Hello

Hello

I have had my 2014 Dci 1.5 Nissan Juke tekna for 5 years now ( I am 78 years of age) it will probably be my last car, I have never seen another one like it, that colour with the white highlights and diesel, it costs £20 a year road tax, important for a pensioner and is extremely good on fuel consumption

This is a facelift model, blue with white wing mirrors and eyebrows front and rear, as I call them, it is a high mileage model and I bought it by accident as it was a courtesy car from my local garage, this was 6 years newer than the car I owned at the time, as it was high mileage it cost £3000 and £1000 part exchange for my old Ford Focus.

It was reluctant to start just turning over and over, this stumped two local garages, but was fixed by the main Nissan dealer in Norwich, the main fuse adjacent to the battery had gone, this was also expensive.

After this I have had several problems, leaking air con compressor, this was replaced by the main dealer again, also they found a wire off behind the dashboard.

My local garage did not seem keen to replace the glow plugs, so I did this myself, a bit fiddly but I managed OK, they cost £17 each from my local motor factor.

I also replaced all the brakes this summer including the discs and parking brake shoes, the parts cost £215, this was not easy owing to my advanced age but a lot cheaper than the garage, the worst part of this job was the parking brake shoes, there is a small spring and sort of nail arrangement that hold the brake shoes in place, very fiddly as you need to hold them at the back whilst pushing at the front against the spring

The car also had a very loose gearstick, I solved this by removing the centre consul and taking the gearstick out, uncliping the cables, the bottom of the gearstick sits in a nylon socket, this wears, I was able to make an aluminum circular shim which surrounded the nylon bush, a bit fiddly but the gearstick is now positive

I also replaced the drivers seat owing to wear

The most recent job I did was non working windscreen washers, parts are cheap on EBay, the actual problem was a blocked 'Y' valve under the long plastic scuttle panel I carefully levered this up at the front and was then able to pull all the pipe out and the small blocked fitting. I replaced this with a 'Y' fitting that I bought on ebay with new pipe, I also replaced the pump and bottle under the front rear arch with second hand but newer ones, I made a slight modification when replacing the tubing, thinking it may happen again I ran the tube along the front of the scuttle panel under the bonnet of course and drilled through adjacent to the jets before connecting up, the pipes are hidden behind the millboard which clips on, this also keeps the tubing away from the wiper arm mechanism which runs under the panel