Dacia Sandero How It's Made: Hammer It until It Fits [Video]

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Somewhere in Eastern Europe, in a country called Romania, there's a small city called Mioveni. Most of the people who live in Mioveni (let's call them... Miovenians) work in a not so small factory called Dacia. You know, the sensation brand owned by Renault which in 2009 managed to top the sales chart in Germany, the traditional playground of giants Daimler, BMW, Audi, Volkswagen and so on.

It's only obvious the world is now curious how does Dacia succeed with its low cost models in an international market up until now not so low cost-orientated? What secret manufacturing techniques do the Miovenians use when building from scratch these four-wheeled wonders called Logan, Sandero and, most recently, Duster?

Well, unfortunately, we have no idea how the people in the Mioveni plant work. But we do know the Sandero is being build in a Sandero plant somewhere in Russia. And boy, do they make them...

Forget about all the robots used in today's factories. Forget about computers, lasers, a well thought out manufacturing scheme. Just use the guy in the video below, his correcting hammer, a bit of to-the-millimeter-precise eye measurements and the super-hand as a deformation detection mechanism.

The unknown "engineer" in the video show below is, luckily, only working on the doors of the damn thing. We dread to imagine how other Dacia-Renault engineers work on the electric wiring, brakes or steering column.

Enjoy the video. If it becomes boring, endure a little longer. The final scene, when the guy bends the door to make it seat right, is a masterpiece.

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On 24 June 2010 at 08:40 UTC, marian said:

Well i.m romanian and what other people believe now after presenting Dacia and people from romanian town of Mioveni(by the way good TZUICA around) is Dacia is a S---t box and people who make it are a bunch of missfits!Totaly unprofesional aproch of the subject but after i checked some romanian newspaper seems like the journalism is totaly out of space full of excentric presentations,childish facts and TERIBILISM(right now i do not know if is in english or romanian)Assuming You have something in common with Romania I hope You will reconsider.Escuse my english but right now I am realy P----d Off

On 1 July 2010 at 02:56 UTC, Mario said:

That is how the cars are made, all over the world. Great job by worker, bad journalism.

On 9 March 2012 at 02:31 UTC, cyprus said:

Just for the author's acknowledge: the worker in the video is testing the doors against a file with technical specifications attached to the car (is seen in the video). Another important aspect is that they do use robots, but not for all the car. What would you expect from a low price car? Moreover, how can we create such an article knowing that Lamborghini or other fancy car is created manually (at least they brag with that)?! How do you think they test the doors to the manually created car??? I would say computer wise and manually, as is demonstrated in all testing centers that the human made tests are good enough to find errors.