Buying a Nissan Qashqai

mysticsniper · 16 Jul 2016 at 18:38

I'm moving on from our trusty C-Max, and I went for a test drive in a Qashqai yesterday.

It was the N-Tec+ 1.6 diesel, which was really nice to drive through the gears and it has got a lot of mod-cons, but as soon as we got back to the showroom, someone from the Stoke area, bought the car.

We were offered an Tekna car on a 65 plate with the 1.5 dci, 19" alloys, leather heated seats, park assist and a few other extra's on top of the N-Tec+, it only had done 3861 miles in the last 6 months. It was on for £20k and it was offered to us with an extended warranty for £17.5k.

I put down a deposit to buy the car, but I am having a bit of buyers remorse, thinking that the 1.5 engine is not that good and the 19" alloys would a bit OTT and who needs leather seats, park assist etc...

I am just looking for some advice and should I be happy with the Tekna or go for another N-Tec+ which is £5000 cheaper.

I've had test drives in the Sportage and Kuga before looking at the Qashqai.

Thanks

uber soldat · 16 Jul 2016 at 18:42

Dont do it! Step away from the poor mans range rover and head to your nearest volvo garage.

TheVoice · 16 Jul 2016 at 18:45

You probably need to take a step-back and decide what your budget and requirements are if you were able to be talked into spending another £5k just like that.

Akagi · 16 Jul 2016 at 18:46

"Sorry sir that one has been sold, but you can have this one for £5000 more!"

Uhuh

mysticsniper · 16 Jul 2016 at 18:48

Acme said:
"Sorry sir that one has been sold, but you can have this one for £5000 more!"

Uhuh

They have got loads in stock, just not the one I went for a test drive in

MrKnifey · 16 Jul 2016 at 18:53

We got a 2012 Qashqui Tekna 1.5dci, lovely car, took me and 3 friends to Spa F1 last year and didn't find it under powered at any point. Had a few warranty issues which got dealt with but nothing major. However we are getting rid if ours soon as we do find it too small for a baby and pram etc! Which is mental considering its the market its aimed at!

mysticsniper · 16 Jul 2016 at 18:56

MrKnifey said:
We got a 2012 Qashqui Tekna 1.5dci, lovely car, took me and 3 friends to Spa F1 last year and didn't find it under powered at any point. Had a few warranty issues which got dealt with but nothing major. However we are getting rid if ours soon as we do find it too small for a baby and pram etc! Which is mental considering its the market its aimed at!

I am getting rid of my C-Max, which I bought for the pram and baby. Now we have a little monster, it's time to say bye bye to the C-Max and hello Qashqai

nutmonkey · 16 Jul 2016 at 19:44

if you have your heart set on a qashqui i would check the prices in the north east, usually find they are much cheaper up here.

MrKnifey · 16 Jul 2016 at 19:48

mysticsniper said:
I am getting rid of my C-Max, which I bought for the pram and baby. Now we have a little monster, it's time to say bye bye to the C-Max and hello Qashqai

With our baby seat in the back I cant fit in the passenger side of the vehicle because it pushes the seat that far forward, im 5ft11 normal build! Can get the pram in the back with two bags of shopping then it goes in the back next to the baby! Not a big vehicle!

Tinders · 16 Jul 2016 at 21:13

Try a Mazda CX5 aswell.

19" Alloys are daft on a shopping trolley imo, think of the tyre costs etc. The engine in the Qashquai is fine, nothing great but it plods on well enough.

Demon · 16 Jul 2016 at 21:32

I looked at the qashqai 2 years ago, my sister has the 1.5dci tekna so had a chance to take it for a drive. Very nice kit but very very underwhelming overall. I went on to test drive everything in that segment and found the CX5 2.2 175 diesel to be such a nicer vehicle for me, handles like a hatch and was superb on family duty, but each to their own, if I got a qq, I would get the tekna for all the goodies.

SpeedFreak · 16 Jul 2016 at 21:39

MrKnifey said:
We got a 2012 Qashqui Tekna 1.5dci, lovely car, took me and 3 friends to Spa F1 last year and didn't find it under powered at any point. Had a few warranty issues which got dealt with but nothing major. However we are getting rid if ours soon as we do find it too small for a baby and pram etc! Which is mental considering its the market its aimed at!

I owned a 1.5dci and it most certainly was underpowered. On top of that, 1st and 2nd were very short gears which made pulling away quickly not much fun.

I would say a CX-5 is the better car by quite some way having test driven several.

mysticsniper · 17 Jul 2016 at 18:57

SpeedFreak said:
I owned a 1.5dci and it most certainly was underpowered. On top of that, 1st and 2nd were very short gears which made pulling away quickly not much fun.

I would say a CX-5 is the better car by quite some way having test driven several.

But the CX-5 are also more pricey than the Qashqai, so you get a lot less for your money, most of the ones I have seen have already done in excess of 40k miles.

atpbx · 17 Jul 2016 at 19:17

nutmonkey said:
if you have your heart set on a qashqui i would check the prices in the north east, usually find they are much cheaper up here.

Also Wales, it has the cheapest average car prices in the UK.

The down side of that is that you have to go to Wales, which might be enough to put most people off.

Tinders · 17 Jul 2016 at 23:16

mysticsniper said:
But the CX-5 are also more pricey than the Qashqai, so you get a lot less for your money, most of the ones I have seen have already done in excess of 40k miles.

Cx5 is the next class up comparable to the Nissan x-trail.

Tinders · 17 Jul 2016 at 23:18

What's your budget? The new Seat Ateca is due out in Sept and by all accounts is a decent car to drive and we'll priced.

SpeedFreak · 18 Jul 2016 at 00:26

mysticsniper said:
But the CX-5 are also more pricey than the Qashqai, so you get a lot less for your money, most of the ones I have seen have already done in excess of 40k miles.

I thought base spec CX-5 sport has leather, nav and xenons. There is very little to spec up from memory apart from blind spot/lane departure.

adam cool dude · 18 Jul 2016 at 01:28

Is there any reason you need a medium Suv that a good sized estate can not handle? Something like a V40?

Demon · 18 Jul 2016 at 07:07

SpeedFreak said:
I thought base spec CX-5 sport has leather, nav and xenons. There is very little to spec up from memory apart from blind spot/lane departure.

Yeah, the cx5 sport nav has everything on it bar lane departure which was the only real option. Even the satnav is proper tomtom which is obviously a step up from 99% of oem satnav solutions.

It was quite impressive to see the list of kit mine came with as standard, although I would ay the QQ Tekna has a few more gadgets, it was just not in the same league to drive, but if you test drive the QQ and liked it, then fair play, any advantage is then purely theoretical and just go with what makes you happy.

chroniclard · 18 Jul 2016 at 07:16

adam cool dude said:
Is there any reason you need a medium Suv that a good sized estate can not handle? Something like a V40?

Even a decent saloon or hatchback has as much room, if not more, than these little SUV's.