Engine and Components
The Samand is built on the Peugeot 405 platform, originally using the "XU7JP/L3" engine, amongst others. The Peugeot 405 is also in production in Iran, along with a facelifted version, the Peugeot Pars. IKCO manufactures 80% of Samand's parts domestically, including an Iranian-designed engine.
For export markets (and also the Iranian market), IKCO is using Peugeot TU5JP4 engine for Samand. That is because TU5 is a low consumption and powerful engine the ease of finding its parts allover the Europe because the engine has been used for Peugeot 206, Peugeot 307 and Peugeot 207. The TU5 version of Samand comes with three new options: driver airbag, pretensioner seat-belts, headlight height adjuster and active antenna.
Since early 2009, IKCO has used newly developed Iranian engines such as a dual-fuel national engine for its new models(EF7). In mid-2010, IKCO started to install only-petrol EF7 engines on Samand. The engine is not petrol-based version of EF7 but, the CNG parts of the engine are removed and so the ECU program. However, the petrol-based version of the engine is currently under development.
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