My darling wife is looking at buying a Nissan Qashqai. Any one had any dealings with this model.
Joe
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Not myself Joe, but my roommate at the office had one and was very happy with it.
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I had one for about 4-5 years, very happy with it… Don’t asK mpg or anything, cos sorry… I don’t remember
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It’s Japanese so chances are it will be trouble free… unlike that German tat everyone bangs on about 
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well… Renault engine…
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I had one as a company car from October to February this year. Tecnic model i think? Yes, nice car, nice toys but the one i had had a smaller engine so wasn’t fast and as it was a bigger car, mpg wasn’t great.
Nice and comfortable also.
Apart from that, yes, recommend.
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We’re on our second one and have never had any issue with them. (They were both brand new to be fair).
The first was a diesel 1500 automatic, which had decent enough performance and usually got close to 60mpg even with me driving.
We now have a 1300 manual petrol, which still achieves 48mpg on average, best 56mpg. Cannot fault the performance, the early petrol engines were 1200 I believe and gutless, this one has 160 bhp so can’t complain!
Very easy to drive and great for comfort over long journeys - enough trips up and down the A1, M1 to prove it.
Made in the UK at the Sunderland plant:sunglasses:
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There is currently a grouped customer claim about default on 1.2 TCE engines. Those had a known issue, and Renault just hoped it happened after the garanti expiration…
Don’t want to be naysayer. Hopefully lot of customers are happy with.
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Sorry, wrong way round. Diesel manual, petrol auto.
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I had to laugh Andy because I had a brand new 2015 model quashqi
It was delivered with a 50p piece sized dent in the offside rear door, took it straight back to the dealers, they accused me of denting it myself (it was straight off the lorry and driven 12 miles to the dealer to complain) the lorry driver was my witness that it arrived like that-and they still argued the point. Left it there them to sort. 2 weeks later they rang me to ask if I was coming to collect it. So went to collect it, i went to reverse it out of service parking and the reversing camera screen was black, no image at all- no reverse warning beep. Went in to complain and also noticed there was still the albeit slightly less deep dent, but still a dent. They asked me to leave it with them-again. At this point I broached the subject of rejecting the car, loads of kissing my arse and reassuring noises later I agreed to let them sort the car, i swung a free set of fancy carpets and 1 labour free annual service. Got the car back 2 weeks later, still dented (we’re waitingfor a new door), reversing screen working for now, 1 week after that, the whole screen (reversing, hi-fi system, sat-nav etc) died, blank f-all. Over 1 year of ownership the car spent over 5 months in the Swansea dealers, then I had enough, dropped the car back to dealers, literally threw the keys at them commenced a pissing contest with nissan who initially offered me £8 grand less than I paid, I threatened court, contacted trading standards and the ombudsmen and nissan caved. But they tried to get me to agree to not put anything on line about the troubles I’d had, told them to f&^k off and die.
Went and bought a 12 year old shogun with 140,000 on the clock for beer money, put 60k on it over 5 years without a single issue.
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Ah you see, you should have bought the GTR instead, it doesn’t come with the Renault engine 
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Never had a problem with the engine.
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most of people don’t have issues, but…
My wife works for Renault Trucks (owned by Volvo), but they have no Volvo cars, and need to drive Renault. She’s driving 50 000 km/year (31 K miles /year).
All of cars she drove had an issue around 80 000 km (sensor, adblue system).
One of her colleague had a timing belt failure at 50 000 km. Engine broken.
The unofficial explanation is they have mounted a batch of defective timing belt but don’t know or don’t want to know on which car. Most of them will break after the warranty expiration.
The new one is an Arkana Hybrid with evident conception issue, and no recall.
I will never spent my own money with those cars.
Our own cars are Subaru. drive forever without a single issue.
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The turbo went on mine. 
Generally good cars though as I understand it. Never had a Renault. They don’t make anything I’m interested in.
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The 5 Gordini Turbo was interesting…
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I had a Megan scenic in the early 2000’s company car, was bloody good, after two years I bought it off my company for buttons and the wife ran it for years after, couldn’t fault it.
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3 of us slept in a renault 5 a few nights at isle of man tt. Not nice
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Cozy, very cozy… 
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Surprised the rear wheel arches could handle it… a bit prone to rusting
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My mates alfa- went like a greased weasel, but when he pulled up you could hear water slopping around in the rear pillars
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