Hi Ian, I did offer to change the water pump, fan resistor and service the Primera for you free of charge prior to delivery, but you said you wanted to do the jobs yourself as it would make good video content. I wanted to provide you with a reliable car you and your family could use straight away. Never mind, I am sure your garage will do a good job and I am glad you are enjoying driving it.
I’ve a feeling Ms Hubnut prioritisation approach is the reason. Would be a good idea to leave a camera for the garage to take some shots/videos of the job.
Ian. There is a time to look after your mental health so getting the water pump done is a good idea. Now as for the oldcit and sana. You should ditch them because, as interesting as they are, they are beyond your shop’s capabilities.
Ian m8 dont stress so much u can do the job your just having a bad time atm. keep up the good work and looking forward to seeing you do work on the cars soon
A great part of the joy of this channel is your adventuring out on the road. And, you have not been able to do that at all in the last year, so no wonder things have been frustrating and different! We still love your channel, Ian! ♥
Sorry Ian I have to question your sentence "I am struggling to get things done properly." Does anything on the HubNut channel get done properly and would it be as much fun if it did? Answers on a postcard please.
I have to admit that even though i'm a mega Rover fan , that Primera is a nice car, and i have to agree with other comments Ian ,,,,The Yugo and Olcit need to go to much work needs doing on them and it will also free up space in the barn
Congrats on the latest purchase Ian, P11 Primera, brilliant car, getting seen a lot less on uk roads these days too. Had 3 versions of the Primera myself, P11 P11 facelift, and P12, great cars.👍
That wasn't too bad on the head cam this time - I managed to actually watch all the way through without experiencing any nausea! Glad you're going to properly rebuild TWC's brakes - you know it makes sense 👍
I’m loving the primera Ian. I had a 2.0 P11 about 9 years ago and it was one of the finest handling cars I ever had, even though it was on nasty 14” tyres. The engine pulled forever and kept up with far more exotic machinery and the handling was so sure footed you could never get into trouble. I’m very jealous of you!
That -1c degree sounds pretty warm to me, today morning in South-west Finland was -26c 🥶 Always nerve wracking to drive when so cold, because if something brokes or diesel gets thick you really hope you have warm clothes...
I'm surprised about your concern about gelling diesel. In a normal winter, the part of Canada where I live sees the occasional -30c, but we have winterized diesel, so gelling is never a concern. Certainly my car always starts easily even at those temps.
@@CaptHollister we have also winter diesel, but if there's summer diesel left in your tank before you fill it up with winter one and those two different diesel don't mix up so well and if your fuel filter have also that summer diesel it can bloked up. Everytime there is -15 or colder you can see diesel cars side of the road. I don't ever have problem with diesel on winter maybe it's just cars of those peoples who don' care or don't maintenance their cars properly 😄
Mine was an SLX in estate form. That was a lovely car to drive and own. Have to say your channel is going from strength to strength Ian. Home schooling is not easy, I know and complete strip down jobs are hard to squeeze into such little time. Don’t stress though. All of your content is very enjoyable and fun to watch. Best regards from snowy Scotland 🏴
A wise job farming out work, sometimes you just don’t seem interested and feel like it. I just farmed out a job on the landy that I’d have relished if it was sunny/dry and I was younger 😂 nowadays I choose what I want to do based on my time, I’m more interested in having fun on my days off work than getting fed up at a car. Still do stuff when there’s no pressure on but if I need to fix a car and I don’t want to I farm it.
Many thanks for these insights - I’ve just gone and signed up for purchasing a 1998 Nissan Pulsar hatchback N15 (subject to an MOT/WOF). That’s got the GA16DE engine which certainly seems lively enough. Car has had just two owners and is super tidy. Happy days 😀😀😀😀😃
Those older Nissans are very reliable, and far better built, compared to today's Nissan offerings, and for 400 quid, you can't go wrong. May not be too exciting to look at but it will do the job for years to come, if you wanted, bargain 👍
The new Nissan's have Renault links that could explain the reliability issues. The electrics are always the downside on any Nissan under the Renault ownership.
@@bentullett6068 Well known for it, rubbish electrics, but thats not the only issue. If you've ever test driven a more modern Nissan, say over at least the last ten years or so, they are not nearly as solid a car, they just lack the quality of say a Toyota for instance, and definitely a lot of cost cutting corners taken place there. I like Japanese cars, great reliability, but out of all of them, Nissan would now be bottom of the list for me, the modern ones that is.
Nice to see you'll get a full service from the farming-out as well. The little button on the end of the wiper stalk has 3 functions it can make the right-hand LCD digits display: current time in hr-min (default when it's around 5deg C or above); outside temperature (which takes precedence when it's really cold!); and current date in DD:MM form. That's the one you thought was another time setting, and so looks to be about a month and a half out! I vaguely remember that you can hold and then click-press that stalk-end to change the setting of time and/ or date. Really happy memories in your videos of my late wife's R-reg 1997 P11 1.6SLX, which came brand-new from the Nissan dealership down the road from West End; the smaller engine had less of a mid-range flat spot than yours.
Pleased you're enjoying the handling of the Primera. Good decision farming out the water pump change, after a friend and myself tried to change the one on my P10, we gave up and my local garage did the job and I think he still hates me. When I took my P11-144 to my sisters in Clun Shopshire, the lanes around there were free of traffic and I arrived with the biggest smile ever.
Nice to see the P11 Primera again! When I was a apprentice at a Nissan dealer these were what I worked on. Great car, used to have a 1.6 Si Primera in white with the GT wheels and spoiler.
Totally agree the facelift P10 was its Prime Era, 😂🤣😂. I had one and loved it. At least you have a nice family car now and you can play with the other fleet members now.
Another great video. In 1997 it would have taken quite a leap of faith to believe that a video on a Nissan Primera would ever be a welcome sight. I think that says a lot about the car industry today. Thanks Ian.
Felt like I was banging my head on the headlining while scooting along on your drive down the road with your head mounted camera!...weird sensation but exciting at the same time!
My dad bought a brand new facelift Primera WP11 1.6 in 2001 right after passing his driving test. It didn't withstand not changing the oil particularly well. He was quickly known at the gas station as the guy who buys the same amounts of petrol and engine oil.
Hi Ian, sorry mate getting a bit bored with your videos now. Man gets bored doesn't make a good video I'm afraid and it's not why I started watching your channel. Home schooling and can't be arsed aren't good excuses and you can do the mechanics which your cars are crying out for, just look back to your earlier videos to see why your channel grew so much. I'm not having a go at you personally I think you are a great chap but your videos are going downhill fast. If you start a job finish it don't get bored and give us a history lesson on another car. I've enjoyed your channel since you got TWC and I hope you can pull it round a bit mate. Maybe let Miss hubnut boss you more and you might get more done. Even if I leave thank you for a very enjoyable couple of years and well done for saving TWC and Foxanne (my favourites) Cheers Mark
19:03 will be total driving time if it is like my Qashqai, good to see the flashing temperature was carried over to the qashqai,cracking video as usual over my lunch
@@southendparaquest Lack of will ha noo need for stating limited ability as a reason though. I'm just saying I think he has the ability to do most jobs on more modern cars, especially if they are engineered in japan.
Sometimes you just want a car that is reliable and has no list of faults that need to be sorted out, so you can focus on those cars that are need to be worked on but you don't need for getting from A to B.
We had both a P reg eGT and an R reg SRi on our work fleet. The SRi was just brilliant. Handled well, was fast and very understated. I really wanted to buy the SRi when its time was up, but the fleet manager refused to tell me what auction house would be selling it, nor when. All I can remember of the reg was R701 ***. Fabulous car.
Thankfully modern coolant does have some sort of horrible bittering agent in it so animals won't actually drink it (though they might try licking it so still not great)
Really good nick for 166k, certainly sounds smooth on camera. I believe when Ford brought out the mondeo, they used the primera as their yardstick for handling etc
Thank you very much for keeping us up to date, just mentioning, that your HubNut grind is awesome, much respect for keeping it up and on the wrenching side, as with more, choose battle wisely indeed.
Well done, Ian. My former boss had an Infiniti G20 with auto box. Generally a nice car to drive, and quite luxurious. He got 300,000 miles out of it before rust killed it. I will never forget us going to collect as 78 Mercury Grand Marquis saloon. A giant of a car with a 6.5 litre engine. It was about 2½ hours each way. Coming back to the city, I didn't realize the speedometer in the Marquis was wildly pessimistic. I thought I was doing the speed limit of 80 km/h. I was really doing slightly over the 100 mark. When we got to his house, I was as relaxed as can be. The old boat had been loafing along. The boss was frazzled from trying to keep up with me. The little 2 litre was working because most of the trip was on roads not unlike those in this video.
@@karstentopp my next car! I own an n14 sunny (ga16de) and p11 SRi (Sr20DE) going to be boosting the p11 soon, hopefully I can purchase a gtir in the next couple of years!
Once you have the water pump sorted out, errrr, farmed out, I think this one will do well as transport from A to B. Likewise, the Charade will be useful for Miss HubNut once the MOT issues have been sorted out. You need some degree of reliability in the fleet so you have more focus on the cars that don't have that (yet).
A 2.0lt Primera! Here in Greece the Primera was very very popular, but of course only as a 1.6 and mainly as a sedan (with a few hatchbacks) in GX trim.
Couldn't agree more regarding power being so high up the rev range. My 406 2.0 16v is the same, dare i say a direct rival to your Primera, get to a higher rev range and all of a sudden the scenery is coming at you quicker lol
Good call outsourcing the Primera. Maybe its time to get rid of the olset (sp) or the yugo. Good old Elle she's with you through thick and thin when the rest of the fleet fades. She's a grand lady and will always get you home
A chap I knew years ago had a 6cyl Land Rover as his breakdown truck (he was a Land Rover specialist) his verdict 'the only thing it does better than a 4cyl is it's ability to consume fuel in vast quantities!'
I think your plans are very wise. Nobody can do everything at once, especially with family commitments. Hopefully you’ll feel less stressed working on the cars you enjoy, and which make HubNut unique, without the pressure of repairing the 'modern' members of the fleet which you need to rely on.
I had 3 p10’s back in the day... 2 company cars and 1 private eGT the brakes and suspension were pretty much unrivalled in my opinion, the speed they would carry and the way you could out brake everybody made for a very stealth steer, keep up the good work 👍
I’ve recently done several major car jobs, but happily paid Halfords £8 to replace a Clio headlamp bulb as it’s an utter pig of a job involving a mirror, pliers and cables which are far too short to easily remove and replace the bulb. Know what makes you happy to do and what makes you happier to pay to be done!
One day, in a far utopian society, we will hear the prophetic words; " This week on HubNut, nothing goes wrong and all the fleet is in prime health. Good Times!" But until that day, we'll all carry on watching like Schadenfreude addicted lab rats...
@@caw25sha there hasn't been any news on the BBC for the last 11 months. They just drone on, and on, and on about some virus or other to fill the time.
Here’s a suggestion for you Ian. If I were you I would get rid of those two old examples of Eastern promise and with the room created I’d get hold of one of those lifting devices which get the entire car a couple of feet off the ground. I think you could probably get hold of one for around £500 which appears to be around the price you usually pay for another project car. There’s enough height in the unit to allow for one and the difference it would make would be enormous I think. I only wish I’d got room for one in my garage.
@@2760ade You’re perhaps too young to remember the old Fry’s adverts for their Turkish Delight chocolate bars, the tag line was “full of Eastern promise” so as I believe the Oltcit was built in Turkey I was being a little sarcastic.
@@malcolmherbert5127 I do remember the ads, I'm 56! Loved those chocolate bars, (wonder if Fry's still make them!) but they didn't come pre-rusted and with charred wiring!😂 I did guess you were being somewhat sarcastic! I think you are right that he should get rid of them, they are wasting valuable space, and there is no way, in my honest opinion, that he has the facilities or expertise necessary to bring them back to life. (I would love to be wrong though.....)
Possibly time to trim the fleet back. It maybe only me, but I see no point at all in owning so many vehicles, having so many unfinished or not started jobs on each one. Hopefully this comes across as a CONSTRUCTIVE comment as its INTENDED, and not as a dig or criticism. As you say, your content is suffering and farming jobs out and not doing them yourself, seems to me to not be NOT IN THE SPIRIT of the HubNut channel. As I say Ian, hopefully you see this as constructive and not a criticism. Stay safe. Stay healthy. Stay warm. Alan L200 Hopefully you'll come up with a workable plan for the fleet.
Get rid of the olcit and the sana Ian , The Rover is also going so theres 3 cars gone , Time to pace yourself on the other cars , no need to farm the other jobs out then , Might also be an idea to sell the fox or twc as well ?
I completely understand to be honest. One of my last videos finished with me saying I cannot be arsed doing the CV boot or steering rack gaiter. It's not tinkering weather!
I am struggling to understand. Pay for a full service on the Primera, tinker away with invercar? I would think if you aren't going to do a service on the primera the likelihood of the two hulks at the back of the garage becoming roadworthy are less than zero. Perhaps a review of what the role of each of the cars is might help with organisation e.g use, scrap or sell.
it's different machines for different purposes though, it makes sense to farm out the work on the daily driver family car that's not going to be part of the fleet for that long if it means more time to do work on the ones that have a long term future, and I suspect do better in terms of views and engagement (because being able to make money to keep doing it is also important). Don't know where that leaves the other two, but there's more content potential in them than there is in routine service on a Nissan, it's not like something needs to be done to them right away.
I'm slightly worried the 2 at the back are almost one and the same? probably best just to do one, my vote is the .....er.....er.....er.....er.....er Oh I don't know. Roll of the dice..... Yugo it is after all he has 2 Citroen cars
Let's face it how cold it is at the moment no one wants to work outside on cars as far as the fleet is concerned the two cars at the back aren't really in your skill set to take on both need mechanical electrical and rust and body repairs really need to much time and money with not much reward sorry Ian but sometimes you just have to be realistic Rob
I used to have a 1995 MReg P10 Hatchback, the type with the Foglights in the bumper, electric windows all around, 1.6 Petrol. Death by rust unfortunately. I still miss it to this day.
The Primera (kind of the like the Almera) never got the credit and recognition they deserved. They went well and the chassis was well sorted. The GT versions were genuinely cool.
Ian you are bringing out excellent content...maybe get rid of the 2 cars at the back of the lock up?? If you feel the need I will still take the Fox off your hands 😉
Just do what you can don't stress about them. Let the garages have the work they probably need some work as not many people using car's in lockdown I has the P11 primrea 4 of them not bad car's I did like them. Stick to TWC and 2cv and Foxann plenty to be going on with. Tc and stay safe another good upload.👍
Having a comfortable all-weather family transporter is pretty important to keep the sanity... So I think that farming out the work on Primera is a wise decision...
I've driven very HubNutty cars my whole life, so under 10 second (to 0-100 km/h, 62 miles/h) cars are absolute rockets. I fondly remember a 1993 Honda Accord with a 2 litre engine, that was such a sweet ride. Overtaking wasn't a chore in that one.
I think most of us are feeling like you are mate, its this lockdown, you get so used to not doing things so its hard work to find motivation, its not as if a car must be fixed today because we need to be somewhere tomorrow, so in the back of our minds it can be put off its not that important at the moment. Dont worry we all understand.
I would not have described the rear suspension as "multi-link". It's more like the rear end of an SD1 rover with a solid axle, without the diff and a weird Panhard rod type thing instead of a watts linkage. It probably works well because it would have a low unsprung weight and it looks to be well located. The Primera was sold as an Infinity in the USA so the UK people were very lucky to be able to buy a Luxury car in a more basic form for a lower price.
Tonight on Hubnut: Man avoids fixing a water pump, and he also finds out that the engine likes to be revved. Come on Ian, the Primera isnt like Rita. You gotta rev it to enjoy it, you arent driving a diesel anymore
In fairness to Ian, the SR20 does have a frustrating dead spot in the rev range. I was convinced my GT was broken, but no apparently thats just how they are! Anyone who knows me will tell you that I dont shy away from wringing a cars neck, but in day to day driving it was still a bit of an annoyance.
The best cars are the ones that look boring but drive really well, great for embarrassing people (mainly chavs in cars with stupid body kits) at traffic lights. As for tax my Sister drove for about a month without TAX when she got her car because we'd forgotten about the TAX changes, luckily it's only £30 a year so not costly to rectify. It still annoys me that TAX is so expensive for any older car above 1.4L(?), it was over £200 for my Grans 1.6 Focus the same as a big gas guzzler of the same age. A standard small family car should be cheap to insure.
I'm sure you could do all the jobs needed on most of your cars. It's just time and family commitments. You can only get what you can get done. I do like the Nissan primera. Once it's had a service and the worrying water pump leak fixed. It'll be ready for anything. 👍
You’ve been back to your old abode, and no update on George the Cat...? Totally unacceptable! I know you say those Primeras looks boring, I always liked the look of them and totally forgot about them until you got this, great machines!
4-wheel alignment is utterly essential on the Primera, especially in terms of steering feel. When the alignment is spot on they feel fantastic. When the alignment is off then the steering feels rather numb. Have the garage take a look at the wheel alignment when they have it and it'll feel a whole lot more fun to drive when it comes back... The publicly-accessible tax database does lag rather behind the legal database in terms of displaying a vehicle as taxed, especially if it was taxed in the old method of going into a post office to tax it. It should show up on the database that the police use pretty much instantly when the transaction goes through the post office computer. It's just DVLA things...
I had the previous version for a few years. Great car. Only let me down once when the fuel pipe somehow came loose, not a good look when in the lane 3 of the M62 and all power vanishes.
That’s good to know-they phoned me up to hassle me as I was out of my area & upon explaining why I was entitled to they then said ‘get someone local to look after it’-I was fizzing.
Unless you have a warm..ish workshop then working on cars in the cold is grim at the best of times. You also have to make sure there is antifreeze in the Primera or all woe awaits. Freezing is a real risk if people have just been topping it up with water alone . That is just about the last Nissan I'd have given serious consideration to, for all the reasons you mention. Mind you..some of us were driving cars with VVT as far back as 1989 which gave you both low down torque and high end power......Alfa Romeo 8 Valve Twin Spark Nord Engine, which was a complete peach (not to be confused with the later inferior belt driven Twin Spark)
Far too many kids stuck to screens learning when it should be a mix of creative practical lessons and basic engineering. I say this as a grammar school educated lad with a few degrees in my hat. Some of my peers are doctors/scientists but haven't got a clue which end of the spanner to hold.
Shame to hear you are going to farm out the work on the Charade - would have made enjoyable videos to see you rebuilding the engine. Understand why though 👍
Really good cars and engines, I had the kind of similar 1.4 lx sunny hatchback and it was a brilliant car brought for around the same as you £400ish and owned for 4+ years with no problems, just keep on top of oil changes at least six monthly and it will be fine.
For a 2.0 16v those numbers are fairly standard. 140 bhp, torque peaking at 4500 rpm. Only if there are variable intake runners and/or variable valve timing, torque comes in a bit earlier.
"there's so many cars and so many jobs needed"
and what do we do about that? get another car.
Always works for me
Works here for tech for me too .. 😂
Hi Ian, I did offer to change the water pump, fan resistor and service the Primera for you free of charge prior to delivery, but you said you wanted to do the jobs yourself as it would make good video content. I wanted to provide you with a reliable car you and your family could use straight away. Never mind, I am sure your garage will do a good job and I am glad you are enjoying driving it.
I’ve a feeling Ms Hubnut prioritisation approach is the reason.
Would be a good idea to leave a camera for the garage to take some shots/videos of the job.
Hope the heater resistor is accessible without ripping out most of dash, i know on some its a horrible job
Hmmmm that's a shame, and certainly not going to make any good content now!
You can trust Mr Hubnut to do things the hard way.
Ian. There is a time to look after your mental health so getting the water pump done is a good idea. Now as for the oldcit and sana. You should ditch them because, as interesting as they are, they are beyond your shop’s capabilities.
Ian m8 dont stress so much u can do the job your just having a bad time atm. keep up the good work and looking forward to seeing you do work on the cars soon
A great part of the joy of this channel is your adventuring out on the road. And, you have not been able to do that at all in the last year, so no wonder things have been frustrating and different! We still love your channel, Ian! ♥
Get rid of one or two of those basket cases at the back, your not going to get to them whilst keeping the rest of the fleet on the road.
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Yes all too much, as I just watched an old HN video where a spring, hole in the exhaust, and paper gasket replacement was a major catastrophe LOL
Smaller fleet = more space to work in garage
Sorry Ian I have to question your sentence "I am struggling to get things done properly." Does anything on the HubNut channel get done properly and would it be as much fun if it did? Answers on a postcard please.
I have to admit that even though i'm a mega Rover fan , that Primera is a nice car, and i have to agree with other comments Ian ,,,,The Yugo and Olcit need to go to much work needs doing on them and it will also free up space in the barn
Congrats on the latest purchase Ian, P11 Primera, brilliant car, getting seen a lot less on uk roads these days too.
Had 3 versions of the Primera myself, P11 P11 facelift, and P12, great cars.👍
That wasn't too bad on the head cam this time - I managed to actually watch all the way through without experiencing any nausea! Glad you're going to properly rebuild TWC's brakes - you know it makes sense 👍
I’m loving the primera Ian. I had a 2.0 P11 about 9 years ago and it was one of the finest handling cars I ever had, even though it was on nasty 14” tyres. The engine pulled forever and kept up with far more exotic machinery and the handling was so sure footed you could never get into trouble. I’m very jealous of you!
That -1c degree sounds pretty warm to me, today morning in South-west Finland was -26c 🥶
Always nerve wracking to drive when so cold, because if something brokes or diesel gets thick you really hope you have warm clothes...
I'm surprised about your concern about gelling diesel. In a normal winter, the part of Canada where I live sees the occasional -30c, but we have winterized diesel, so gelling is never a concern. Certainly my car always starts easily even at those temps.
@@CaptHollister we have also winter diesel, but if there's summer diesel left in your tank before you fill it up with winter one and those two different diesel don't mix up so well and if your fuel filter have also that summer diesel it can bloked up.
Everytime there is -15 or colder you can see diesel cars side of the road.
I don't ever have problem with diesel on winter maybe it's just cars of those peoples who don' care or don't maintenance their cars properly 😄
Mine was an SLX in estate form. That was a lovely car to drive and own.
Have to say your channel is going from strength to strength Ian. Home schooling is not easy, I know and complete strip down jobs are hard to squeeze into such little time. Don’t stress though. All of your content is very enjoyable and fun to watch.
Best regards from snowy Scotland 🏴
A wise job farming out work, sometimes you just don’t seem interested and feel like it. I just farmed out a job on the landy that I’d have relished if it was sunny/dry and I was younger 😂 nowadays I choose what I want to do based on my time, I’m more interested in having fun on my days off work than getting fed up at a car. Still do stuff when there’s no pressure on but if I need to fix a car and I don’t want to I farm it.
Moneybags 😉
@@iainf 😂😂 lazy bags actually
@@AgathaAndAnything 🤣👍
I used to have a P reg Primera 2L SRi. The suspension was hard as nails but handles like it was on rails. Such a fun car to drive.
I really enjoyed going for a drive out with you in the Nissan. Even as a virtual passenger I get a good feel of how the car performs. Bravo. Pete 🇬🇧
Many thanks for these insights - I’ve just gone and signed up for purchasing a 1998 Nissan Pulsar hatchback N15 (subject to an MOT/WOF). That’s got the GA16DE engine which certainly seems lively enough. Car has had just two owners and is super tidy. Happy days 😀😀😀😀😃
Those older Nissans are very reliable, and far better built, compared to today's Nissan offerings, and for 400 quid, you can't go wrong. May not be too exciting to look at but it will do the job for years to come, if you wanted, bargain 👍
The new Nissan's have Renault links that could explain the reliability issues. The electrics are always the downside on any Nissan under the Renault ownership.
@@bentullett6068 Well known for it, rubbish electrics, but thats not the only issue. If you've ever test driven a more modern Nissan, say over at least the last ten years or so, they are not nearly as solid a car, they just lack the quality of say a Toyota for instance, and definitely a lot of cost cutting corners taken place there. I like Japanese cars, great reliability, but out of all of them, Nissan would now be bottom of the list for me, the modern ones that is.
@@Charlie_Crown not to mention the Nissan Navara's with a chassis made of tin foil
@@bentullett6068 exactly, shame really
Nice to see you'll get a full service from the farming-out as well. The little button on the end of the wiper stalk has 3 functions it can make the right-hand LCD digits display: current time in hr-min (default when it's around 5deg C or above); outside temperature (which takes precedence when it's really cold!); and current date in DD:MM form. That's the one you thought was another time setting, and so looks to be about a month and a half out! I vaguely remember that you can hold and then click-press that stalk-end to change the setting of time and/ or date. Really happy memories in your videos of my late wife's R-reg 1997 P11 1.6SLX, which came brand-new from the Nissan dealership down the road from West End; the smaller engine had less of a mid-range flat spot than yours.
For £400 I would have snapped that up. Lovely car, a friend’s dad had the previous model and he loved it.
Pleased you're enjoying the handling of the Primera. Good decision farming out the water pump change, after a friend and myself tried to change the one on my P10, we gave up and my local garage did the job and I think he still hates me. When I took my P11-144 to my sisters in Clun Shopshire, the lanes around there were free of traffic and I arrived with the biggest smile ever.
I asked for an headcam view of some cars a while ago,and you have delivered,thank you,great job.
Nice to see the P11 Primera again! When I was a apprentice at a Nissan dealer these were what I worked on.
Great car, used to have a 1.6 Si Primera in white with the GT wheels and spoiler.
Totally agree the facelift P10 was its Prime Era, 😂🤣😂. I had one and loved it. At least you have a nice family car now and you can play with the other fleet members now.
Another great video. In 1997 it would have taken quite a leap of faith to believe that a video on a Nissan Primera would ever be a welcome sight. I think that says a lot about the car industry today. Thanks Ian.
Felt like I was banging my head on the headlining while scooting along on your drive down the road with your head mounted camera!...weird sensation but exciting at the same time!
You will love that Primera, I had two of those and loved them. Had a P12 as well, not so good but still better than the competition at the time.
My dad bought a brand new facelift Primera WP11 1.6 in 2001 right after passing his driving test. It didn't withstand not changing the oil particularly well. He was quickly known at the gas station as the guy who buys the same amounts of petrol and engine oil.
Hi Ian, sorry mate getting a bit bored with your videos now. Man gets bored doesn't make a good video I'm afraid and it's not why I started watching your channel. Home schooling and can't be arsed aren't good excuses and you can do the mechanics which your cars are crying out for, just look back to your earlier videos to see why your channel grew so much.
I'm not having a go at you personally I think you are a great chap but your videos are going downhill fast. If you start a job finish it don't get bored and give us a history lesson on another car. I've enjoyed your channel since you got TWC and I hope you can pull it round a bit mate.
Maybe let Miss hubnut boss you more and you might get more done.
Even if I leave thank you for a very enjoyable couple of years and well done for saving TWC and Foxanne (my favourites)
Cheers Mark
Why not ask manufacturers to allow access for part replacement
19:03 will be total driving time if it is like my Qashqai, good to see the flashing temperature was carried over to the qashqai,cracking video as usual over my lunch
I think you have too many cars now needing too much done Ian. Less is more.
You underestimate yourself Ian. You could easily do most jobs on the primera.
I think could and want to are different concepts now!
@@southendparaquest Lack of will ha noo need for stating limited ability as a reason though. I'm just saying I think he has the ability to do most jobs on more modern cars, especially if they are engineered in japan.
Agreed. Ian proved himself in my eyes with getting Foxann on the road from basically a box of bits.
Sometimes you just want a car that is reliable and has no list of faults that need to be sorted out, so you can focus on those cars that are need to be worked on but you don't need for getting from A to B.
@@volvo480 Det har du rätt i men har inget med förmåga att göra ändå.
We had both a P reg eGT and an R reg SRi on our work fleet. The SRi was just brilliant. Handled well, was fast and very understated.
I really wanted to buy the SRi when its time was up, but the fleet manager refused to tell me what auction house would be selling it, nor when. All I can remember of the reg was R701 ***. Fabulous car.
Please remember to take care of the local wildlife and the visiting cat with that water leak running under the door. Coolant is wicked stuff.
Thankfully modern coolant does have some sort of horrible bittering agent in it so animals won't actually drink it (though they might try licking it so still not great)
@@VeyronBD Antifreeze killed my cat
wood varnish killed my cat....terrible end....beautiful finish
I'm aware of the dangers. It's why I hate doing anything to do with cooling systems! Especially as a former cat owner myself.
@@johnnemo6509 😂
I saw my first HUB NUT sticker in the wild yesterday,even managed to say hello to the chap driving the red van W...VBD just outside clay Cross .👋👋
Really good nick for 166k, certainly sounds smooth on camera. I believe when Ford brought out the mondeo, they used the primera as their yardstick for handling etc
I do like your new car, it looks great, the colourful 90’s interior is so cool and retro!.
That was defiantly a pathetic bow out!
Brilliant video Ian lovely car I always liked primera never managed to get one
Thanks for the ride! Again, Welsh roads and scenery are amazing.
I had a diesel one on loan - it was surprisingly good. Don't beat yourself up - it's not the weather for working outside.
Thank you very much for keeping us up to date, just mentioning, that your HubNut grind is awesome,
much respect for keeping it up and on the wrenching side, as with more, choose battle wisely indeed.
My favorites are Elly,TWC,Myrtle,and Chimi the Charade. Not sure why Chimi has become a strong fave but I guess I like the underdog.
6:35 i found that road stretch particularly beautiful.
Well done, Ian. My former boss had an Infiniti G20 with auto box. Generally a nice car to drive, and quite luxurious. He got 300,000 miles out of it before rust killed it. I will never forget us going to collect as 78 Mercury Grand Marquis saloon. A giant of a car with a 6.5 litre engine. It was about 2½ hours each way. Coming back to the city, I didn't realize the speedometer in the Marquis was wildly pessimistic. I thought I was doing the speed limit of 80 km/h. I was really doing slightly over the 100 mark. When we got to his house, I was as relaxed as can be. The old boat had been loafing along. The boss was frazzled from trying to keep up with me. The little 2 litre was working because most of the trip was on roads not unlike those in this video.
You have to have a drive in the same year GT spec.... that’s an animal
@@karstentopp my next car! I own an n14 sunny (ga16de) and p11 SRi (Sr20DE) going to be boosting the p11 soon, hopefully I can purchase a gtir in the next couple of years!
Once you have the water pump sorted out, errrr, farmed out, I think this one will do well as transport from A to B. Likewise, the Charade will be useful for Miss HubNut once the MOT issues have been sorted out. You need some degree of reliability in the fleet so you have more focus on the cars that don't have that (yet).
A 2.0lt Primera! Here in Greece the Primera was very very popular, but of course only as a 1.6 and mainly as a sedan (with a few hatchbacks) in GX trim.
04:58 im quite taken back by how quick that primara actually is its definitely no slouch,For £400 is a bargain.
Couldn't agree more regarding power being so high up the rev range. My 406 2.0 16v is the same, dare i say a direct rival to your Primera, get to a higher rev range and all of a sudden the scenery is coming at you quicker lol
Good call outsourcing the Primera. Maybe its time to get rid of the olset (sp) or the yugo.
Good old Elle she's with you through thick and thin when the rest of the fleet fades. She's a grand lady and will always get you home
A chap I knew years ago had a 6cyl Land Rover as his breakdown truck (he was a Land Rover specialist) his verdict 'the only thing it does better than a 4cyl is it's ability to consume fuel in vast quantities!'
I think your plans are very wise. Nobody can do everything at once, especially with family commitments. Hopefully you’ll feel less stressed working on the cars you enjoy, and which make HubNut unique, without the pressure of repairing the 'modern' members of the fleet which you need to rely on.
Going from a 2-litre turbo diesel to a 2 litre naturally aspirated engine, you are going to miss that mid-range torque.
"There goes a Land Rover"! That bit just reminded me of Alan Partridge. Lmao. Thanks for the videos Ian. =)
I had 3 p10’s back in the day... 2 company cars and 1 private eGT the brakes and suspension were pretty much unrivalled in my opinion, the speed they would carry and the way you could out brake everybody made for a very stealth steer, keep up the good work 👍
I’ve recently done several major car jobs, but happily paid Halfords £8 to replace a Clio headlamp bulb as it’s an utter pig of a job involving a mirror, pliers and cables which are far too short to easily remove and replace the bulb. Know what makes you happy to do and what makes you happier to pay to be done!
One day, in a far utopian society, we will hear the prophetic words; " This week on HubNut, nothing goes wrong and all the fleet is in prime health. Good Times!"
But until that day, we'll all carry on watching like Schadenfreude addicted lab rats...
Some time in the 1950s the BBC announced that there was no news that day. I think they just played some music instead.
That sounds more dystopian...
@@caw25sha there hasn't been any news on the BBC for the last 11 months. They just drone on, and on, and on about some virus or other to fill the time.
@@caw25sha Today they would just repeat yesterdays news and try to convince us it was News, wait a minute, aren't they doing that already?
I bet a re-map would do wonders to remove that flat spot in acceleration. That primula flies along! Good 👍 idea to get water pump farmed out.
Primula made me laugh. I think it should have some kind of cheese-derived nickname.
@@jeffhughes1318 Primula was a 1960's Autobianchi.
Well I never knew that!
Primula was also a finnish bakery since 1908, sadly went bankrupt on 2012 but the name still lives
Here’s a suggestion for you Ian. If I were you I would get rid of those two old examples of Eastern promise and with the room created I’d get hold of one of those lifting devices which get the entire car a couple of feet off the ground. I think you could probably get hold of one for around £500 which appears to be around the price you usually pay for another project car. There’s enough height in the unit to allow for one and the difference it would make would be enormous I think. I only wish I’d got room for one in my garage.
'Eastern promise'? There's a misnomer if ever I heard one😂
@@2760ade You’re perhaps too young to remember the old Fry’s adverts for their Turkish Delight chocolate bars, the tag line was “full of Eastern promise” so as I believe the Oltcit was built in Turkey I was being a little sarcastic.
@@malcolmherbert5127 I do remember the ads, I'm 56! Loved those chocolate bars, (wonder if Fry's still make them!) but they didn't come pre-rusted and with charred wiring!😂 I did guess you were being somewhat sarcastic! I think you are right that he should get rid of them, they are wasting valuable space, and there is no way, in my honest opinion, that he has the facilities or expertise necessary to bring them back to life. (I would love to be wrong though.....)
Couldn't agree more. Even a set of ramps would help.
Some years ago I had the later primera kind of an odd shape, nice inside though and a very good drive.
I had 7 happy years with a p11-144 1.8s
.you'll have a great many years in that!
Regarding the home education, have the children been able to teach you much???
What a groovy video by traveling via Ian's head. It will be nice to see the Primera SLX running properly with a fresh water pump and maybe new tyres.
Possibly time to trim the fleet back.
It maybe only me, but I see no point at all in owning so many vehicles, having so many unfinished or not started jobs on each one.
Hopefully this comes across as a CONSTRUCTIVE comment as its INTENDED, and not as a dig or criticism.
As you say, your content is suffering and farming jobs out and not doing them yourself, seems to me to not be NOT IN THE SPIRIT of the HubNut channel.
As I say Ian, hopefully you see this as constructive and not a criticism.
Stay safe. Stay healthy. Stay warm.
Alan L200
Hopefully you'll come up with a workable plan for the fleet.
Get rid of the olcit and the sana Ian , The Rover is also going so theres 3 cars gone , Time to pace yourself on the other cars , no need to farm the other jobs out then , Might also be an idea to sell the fox or twc as well ?
I completely understand to be honest. One of my last videos finished with me saying I cannot be arsed doing the CV boot or steering rack gaiter. It's not tinkering weather!
I am struggling to understand. Pay for a full service on the Primera, tinker away with invercar? I would think if you aren't going to do a service on the primera the likelihood of the two hulks at the back of the garage becoming roadworthy are less than zero. Perhaps a review of what the role of each of the cars is might help with organisation e.g use, scrap or sell.
i have to agree that the yugo and olcit need to go , and will free up some space
it's different machines for different purposes though, it makes sense to farm out the work on the daily driver family car that's not going to be part of the fleet for that long if it means more time to do work on the ones that have a long term future, and I suspect do better in terms of views and engagement (because being able to make money to keep doing it is also important). Don't know where that leaves the other two, but there's more content potential in them than there is in routine service on a Nissan, it's not like something needs to be done to them right away.
I'm slightly worried the 2 at the back are almost one and the same?
probably best just to do one, my vote is the .....er.....er.....er.....er.....er Oh I don't know.
Roll of the dice..... Yugo it is after all he has 2 Citroen cars
Nice to see an everday car getting the use it was designed for. Good one.
Let's face it how cold it is at the moment no one wants to work outside on cars as far as the fleet is concerned the two cars at the back aren't really in your skill set to take on both need mechanical electrical and rust and body repairs really need to much time and money with not much reward sorry Ian but sometimes you just have to be realistic Rob
Agreed Robert. The Turcell was like a Rolls Royce compared to those two, and that got moved on because it was too crispy.
I used to have a 1995 MReg P10 Hatchback, the type with the Foglights in the bumper, electric windows all around, 1.6 Petrol. Death by rust unfortunately. I still miss it to this day.
I prefer P11 to P10 - both great cars, and as you rightly say, always been much underestimated by many for the way it drives.
The Primera (kind of the like the Almera) never got the credit and recognition they deserved. They went well and the chassis was well sorted. The GT versions were genuinely cool.
Ian you are bringing out excellent content...maybe get rid of the 2 cars at the back of the lock up??
If you feel the need I will still take the Fox off your hands 😉
i do agree that the the yugo and olcit need to go , just to much work and will free up some much needed space
@@leeallen7491 it's the cost as well
Is love to see them sorted
They deserve to be back up and running
Just do what you can don't stress about them. Let the garages have the work they probably need some work as not many people using car's in lockdown I has the P11 primrea 4 of them not bad car's I did like them. Stick to TWC and 2cv and Foxann plenty to be going on with. Tc and stay safe another good upload.👍
Having a comfortable all-weather family transporter is pretty important to keep the sanity... So I think that farming out the work on Primera is a wise decision...
I've driven very HubNutty cars my whole life, so under 10 second (to 0-100 km/h, 62 miles/h) cars are absolute rockets.
I fondly remember a 1993 Honda Accord with a 2 litre engine, that was such a sweet ride. Overtaking wasn't a chore in that one.
I think most of us are feeling like you are mate, its this lockdown, you get so used to not doing things so its hard work to find motivation, its not as if a car must be fixed today because we need to be somewhere tomorrow, so in the back of our minds it can be put off its not that important at the moment. Dont worry we all understand.
The cold grey weather doesn't encourage one into the garage either.
I would not have described the rear suspension as "multi-link". It's more like the rear end of an SD1 rover with a solid axle, without the diff and a weird Panhard rod type thing instead of a watts linkage. It probably works well because it would have a low unsprung weight and it looks to be well located.
The Primera was sold as an Infinity in the USA so the UK people were very lucky to be able to buy a Luxury car in a more basic form for a lower price.
Tonight on Hubnut: Man avoids fixing a water pump, and he also finds out that the engine likes to be revved.
Come on Ian, the Primera isnt like Rita. You gotta rev it to enjoy it, you arent driving a diesel anymore
In fairness to Ian, the SR20 does have a frustrating dead spot in the rev range. I was convinced my GT was broken, but no apparently thats just how they are! Anyone who knows me will tell you that I dont shy away from wringing a cars neck, but in day to day driving it was still a bit of an annoyance.
Loving the headcam......it gives a more authentic driving view. 👍
I drove a Premiera GT back in the early 00s and it was a pretty quick car. Hopefully it won't be too much to send out to get repaired.
The best cars are the ones that look boring but drive really well, great for embarrassing people (mainly chavs in cars with stupid body kits) at traffic lights.
As for tax my Sister drove for about a month without TAX when she got her car because we'd forgotten about the TAX changes, luckily it's only £30 a year so not costly to rectify. It still annoys me that TAX is so expensive for any older car above 1.4L(?), it was over £200 for my Grans 1.6 Focus the same as a big gas guzzler of the same age. A standard small family car should be cheap to insure.
1.5 litres, I think. Unless they've changed it. But zero tax if older than about 1979 now :-)
I'm pretty much with you on working on 'modern' cars. My modern Volvo goes to my mechanic so I can concentrate on working on my classics.
I think the BTCC version of this car was successful with Matt Neil when team dynamics was a independent team in the super touring BTCC years.
I'm sure you could do all the jobs needed on most of your cars. It's just time and family commitments. You can only get what you can get done. I do like the Nissan primera. Once it's had a service and the worrying water pump leak fixed. It'll be ready for anything. 👍
way hay.. Ian, nothing like a good " muff" on the front :-) And yes I know what you mean with time weather and repairs...
You’ve been back to your old abode, and no update on George the Cat...? Totally unacceptable!
I know you say those Primeras looks boring, I always liked the look of them and totally forgot about them until you got this, great machines!
4-wheel alignment is utterly essential on the Primera, especially in terms of steering feel. When the alignment is spot on they feel fantastic. When the alignment is off then the steering feels rather numb. Have the garage take a look at the wheel alignment when they have it and it'll feel a whole lot more fun to drive when it comes back...
The publicly-accessible tax database does lag rather behind the legal database in terms of displaying a vehicle as taxed, especially if it was taxed in the old method of going into a post office to tax it. It should show up on the database that the police use pretty much instantly when the transaction goes through the post office computer. It's just DVLA things...
I had the previous version for a few years. Great car. Only let me down once when the fuel pipe somehow came loose, not a good look when in the lane 3 of the M62 and all power vanishes.
On the long list of exemptions for travel in Scotland, it specifically states that it's allowed for a newly purchased vehicle.
That’s good to know-they phoned me up to hassle me as I was out of my area & upon explaining why I was entitled to they then said ‘get someone local to look after it’-I was fizzing.
Very common car here in NZ. Even though it's been out of production 20 years. A fairly grunty and not too bad handling car too.
NZ have some cool stuff. I wonder what a Steve Millen Primera SMX would be worth today?
Pretty sure we didnt get the Primera here in Au...
Unless you have a warm..ish workshop then working on cars in the cold is grim at the best of times. You also have to make sure there is antifreeze in the Primera or all woe awaits. Freezing is a real risk if people have just been topping it up with water alone . That is just about the last Nissan I'd have given serious consideration to, for all the reasons you mention. Mind you..some of us were driving cars with VVT as far back as 1989 which gave you both low down torque and high end power......Alfa Romeo 8 Valve Twin Spark Nord Engine, which was a complete peach (not to be confused with the later inferior belt driven Twin Spark)
Far too many kids stuck to screens learning when it should be a mix of creative practical lessons and basic engineering. I say this as a grammar school educated lad with a few degrees in my hat. Some of my peers are doctors/scientists but haven't got a clue which end of the spanner to hold.
Shame to hear you are going to farm out the work on the Charade - would have made enjoyable videos to see you rebuilding the engine. Understand why though 👍
Really good cars and engines, I had the kind of similar 1.4 lx sunny hatchback and it was a brilliant car brought for around the same as you £400ish and owned for 4+ years with no problems, just keep on top of oil changes at least six monthly and it will be fine.
I prefer the saloon version, but for me is a ok looking car, i have no complaints
Try using 'super unleaded' on several cars I've tried it on the improved torque lets you get away with a higher gear.
We always have two times n Hub Nut. GMT and all the good times😍
For a 2.0 16v those numbers are fairly standard. 140 bhp, torque peaking at 4500 rpm. Only if there are variable intake runners and/or variable valve timing, torque comes in a bit earlier.