How long has this been sitting around...

EPM

Am I correct in thinking this car must be about 3 years old already? To be honest judging by the alloys on the car it isn't even one of the last ones as they changed them on the SE's to thinner spokes about a year before they went.

http://www.carzone.ie/search/Nissan/Primera/1.6i-4DR/201122202650408/advert?channel=CARS



EDIT - There's a red one too.

kev250

Ugly thing anyway could buy way better for that money.

Are they 1.5 or 1.6?

Riskymove

there are 6 on carzone it seems

are Primeras still available through UK?

EPM

Riskymove wrote: »

are Primeras still available through UK?

Nope

R.O.R

I was offered MY06 & MY 07's a few months ago - Nissan had quite a bit of legacy stock they were trying to get rid of.

Looks like one dealer took the plunge and regged some. Good luck to them...

alanclarke1975

Could be that the engine complies with some Euro compliance that is due to expire. Old engine technology



Wanna be given em away

Yuck!!

R.O.R

R.O.R wrote: »

Looks like one dealer took the plunge and regged some. Good luck to them...

To go from flogging Mini and BMW to those yokes.

mickdw

I think he would want to knock another 6k off them to make them more attractive.

VolvoMan

These stopped production around early '07, making that car at least four years old.

_Kaiser_

I saw one of these (11-D as well) on the M50 about 2/3 months back. Someone's buying them anyway - HAS to be better than those godawful Juke things anyway!

AugustusMinimus

Did Nissan stop selling the Primera here without introducing a replacement ?

Have to say both Nissan and it's sister brand Infiniti, are producing some of the ugliest cars around. The front on those Infiniti's is something shocking.

shergar22

What's wrong with the Primera? Solid, practically bombproof, with very few niggles. Fair enough, the look doesn't appeal to some, but I've seen worse. I had one for a good few years and it never left me down.
A few too many wannabe car snobs around this thread methinks. If it doesn't have a BMW badge they don't want know.

Jagle

was inside one of these recently, it was a taxi, not it was clean and all that, but wtf is up with the dashboard and the alyout, would drive me mental if i had to drive one

VolvoMan

RoverJames wrote: »

To go from flogging Mini and BMW to those yokes.

Did they not become Audi dealers after?

colm_mcm

kev250 wrote: »

Ugly thing anyway could buy way better for that money.

Are they 1.5 or 1.6?

They're 1.6 but sometimes when you use a dealer website and sync it with carzone it doesn't sround up - eg.1598cc is listed as 1.5

Had this issue years ago in the dealer i was in but nobody in autotrader cared

Henree

EPM wrote: »

Am I correct in thinking this car must be about 3 years old already? To be honest judging by the alloys on the car it isn't even one of the last ones as they changed them on the SE's to thinner spokes about a year before they went.

http://www.carzone.ie/search/Nissan/Primera/1.6i-4DR/201122202650408/advert?channel=CARS



EDIT - There's a red one too.

Beware: €630 road tax.....I work in Nissan dealer, offered these, cheap..built in 07

johnos1984

If it was priced at €13k I'd consider it a badly built bargain

mickdw

Henree wrote: »

Beware: €630 road tax.....I work in Nissan dealer, offered these, cheap..built in 07

So what is the real price of one of these? I think they would be a good buy for about 13k too.

Henree

The problem is that anybody who is in the market for a new or nearly new car wants low tax......we didnt know what they would sell for , 13k, sounds ok, but its a bit like a house in a ghost estate in Leitrim? How low does it have to be for you to buy it? We shpuld put out a pol, I would be genuinely interested what people would pay for one, remember it has a 3 year warranty, and anyway shoudnt really give you any bother....

unkel

Surely nobody in their right mind will pay anywhere near €19k for one of those?

And the dealer is looking for trouble giving a warranty on a 4 year old car on the road if it's not been serviced and if it has been sitting up for all that time. Does Nissan even give a manufacturers warranty with one of those? I doubt it...

johnos1984

Henree wrote: »

anyway shoudnt really give you any bother....

They were one of Nissans worst cars and got worse with age as the car went through its lifespan. Don't let the badge fool you

unkel

VolvoMan wrote: »

Did they not become Audi dealers after?

From their website:

Kevin O’Leary Group is main dealer for the Opel and Honda

Linky

Henree

johnos1984 wrote: »

They were one of Nissans worst cars and got worse with age. Don't let the badge fool you

yeh but not for another 7 or 8 years!

johnos1984

Henree wrote: »

yeh but not for another 7 or 8 years!

As the car went through its life it became more unreliable due to penny pinching by Renault in the parts quality being specified. The original ones weren't bad but by the end they were not a good car

EPM

shergar22 wrote: »

What's wrong with the Primera? Solid, practically bombproof, with very few niggles. Fair enough, the look doesn't appeal to some, but I've seen worse. I had one for a good few years and it never left me down.
A few too many wannabe car snobs around this thread methinks. If it doesn't have a BMW badge they don't want know.

They were far from Nissans finest moment. Dodgy gearboxes and electrics. As for badge snobs I started the thread and I drive a bloody Skoda:D;):p

mickdw

unkel wrote: »

And the dealer is looking for trouble giving a warranty on a 4 year old car on the road if it's not been serviced and if it has been sitting up for all that time. Does Nissan even give a manufacturers warranty with one of those? I doubt it...

IM assuming they get full manufacturer warranty. If not, they are worthless or at best have similar value to a well used 05 / 06 model

Henree

Full manu warranty, 3 years

RedorDead

johnos1984 wrote: »

If it was priced at €13k I'd consider it a badly built bargain

Looking at dealer in question thats probably about what they paid for them. Id say the amount of moss and mould that came off them was unreal.

johnos1984

Henree wrote: »

Full manu warranty, 3 years

How do you know?

Henree

I work for Nissan

johnos1984

There are too many cheaper similar sized models with full warranty and cheap tax to be bothered buying it at anywhere near that price.

Buy a bloody Megane if you want a cheap well sized car that MUST be new(or spent a large amount of its life sitting in a field)

johnos1984

Henree wrote: »

I work for Nissan

Its not in a main dealer though or does that matter?

Henree

Doesnt matter, 3 year Pan european warranty, any Nissan dealer in Europe will look after it

Squall19

shergar22 wrote: »

What's wrong with the Primera? Solid, practically bombproof, with very few niggles. Fair enough, the look doesn't appeal to some, but I've seen worse. I had one for a good few years and it never left me down.
A few too many wannabe car snobs around this thread methinks. If it doesn't have a BMW badge they don't want know.

+1

Funny how Roverjames drives a chavy and tarted up Rover 75 ( MG ZT ) and refers to the Primera as those yokes

johnos1984

Squall19 wrote: »

+1

Funny how Roverjames drives a chavy and tarted up Rover 75 ( MG ZT ) and refers to the Primera as those yokes

I'd prefer have a 75 or ZT to that model Primera and keep the €17k difference in price in my back pocket

cjmcork

I saw an 11 Ford Fusion the other day - had no idea they were still making them:eek:

VolvoMan

unkel wrote: »

From their website:



Linky

That's funny, because I would bet a lot of money that they became an Audi dealer when they handed the BMW franchise back.

It must have been a relatively short term arrangement.

VolvoMan

VolvoMan wrote: »

That's funny, because I would bet a lot of money that they became an Audi dealer when they handed the BMW franchise back.

It must have been a relatively short term arrangement.

Kevin O Leary in Douglas were the Audi Dealer, the KOL with these Primeras are in Silver Springs, same company no doubt, he has one in Bandon too iirc, Opel maybe.

Squall19 wrote: »

+1

Funny how Roverjames drives a chavy and tarted up Rover 75 ( MG ZT ) and refers to the Primera as those yokes

I know it's hilarious.

If I was driving a 1990 Rover 414 that went through a gallon of coolant every 100 miles I'd still refer to those 11 reg Primeras as yokes.

I'd consider someone who repeatedly mentions racing and speeding on public roads in their 300bhp shopping cart as chavy, if I was a Brit. Too much Eastenders I'd say for that to have crept into your vocabulary.

unkel

VolvoMan wrote: »

That's funny, because I would bet a lot of money that they became an Audi dealer when they handed the BMW franchise back.

It must have been a relatively short term arrangement.

You remember right! A quick google shows this from 2 years ago:

Audi Ireland appointed the Kevin O Leary Motor Group as main Audi Dealers for Cork City

Linky

Makes you wonder what didn't work out there, though I suppose 2009 was an annus horribilis for new car sales...

EPM

RoverJames wrote: »

Kevin O Leary in Douglas are the Audi Dealer, the KOL with these Primeras are in Silver Springs, same company no doubt, he has one in Bandon too iirc, Opel maybe.

Audi was taken over by Blackwater Motors a little while back.

They used to have Nissan and Seat in with Audi out there. They had a yard full of Tidas at one stage. Now that would have been the sales job from hell.

Mr.Boots

Yea silly tyrying to sell an old design like that.....





Oh...Hold on......

unkel

RoverJames wrote: »

Kevin O Leary in Douglas are were the Audi Dealer

FYP

bazz26

I could see the appeal of one of these to a taxi or hackney driver alright. Brand new mid size saloon with a 100k mile warranty but it would want to be alot cheaper than €19k, alot cheaper.

Where's I Was VB?

The Primera has really aged though.

EPM

bazz26 wrote: »

I could see the appeal of one of these to a taxi or hackney driver alright. Brand new mid size saloon with a 100k mile warranty but it would want to be alot cheaper than €19k, alot cheaper.

Where's I Was VB?

The Primera has really aged though.

On his way to Cork with a car transporter. 4 of them would see him through until retirement:D

unkel

unkel wrote: »

FYP

Yep, my mistake, they still have f loads of Audi in Douglas though.

unkel

unkel wrote: »

You remember right! A quick google shows this from 2 years ago:............

iirc Blackwater motors had an Audi dealer event back in late 2009 when there was the severe flooding. They had loads of cars parked in the Kingsley Hotel car park. So that would indicate that KOL had the Audi dealership for not too long at all.

unkel

RoverJames wrote: »

iirc Blackwater motors had an Audi dealer event back in late 2009 when there was the severe flooding. They had loads of cars parked in the Kingsley Hotel car park. So that would indicate that KOL had the Audi dealership for not too long at all.

Aye I remember the posts here about that flood!

You can see the rescued Audi cars in the background....

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=63139418

Post 20, have to scroll up a bit.

Zubeneschamali

AugustusMinimus wrote: »

Did Nissan stop selling the Primera here without introducing a replacement ?

Not only did they pull it without a replacement, it was so unloved that nobody noticed.

Henree

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

Not only did they pull it without a replacement, it was so unloved that nobody noticed.

Direct replacement for Primera due next year in Ireland

I Was VB

Berty wrote: »

On his way to Cork with a car transporter. 4 of them would see him through until retirement:D

Even i wouldnt buy it for €7K, horrid horrid cars, gearboxes go every 40K, electrics made of cheese, and timing chains are made of spaghetti.