servicing a nissan note

The bit that’s flatter goes facing the sump plug (ie opposite to the way you have it in the picture). I don’t use that ‘fibre’ washer at all, just the copper one on both our Nissans.

thanks.  oil and filter sorted.  the bit that i thought would be easiest is proving the hardest to work out 😀

the air filter.  clip on the front, clip on the side, it drops down a little but i cant seem to fully open it.  it looks like its hinged at the back unless theyre clips too but i cant really see.  i tried sliding the filter out of the small gap ive made but still no good.  looked at a youtube vid but that was filter plus spark plugs so they took the whole top off, i dont need to do that do i?

Filter usually has four clips !  Spark plugs – you’ll usually have to take the engine cover off (you do in my petrol Nissan), but my wife’s Qashqai needs all the inlet removing and throttle body to get to spark plugs – let’s say we’ve not bothered doing it as the car has pretty low miles and it looks a pitta of a job.

Last service on my old scooby was oil, filter and air filter. No plugs, as it’s a diesel.
cost £200.  Iirc, the oil alone was over £60, sooo . .
i’d say £160 sounds pretty reasonable.

i do applaud your willingness to give it a go though.

i cba with it anymore, but i did our cars when i was younger.
if you’re a practical sort of person it shouldn’t be that difficult for you.

as noted above, having the correct tools, especially for the oil filter, makes it lots easier.

The fibre washer sits in the groove round the outside of the copper washer, it’s purely there to catch any drips that seep out over time. Not necessary for keeping the oil in but can stop the odd dip on your driveway if that’s an issue. You can slip it over the sump nut when it’s installed if you need to.

The air filter should be four clips and it will be a bit stiff to pull apart once free. The one on my Mum’s Note (2014 model so different to yours) always requires a screwdriver to work the seal apart as the air filter shape wedges them together.

Good on you for giving it a go, I do my car and my mum’s and it easily saves £100 or more as I pick up the parts when there’s offers on. Oil is the big expense of the whole lot as filters are under a tenner each usually. Picked up a job lot of oil filters for my Skoda (paper type) for £1.85 each a while back, a batch of 10 so good for 100k. Used 4 so far and they’re currently about £8 each so the rest are basically free. Oil I grab when on offer too, Carplan stuff is regularly sold cheap by a local factors around Bank Holidays. Think the last bottle for the Skoda (does 2 services as the sump is only 2.4 litres) was £19 instead of the usual £30.

Take a look at Manol oil. I picked up 20l of the stuff for less than £50, enough to do 5-6 oil changes on our cars.

4 clips, right.  id better get looking for the other two then 😀

thanks

well its still baffling me so ive taken a couple of pics.

ive dropped the front and side clips as you can see, but i cant find any way of undoing whatevers at the back, if they are indeed clips.  they look more like hinges than clips, and no matter how i wiggle and jiggle, nothing unfastens.

any ideas?

got it!  and i could have saved myself all the faff if id just looked at my handbook in the first place 😀

it shows a pic of it tilted down just as ive got it above ^^^, there are only 2 clips and they are indeed hinges at the back.  i took that air pipe out the front to give me a bit more space and it jiggled out.

all done.  i know its only very basic, but ive saved meself over £100 i suppose, and learnt a few things.

thanks for your help chaps.

That’s a £99.99 fee please !

oh 🙁

and it was going so well……

and it was going so well……

…have you just driven it!😬

just a bump on this as following the heavy rain just lately, the wifes just discovered one of the rear footwells soaking :-/

we’ve had leaking problems for ever with this car and ive been on the nissan forum previously, which has prompted me to seal all the top light clusters, the tailgate light, and bits underneath the tailgate, all to no avail.  we found the spare wheel swimming a couple of years back so i left the drain hole open and its been fine since (solved the effect, not the cause).  the practical person in me wonders whether itd be a good idea to drill a hole in the footwell so at least it doesnt pool, but im not exactly sure whats under there.  itd be a bit silly to drill through a brake pipe wouldnt it 😀

any advice?

thanks

Does the car have a sunroof? If so check that all the drains are unblocked (for the rear footwell). Else it could be the membrane behind the door card has failed or has come unsealed/stuck. Double-sided tape and and building membrane for a cheap replacement.

The spare wheel well was always damp in our old one. Double check that the tail-gate seal is properly in place. The high-level brake light seals can fail as can those around the rear light clusters (the material hardens and no longer conforms to the body openings).

Might be worth checking the rear window washer pipe isn’t leaking.

doesnt have a sunroof no, but i’ll check the door membrane and tailgate seal (would that leak into the footwell tho or just the spare wheel area?).

i remember now that the rear washer has never worked, so there may be a problem there.  think i looked into it at the time but couldnt sort it.  however, itd only leak water if i tried to use it wouldnt it?  if thats the case, i never do, so i cant see it leaking from there?  or if theres a leak would it be constantly trying to fill the pipe even if i wasnt pulling the lever?

thanks

Rear tail gate seal will fill the spare-wheel well.

Does the pump motor run when you attempt to clean the rear screen with washer fluid? If so the tubing may be broken inside the RH side bellows on the tailgate. (This is also where the lock release and rear wiper fails when the cables break due to fatigue. It’s a pain to remove and repair the broken bits and you will get burnt with the soldering iron trying to splice cables back together).

not too fussed about the spare wheel well now that it drains, i think ive come to terms with the fact ive sealed all the light clusters and it still leaks, but as long as it doesnt pool i can live with that.

yes the motor works when i try to wash the rear screen but no water comes out, so i just never work the motor.  thats why i wonder if theres a constant leak, or if it would only leak if i were to try and use it (which i dont).

gut feeling is its wet cos of the rain, so i think its a leak and will investigate the door card thing.

thanks

update.  found a ripped rubber door seal which ive siliconed up, but….. belt and braces, ive drilled a hole through the floor pan now so at least it drains.

was surprised that under the carpet theres also a lump of polystyrene, so the actual floor is a fair bit lower than the carpet, so mebbes it wasnt actually a pool but just spreading along the carpet?   anyways, ive drilled a hole in each rear floor pan now so will await the next heavy rain with anticipation.