Hello from Southampton 2015 J11
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 8:45 am
Hello All.
I just aquired a 2015 Qashqai J11 Dci Acenta. With a hidden surprise of £0 annual car tax
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Me and the wife love the car.
It is a 2015 in dark blue, I picked it up from a garage in town, it is an ex arval car with 86k miles.
On forcourt inspection the paint and interior is very good for age and mileage. The service history is full up untill 66k.
I noticed that no recent record of engine service and/or timing belt done recently, and the oil in the dipstick was dirty to confirm that. But apart from that the car was very clean and ran tight as a drum (suspected a large proportion of miles being motorway).
The garage agreed to timing belt kit replacement,
engine service, have rear parking sensors fitted by a auto electrican (wifes requirement - tho useful), and new MOT (garage policy). Then needed rear brake pads and 2 rear tyres to pass mot, combined with the run in fresh rubber already on the fronts, that was a good result lol.
So all in all, a great looking car, and loads of service work done before driving it away, a nice feeling.
We agreed a deal and drove it away on 12th of august. So far so good.
The changes I have made since is that I have installed a extra 12v socket RHS of existing one, fed from a seperate ignition switched supply for the dash cam, as the 2 pre existing sockets appear to be permintly on all the time? I have taken my supply from the 10A IGN POWER fuse by use of a fuse jumper as I prefer plug and play to butchering cables.
I have also just installed a PST10XTN Android 10.1 screen head unit, all working ok, and steering controls still work on it. However the ariel antenna connection does not seem to match, despite the kits being advertised as being compatible with the car, so I have had to order a PC5-147 adapter lead off amazon to get around this issue, so if anyone is thinking of fitting the same head unit, you may need to do the same.
My next job is going to be installing an extra fixed usb socket to fit somware in the glove box cavity (not decided where yet) fed from the same switch feed from the new switched 12v socket. Just for a feed for a pocket wifi router I am planning to leave in the glove box to serve as an wifi source for the android head unit, and for my kid sat in the back on long car journeys.
Well that is as far I have got with the car so far, the boss is pleased with it, she uses it for work and the school runs, so I am making sure it she is running on premium diesel, and taking it out on good run at weekends to keep the dpf in check.
I look forward to interacting with everyone on here in due cource.
Thank you for reading.
Regards
Jamie
I just aquired a 2015 Qashqai J11 Dci Acenta. With a hidden surprise of £0 annual car tax
.Me and the wife love the car.
It is a 2015 in dark blue, I picked it up from a garage in town, it is an ex arval car with 86k miles.
On forcourt inspection the paint and interior is very good for age and mileage. The service history is full up untill 66k.
I noticed that no recent record of engine service and/or timing belt done recently, and the oil in the dipstick was dirty to confirm that. But apart from that the car was very clean and ran tight as a drum (suspected a large proportion of miles being motorway).
The garage agreed to timing belt kit replacement,
engine service, have rear parking sensors fitted by a auto electrican (wifes requirement - tho useful), and new MOT (garage policy). Then needed rear brake pads and 2 rear tyres to pass mot, combined with the run in fresh rubber already on the fronts, that was a good result lol.
So all in all, a great looking car, and loads of service work done before driving it away, a nice feeling.
We agreed a deal and drove it away on 12th of august. So far so good.
The changes I have made since is that I have installed a extra 12v socket RHS of existing one, fed from a seperate ignition switched supply for the dash cam, as the 2 pre existing sockets appear to be permintly on all the time? I have taken my supply from the 10A IGN POWER fuse by use of a fuse jumper as I prefer plug and play to butchering cables.
I have also just installed a PST10XTN Android 10.1 screen head unit, all working ok, and steering controls still work on it. However the ariel antenna connection does not seem to match, despite the kits being advertised as being compatible with the car, so I have had to order a PC5-147 adapter lead off amazon to get around this issue, so if anyone is thinking of fitting the same head unit, you may need to do the same.
My next job is going to be installing an extra fixed usb socket to fit somware in the glove box cavity (not decided where yet) fed from the same switch feed from the new switched 12v socket. Just for a feed for a pocket wifi router I am planning to leave in the glove box to serve as an wifi source for the android head unit, and for my kid sat in the back on long car journeys.
Well that is as far I have got with the car so far, the boss is pleased with it, she uses it for work and the school runs, so I am making sure it she is running on premium diesel, and taking it out on good run at weekends to keep the dpf in check.
I look forward to interacting with everyone on here in due cource.
Thank you for reading.
Regards
Jamie