Car magazine «Behind the wheel» listed five problems with the 1.6 liter engine on LADA, Nissan and Renault

The HR16DE engine was installed on Nissan Sentra, Micra, Qashqai, Note, Tiida and Juke models, as well as on Renault Megane, Logan, Fluence, Sandero, Duster, Kaptur and Arkana models. From 2015, the power unit began to be assembled at Russian AvtoVAZ and began to be installed on Vesta and Xray.

Obviously, the engine for available models has a number of drawbacks. Magazine «Behind rulyom» decided to look into this issue and compiled a list of the five most common faults.

So, in the first place is the whistle of the drive belt, which most often occurs in wet weather during a cold start. The    engineers failed to get rid of the problem. Next comes "oil" — oil consumption in some cases can reach up to liters per 5 000 km. for this simple operation on HR16DE you will have to remove and reinstall the intake manifold. Another design feature of the power unit was the absence of hydraulic compensators, which creates difficulties with adjusting valve clearances.

Finally, not all models can be refueled with AI-92 gasoline. It is noteworthy that the AI-95 needs to be filled in crossovers and during the warm season.