Updated LADA Vesta. Where is Lada Vesta Cross assembled in which city? Lada Vesta where they make it Where they make it

June 17, 2018 Lada.Online 6,048 1

The next issue of the video magazine “Okay Mechanics” has been released. This time the presenters (Yanina Pavlova and Stanislav Bereziy) talked about the LADA Izhevsk plant (part of the AVTOVAZ Group), where all modifications of the Lada Vesta are currently produced.

The Lada Izhevsk plant has a full production cycle technology: stamping, plastic injection, welding, painting and assembly. The production capacity of the car plant is 30 cars per hour. Last year, 20 Lada Vesta and 10 Lada Granta cars were produced here per hour. After the transfer of production of Lada Granta lift kits to Tolyatti, all capacities of the Izhevsk Automobile Plant were allocated to Lada Vesta.

When did production begin, its features

In September 2020, the manufacturing process of the Lada Vesta car began. Two months later, the product is released for sale. At first, the model was seen as another failure, but today Lada Vesta is being sold in fairly large quantities, along with some foreign cars. The advantages of the car include:

Affordable and reasonable price.
Comfortable living conditions inside.
Attractive appearance and sufficient capacity.
The standard assembly now includes ESP and ABS.
The presence of two airbags.

The new Lada Vesta sedan is assembled and produced in Izhevsk, where the Lada Granta liftback is produced. Renault engineers helped develop the body, which was designed using the latest software. The car frame is not inferior in strength to the Ford Focus. This was proven already in the first crash tests.

Assembly and painting of a domestic model

Where is the car assembled and finalized? Welding of the main body elements is carried out using advanced robotic equipment. Although this process minimizes the influence of the human factor, it could not be done without the presence of qualified assemblers. Each stage of the assembly line takes place with the participation of workers. They hang the body panels, attach the remaining frame elements, which are subsequently welded using robotic technology.

Previously, the quality of painting of domestic bodies caused a lot of indignation among buyers. Today the situation is different. For painting Lada Vesta Cross purchases materials from global manufacturers - leaders in this market segment. Technological methods of painting, drying, polishing and other processes are constantly being improved.

The welded body is initially dipped into a special tank filled with an anti-corrosion solution. Then comes the stage of treatment with catapharesis primer. A significant proportion of these manipulations are performed by automation, but qualified painters perform their work in those places where clumsy robotics cannot get close.

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So, let's start with specifics. It should be noted where the Lada Vesta is assembled. Oddly enough, cars began to be produced not in the city of Tolyatti, but at Lada-Izhevsk. The release began on September 25, 2020. And on October 22 of the same year, President Vladimir Vladimirovich “tested” a new Russian novelty. Based on first impressions, he really liked it, in particular for its handling and comfortable interior.

An important criterion worth noting is the fact that only a third of the car is assembled from imported parts. This is the radiator of the engine cooling system, the steering mechanism of the electronic power steering and almost all the electronics. Much of Vesta is made in Russia. These parts are delivered to Izhevsk directly from the city of Tolyatti. This is good news.

After all, Lada Vesta wins in comparison with Priora, Grenade, Kalina, it looks more interesting, more beautiful and more reliable. This is how the new generation Lada is assembled. The “IKS” concept makes the car recognizable and is a kind of calling card. A very rich palette of body colors leaves no one behind. The radiator grille and headlights stand out especially gracefully.

AvtoVAZ has never produced anything like this before.

History of the car plant in Izhevsk

A little about the plant: since 1965, they produced Moskvich, Izh-Oda, VAZ classics, heels, then Kia, which will be discussed in a separate article, because I managed to visit the museum of the enterprise.

After the 2008 crisis, things went really badly - the company laid off employees, there was no work, and bankruptcy took place. In 2010, there was a plan to start producing Koreans again, but there was a sleight of hand and the enterprise was bought by AvtoVAZ, albeit with money from the federal budget (that is, ours), as a result, production was modernized with this money, the production of Grants began, this happened until 2020 year, when the plant refocused on producing Vesta.

At the moment, only Vestas are produced at this plant; 107,000 of them are assembled per year, which is not so little. But, of course, before Soviet times the numbers didn’t even come close. Well, despite the cheerful figures in the statistics - they say the production and sales of West are growing, revenue is growing, the share of Lada is growing, everything is not so simple, the fact is that with revenue growth, production costs are growing much faster (and there will also be a separate article about this ), this is due to the fact that many spare parts are imported, and the ruble, as you know, is falling and falling, in addition, this is due to the huge general inefficiency of the enterprise, a large amount of manual labor.

As a result, in 2020, the losses of Lada Izhevsk almost reached a billion rubles; in 18-19, apparently (no data yet), it will be at the level of one and a half billion. Accounts payable - 8.5 billion, at the end of the year will be at the level of 10 billion, accounts receivable - almost 7 billion rubles. That is, at the moment there are many times more debts than assets. All this data is publicly available in the quarterly reports of both AvtoVAZ and Lada Izhevsk, you can check it.

In principle, in a competitive economy this means only one thing - bankruptcy of the enterprise and its closure. But.. we live in an amazing country, therefore, with the help of injecting our money into the economy of a Japanese-French enterprise (who doesn’t know, AvtoVAZ, which owns the Lada Izhevsk, itself belongs to the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubihsi alliance and is a foreign company that owns in our country there is only an assembly plant) the enterprise exists and in such conditions is trying to develop, which, in principle, turns out: there is growth, but losses are still growing...

Lada Vesta engines

According to some reports, to begin with, only the VAZ-21129 engine will be used in the car. It has a power of 106 horsepower, if the inside is “warmed up” to 5800 rpm, and a volume of 1.6 liters.

New Lada: LADA Vesta family of the new model year - Official LADA website

However, by 2020, Lada Vesta will be equipped with a slightly more powerful Nissan HR 16DR engine, which will have 114 horsepower at 6000 rpm and the same volume of 1.6 liters.

A similar engine was installed in the NissanSentra.

In addition, for the first time the car is planned to use a 5-speed gearbox developed by the company. However, later in 2020, a French manual transmission will be supplied with the Nissan engine.

The 1.6 liter engine is considered by the company to be the most suitable for the model. It is unlikely that they will put something more powerful under the hood, for example, 1.8 liters. from VAZ. But more modest models with eight valves will not be installed here either.

Final assembly sketch

Each worker responsible for the production of any small car part must approach the matter professionally, and the craftsmen must carefully monitor the process.
The creators of the Lada Vesta took care to increase comfort in the cabin, using insulating materials against noise and vibration not only on the bottom and engine, but even on the roof.
The final stage of assembly where the Lada Vesta is produced is practically no different from the similar process for foreign cars. After painting, the doors are removed and sent to the finishing shop. Without them it is much easier to assemble the interior. Having installed the headlights and bumper with the radiator, the connection ends with docking with the chassis and power unit.

Lada Vesta is made, for the most part, based on the experience of foreign professionals using robotic technology, which extremely helps to assemble a high-quality product. The automaker plans to produce not only sedans, but also station wagons, as well as hatchbacks. The expanded model range will help bring us closer to the number of vehicles produced planned for 2020.

Many were interested in which one the assembly work would be carried out on. In Russia, this place will be “ChechenAvto” in the city of Argun. Ust-Kamenogorsk "BipekAvto" will also undertake the assembly of Lada Vesta on Kazakh soil. Thus, the city of Izhevsk will not remain the only representative of the assembly process of this model, capable of producing products from AvtoVAZ.

The start of production of Lada Vesta took place on September 25, 2020, the model went on sale on November 24 of the same year. Initially, sales of the model did not inspire optimism. But now Lada Vesta is turning into a real market bestseller. Sales of the new Russian sedan are growing every month. Today Vesta competes on equal terms with the leaders Hyundai Solaris and Kia Rio. In addition to a good design, reasonable price, decent comfort and spaciousness, the new AvtoVAZ product turned out to be a fairly high-quality car. Today we will tell you in detail how the Lada Vesta is assembled.

But first, let's answer the question of where Lada Vesta is assembled

? The assembly of the new Russian sedan has been established in Izhevsk (Udmurtia). The Lada Granta in the liftback body is also assembled there. Ironically, back in Soviet times, the first liftback in the USSR was produced there. Yes, the legendary IZH Moskvich Combi was made there. This is a modern production facility where the Nissan Sentra sedan and Nissan Tiida hatchback are assembled in parallel (and are constantly suspended due to the crisis). The equipment, and the workers themselves, are somewhat different in Togliatti and Izhevsk. There is a difference in quality between the Togliatti-assembled Granta sedan and the Izhevsk-made Granta liftback.

Lada Vesta body

designed using the best software products and with the participation of French Renault engineers. Therefore, the power structure turned out to be very rigid. In terms of torsion, Vesta’s body is three times stronger than that of the Samar family (2108-2109 and other modifications) and two times stronger than that of the Lada Grant. According to this indicator, the domestic sedan is on par with the Ford Focus. The first crash tests showed that in terms of passive safety, Vesta is better than the Korean twin brothers Hyundai Solaris and Kia Rio.

What does the lada b platform consist of?

The reader might have guessed that the LADA B platform became the basis of the Vesta model. And this platform has absorbed the features of three different projects: LADA C, “Project 2180”, “restyling Lada Priora”.

LADA 2180, test drive

One gearbox and one engine are borrowed from the “alliance”: we are talking about the “JHQ mechanics”, as well as the “HR16DE” engine. These two knots went well with each other, but not with anything else. But VAZ engines are equipped with both Russian and French gearboxes. Here we are talking about engines 21129 (1.6) and 21179 (1.8).

As for engines, engine 21179 was created for the LADA C sedan. It migrated to the X-Ray (B0) crossovers, but compatibility with the LADA B platform has not been canceled either.

Characteristics of internal combustion engines 21179 and 21129

How to paint the body of a Lada Vesta video

Next is the video of painting Vesta. But here the manufacturer was clearly being greedy; a more detailed video could have been made. But what is.

Quite a lot depends on the final assembly of any machine. After all, there are a huge number of small operations that are performed by completely different people. If a person skips some kind of operation, then the future owner can then spend a long time looking for what rattles, creaks or sparks in his car.

I’m glad that before assembling the interior, they put quite powerful noise and vibration insulation not only on the bottom and engine bulkhead, but even in the trunk and on the roof. A simple piece of additional sound insulation can provide a decent amount of comfort, especially for people who spend quite a lot of time in the car.

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Automobile plant Izhevsk

In general, I went on an excursion to see what our money was spent on. Moreover, anyone could see it - everything was organized, you could get straight to the assembly line, from the press to the quality control of finished cars. The only thing you couldn’t see was the paint shop, which for me, for example, was the most interesting. After all, the painting process is very important - the appearance of the car, its corrosion resistance and the body - the most expensive part - depend on it. In addition, dipping into the baths - phosphating, cataphoresis, and then subsequent priming and painting by robots - is an interesting spectacle in itself. But this time, unfortunately, it was not possible. I hope I’ll be able to watch it next time if there’s such an opportunity or if I’m invited))

Well, let's talk about something pleasant: even from the outside the plant began to look much better - parking lots for employees, buildings are painted, branded, flags are hanging, the main office building at the main entrance, which we enter - glass, modern. And the territory of the plant is quite tidy and neat - before it was worse, and it’s little things like this that give rise to an understanding of how things are going and what’s happening at the plant, which is already a positive indicator.

We find ourselves in a long corridor - on the sides of the entrance there are posters about the history of the plant, unique cars, about Muscovites and, of course, about Ladas, about Vestas. We come across metal detectors, security - at factories they are strict about this, both at the entrance and at the exit, otherwise you suddenly wanted to steal spare parts for Vesta, however, visitors, of course, no one checked, and there were so many people that you could pick up a couple of Vestas for spare parts ))

The first workshop is where they make stamps on the presses - this is the basis of the entire car, not all factories have it, many factories for assembling foreign cars receive ready-made parts, parts are immediately produced directly from metal, not to say that the work is in full swing, since most presses do not are involved, but nevertheless, the earth literally shakes, the floor moves under your feet - the weight is not small!

The work is completely manual and looks like this: a piece of metal is put into a press, a stamped part comes out, everything is very simple.

By the way, the quality of the final car largely depends on this - how accurately the part will be molded, how accurately one part will correspond to another, when they will be welded, the rigidity of the body depends on this, and much more.

The parts after the presses are examined on a special table with lighting, apparently for quality.

Of course, not all the parts, but only some; if there are defects, they are circled with a marker and eliminated. They are removed quite simply: manually, with hammers. However, either the presses are already worn out, or they don’t press enough, or the shape is too complex, some parts look like chewed, and even slightly different shapes to the eye, for example, the rear wing of Vesta, the visible part where the surfaces are simple, naturally smooth, but here those parts that are hidden behind the bumper, as you can see, are crooked, I haven’t seen this on other cars, but it seems to me that this is generally not so critical, let’s look further at the assembly - it will become clear whether this is so.

All stamps are stacked in piles and stored on battered carts, unlike, for example, foreign factories, where work is organized according to a “just-in-time” scheme, that is, when a spare part is produced just in time and immediately transported from one workshop to another on a conveyor belt, there is a large warehouse here in which all these stamped body panels are stored - this is less efficient, because more storage space is needed, parts can be damaged during storage, and so on. But, nevertheless, apparently in our realities it is impossible to do otherwise (although other factories were able to get by with small buffer warehouses)

There is already a feeling of holiday at the plant (remember, you used to look at the production date - so that the car would not end up on holidays/after-holidays, on days of advances and salaries - it was believed that the crookedly assembled Lada cars were simply terrible on these days?), there are Christmas trees right in the workshop, which slightly dilutes the seriousness of the enterprise and, I hope, at least somehow amuses the gloomy and serious assembly line workers.

By the way, I would like to immediately apologize for the quality of the photographs, despite the fact that I took photographs from a tripod, my camera could not always cope with the insufficient lighting at the factory, I set the shutter speed too long or there was simply not enough light, so some of the photographs are simply not of the best quality - that’s all Still, VAZ workers need to work on this; in modern factories built recently, this issue has been resolved radically - light and clean, like in an operating room.

In addition to photographs, this also has a practical meaning - the workers’ eyes do not get so tired, they see everything they do, they don’t have to strain, it is clear that in many places the light has been modernized - many lamps have been installed on the conveyor itself, but, for me, there is still not enough lighting . I myself worked on an assembly line for some time, I know very well how important it is when you work for hours at a factory without rest.

Transmission

The new model is available with both manual and automatic transmissions.

The manual transmission of the Lada Vesta, in comparison with its competitors, will please you with smooth gear shifting and the absence of “hum”, which is typical for previous models of the VAZ family.

The car software has several driving style parameters. You can easily switch from one or another control mode. Everything is like in foreign cars.

Body, chassis, steering rack

Lada Vesta is made on the basis of a body with a subframe. This element, being part of the suspension, holds the engine on itself. Such solutions have not been used in production Ladas before.

Vesta subframe - front suspension element

Many new solutions can be found in the LADA B platform:

The steering rack is now connected to an L-shaped arm, rather than to a protrusion at the base of the shock absorber (as it was before); Sedan front suspension
The stabilizer was also improved: VAZ switched to using “long” struts;
The rear suspension was copied from the Renault Megane, as was the steering rack.

Vesta’s body structure is a LADA C project. It was about a C-class sedan, which was being prepared for release in 2020.

LADA C, sedan, 2020

Unfortunately, the project did not go into series. But the developments were not in vain: some elements were strengthened, others, on the contrary, were lightened or removed. This is how the Vesta sedan body appeared.

Still, let’s answer the question on what basis the Lada Vesta is made:

The body is a LADA C project, but with modifications;
Rear suspension – Renault Megane;
Front suspension - all components were developed from scratch;
The design uses solutions that have never been used before: subframe, L-shaped arms, etc.

And now - some photos.

Front suspension (struts and arms) Rear suspension (elastic beam)

Part 2

The factory has a mini conveyor for doors. The doors are assembled separately from the body, as in other global car factories. This reduces labor intensity, improves quality and productivity. At the end of the line, the doors are installed on the same body from which they were removed.

The ring conveyor, which has a total of 9 trolleys, allows you to simultaneously install the rear beam and the power unit module on the body.

Manipulators are devices that increase human strength many times over. For example, such devices are installed in the area where doors and instrument panels are installed on the body.

Other robots apply glue to windshields and rear windows. This process was entrusted to robots, because... they do this work more accurately and efficiently. The person just glues the glass onto the body.

The plant has a special area for checking the quality of the assembled car, which consists of five posts. These include adjustment of wheel geometry and headlights, a vehicle dynamic test stand, a wheel lateral slip test unit, an electronic control system tester and a leak test chamber. All cars, without exception, pass through the inspection line; the results of each stage of the inspection are recorded in a vehicle assembly control card, which is stored for at least five years. Also, quality control of all machines is checked by human inspectors.

Let us remind you that AvtoVAZ periodically shows various stages of production of its cars. All these reviews (more than 20 videos) can be found in this album in our group on VK.

By the way, AvtoVAZ has already talked about the Lada Izhvesk plant earlier.

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Fuel consumption per 100 km

For country trips and around the city, this car is simply wonderful. The driver will be pleased with the efficiency of the Lada Vesta. Fuel consumption per 100 km is low. In the city it is 9.0-9.3 l/100 km, outside the city - 5.0-5.3 l/100 km.

New Lada: Self-replacement of antifreeze in Lada Vesta

This car has a deeply modernized engine that produces 106 horsepower. An important criterion is adaptation to high temperature conditions.

The engine is able to start easily at temperatures below 30 degrees, and can also withstand high temperatures in hot summer conditions.

List "from and to"

More information about the release dates of new Vesta bodies here:

Lada Vesta Cross
Lada Vesta Coupe
Lada Vesta station wagon

In theory, the Lada Vesta is made on the basis of a unified platform, which could become the basis of different models: crossover, minivan, etc. The base platform is called LADA B, but this does not mean that it is intended for B-class cars. The Vesta model itself is closer to the C-class. And engines are provided for it:

Let's look at what the list of “boxes” looks like:

2182 - a robot developed for Priora-2 and built on the basis of the 2180 manual transmission;
JHQ - 5 manual transmission from Relault. The only unit suitable for the HR16DE engine and produced by AvtoVAZ.

Probably, the reader has no questions left about gearboxes and engines. Let's look at simpler elements - suspension parts, engine mounting module, etc.

What is definitely not in the news

After modifications, the LADA B platform acquired a modern look. Some familiar elements have disappeared from it. And now it doesn't have:

Timing belt tension roller, which is replaced by one (21129) or two (21179) automatic rollers; Adjustable roller and automatic roller
There is not a single part from the Granta front suspension. The same applies to racks;
There is no starter produced by Russian companies, although a starter from Lada Granta (21901-3708010-00) should be suitable;
There is no manual transmission for VAZ-2180 or 2181 (Kalina-2 and Granta).

Vesta also does not have a robotic gearbox combined with the HR16DE engine (Nissan). Similar configurations will not appear in the future.