your car will definitely looked nicer if it has darker tint. I saw one white color Teana with almost black color tint windows, it look awesome from side view...cos the A and B pillars also shinny black, very well match.

I think put on another layer will be better opinion. Since the car is still new in the market, not many shop know how to handle work like dismantling the plastic stuff at the rear windscreen, it is risky they screw up and casue unwanted rattling noise later. What tires u put on the new rims? how about the road noise and handling?

if you experience the Accord, Camry, Sonata, you will feel how smooth ( in term of the driving )and comfortable of this 2.5 Teana, that is the selling point. Resale value ? why care so much if you can "afford" to buy another new one. If say "uncle" look, don't you think the square'ish Camry, Accord, E-class, A6... more uncle'ish, this is executive style model, so the attribute of the uncle'ish must be blended in there...

In fact, this car has better interior design than all of its competitors, simple and classy looking. The only thing I don't like is the engine roaring sound is pretty obvious when u hit the fuel paddle harder or at low gear. After certain rpm, it pretty quiet. Do you guys feel the same ?

jimmynhs, are u using the RON 95 or 97? which petrol company you feel good for your Teana? My experience with the RON 95 ( I guess only cos it come with the car) is not good, after the first 3/4 tank finished, I changed to RON 97, I found the engine getting much more smoother and less noise, is this true? still puzzling whether is this my physicological effect...

This morning, I had pumped in the V Power, and I really feel the different this time. The engine is significantly more responsive and more quiet than previously. You guys must try this. It really draw me to believe the V Power or 97 is better in term of the combustion, so it shall leave less carbon in cylinder, ....so in long run, the engine block is cleaner, energy loss could be prevented better.

I see the same thing. Reading from the manual, it will off automatically after certain time but I have not tried yet.

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Added on January 29, 2011, 11:54 pmYou seem worried a lot about other people choice.

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[quote=acbc,Jan 30 2011, 10:55 PM]Tested the 2.5 recently and while it has good acceleration and comfort, the CVT really sucks! If u jab the pedal, rpm shot up to 6500 rpm and engine is very noisy. Even Altis and Estima with 7-speed CVT don't have this annoying feature.

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I have the same experience when I got my car but the more hours you drive it, you will feel the different... I would say you need time to "learn or feel" the CVT, of course I would say the pedal in quite "sensitive" or "responsive" in general heavy footer will get definitely push the rpm or .. I dont know whether the so called Adaptive Shift Control function contributing this. As I chat with the one of the key TC workshop guy, he also said need time to get used to the CVT. Anyway I still lacking of knowledge how the adaptive shift control comes in play, as far as my knowledge, it got an intelligent to learn many patterns of driving behaviors, well, please share if you know more.

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Added on January 31, 2011, 5:07 pm[quote=cheonwai,Jan 31 2011, 03:52 PM]
Hi Nipah, just ignore those rubbish comments or so called "opinions" if possible, it won't helps at all...

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You seem worried a lot about other people choice.

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Cheonwai, you are right the car blog community would not welcome this so called opinions.

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Beside the FC, others seem ok to me. For the 250XV, it is only 6.7km/l for the city drive, however I get almost double for the highway drive, approx. 11.8km/l. Camry 2.4 does better in FC, of course this is likely the apple and orange unfair comparison. As far as the engine preformance is concerned, I wud said..good.

Webboy, your problem could be the same kind like mine. It is more accurate you look at the rpm meter when the sound came out. In my case, I can clrearly hear the sound when it move from static, ramp up to approx. 1100 to 1500rpm, especially on the climbing slope (mean under high load/stress) however the sound disappeared after the virtual "2nd gear" enggaged. It sounded like the CVT got problem, and really got myself worried a lot. After that, TC sent another car, also 2.5, for me to verify at the same place I always find the noise, apparently it's not sound like mine, as the result they took my car and checked, especially to confirm the gearbox. Few days later, they assured me the problem not coming from CVT but they believed that was the engine knocking sound, so ...they set one of the engine setting from zero to minus one. Hwn I was asked to verify my car again, the sound gone and that's fine till now, further more I feel the engine and CVT work even better than previous.. in the other words kind of better "handshake" between the two. Flankly speaking, I don't enjoy the way this CVT work especially at low rpm and town driving, which suppose to produce smoother movement and seamless power transmission but in actual fact not thru all the range of rpm, in my gut feeling the software for this CVT could be further improved, indeed the whole CVT precision is governed by the SOFTWARE design. Hope TC will look into this, provide us better CVT.

For my car, I also encounbtered a number of case of irritation noise, however TC fixed all for me, thanks to the field service guys but the factory really need to look at the wires dressing method..happened in my case.

You're welcomed bro. I fixed the problem in Penang. Btw, I also suggest you change the air filter to the better type; I use K&N in my case. To share with you, after changing the air filter, I can significantly feel very much better pick up from static condition, feel like the improvement in the engine torque and power, it really worth the investment, ultimately give you better pleasure of driving, but i do not see any improvement in fuel consumption at all.

The internal combustion theory explaining the important of the air flow and mixture of petrol, that yield the efficiency of engine power. Better mixture, higher efficiency, it NEVER worse but an underpower engine always consume more petrol. Generally there are two types of K&N filter, of course the cone type will boost the engine power better but noiser.

Guys, so sorry coz so late late to respond. Get the panel type. Teana J32 model filter is exactly same as Sentra N16, X-trail and Maxima (not in Malaysia). They all share the same design. In fact Teana platform is same as the current Maxima in U.S. Go to the authorized K&N dealer (go K&N website, they will tell you the right shop for your location), you will get cheaper price. For your info, I get it at RM330. Make sure you wont get an imitate one, air filter is one of the key components for the engine performance and efficiency. K&N filter will not void the warranty. Next, you shall choose a better engine oil for your car, make your engine even more quiet, lighter feel and better pick up. Start to take care of your new engine from now on, you probably has to start to look for some stuff that help to clean up the fuel system, valves, cyclinders, etc after certain mileage. It just like our human heart, heart problem is the effect of cummulative problem, surgery /by pass is the worst nightmare !! Teana has quite a nice engineering built according to my survey, you shall has more confidence to know that it is at the level of Nissan Maxima in US. The sound proof of this car is good, the 2.5 engine is creamy, the interior is classy, the roofline is nice, so what you guys like about this car? but I dont like the CVT, and what you don't like about this car ? can you guys share your opinion. Thanks, regards.

Brother Webboy; about the engine knocking issue that happened to our cars, I think you got to try this. Recently during the 15k service, I asked the sc what sort of engine tuning done previously, he explained ..the "rpm at the certain stage of engine running", again I asked whether any down side of doing this..the answer.."lost some power", so I requested the prameters to be reset so that I can confirm "the different"...YES..really see the differences: (1) Car is obviously more powerful now (2) the knocking sound at around 30kmh is coming back, so I got really upset whenever hearing the knocking sound. I called back to the foreman, he said may be try different brand of petrol or use 97, well then I switched from shell 95 to petronas 95, still can hear but the noise is just slightly lower.. still very disappointing but I never want to go back for "lost power"... so next I try one can of the STP oil treament, I put the whole can into my engine oil... I spotted situation significantly improved, engine pick up is more responsive and most importantly the knocking sound almost gone.. it only sound very minimum at certain time especially "climbing" slope. I decided to put some more into it, add another 3/4 of another can, now the knocking noise just gone, engine also much smoother now, seemed like work very well with the CVT. Now I am puzzling what sort of engine oil shall I use in the next oil change ? Currently, I am using the Castrol fully synthetic Sport edge, 0w-40.

Normally they will use the semi-syn, ie Magnetec unless you ask them to use the fully synthetic (pay more), which is castrol professional, 10w-30, but not the sport edge 0w-40 currently I am using. If my memory serve me correct, after certain mileage I used the 10w-30 from TC in previous service, I start hearing the knocking sound, where I started complaining. SC troubleshooting my car a few days, ~4days and finally adjusted my engine setting as I mentioned above. They also let me test drive other Teana 2.5 at my living place (hill area) where I usually hear this knocking sound, all of us agreed with the knocking sound.., but my is very much more obvious, they also agreed. They said they also confirm with HQ, this is also happened to other 2.5, and it is ok not harmful...No better solution from SC ! However when using the 0w-40, I hear the knoking more noisy.. this is why I try to share at here. STP oil treatment is a kind of engine treatment oil to reduce friction, where I think it helps and it does in my case.

I changed from semi to fully syn 10w-30 during the 5k service, at 15k service i used 0w-40 which is even thinner. Half way tru after 5k service, I observed the knocking (i suspected the engine oil getting thinner). For the 0w-40, I even hear the knocking right after the oil changed. Yes, STP oil treatment would make the oil become more viscous but will reduce friction. Anyway, at least I dont hear the knocking (very irritating, once you hv spotted the sound), engine is more responsive in fact, I dont think the FC will go up. About the the knocking, you will only hear it when the rpm hit around 1.5k at "low gear" from static, above the rpm, you will never hear it. Say, when climbing slope after the road bump, if I am pressing the throttle slowly, I usually can spot the sound "krek..krek..krek" until the cvt shift up to certain ratio. Well, if you hv your radio on, you can't hear this. I am also running at 17k now. I remember the jerking problem ... it happened quite often to me initially, make me feel very disappointed about the cvt which is quite high rated by Nissan. I noticed once I upgraded a few things like the airfilter to K&N, semi to fully syn, installed six-element power bar and ball, I hardly feel it now. My feeling on the STP is quite positive matching my current engine oil, I really can feel the different. Anyway, this is not harmful stuff, but better for you dont choose those contain the PTFE engine treatment!

Bro, do you mind to share ?

I think it is more accurate to measure in unit like KM/L. My 250XV run at 11.7km/l on purely highway, 7.5km/l in city.

I wish I could hit 13.8km/l also. Why and how you can get so good mileage ??? Any modification ?

Guys, about the engine pingging / knocking problem that also happened to me, here is my finding, read the link,http://x.nissanhelp.com/forums/murano/13136-vq-engine-ping-knock.html.
It is exactly what I experience where the pingging can be heard during uphill and especially you hit very slow on the pedal.. I plan to bring this to TC to see what can they do to my car.