2009 CashCow - My friends wife's new qashqai

[beko1987]

I haven't even changed the last 2 yet! The cheap ones I fitted have expanded and don't come out easily. If this good weather carries on I'll be able to have another crack at it but I'll do it like I did the 2nd one I have changed, fully undo the plug then stick a rubber mat over the engine bay and turn the car on, shoots it out fairly easily.

 

[beko1987]

Went over to mums this morning and gave the cars a good wash! It's been a while...

Mine was covered in salt from the m40, and my roof was going mouldy

Stepdad's zoe was just filthy from all the back road driving it does (front tyres are scrubbing the outer edge again 🙄)

Was a very pleasant few hours!

And now their nice and clean again. Both mee polishing and waxing and etc but I cannot be bothered 😂

 

[beko1987]

Arrived far too early for a car boot that looked crap when I drove past at half 7...

Parked up a few miles down the road and am giving my radiogram an update it has

Once it's done I'll head back and hope a ton of sellers have descended upon it otherwise I'll walk round it since I drove out here then go home 🤷 

[beko1987]

Forgot about this, on Tuesday I managed to stop and get a mileage shot

1.8k ish more and I'll have done 10k since owning it 

[beko1987]

I've done sweet fa to this all winter, but it is due for an oil change soon. The cheap oil landscape is a vastly different and scary place to 13 months ago when I last bought some... 

Found a trio of oil, filter and air filter for less than I can find a better 5l tub of just oil for

https://ebay.us/m/FmMCxk

Which will do. It needs to be combined with a good check over to make sure nothing has split or leaked over winter, and new front discs and pads are needed next month as the mild vibrations under mild braking are getting worse. 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Good to see this one still plodding along. I sold mine back in March as I'd become bored after holding onto it for three and a half years. It was only ever meant to be a stopgap, so it did very well to remain on the fleet for so long. I'll be honest, I actually miss it - the fuel economy, the space and the fact I could throw anything into it and not worry about it. 

Keep yours going for as long as you can - they're great old motors.

[beko1987]

5 hours ago, beko1987 said:

I've done sweet fa to this all winter, but it is due for an oil change soon. The cheap oil landscape is a vastly different and scary place to 13 months ago when I last bought some... 

Found a trio of oil, filter and air filter for less than I can find a better 5l tub of just oil for

https://ebay.us/m/FmMCxk

Which will do. It needs to be combined with a good check over to make sure nothing has split or leaked over winter, and new front discs and pads are needed next month as the mild vibrations under mild braking are getting worse. 

Dunno if it's just cos I've bought it now but the ad says £47 but I paid £36

[hairnet]

beko you slaaaag

 

[beko1987]

1 hour ago, hairnet said:

beko you slaaaag

 

Technically it's overdue by 3ish months but meh, the countdown still says 3k left (and it drops by 50 miles every key on so is wildly optimistic to what I've driven anyway) 

Which is good cos it won't be done this weekend I doubt

[hairnet]

lazy bastidge

[beko1987]

I mostly took the photos incase the filters had fallen out

But all is well

I've never changef an air filter more than once in a cars ownership 😂 I'll fit a new one then bash it off every year and keep a check of it but this year I can be fancy! 

Not today though, too hot for that 

[beko1987]

On 01/01/2026 at 13:19, beko1987 said:

I hit the internet this morning once the kids went home, and via a Vin number parts search every glow plug I searched for off the part number was 11v.

Cool, but the ebay listing I bought my plugs from doesn't list a voltage and I wouldn't trust it if it did. So, I went outside and stripped the engine down quickly

I got too excited then as I prodded the 3rd plug connector and it wasn't connected! I connected it, cleared the code and kicked the car over as you see it above but it came back. 

The car didn't start well doing this, which I expected but what I didn't see was the lovely Helen 2 doors up had come out to her car and saw mine fail to start and offered me a jumpstart before she left if I needed. Explained what I was doing and thanked her as now I know where to go if I do ever need one 😂👌

No3 plug was solid as fuck but no4 came out easily and it is indeed an 11v plug

The tip doesn't look to have done much but also they've probably not done anything since I fitted them...

I put those back in, fully assembled everything then cleared the codes and re checked, still the fault. I then refitted the original glow plug relay and noticed my new one has one less spade than the one on the car... Should probably confirm what it should have really...

The end result is still 

These seem to be the ideal plugs going by a part number

But I'll do some more research first. Car still starts as it did so that's good at least! Or maybe I need to take it somewhere and pay an hours labour for them to properly scan it.

Any hooky leads and software about for Nissan?

Its only 6 months later, but I made myself go to tesco this morning for stuff I needed AND to get the car nice and hot. Got back, put the freezer stuff away and got out on the car. 

Didn't fuck about this time, straight to the 2 remaining old plugs. Got one loose and out of the threads, placed a thick foam mat and a carpet tile on top of the engine and turned the key until the plug ejected itself. X2. 

4x bosch plugs now fitted I got my scanner connected, wiped the codes, fired up the car and re read the codes... 

 

No more glow plug code! Will have to wait until November for it to be cold enough to see if it works but I've put all the engine covers back on now so if it doesn't it can stay like it 😂 

Currently waiting for one of the cars parked on the road behind my gate to go out for the day as I'd like to get my oil change done today. 

[beko1987]

Wasn't fully expecting to see any change in 15/20 degree weather but the engine fires over from 'cold' far far quicker than it did, and I didn't think it used the glow plugs over 12 degrees. 

Has gone back to being eerily quiet too with all the engine covers back on, not sure I like it... 

[beko1987]

I gambled! 

Its ice cold. The guy said it passed all the machine things and held pressure. Will confirm tomorrow if it's all leaked out but I hope it doesn't 🤞☀️ 

[beko1987]

I wanted to test it, so we've gone out

Its fiercely cold still 👌 

[beko1987]

Was 5 up today as I took my mum and stepdad out, that with the aircon on full max cold makes it quite sluggish, but it's amazing how being cold makes all thought of speed and being quick evaporate as the longer it takes the longer one can be cold 😂 

The range guessometer said we used 50 miles for driving 20... Hopefully a trip to Marlow on Tuesday will sort that out after a punch up the m40 and not local pottering. 

My mum loved it, apparently the air con in their zoe works and is cold but isn't very powerful. I found if we closed the outer vents the big box that runs it all behind the dash pushed even colder air out the 2 centre vents

[beko1987]

Nipped out this morning and upon returning there was space behind the back gate, so I got on with my oil change! 

Well, first I dropped the undertray

The engine was still quite hot so I fetched the half can of waxoyl/hammerite stuff and after a vague light wire brush of the worst flaky bits put a nice thick coat all over everywhere I could reach

After half an hour I got to the oil. No images because it was so warm still it gushed out way too fast and overflowed my drain pan thing. Ended up using my hand to hold the drain plug and stem the flow which was hot and oily. Soon sorted though and I looked at the 14 month old air filter

Which then got replaced by a go faster red one

Used the last quarter of the waxoyl on the rear end, all up inside the subframe and a good but patchy coat on the rear arms to finish the tin. Needs the wheels taking off to fully get everywhere. 

Now I need 4 showers to get rid of the waxoyl that I'm covered in

[beko1987]

Came over to my friends at 4pm and we got to the qashqai. First up I jacked it up a bit and slid underneath. 

The oil is rhe sump, it has a tiny little weep. It got cleaned up and marked as 'keep an eye on it' and I topped the oil off for now. If it leaks quite alot over the next week or so we'll have it off and re sealed. 

Engine bay was filthy but pressure washed up a treat! A wobbly gearknob could be either the gear stick itself or the bushes in the car. Seems to have a load of slop both ends

That went fast, so we got the pressure washer out

Tons of mud poured from everywhere but the under side is very clean, most of the rear subframe and associated still has tons of paint on it! 

We did find another top class repair on one door after we gave it a good wash

But meh, it scrubbed up nicely and my friend even washed his touran and got geeky with the brushes

[beko1987]

Going through the book pack we found deep in the glove box it was a well loved car once. Nissan stamped to about 50k then regular servicing in Cornwall. 

 

[beko1987]

Went back over this morning to look at the handbrake. 2 very new rear discs fitted, I was almost hopeful it was just crap adjustment... 

ah no, snapped passenger side cable 😢 Need one of those then. Everything else is very clean 

That job abandoned, I tightened up all the wheel nuts as the wheel I removed was quite loose. I then found 1 missing entirely from the other back wheel 😡 Luckily I bought 5 nuts when I replaced my locking ones and had 1 spare that was still in the car, so I got that and fitted it. 

Next I had a look at the gear shifter as it's almost possible to loose neutral with all the slop. It all started well enough until I dropped part of the bushing for 1 cable and it rolled under the bloody shifter. So out that fully came

The broken part is some rod thst provides the lateral movement. There is a bodge that can be done but I didn't want to do thst today. Is all a bit worn though

Retrieving the part was impossible so we bit the bullet and stripped the entire centre console out (5 screws, 2 clips and unplug 2 wires, would have been faster to do that first) 

This revealed a ton of historic spilled drinks and mould. 

At this point we split. We'd lost one key important part of a cables bushings so I spent 2 hours hunting for it before finding it rolled under his car (gravel drive) and he dettol'd everything and we gave it all a good vacuum (partly to try and find the bush part.) 

Smashed it all back together and sort of ended up where we started but the car smells a ton better now.

We took it for a drive to check it still got all the gears and it did and it's so bloody silent. I've got a honking great dmf in my car and I still feel and hear a ton more than in this. It's doing 42.7 it says too over the 280 miles she's driven since I reset all the computers after we bought it. I'm quite impressed. It's utterly gutless getting up to speed but once there is fine. 

Time to find a handbrake cable then strip all the console back out again as it'll make fitting the cables much easier. 

Its mot is 5th August... Maybe one day we'll actually buy a really nice car thst doesn't have issues we should have spotted when viewing but hey ho! I think we got away with it again though 🤞