Lada Niva

We bought a Lada Niva today as we need a rugged car for accessing our land which is at the end of 20km of dirt road and is not accessible with a normal family car in bad weather. Most Lada's have a bad reputation, but the Niva is the exception and it has many features which make it a perfect choice for our situation.

• It has very simple mechanics that make it about as good as possible for people who aren't professional mechanics to fix it themselves.
• It has no complex or sensitive electronic components making it immune to solar flares and EMP (and also contributing to independence for fixing it)
• It has excellent off-road performance, out-performing many models that are three or four times the price.

Our Niva runs on alcohol instead of petrol or diesel which means that we can make our own fuel if (when) petrol prices become impractically high, or the supply-chain distribution system breaks down due to economic issues rendering gas stations useless. All in all, the Lada Niva is one of the best post-apocolyptic vehicles on the market!

	The lever on the left is used to manually activate the centre diff-lock, which absorbs the difference in speed between the front and back axles. It should be permanently engaged when driving on uneven surface, and should be permanently disengaged when on normal roads. The bottom lever is used to activate the lower range gears.

Resources

• Lada Niva UK - excellent Niva resources (e.g. all manuals at end of page)
• Baxter's Niva Newbies Guide

Attachments

• File:Niva Diagrams.pdf
• File:Niva Maintenance Manual.pdf
• File:Niva Manual.pdf