{"id":16,"date":"2010-07-25T23:32:56","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T21:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scanlen.com\/tiidatales\/?p=16"},"modified":"2010-09-03T23:44:49","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T21:44:49","slug":"why-did-we-buy-a-tiida-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scanlen.com\/tiidatales\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Why Did We Buy A Tiida? (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continued from <\/a>Part 1<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Like I said previously, when we first got HIS Tiida the family asked why we decided on a Nissan Tiida and not something traditional like a Volkswagen (the choice of the wifes side of the family) or another Opel (at that stage I had an Opel Astra 200IE Euro)? This is the second part of that answer…<\/p>\n

Answer 2 of 2:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reliability and Price of Replacement Parts<\/em><\/p>\n

For many years now my wife has owned (and still does) a little red 1991 Nissan Sentra 1.6GXE coupe.<\/p>\n

\"Eliska's<\/p>\n

She is an old lady with over 200000km on the clock, has had 2 resprays, and is lovingly being driven around currently in Port Elizabeth by her brother.<\/p>\n

But the fact remains she is reliable and has cost VERY little to maintain and she still drives like a go-kart. (+1 Point for the Nissan brand)<\/em><\/p>\n

To check just how reliable Nissan Tiida’s were (before we bought one) we headed over to HelloPeter.com<\/a>. This is a website where you (the end user) can log a customer service compliment or complaint against a company and it gives the company a chance then to rectify the issue (not all do). It is a good way of measuring if there are issues with a particular model of vehicle or if the manufacturer or car dealer is the type you should rather stay away from.When we looked, there were only 2 reports containing Tiida in them and they were for issues relating to trade-in deal that went wrong and the cost of hub caps (this IS<\/strong> an issue – will post why later).<\/em> (Another +1 Point for the Nissan brand)<\/em><\/p>\n

Next there is an annual report that compares the most common replacement parts costs between the different motor manufacturers. It is called the Kinsey Report<\/strong>. Interestingly enough, the Kinsey Report on Car Part Prices<\/a> has for 3 years running found that Nissan Tiida’s<\/strong> (that competes in the C Section – against cars like the Ford Fiesta, Mazda 3, Alfa 147, Honda Jazz, Toyota Corolla, VW Golf 6, Subaru Impreza) replacement parts and spares are cheapest in its catagor<\/strong>y. Head over to reports for a breakdown: 2007<\/a>, 2008<\/a>, 2009<\/a>. (Another +1 Point for the Nissan brand)<\/em><\/p>\n

So as you can see from the above we had 3 very good reasons to purchase a Nissan Tiida: (1) <\/strong>Past History with the Nissan brand, (2)<\/strong> Customer Service, (3)<\/strong> Price for replacement parts.<\/em><\/p>\n

That is WHY WE CHOSE A TIIDA.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continued from Part 1… Like I said previously, when we first got HIS Tiida the family asked why we decided on a Nissan Tiida and not something traditional like a Volkswagen (the choice of the wifes side of the family) or another Opel (at that stage I had an Opel Astra 200IE Euro)? This is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scanlen.com\/tiidatales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scanlen.com\/tiidatales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scanlen.com\/tiidatales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scanlen.com\/tiidatales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scanlen.com\/tiidatales\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/scanlen.com\/tiidatales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"http:\/\/scanlen.com\/tiidatales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scanlen.com\/tiidatales\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scanlen.com\/tiidatales\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scanlen.com\/tiidatales\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}