Talk:UAZ-469

reliability
I think the statements on reliability need to be put into perspective. While it seems true that the cars are easy to repair by the owners, it also seems as if there is always somnething that needs to be fixed. Rule of thumb seems to be one maintenace session every 1000-1500 km off paved roads. Part of the problem are probably substandard spare parts and the decline of product qualitity mentioned in the article, but even then I think stating that they are known to be "extremely reliable" does sound incorrect. I don't know where one could find reliable sources, though. Btw. would it be worth mentioning that the car can be started by cranking if the electric starter fails? Yaan (talk) 13:53, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

political
What are Eastern bloc countries? - Eastern Bloc is a politically charged term still used by (some) British/American/Russophobe folks, but is certainly not an acceptable geographical, political or encyclopaedic definition of anything.

This vehicle could not have been used by Red Army, because the organization under such name ceased to exist in 1946.

You are describing a vehicle or putting together an America political pamphlet? Roobit (talk) 18:05, 17 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Eastern bloc = Warsaw pact or Warsaw pact + Comecon (the latter includes some more countries, like Mongolia, Cuba, Vietnam). I really don't see the supposed Russophobia. I also don't think the Red Army ceased to exist in 1946, AFAIK it was only renamed. Regards, Yaan (talk) 15:59, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Ground clearance
Where are 300mm of the ground clearance? Though 215-15 tire size is a diameter of 720mm, this number is strange.天然ガス (talk) 02:29, 31 March 2009 (UTC)


 * according to the UAZ website for the Hunter (which is not much more than a renamed 469 I guess, except does not come with a crank anymore) it is 210 mm.

The military version has portal axles.Mwheatl (talk) 14:00, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Cleanup, new pics
Somebody added to the article his completely unsourced and dubious opinion on the car's reliability and has never supported it by any references since then, briefly mentioned some Vietnamese car featured in Top Gear, which is neither an important fact nor a credible source for an encyclopaedia, and ironically classified machine guns installed on the UAZ by a group of soldiers as "improvements" to its design (without giving any references, as usually). I've cleaned this up and changed the main photo to that of the original UAZ-469. Whoever wants to improve the article should provide better information and sources.Eriba-Marduk (talk) 10:32, 18 November 2015 (UTC)