Rubber seals dried up in X70. X70 owner group also complaining about gearbox issues in CBU but touch wood mine is fine till now.

Yeah, all gearbox also got issues is just how the owner & manufacturer take care of it. Just as i want to feedback that DSG also got a lot of complaints from around forums & proton groups also.

Active cruise control maybe useful. But passive cruise control near useless in msia.

Speed limit 110kmh. Every car driving at every speed but 110kmh.

After spotting a nice looking Almera Kuro version earlier last week which had piqued my interested a little, I investigated further on the vehicle. Everything looks good until I noticed a rather huge minus point. The vehicle does not come with powered seats, not even for the driver. All manual adjustments for the front seats.

Not sure why need powered seats, all my rides only adjust 1 time and never touch again. Unless you share your ride to different person a lot, if not the powered seats seems not practical. Even sliding up and down also slower compare to manual operated, until today i still prefer manual over powered seats.

This post has been edited by littlefire: Jan 17 2024, 04:14 PM

Pls la.... Nissan already die with Jakco CVT.. .focus on S70 C segment better...

Hence active cruise control

Everyone is different. Even though the car may be used by one person only, I find powered seats to be useful. Perhaps I'm spoiled by the Ford Focus where both front seats come with powered seats. I occasionally adjust the position of the seats, front and back, and the backrest inclined at various angles or upright. Sometimes when I'm at the traffic lights, I will put the seat inclined to rest if I have a bad headache, and when the cars start moving I'll get the seat straight up by the push of the button. Very easy and convenient. Of course manual adjustments will work too but it's just more work to adjust to the optimal position. With powered seats, the adjustments are minute so you can get to the desired position accurately and easily. With manual adjustments the positions of the seat are preset in say 4 or 5 places so you get less play.

If the car is used by 2 persons or more, occasionally if not regularly, the powered seats will be more useful. If it's older folks, it will be even more useful. In my case the vehicle will be mostly used by 2 persons.

There are people who pay a lot of emphasis on 360 degrees parking camera, auto cruise, paddle shifters and some advanced safely features but they are all not important to me. In the end it depends on the criteria of the individual on what he/she regards as important. Everyone is different and people have the choice to go with whatever that is appealing to them. If your ask me, I wouldn't pick the Proton S70 even though it is packed with many features and have a more powerful to engine to hit higher top speed or whatever. And I would go with Toyota over Honda anytime. It's good to have options.

YouTube Nissan CVT will make horrors video. That's why lack of Nissan car odr. X-Rail was regular odr last time but the cvt make all running away. Nissan still selling this old car

HM? Better look around for user complaining nowadays

to me powered seats is only really useful if it comes with easy access function as well (seats will move backwards and steering will move away after you turn off the car for easy exit and entry)

other than that I dont see a difference with manual seat except powered seat can have memory function as well which is good for those who shares their car a lot

This post has been edited by ZeneticX: Jan 17 2024, 11:17 PM

ya man... only ACC useful, regular cruise control maybe can only use on long empty stretch like LPT.

long time back, i wanted a car with cruise control for my regular weekly long distance commute, when finally got a car with regular cruise control
the traffic increased so much that it's useless already.

The Jatco CVT gearbox issues already improved over the years and local Nissan already include CVT oil change earlier within 60~80k range compare to last time only do after 80~100k. All these help reduce the warranty claims and gearbox issue, if you drive it like a racer & high-rev a lot than the Almera is not suitable, better get Mazda 2 with 6AT gearbox. Proton DCT gearbox until today also got issues, X50/X70 owners complaining of vibration or gear switching not smooth for certain gears also. If you ask me, the most stable gearbox is still the normal AT gearbox.

Ya bro, those lower range car usually where got easy access function. Only those higher more expensive range cars, SUV only got.
The rest mostly are memory function only which is good for those which switch different drivers a lot, thus why after owning and driven few cars i felt a lot of these accessories really waste of money if you drive alone.

only those X70 CBU had a big issues with GB, claiming Torque Converter 3 times. the CKD X70 DCT as well as X50, not much issue if check on both FB group. Nissan CVT, just search YouTube for abroad problems faced by it.

For anyone who is interested, there is currently promotion for Nissan Almera Kuro black edition. Some photos forwarded to me by the sales guy. These are the new glacier grey finish for the Kuro which is different from the old Dark metal finish:-








The old dark metal finish:-

indeed the glacier gray looks very nice

Almera's acceleration power is better than Toyota Vios though.

Looks pretty much identical to Nardo Grey. The thing about Nardo grey is that you might feel the colour code to be dated sooner than later.

Yes, same thoughts and that was the reason it got me interested as apart from the new glacier grey finish, the Kuro black front grille add-on made it look much better as the original silver front grille didn't look good to me. I didn't look at the Almera all this while as it does not look good but this new Kuro version with glacier grey finish now looks appealing to me.

Further investigation revealed that there is a new Almera 2024 version already launched in Thailand and Philippines lately, or maybe a year ago. It's basically a facelift with a new front grille and minor changes in the interior (blue-coloured leather at the dashboard replacing the beige coloured one, all black leather seats) and some additional features such as tyre pressure monitoring system. Not sure when it will be launched here, if it ever gets to Malaysia.