Renault Caps What is better automatic or variator. Transmission Kaptur.

It is no secret that 2016 with the DP8 index showed itself not from the best side - ripped rhythm of movement, only 4 transmission, thoughtfulness when switching and other sins. On the other hand, what else to expect from the box developed in the twentieth century and still upgraded? And how to put a similar automatic transmission on a 1.6-liter modification, if it is even with a 2-liter not particularly going?

It is the presence of such Nevaznetsky automatic transmission, but to a greater extent the absence of other options, and fought the French to equip its crossover with a stepless variator type CVT X-Tronic. This was killed at once two hares - and the transmission line was expanded, and offered a decent alternative to connoisseurs of two-winning versions.

CVT X-Tronic Variator Features

The Russian market, as you know, favorably belongs to the variasts, accustomed to them, mainly by Japanese models. However, Renault has hurried to announce that she prepared for his 2016 year older, not a simple CVT, and something special! Is it so?

In the dealerships, pay the attention of the buyer to the decline, which is achieved by such a transmission. In addition, the driver can choose one of the 2 mode modes - either a stepless change in the gear ratio, or imitating, as if at the classic "machine".

CVT X-Tronic Design

The highlight of the variator is a 2-speed planetary transmission, thanks to which it, strictly speaking, is not a variator in its classical understanding, but a hybrid CVT and a traditional torque converter. During the start of the movement, the first step turns on, but it is almost immediately replaced by the second, after which it takes, actually the variator layout.

Design cVT variator X-Tronic is very and very perfect.

Such a decision gave French engineers the opportunity not only to make a transmissision less, but also to significantly expand the ranges of gear ratios. In addition, the variator was calibrated, for better interaction with a 1.6-liter engine. It immediately affected, especially on dynamics and economy. For example, on the press of the gas pedal, it will respond noticeably alive.

Specifications CVT X-TRONIC:

Renault Kaptur. - This is an urban crossover, completing power plantswhich have an optimal power supply, such as a version of a car with a 1.6 liter engine and 114 engine horse power. The car is completed with the variator, works on petrol fuel. Drive for this foreign car front. The carton of the Variator is often found on the car of Japanese production.

Advantage of Acquisition Renault Kaptur with CVT

Box of variator

What is the reliability of the variator? Kaptur CVT is a common vehiclewhich accelerates to one hundred about 13-14 seconds. The car is great for ride over rough terrain, its clearance exceeds 200 mm. The variator provides smooth ride, makes decent competition with automatic and mechanical gearbox. Thanks to availability front drive There is a minimum load on the transmission system.

How much fuel is consumed? For each cycle, the indicator is characteristic. In particular, with ride in the city cycle, 8.6 liters are spent at 100 km, about 7 liters. Consisted in a mixed cycle. Minimum 6 liters leave when driving on the highway.

In order for the vehicle to promiscoun as much as possible, the Renault Captures with the variator should be operated according to a specific rules. When arriving in Mount, the motorist may face the machine, the car will be hard to rise, after which it stalls, as the turns are falling. This is explained by the fact that the system, experiencing load, activates special protection against overheating. On the complex relief, caboats with the variator shows decent indicators.

The box reacts perfectly to change the thrust. It automatically sets optimal speed parameters. It all depends on the engine load. In price ratio it is more profitable to purchase a Capture model with a variator rather than with a machine gun.

Jatco JF015E / CVT X-Tronic Box

Jatco JF015E / CVT X-Tronic

The Jatco JF015E box on this version of the car provides an effective stepless change in the gear ratio. Changing speeds occur quickly. In the cabin of the car with such a box there is excellent acoustically comfort. The basis of Jatco JF015E is a belt and conical pulleys. The speed set occurs smoothly, there are no roars and shocks. it distinctive feature All variators.

The installation on the Capture model is maintained as CVT X-Tronic, where there is a two-stage planetary transmission. CVT X-TRONIC is not peculiar to small engines. The average resource of this transmission reaches 150,000 miles. As soon as this mark was overcome, repair and restoration work required automotive systemwhich may be in the implementation of the replacement of individual components of spare parts, suppliesbelonging to the gearbox.

Possible CPP problems

It should be noted that the loss of the movement dynamics can be directly related to the fact that the filtering elements are clogged or washing is necessary throttle valve. The appearance of jerks during the commissioning may be due to the fact that transmission oil Lost his work properties, contaminated wear products. For the model, the capture with the variator is suitable for using such a fluid as Nissan NS-3. For full replacement It takes about 10 liters. Changes this oil Approximately every 60000 km of mileage.

Kaptur has been sold for several months, but he has not yet managed to approach popularity to mass duster. The reasons? Higher prices and narrow selection of modifications. So, until recently automatic box put only on a two-liter version with fully drive. And the more accessible front-wheel drive KAPTUR was offered exclusively with a 1.6-liter engine and mechanical box - No one for cars with urban image.

And in September, the French really encouraged to release a two-week front-wheel drive Kaptur. According to the layout considerations, it was provided with a non-traditional hydromechanical machine, but by a clinoremable variator. Renault believes that the output of this modification will allow you to double the sales of the capture. The main argument is the price. It costs 979,990 rubles, and for all-wheel drive KAPTUR you need to lay out 1,099,990 rubles.

I did not expect anything special from the car. Tandem of the 1.6-liter 114-power engine and the Jatco JF015E variator has long been known for models Renault. And Nissan. But it turned out that the variator got new program Control and learned to imitate the 8-step automatic: it switches virtual transmissions, eliminating the engine from hanging on some revolutions. So that the transmission moves into pseudo automatic regime, the gas pedal must be pressed at least 30%. There is also a manual mode, and when the transmission has already become a "six-speed" transmission.

What does it give? Honestly, nothing special: Variatorny Kaptur accelerates without much enthusiasm. According to a passport, he is gaining the first hundred in 12.9 seconds, but, according to my measurements, it came out under 14 seconds. Well, maybe the car is not yet rolling.

In the fast Moscow stream, the speakers are sometimes not enough, it is also necessary to put the pedal to the floor. Only after 3500 rpm acceleration becomes more or less energetic. But in the sluggish mode, the variator is good: adequately reacts to changing the thrust and does not irritate the thoughtfulness and jerks, which sinters two-liter automatic modification.

What Kaptur CVT pleased, it is an enviable economy. For a hundred "miles" of the path, he is required about eight liters of gasoline. The version with the mechanics, I remember, went to the liter more!

I traveled not only around the city - I could not resist and jumped off-road. On the complex relief, the front-wheel drive Kaptur CVT did not flatten: confidently took steep climbs on the grader and quietly started after the stop on them - not without the help of the Hill Start Assist system. But when I went to the storming of the sandy mountain, a few seconds a struggle surrendered: threw the engine speed and stopped. Worked for overheating: There is no separate radiator for cooling the variator. The French believe that the front-wheel drive car, which is sharpened under the asphalt riding, the radiator is not needed. I rolled back, stood a minute with a turned off the engine - and drove into a detour, on the plain.

In the city, Captura's passability is enough for his eyes. Clearance - 204 mm, bodies are short. Even high borders are not an insurmountable obstacle, the main thing is to avoid high load on the transmission not to attack them simultaneously with two wheels. Drove at an angle, and order.

When finding out the capture (SE, 2016, No. 6), we have permanently disconnect the ESP. The manufacturer listened to the remark: In the near future, a shutdown button will appear. Maybe the radiator of the variator will be introduced? Then the front-wheel drive Kaptur 2.0 CVT will ask for a song!

Happy New Renault Kaptur Permanent readers "Engine" are already familiar. Not so long ago in Sochi and the surrounding area, we have already checked in the case two versions of the crossover: 2.0-liter all-wheel drive and 1,6-liter with front-wheel drive. This time, on the streets of St. Petersburg, as well as the highway and primline Leningrad region, we have experienced a new modification of Kaptur, to which in Renault lay special hopes: 1.6 CVT - with front-wheel drive and variator.

This version of the car in the Russian representation Renault announced immediately as soon as Kaptur was officially represented in the Russian Federation. And from the very beginning, they stated that it should be hardly the most popular in the line of modifications of the crossover. First, it is the most affordable two-week version of the Capture (from 979,000 rubles at the time of the publication of the material), and secondly, the car is positioned, first of all, as the city crossover. And the resident of the metropolis, it seems like, and nothing to do with a large volume and all-wheel drive transmission - the gearbox in urban is more relevant to the left foot.

To begin with - a couple of words about the variator itself. Constructively, this is a box developed by Jatco, which is known, in particular nissan crossovers under the name X-Tronic. The "trained" variator imitate gear shifting: in automatic mode, the box is asked as much as eight virtual "steps", six of them are available in the manual driver. Based on those who, even on the front-wheel drive crossover with a small motor, will regularly ride under load, installed an additional cooling circuit to protect against overheating.

Renault marketers offered for Kaptur stylish individualization packages - a huge rarity in the mass segment. The calculation is understandable to young people and, of course, the beautiful half of humanity.

In addition to bright color Gamma. And a separate roof color, you can wrap almost the entire car with orange strokes of the Ultra Energy Package. In addition, there are still stickers on the same roof and the Orange package to decorate the interior. Not counting the surcharges for the main color, the total orange decor will cost 52,970 rubles. However, it can be ordered separately.

The French, according to their own words, did not simply borrow a box from the partners in the Alliance, and modernized her for their own needs and the concept of Kaptur crossover as a "urban fighter". In particular, the reaction time is minimized to press the accelerator pedal, especially repeated after the gas reset. And the mode of simulation of switching gear is activated when the gas pedal is pressed by more than a third. The algorithm of the work of the variator, the word was developed with the direct participation of Russian Renault engineers. What they do not get tired to emphasize in the Russian representative office of the company.

Does the French and their Russian colleagues realize the conceived? In general - yes: Driving Kaptur 1.6 CVT is quite adequate to its power and mass. But in the parties ... No wonder the devil from Goethe spoke by Foust: "Such the theory, my friend, and the tree of life flourishes!" For it lies, as usual, in detail.

In the urban time, in a dense stream, moving at a speed, fluctuating from 20 to 60-80 km / h, Kaptur really not bad. We will not speak dynamic, but for the pedal, the car should be quite willing. However, it is necessary to break out about the operational space, how questions begin.

The first of them concerns the acceleration time at speeds over ordinary urban. Kaptur 1.6 CVT and from the spot is not "Rimmer", and on the track Oversight you need to count doubly carefully. In order to quickly and safely make a maneuver, you need to let go of the overtaken car forward a little forward and starting to buy the accelerator pedal, still being on my lane, - so that the "oncoming" is already leaving the pedal in the floor. Otherwise, you can face traditional variator behavior: you give - you hear the roar of the motor first and only a second of a second you feel the desired pickup. As practice shows, it is precisely these stakes and not enough ...

In the city, the explicit adaptability of the box under the driving manner is not always "on the cashier": you get over the forty of the traffic jams - after you get sluggish acceleration, if necessary, vigorously accelerate. And the Sport-mode has no transmission - only manual.

In general, the traditional feature of the variators, despite the management algorithm modernized by the Russian specials, in the Capture CVT X-Tronica was obvious: to consider Kaptur with a stepless transmissance by a dear kidnapper of urban tranquility.

If you go through the free country track with a more or less constant speed, the capture on the variator pleases and comfort (working about 2000 rpm engine is not inclined to "put on the ears"), and efficiency: in the specified mode, fuel consumption is easy to "put" Not only in the average "passport" 7.1 liters, but also at 6.8 liters per 100 km. By the way, the crossover with a motor 1.6 and "mechanics" the claimed consumption above: 7.4 liters per hundred.

What is the result?

In company Renault new Kaptur 1.6 CVT was very accurate: this, expressing a motorcycle language - "Street": very bright and successful, but in motion an emotionally balanced conqueror of urban streets, requiring "swinging" by an accelerator to justify a rather loud rank.

At the same time, it is not contraindicated on the nature of nature! Moreover, it is outside the city and you understand that the words of representatives of Renault that Kaptur is not just adapted, but created for Russia, it is, as they say, fact, not advertising. On a broken settlement, who did not know what a grader, since the time of the king of pea, not to mention the relatively smooth gravel, the energy-intensive suspension of the crossover works in the best traditions of the kindred duster, as if the French created Kaptur not only for Russian cities, but also amateur rally for their limits. Here would have four more leading wheels for complete harmony! And such a version is already preparing to exit russian market. Renault Kaptur 1.6 AWD, wait for you! ..

For Renault in Russia, the new Kaptur crossover became invented: since June managed to sell three thousand copies, and the orders were already collected 15,000! At the same time, 80% of customers are new, who did not have owned by cars of the French brand. But the most interesting thing is that almost half of the buyers chooses the flagship version with a two-stage 143-strong engine, a four-stage automaton and a complete drive. However, in September, marketers assure, preferences will change - a Kaptur was on sale with a variator and a junior 1.6-liter engine. Yes, at its disposal only 114 "horses" and monoprifer, but also the price below: from 979,990 rubles against 1 099 990. In Renault, it is believed that the output of this modification will allow you to double sales.

At first I thought that a new version For me, the discovery will not be: the engine tandem with a working volume of 1.6 liters in a pair with a jatso variator has long been known for Renault and Nissan models. As in some other concern cars, the variator imitates an eight-propelled automatic machine - switches virtual transmissions, eliminating the engine from hanging on one revolutions (for this, the gas pedal must be squeezed by at least 30%). There is a variator and manual mode - when moving into it, the transmission becomes already "six-speed".

How does this affect the dynamics? Honestly, the car accelerates without much enthusiasm. According to the passport, the first hundred variator capture will exchange for 12.9 seconds. According to my measurements, at least 13.8 came out. In the dynamic Moscow stream, sometimes lacking - it is and then it is necessary to squeeze the pedal to the floor. Only after 3500 rpm acceleration becomes more or less energetic. But in the sluggish movement, the variator is good - adequately reacts to the change in thrust and does not irritate the thoughtfulness and jerks, which the version is sinned with a machine gun.

I lured on off-road. On the complex relief, Kaptur CVT did not flatte: confidently went to the steep rise in the grader and quietly started after the stop on them - thanks to the Hill Start Assist system. But when I started storming the sandy mountain, Renault a few seconds of the struggle surrendered: I threw the engine speed and stopped: I worked for protection against overheating - there is no separate radiator here. The company believes that for the front-wheel drive car, which is sharpened to ride on the asphalt, there is no need for it. I rolled back, stood a minute with the engine off and drove into the plain.

In the city, Captura's passability is enough for his eyes. How-no 204 mm road Suit And short enough skes. So even high borders for him do not become an insurmountable obstacle - the main thing is to avoid high load on the transmission not to attack them simultaneously with two wheels. Drove at an angle, and order.

According to the results of the test, I had only one claim - lacking dynamics. One hundred fourteen forces by the variator capture is not always enough. A two-stage automatic version is assumed. Such a capture deserved himself in our recent comparative test with the main competitors in the market. However, if you won the "traffic lights" for you, it's not the main thing, then the 1.6-liter version with the variator will have to the yard.