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

I love my car

The engine operation of the new Hybrid is awful. It roars away whilst driving in warm weather even as slow at 25 mph for most of my in-town journeys. The noise level is uncomfortable, disturbing, hard to think over. I hate it and very much regret buying it. I tried to give it back after a couple of weeks but was not allowed to - the buy back offer would have lost me over £5000 after only 10 days.

After having my last Duster for nearly 6 years I was really looking forward to getting the new model... already been in once for work on the drivers door & the problem still isn't fixed.

Also find the safety features far too sensitive & intrusive, more likely to cause an accident than help.

The windows have been found open on two occasions, automatically opened whilst parked and 'locked'? Unexplained hazard warnings and stalling. Over complicated media screen and other functions that get turned off but then are on again the next time you drive. Overall - very frustrating

Our brand new Dacia is awaiting parts that are not available and are unlikely to be available in the near future.

Noisy in first gear with vibration

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.