Why is it cold in the Nissan Qashqai car? Impressions from winter operation

• We still found one minus in it - in winter warming up the car is quite problematic, it takes a lot of time ...
• 1. from minus 15 and above, a characteristic crunch of pomegranates is heard. 2. In the 3rd year of operation, the ABS lights up and the rear right wheel is locked. Moreover, all my friends have the same problem with the wheel. 3. the glass fogs up. the stove does not work well. 4. cricket in the front. five. in winter when overgassing, the catalyst emits an unpleasant odor into the passenger compartment
• Internal roof in winter accumulates frost, after warming up, it leaks in the area where the sun visors are attached. The navigation system requires updating (there are no many cities, and which there are, there are not many houses, streets). There is no illumination of the mirrors in the sun visors, there is no "eyeglass". The wipers cannot be placed in the area where the glass is blown by the stove. The headlight washer works in conjunction with the windshield / glass washer (it would be more convenient to work with a button.
• Body paint is bad. Any branch or hard snow will leave marks and scratches. It was stronger on Tazy. Gasoline consumption is too high (up to 17 liters in winteraverage driving style). Visibility is poor, especially from the front in the area of \u200b\u200bthe left driver's pillar. It is impossible to completely remove snow or fallen leaves from the air duct of the stove, everything is hammered into the base of the attachment of the brush leashes and into the air intake.
• A cramped interior, a low ceiling, I don't consider it a crossover, if an outlander or a raf crossover is a Qashqai hatchback with a small interior. Ill-conceived buttons for lowering the windows. In winter wipers do not clean the glass from snow, but smear it on the glass and nothing is visible. The windshield washer nozzles are located so that the senk always swoops in and does not splash, and if there is no snow, they freeze there and do not spray either.
• Chilly in winter
• Cramped in the cabin, cold in winter, the chassis is weak, the box is unreliable.
• Small trunk, seats do not fold out into a flat floor, unsuccessful air conditioning and ventilation system ( in winter cold, hot in summer)
• in winter the cabin is cool
• Coldly in winter
• 1.6 is the only negative. In winter he walks heavily through the uncleaned yards. And so some pluses
• Cold. In winter at high temperature drops the roof was leaking. I had to change the engine blower fan after 3 years 30000 rubles. You cannot change the wipers yourself.
• In winter cold, takes a long time to warm up
• a little cold interior in winterweak stove.
• In winter it is cold in severe frost.
• one solid minus, in winter cool, eating oil, a bunch of sores around the cabin.
• Weak engines, oil eats up, the trunk opening bar breaks in the cold, heats up for a long time in winter.
• Air conditioning compressor, stove motor, grenades knock at -10, lubricate glass regularly with silicone to open, in winter need to be well insulated, expensive spare parts.
• British assembly (build quality and paintwork is not very good), disgusting interior made of cheap plastic and fabric, interior creaks especially in winter , poor visibility through the rear windows, a disposable chain motor, poor sound insulation, there is no general sense of reliability and good quality of the car, it is felt that it will break down.
• Short wheelbase, because of this there is a high probability of a skid of the rear of the car in winter
• In winter very cold. Warm air supply with the regulator turned on at maximum. The heating system breaks down annually. All winter you have to ride in a hat and mittens.
• bad road holding in winter on the intercity. It is not convenient to sit behind the seat from the street, there is always ice on the wipers and freezing glass washer nozzles
• The 1.6 engine is not enough for long trips. Coldly in winter... Warms up slowly. The back seat is cramped.
• In winter the stove is missing.
• Slightly stiff cushioning. In winter - Weak heating of the legs in the back seat.
• Cons: speakerphone is useless, in winter it heats up for a very long time, weak paintwork, weak electronics inputs (cigarette lighter and Aux), tilt of the rear backrest, utyrka in dealerships, weak light, souring of the brake pads guides.

For modern car manufacturers, one of the most important factors is an economical engine, as this significantly affects the cost of car ownership. leads to insufficient engine heating at low ambient temperatures, which negatively affects the heating of the passenger compartment, because the heater takes heat from the engine and distributes it throughout the passenger compartment. But no matter how economical the engine is, it should warm up the interior. Much also depends on how the engine is warmed up. You can warm up at idle, or you can use the warm-up on a moving vehicle. The second method is more effective, since the degree of heating is higher for equal periods of time, and a short distance has been passed. But in order to use it, a number of conditions must be met.

You cannot drive fast on a cold engine and transmission. Therefore, if after parking you need to enter a busy road, this method will not work for you. But if you have a couple of kilometers of road at your disposal, on which you can drive at low speed and not disturb anyone, use this segment to warm up the internal combustion engine and transmission of the car. This method will save both fuel and time. But if the engine warms up, and it still blows cold from the deflectors, then the malfunction must be looked for in the heater itself.

Diagnostics

In the Nissan Qashqai, as in other liquid-cooled cars, the stove uses the heat from the engine to heat. Therefore, the meaning of diagnostics is to understand at which section of the heating system (which is associated with engine cooling), the operation becomes incorrect.

• switch the heater control to manual mode and set the maximum temperature;
• turn on the fan at medium speed and bring your palm to any deflector;
• increasing engine speed, monitor the increase in flow temperature, if the increase is significant, then the pump is faulty.

Repairs

After identifying the cause of the malfunction, you can begin to eliminate the breakdown. Elimination may consist in repairing the failed equipment or in replacing it with a new one. You need to act on the basis of the nature and degree of damage.

These diagnostic methods will help t understand. And the repair methods described by us will help eliminate this problem, after which the car interior will be filled with a pleasant warm atmosphere.

It's time to write a continuation of the review about Cache, taking into account winter operation. It took a long time to assemble and during this time I tested almost all the features of winter operation.

To begin with, in almost all regions of our vast Russia, winter somehow was in no hurry to fulfill its duties. For our region, the heat was kept shamelessly for a long time and with obscenely high indicators of the street thermometer scale. Accordingly, in this mode, when snow falls at night, it rolls up to a mirror shine by cars during the day and freezes at night, the "tinsmith's day" has switched from emergency mode to everyday operation. It was here that I first realized that the mono-drive in conjunction with the mechanics on a slippery road is very inconvenient when starting off, especially when it is also complicated by the need to move uphill. I admit the fact that in this situation, the variator and four-wheel drive has GREAT advantages. The choice of winter tires, for such a configuration as mine, is of great importance. In the first, the car is heavy, and in order for it to feel comfortable on a winter road, good grip properties of rubber are necessary. And I think it doesn't matter whether it is studded or not. Now you can choose a rubber that does the job well without equipping it with such an additional option as spikes. Secondly, with a manual gearbox, it is not possible to clearly select the speed for a smooth start-off. For some reason, I often get one of the wheels slipping. Fortunately, the ESP system immediately corrects this fact. In general, all these assistants with electronic brains really make life easier for the driver, but personally they played a cruel joke with me, which made me turn to OD. But more on that later and as they say for "appetizer"))). At the moment, there is a Yokogama iceguard IG2 rubber, which was received as a bonus when buying a car, and the former owner bought it, in turn, from OD. The opinion about the behavior of the car on this rubber is very ambiguous and rather more negative emotions. The only pluses that I can note: it does not make much noise and maintains lateral displacement normally on ice. Cons: poor behavior in deep snow, disgusting straight-line traction, which affects braking distance and acceleration dynamics. I'll be looking for something better next winter.

With the onset of cold weather, I appreciated the suspension, which at low temperatures even behaves nothing. The maximum that we had this winter is 43C. After spending the night on the street, at the beginning of the movement, the feeling that instead of shock absorbers they inserted wooden chocks, did not arise. On the previous car it was that way, and in order for the suspension to work out more or less comfortably, it was necessary to move sooo slowly for a long time. Kesha has no such thing, and after 10-15 minutes of measured, “warming up” movement, it is absolutely excellent.

Sometimes you have to drive into the garage cooperative in deep snow (they don't have time to roll out a track in the morning). In principle, it is normal, but you have to turn off ESP, since if there are signs of wheel slip, this system not only slows down the wheels, but it also dampens the engine speed. The first one even stalled a couple of times.))) So now I pressed the button and go.

At the beginning of winter a little, after reading about cold engine idle, and the cold interior a little "shake". I put a cut-out insulation between the bumper and the radiator, which is sold in hardware stores. I cut out the insulation so that it completely covers the entire perimeter. In order to properly deliver, I removed the grill with the emblem. From Spasik there was a car blanket, which perfectly lay down covering the entire engine compartment. The result is 12 minutes after the plant and the engine temperature is 50-60 degrees. The engine cools down after you turn it off not very quickly, but I can't say the comparative data, since I didn't leave the car without an auto blanket. I can only give the following data: when the outside temperature is -35, after stopping the engine cools down to -15 in 3.5-4 hours (the car starts up according to the engine temperature). The salon is also warming up normally. At night, the airflow is always translated into two divisions, and when I get into the car, I turn it on almost to the full and after fifteen minutes I take off my hat and unbutton my jacket because it gets hot, I put the climate on the machine and no longer remember. Climate control is set at 25 degrees, and the climate keeps the blowing speed in three to four divisions. Recently I went to a neighboring town. The on-board computer showed the outside temperature: -28, -30. I rode undressed. I did not find a hint of freezing windows. I would also like to say about this fucking glass roof. I closed the curtain for the winter, since I read on the forums that with the curtain open it takes longer for the interior to warm up. So I went until January. My son once asked me to open the curtain, which I did ... I saw a picture that I didn't like at all - all the glass was in frozen droplets of ice ... So condensation accumulates there, it thaws while driving, and then freezes during parking. He left the curtain open, drove around and, after thawing a little, removed all the water with a rag. Now I've been driving for a month and don't close the curtain, and as a result: 1. no condensation, 2. the interior is also warming up (I did not notice any changes). Regarding the cleaning of the car from snow, the niche in which the ordinary nozzles and the wipers themselves are hidden is very unnerving. In order to clean out the snow from there, you need to try very hard. Very uncomfortable. Start up the car without problems. Once left the car overnight without a car factory. It was -26 at night and I thought there would be problems with the plant. The fears were not confirmed - it started up without problems, and the battery (which is 3 years old) turned the engine very briskly.

Wiper blades suck in winter. The icing is very poorly cleaned. Ice constantly accumulates on the elastic bands, you have to constantly clean it. There is a lack of such a necessary option as glass heating in the place of contact of the brushes. I did not observe this on other machines. On Spasik there were winter brushes with protective covers - so that was generally cool. Someone found an alternative to Nissan brushes? If it's not difficult, write in the comments.

That's all. If you forgot something, and you need specifics somewhere - ask. In the meantime, I'll write how I had to talk to the dealer. I'll add tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

With the onset of cold weather, a stove that does not work in a car becomes an unpleasant problem. In the absence of breakdowns in the heating system, the interior warms up in ten to fifteen minutes. If this time has passed, and barely warm or even cold air enters the cabin, you need to perform a number of diagnostic steps to find the cause of the breakdown.

If the stove does not heat up on Nissan Qashqai, before climbing under the hood, you should understand the principles of its operation. Under the dashboard, you can see the heating system block, which includes the stove radiator. The radiator contains a liquid that is heated by the operation of the engine. Also, the system has a fan with adjustable airflow speed, thanks to which warm air enters the car interior. If the process of the system is disrupted at any stage, the stove on the Nissan Qashqai does not heat up.

Types of car heating system breakdowns

There are only five reasons for a non-working stove on the Nissan Qashqai. Among them: a failed fan, insufficient fluid in the radiator, clogged stove radiator, malfunction of the engine thermostat, loss of the integrity of the engine gasket.

Most often, the stove does not work due to a broken fan. In this case, warm air will either be bad or not at all enter the cabin. To remedy the situation, you will have to replace the fan or the electronics that control it.

The lack of coolant on the Nissan Qashqai is not difficult to notice, since there is a sensor on the dashboard that indicates the amount of antifreeze or antifreeze in the system. If the required volume of liquid is not supplied to the stove, it will remain cold. In this case, the fan will work, but the air enters the passenger compartment is not heated. Getting rid of the problem is simple: you need to bring the coolant in the radiator to the desired level. If the liquid is topped up, but the level has dropped too quickly, then there is a leak in the radiator or pipe system.

When eliminating a radiator leak, it is not advisable to use sealants. Their use can lead to the fact that the passages in the radiator become clogged, and the normal circulation of fluid stops. In this case, the stove will not be able to heat the liquid and it will remain cold in the cabin. To return the system to normal operation, you will have to flush the stove radiator or replace it with a new part.

Checking the thermostat

A malfunctioning engine thermostat on a Nissan Qashqai is the most difficult problem. If all systems have been checked and are operating normally, the condition of the thermostat should be checked. This element of the car performs the function of adjusting the engine cooling circles. When the engine is started, the liquid circulates in a small circle, not reaching the stove. When the antifreeze or antifreeze heats up in the engine and its radiator, the thermostat will switch to a large circle of work, and the heated liquid will begin to flow to the stove.

If the thermostat stops working, it will not be able to go to a large circle of functioning, and the liquid will only flow into the engine and the main radiator. This problem can be solved only by replacing the thermostat.

Since the engine is not a monolithic structure, it contains the engine block and its head. Their connection is carried out by means of a special gasket. If its integrity is violated, coolant enters the vehicle muffler or cylinders. Thus, there will not be enough coolant in the system, and the stove will stop heating the air. Faced with such a problem, you need to urgently replace the gasket to prevent overheating of the engine.

Why is it blowing in the cabin, and how to make the car warmer? This is a fairly topical issue not only for residents of the northern regions. It is advisable to solve this problem before the onset of winter, so as not to face uncomfortable conditions for using a car. The insulated interior is not only more pleasant, it also warms up faster. Do-it-yourself insulation in Qashqai is not difficult if you carefully study how it is done.

How to deal with the problem?

If it is cold in Nissan Qashqai in winter and you can solve the problem, you should not postpone it until the cold weather. If in summer warm air blows from certain places, then in winter you will feel a breath of cold air, which is unpleasant.

The engine takes a long time to warm up. Without insulating the car, you will expect the interior to warm up for more than 20 minutes, during this time you will not only have time to freeze, but also get to your destination, and the need for heat will disappear. If cold air is blowing from somewhere, it is imperative to insulate the car.

To carry out the work, you will need to purchase materials for insulation, the following types are best suited:

• Izolon.
• Tiviplen-P.
• Styzol.
• Isoflex.
• Penofol.

The latter is considered the most affordable and convenient. It is a polyethylene foam with a layer of foil on one side and aluminum on the other.

Such material will hermetically seal voids, reflect cold, and will not release heat outside the car.

How is the installation carried out?

In order for your car to winter better, and you do not freeze while the interior is warming up, you will need to create a warm pad. To do this, dismantle the seats, disassemble the torpedo, door trim, floor, remove all decorative overlays, since the insulation layer should be inside the doors and interior and not be visible to the eye.

If the rubber bands are worn out, replace them: cold air can pass through them if they do not ensure a snug fit of the doors to the body. Start with the floor and doors. All parts need to be cleaned, debris removed and the surfaces to which the insulation will be glued must be degreased. Parts of the desired shape are cut from a sheet of insulation. It is not difficult to do this, the material is soft, lends itself to ordinary scissors. For those who have never done something like this, watch the video.

You will need special glue to fasten the insulation and close its seams. You can buy it in a hardware store, like the insulation itself. After you insulate the interior, all the lining and seats will need to be reinstalled. It makes sense to install a heat exchanger. Its task will be to cool the oil in the engine and supply warm air to heat the car.

However, in summer the device is not very convenient, the load on the air conditioner will increase.

Output

In order for the car interior to warm up quickly in winter, it is enough to make it as tight as possible. To do this, you will have to spend several days, remove the trim, insulate the inner parts of the doors and body, put the trim back in place. Qashqai will become noticeably more comfortable.