Review and thoughts of our new QQ.
Posted: Mon May 03, 2021 7:04 pm
Hiya guy's,
We have now owned our new to us QQ for around two months now. We upgraded our 07 Acenta for a used 2018 Acenta 1.2 DIG -T with a tad over 18000 miles on the clock.
We read lots of reviews, watched umpteen vids on the Tube and decided on a second QQ, our old 07 QQ had 102000 miles on it, on the whole from new it was an excellent car, only the usual complaints regarding brake discs and rear suspension.
Now onto the 2018 car, since we purchased it mid March from a Nissan Dealership it has probably spent more time parked up at the Dealership than on our drive way
So far it has been in for a fuel treatment and software update to cure the car stalling at junctions, had a new climate control fan unit fitted to hopefully cure the annoying buzzing from behind the dashboard (it didn't) a new rear N/S door actuator fitted, the door can now be opened from the inside, 'supposedly' a new drivers seat base to cure the loud creaking (it didn't) a new drivers seat plastic surround, the bit that adjusts the seat height as they butchered the original doing Lord knows what.
Luckily all this has been replaced/fixed under the Nissan three year warranty, runs out at the end of May and the twelve month Dealership warranty takes over.
The Dealership unfortunately made a grave error during the purchase that I won't go into too much detail about at this stage, so far NCS and Nissan are not taking our complaint further as the Dealership made the mistake. Next step is the Ombudsmen and we have a Solicitor standing by if needed.
Ok, that's the bad part over. Despite the initial faults and problems we are both really enjoying the car, huge step up from our 07. It's extremely comfortable, great on fuel - ave 48mpg mainly A road travel and the odd start stop town driving. We are now getting used to the auto brake hold, all cars should have this function. Stop start works flawlessly. Only been out twice at night, not too sure if we will be making use of the auto headlight/high beam thingy, or maybe we could get used to it in time. Still finding some of Nissan's Easter eggs, I think the auto window lowering function will come in handy if we have a nice summer.
Changed the wipers to Bosch and now the screen is smear free, had the car professionally detailed and treated to a ceramic coating all over, looks more like a brand new car now. Only one small chip/scratch on the rear bumper and a tiny stone chip in the front edge of the bonnet. Bonus for a nearly three year old car, all four alloys are completely unmarked, took a while to clean of the tar spots on the insides but really impressive. Treating her to four new boots before winter.
We are both really happy with the Gunmetal Grey, our old one was Blade Silver and much prefer this colour. Not a huge fan of black and this is for us the nicest hue of dark grey/graphite.
Just managed to do a great deal on four complete door cards, and centre armrest from a 2019 Tekna plus, lots of nice soft leather and virtually like new condition. Unfortunately our door cards have quite a few deep scratches from shoes I guess and these will definitely look good when replaced.
Just needing four sill scuff plates now to tidy up the sills, we were told by the Dealership that the previous owner has two young children and there are a few slight scratches on all sills that will easily be covered, any recommendations as to the best sill plates to buy will be extremely appreciated. Thinking of fitting mud flaps too.
Hopefully when we have all the issues sorted we will have many years of QQ ownership ahead.
We have now owned our new to us QQ for around two months now. We upgraded our 07 Acenta for a used 2018 Acenta 1.2 DIG -T with a tad over 18000 miles on the clock.
We read lots of reviews, watched umpteen vids on the Tube and decided on a second QQ, our old 07 QQ had 102000 miles on it, on the whole from new it was an excellent car, only the usual complaints regarding brake discs and rear suspension.
Now onto the 2018 car, since we purchased it mid March from a Nissan Dealership it has probably spent more time parked up at the Dealership than on our drive way
So far it has been in for a fuel treatment and software update to cure the car stalling at junctions, had a new climate control fan unit fitted to hopefully cure the annoying buzzing from behind the dashboard (it didn't) a new rear N/S door actuator fitted, the door can now be opened from the inside, 'supposedly' a new drivers seat base to cure the loud creaking (it didn't) a new drivers seat plastic surround, the bit that adjusts the seat height as they butchered the original doing Lord knows what.
Luckily all this has been replaced/fixed under the Nissan three year warranty, runs out at the end of May and the twelve month Dealership warranty takes over.
The Dealership unfortunately made a grave error during the purchase that I won't go into too much detail about at this stage, so far NCS and Nissan are not taking our complaint further as the Dealership made the mistake. Next step is the Ombudsmen and we have a Solicitor standing by if needed.
Ok, that's the bad part over. Despite the initial faults and problems we are both really enjoying the car, huge step up from our 07. It's extremely comfortable, great on fuel - ave 48mpg mainly A road travel and the odd start stop town driving. We are now getting used to the auto brake hold, all cars should have this function. Stop start works flawlessly. Only been out twice at night, not too sure if we will be making use of the auto headlight/high beam thingy, or maybe we could get used to it in time. Still finding some of Nissan's Easter eggs, I think the auto window lowering function will come in handy if we have a nice summer.
Changed the wipers to Bosch and now the screen is smear free, had the car professionally detailed and treated to a ceramic coating all over, looks more like a brand new car now. Only one small chip/scratch on the rear bumper and a tiny stone chip in the front edge of the bonnet. Bonus for a nearly three year old car, all four alloys are completely unmarked, took a while to clean of the tar spots on the insides but really impressive. Treating her to four new boots before winter.
We are both really happy with the Gunmetal Grey, our old one was Blade Silver and much prefer this colour. Not a huge fan of black and this is for us the nicest hue of dark grey/graphite.
Just managed to do a great deal on four complete door cards, and centre armrest from a 2019 Tekna plus, lots of nice soft leather and virtually like new condition. Unfortunately our door cards have quite a few deep scratches from shoes I guess and these will definitely look good when replaced.
Just needing four sill scuff plates now to tidy up the sills, we were told by the Dealership that the previous owner has two young children and there are a few slight scratches on all sills that will easily be covered, any recommendations as to the best sill plates to buy will be extremely appreciated. Thinking of fitting mud flaps too.
Hopefully when we have all the issues sorted we will have many years of QQ ownership ahead.