Thanks Noddy. I had seen this before, amazingly, the exhaust section of the manaul makes no mention of the mainfold! I did try and search the rest of the PDF manual, without much success. You would think removing the exhaust mainfold would be in there somewhere!

Hello, this is my first post. Hoping to change the whole exhaust system on my ealry 2.0 petrol AWD Qashqai. I am hoping to fit a new mainfold cat. Does anyone know if it is a straight forward job. I guess what i am asking is, will the mainfold lift out once all the nuts and exhaust are removed. On s...