Customer reviews for Dacia DusterDacia Duster according to those who use it on a daily basis

OK, My Duster drives like a dream, BUT much more information about the running of the car and ALL its guarantees would have been MOST helpful.

OK, so it is a completely new model and I know that the Dacia sales person had been on a one day course prior to me picking up the car, to find out more, but, perhaps they should have been driving around in one before handing it across to me.

ALSO, if you have no Smart phone then how do you find out how the car functions - especially when you are driving along and something unexpectedly happens? What if you do have a Smart phone but you cannot get a mobile signal?

In the past any car that I have driven has come with a comprehensive paper manual but, this time, just a very shortened version of one. No good to me!

I now have a full one from Dacia, several weeks after requesting it! Better late than never! Thank you Dacia. All 101 pages have been read through, but there are still some missing items!

As time goes by Dacia's Sales personnel will get to know the car better. Three months on I'm still learning. No doubt, more to follow.

I am impressed with most aspects of my Duster 1.2 TCe Journey. Best points are the comfortable seats, media system sound quality, smooth gearbox, great looks, it is fuel efficient with plenty of power. The ride is magnificent and it handles really well for an SUV. Small things I am not as keen on are the 1.2 while having plenty of power, is a little noisy and the gearing takes getting used to. The interior doesn't feel particularly well screwed together with some squeaks and rattles. The carpets are very very cheap feeling. The leg room behind the drivers seat is compromised because of the battery unit under the front seat. Dacia could also do with making the floor mats a better shape to cover more of the very cheap carpets. However, I would recommend it as it is lovely to drive, comfortable (for 3 people!) and easily achieves 50MPG on a run. And compared to the price of most cars, it does represent better value, but compromises have to be made somewhere to achieve this.

Not bad, but the software is a little buggy.

For example, the front-camera repeated "loses connectivity", especially in cold weather which is strange. Often I'll get the message while driving, which will disable certain driver safety features, then usually minutes later it'll recover.

I had an issue with Android auto where the sound for the all-round parking sensors stopped working. The sensors themselves were fine, and were showing detection on the dashboard.

I went into Android auto settings, and in the sound configuration, I could hear the other sounds when selecting a different sound or setting the volume, but the parking sensors were silent not matter what I did.

The only way I was able to recover this was to completely set the Android auto back to factory defaults, then reconfigure.

The car is great, but the software is buggy.

Having had had 2 Dusters in a row, I'm very disappointed with the my new acquistion. The windows are much smaller, so much so, that you haven't bothered with a rear screen washer! My wife complains she can't se out of the windows properly from the passenger seat, that has no height adjustment.The radio only comes on half the time, and controlling it's volume seems to have different results each time I try to adjust it. The heating controls are impossible to see at night, and the positioning of the Hazard Warning switch often results in the Hazard lights going on, when struggling to adjust the heating.

I could go on, but I think you'll gather that I'm generally not very impressed.

Good over all and value for money

Electronics on Journey overly complicated and can be flakey.

Some strange restrictions such as limited route setting options on sat nav make it really only useful for last few miles of a journey.

Some obvious cost savings seem strange choice. No heated seats although wiring loom is there yet heated seats on my wife’s Stepway!

Spoils a good product.

Please, with it so far, But I have a problem with the camera which keeps going off. Then, after a few days, it comes back on again and then goes off again. It is currently at the dealers so they can have a look at it. I hear a few have had to have them Recalibrated, but I’d rather it was working properly from the start. Everything else seems to be fine

Great value for money, I have the journey spec this time and it's great has absolutely everything you could need.

If anything perhaps the heated seat controls could be positioned on the dash near heating controls as its a pain if your passenger has left theirs on and you either don't realise or have to lean over to their seat to turn off.

Very happy with my Duster getting used to an automatic and the hybrid side of it. My only slight issue is that I am 6’ 2” so my seat is all the way back and with the centre arm rest down it is difficult to do up my seat belt. With lid up it’s ok. I appreciate not everyone is tall.

All very good except for the Bluetooth in-car microphone which is almost useless. I have to use my phone's microphone for call recipients to hear me clearly. This is a fault many owners have experienced according to internet postings. Design and service fix needed. Very annoying!

Like manual drive and absence of unwanted tech. Lack of any jack,repair kit,space saver or spare wheel is undesirable. No space in boot for spare wheel a downside. Fitted roof bars are to wide for normal ladder.clamps and aerial is in the way for carrying longer objects.