What Are Xtrails Like?

[firebobby]

How about the Jeep brand

 

[rustic]

How about the Jeep brand

Petrol are thirsty, diesels probably under powered.

Other than that, not heard many bad things.
Although some of the other American Chryslers have a few issues.

It would be the cost of ownership, parts, service items that could be an issue.
I was amazed at how cheap parts are for our Mavericks and Terranos, I guess it is down to volume and after market part suppliers.
It is also the fact that the Terrano has been around for over 20 years, and the engines much longer than that in the London Taxis.

 

[davenclaire]

what about this

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2008-mits...6?pt=UK_Commercial_Trucks&hash=item338a0194d0

 

[rayf3262]

No there all crap :doh

Around 15 years ago,....
I asked a colleague who was living and working in LA:
"Niel, why don't you replace your Mercedes with a newer one?"
He replied: "I can still fix this one without expensive Mercedes assistance"

 

[jims-terrano]

Well I reckon unless I win the lotto I won't be getting another 4x4. What ever I get will cost an arm and a leg to fix, CNC is correct I reckon.

 

[Sweety]

If you want something you can fix easily Jim start the long hunt for a low mileage mint condition 55 plate Terrano as the road tax is only £280 a year unlike the 06 plate thats £480:doh TBH I looked at so many different 4x4's & cars before getting my T2 which could easily pull a caravan & had good MPG whilst towing my eyes & brain hurt. Mondeo's are great tow cars & give very good MPG but once the mileage go's up so does the repair bills for the likes of clutch & DM fly wheel, injectors are £800 & a dealer has to program them into the ECU, fuel pumps £2k:doh it's not just ford all makes suffer the same problems even VW:augie The days of fixing cars is just about gone now sadly, mechanic's these days just replace parts if an engine needed a new set of piston rings they wouldn't do it just tell you you need a new engine

 

[AlexD333]

I was looking at mutsubishis too, went on their forum and atleast two variants of engine suffered from cam chain failure, the earliest i found was at 41k this was chain snapping!! Not rattling...

And the dealerships didnt want to know apparently.

And as mentioned above the dual mass cheesecake i mean err the dual mass flywheel... Correct me if I'm wrong but they are all crap!

Ive got to agree with sweetly and say why don't you hunt for a terrano 55 reg. cheap road tax too.


Oh and lastly... Look at he amount of freelanders for sale on auto trader.... Something not right there...

The terranos have proven their reliability :thumb2

 

[clivvy]

yh, I agree, the Mitsubishi are an expensive option - fine if you have the money to maintain them, they are good workhorses.

Jim, im positive there is something out there. You need to consider the Outbacks, Hyundais, Terranos later models, Defender etc etc.

 

[Bedhead1157]

Uncles X-Trail back at the mechanics, had to drive from Donegal to Belfast in limp mode, either that or just won't make power. He is not a happy bunny.:doh

A mate has given up on his Shogun and bought an Audi A4, the Shogun is on it's third engine at 160k, he doesn't trust it any more, he reckons that even if the DMF in the Audi lets go, it's cheaper than yet another engine for the Shogun. Last engine was £600 from the breakers.

 

[eurag]

A friends 05 plate x-trail has had turbo, intercooler, injectors, dm flywheel and clutch replaced at just under 100k. Cost over £3000. Always serviced by dealer before its due. Not good.

 

[firebobby]

Kia's look like their coming on in leaps and bounds, my mate has the new sportage and it's a really nice bit of kit.

 

[davenclaire]

Uncles X-Trail back at the mechanics, had to drive from Donegal to Belfast in limp mode, either that or just won't make power. He is not a happy bunny.:doh

A mate has given up on his Shogun and bought an Audi A4, the Shogun is on it's third engine at 160k, he doesn't trust it any more, he reckons that even if the DMF in the Audi lets go, it's cheaper than yet another engine for the Shogun. Last engine was £600 from the breakers.

well if u stick an engine in from a scrappy u gotta expect trouble

 

[larson]

jim look at a rav4 you probably need to go older but my boss has 2005 rav diesel and can get 44mpg. clutch is expensive but a good familt motor that wont get stuck in the snow..


i would not go near the hyundai.. it might be cheap but things are normaly cheap for a reason. and how ugly are they ffs..

i would get a subaru forester before the hyundai

 

[micktheshed]

I was seriously looking at the (MK1?) X Trails 2/3 years ago, before buying my Terrano. After talking to quite a few people (some in the trade) & spending a lot of time weighing-up the p & c's (as I habitually do) I condensed the collected 'facts' into this: if you must have a diesel get one before Renault ruined the vehicle & made it very unreliable, otherwise buy a 2.5 petrol which is likely to cost a lot less to rum o/all. It will also be MUCH cheaper to buy. The post-Renault diesel has a long list of expensive & repetitive faults. although the one before it was somewhat better.
The Freelanders 1 & 2 (in common with their brethren) are a long-term disaster & a bottom-less money pit. It only out-does the X Trail in failure rates. Maybe the mk3 will be better (in your dreams LOL).
If my low mileage Terrano hadn't shown-up when it did I'd now own a 2.5 (but unfortunately not an auto because of only 1.3T tow ability).

 

[Lazy-Ferret]

Kia's look like their coming on in leaps and bounds, my mate has the new sportage and it's a really nice bit of kit.

The Kia's are nice, just we have the worst dealers for them in the world down here. We were going for a brand new Sedona, or a second hand low mileage Serento, but the sales guy messed us around so much, we ended up walking out. We went to a second dealer, and he said we could not order what we wanted, as they did not do it, despite the fact we had had it spec'd at that in the other place. So we went to a third one, who blanked us completely. When we did finally get the attention of a guy, and asked to have a look at a specific car, we were told "knock yourself out", when I said it was locked, I was told "Yeah, we do that, it stops people nicking them", and he turned and walked away...

We drove down the road, and stopped at a Volvo Dealership, who were just about to close, I only asked for a list of the cars they had for sale, but they could not have been more helpful, getting the one we wanted in the next day, and letting us have a really good test drive, so bought a Volvo V70 instead.

 

[Sweety]

Kia's look like their coming on in leaps and bounds, my mate has the new sportage and it's a really nice bit of kit.

We almost bought a sportage but the boot wasn't big enough to get all our camping gear in (we take loads:augie) MPG is good & they seem well put together

 

[clivvy]

^I agree, Kias are MUCH improved in the last couple of years - my mate just got a little Picanto, lovely little motor (better than a Fiesta that's for sure)!

Still a way to go in terms of being better than some european makes and Japan, but absolutely on the list - most come so well spec'd with great warranty its hard to turn down..

 

[firebobby]

Also give a 7 year warranty on new motors, not many other car makers doing that, so they must be quite happy with their products.
I will seriously look at one for the next big car....not for a few years though

 

[larson]

you could just keep putting an mot on your bus. lets face it most of its been done now and anything else should be easy to get to

 

[macabethiel]

X Trail

Hi Guy's what are xtrails like? I've picked this at random out of AutoTrader as it's the kind of spec I'd be looking at. I ain't going to be doing any green lanes so capability doesn't really matter.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classif...make/nissan/postcode/wf148pq/page/4?logcode=p

What about Freelander TD4 of a similar age to the Xtrail.

Cheers

Work mate had a 3 year old X trail diesel 5 door 60k miles on clock ran OK for about 18 months then the engine started making some crank area / little end noises in the end the turbo failed and damaged the engine.
Beyond economic repair so traded in as a non-runner. Shame it was a nice looker with leather trim etc but it was a bit of a money pit with bits & bobs always needed to keep it going.