜
Tienen un diseño genial, tracción permanente en las 4 ruedas, por eso consume y la dirección mecánica es un poco dura, tiene bajo,o sea fuerza a baja velocidad y tiene un gran bloqueo central, especial para el barro, hay que tener cuidado cuando se usa, hay que tratar de llevarlo recto, por qué cuando se tiene este bloqueo es como si le soldaran las ruedas a los ejes, entonces en una cueva se puede romper algo, tiene excelentes angulas de ataque, de salida y central, es corto no es tan pesado, tiene barras estabilizadoras, la distancia entre las ruedas delanteras es más ancha que la distancia entra las ruedas traseras, fácil de mantener y lo mejor de todo se sigue fabricando,ya llevan vendido millones ,pero con baja publicidad, realmente es un carro no ostentoso,con lo estrictamente necesario, hecho para el trabajo en condiciones difíciles, por algo lo siguen solicitando,yo tuve un 93 y mi papá un 92 y andamos por toda Colombia,trabajábamos en las parte rural por caminos agrestes, pero los lada nueva siempre salón adelante, ojo mi papá Tuvo Land Rover, serie ii y Toyotas Land cruiser y yo tenía Nissan Patrol, pero para los terrenos bien difíciles ,los lada eran superiores, si trajeran el Niva Bronto, correría a Comprarlo,sin pensarlos, biene mejorado, embrague más grande, más altura sobre el piso, ejes reforzados, además le agregaron bloqueos atrás y adelante, un verdadero 4x4,con confiabiabilidad demostrada por más de 40años ,por eso no necesita publicidad, sus compradores son bien informados saben lo que necesitan
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