i know its not the same but my sister has a new nissan quashqai shes had nothing but trouble with it. she in the process of rejecting it it has a miss fire and its an inherant fault but they cant find the fault what a surprise.
she wouldnt have another nissan again. same company as renault.⇦br/>
One of the reasons why I didn't go for the Patrol I was recently considering is the fact that it was a Nissan (although, supposedly built like a tank)
I once bought a brand new Terrano SVE with the 3 litre engine (similar to the Patrol engine) I kept it for only a few months, during which time it had numerous electrical faults.
For instance - driving through town less than three weeks after purchase and the oil light came on!
Immediate stop, rang dealer (expecting them to say, 'wait there, we'll organise a recovery truck')
Nah....they just told me that there was a known issue with the oil pressure sender. They told me to just ignore it and they would order a new one.
I asked them what would happen if it *wasn't* the sender - and the oil pump had packed up. "Don't worry, it's almost certainly the sender switch"
I had the family in the car, it was late afternoon, and we wanted to get home - so I gritted my teeth, started it up, and off we went.
It *was* the sender - took three more weeks for the part to arrive - and that was faulty as well!
Took another fortnight to get yet another sender switch - they fitted it, and all was well until shortly afterward the oil light came on again.
Took it back the dealer - they checked it - faulty sender, but not the sender they'd recently fitted!, the 3.0 litre engine had *two* - for different rev ranges!!
It took another three weeks to get that sender - by which time the instrument panel had started playing up.
Again "A known issue"! - the instruments are a one piece set-up - in my case, the rev counter was going bonkers, which the garage told me was a bit unusual as it was normally the speedo that failed
Either case meant a brand new panel - which meant a new speedo, which meant having to explain the change of speedometer in the future when selling the car!
As the rev counter would sometimes work, and sometimes not work, I decided to leave it until it actually failed - and, anyway, my attention was now being taken up with other bits and pieces that were failing.
The headlamp washers stopped washing - and (most infuriating of all!) the drivers door seal kept falling off (honestly!)
You've probably no idea just how annoying it is to have to keep reattaching the seal every time you open the door
They replaced the seal THREE times, and it was STILL coming off when I got rid of the blasted thing, complete with dodgy rev counter.
The service manager told me that Nissan had altered their buying procedure, and were now sourcing electrical parts from Mexico. I can only assume that Mexican QC standards were rather different to those of Robert Bosch.
Mechanically it was OK - but I never kept it long enough to really see what would happen. I know that the X-Trails have a terrible history of turbo failures (more X-Fail's, really
and it does seem that the tie-in with Renault has been the kiss of death for Nissan quality.
I can remember when Nissan was almost as highly regarded as Toyota - but those days seem long gone now.
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