Don't buy a Nissan

So we swapped cars a couple of weeks ago. The Polo had lost all ability to read CD's and was having a few issues.. So we entered into the uncharted teritory of dealing with National Car Rentals customer service. It seems they only train their staff to deal with one scenario - customer arrives on plane, issue car, next.

So I think we had about 5 different phone calls (with about 5 different people all of which knew nothing about each other) trying to explain that we were bringing the car back to exchange etc etc. Complete waste of time - we may as well have used semaphore to communicate with a blind penguin who wrote things down on an Etch-A-Sketch. Safe to say after several rounds of drawn out nogeotiations and a 90 minute trip to the airport we were able to return the car and swap it for another.

Drum roll please - A Nissan Tiida. First impressions were good - nice finish etc but then after driving it for a few weeks you begin to notice the flaws. Above 100kmh the engine sounds like it's having a seizure, the gear box feels like it attached to your hand using a drinking straw and the astmatic air con is a bit unpreductable. My advise to anyone buying a Nissa Tiida (Although i don't think the UK is subject to them) - Don't. Save you cash and pump for somthing German.