It's clearly not going to be choice of people on here as otherwise they'd have bought one.  

However, I would bet on it being far more reliable.   I own 2 jap cars and 1 skoda.  I've had more issues with the skoda over the last 10 months than the other two cars combined over the last 4 years.

I doubt it's a car you'd love, nissans have an ability to make  incredibly boring cars alongside incredibly awesome cars, with little in the middle.  However, it'll just work.  

13 minutes ago, Swirly182 said:

 

The interior design, layout of controls / switches and the materials. There were some soft touch plastics which is a positive. Nissan and other Japanese manufacturers place buttons in random places, in the Nissan to the right of the steering wheel is an example of this. The Octavia has hard plastics, but overall (imo) better quality and the layout of controls is hard to fault. 

 

What tech does the Pulsar have over the Octavia?

 

The main ones that come to mind are full leather/heated seats, reversing camera, 360 degree camera, and nissan 'safety shield' which includes Moving Object Detection, Lane Departure Warning and Blind Sport Warning.

 

Now don't get me wrong I don't actually know how much I'll care about some of that, but better to have and disable because I'm not fussed than not have in the first place maybe?

10 hours ago, Swirly182 said:

I had a Pulsar courtesy car once. Awful interior. The rest was instantly forgettable. Make sure you're happy with the build quality, the Nissan Qashqai I endured had creaks and rattles at only 2 years old. 

 

My Octavia at 2 years old feels much more robust. 

On the other hand, my '63 reg Octavia has small annoying rattle driver side B pillar, also has to be careful when driving (eg. cold engine wear, DSG oddities). Whereas my '64 Nissan Leaf feels rock solid, zero rattle, zero mechanical sympathy required when driving. I often floor it in the Leaf within 1min of starting to drive. 

 

Don't get me started on the recent snapped coil spring with a 6 years young car. 

 

I do agree the Pulsar curtesy car was horrible, especially when it was back-to-back from my instant accellerating electric car to a CVT. Qashqai is more like Cashcow. And then there's Nissan's styling..... (eg. Juke, Leaf) 

 

1 hour ago, shyVRS245 said:

Given the choice I would pick a Purple car over a Brown car TBH

Nothing wrong with Brown! It's understated class

 

(My Octavia is exactly that colour) 

 

  

16 minutes ago, GeorgeStorm said:

The main ones that come to mind are full leather/heated seats, reversing camera, 360 degree camera, and nissan 'safety shield' which includes Moving Object Detection, Lane Departure Warning and Blind Sport Warning.

I also have Tekna for my Nissan Leaf. It is brilliant. the 360 camera makes parking a breeze, full leather is very nice and I very much prefert seats in the Nissan to Octavia alcantara-leather seats. 

 

Leaf tekna also gets heated seats all round, heated steering wheel. Something makes wife very happy. 

Edited 7 May, 20206 yr by wyx087

39 minutes ago, GeorgeStorm said:

 

The main ones that come to mind are full leather/heated seats, reversing camera, 360 degree camera, and nissan 'safety shield' which includes Moving Object Detection, Lane Departure Warning and Blind Sport Warning.

 

Now don't get me wrong I don't actually know how much I'll care about some of that, but better to have and disable because I'm not fussed than not have in the first place maybe?

Reversing camera and blind spot warning are very useful in my experience.

26 minutes ago, wyx087 said:

On the other hand, my '63 reg Octavia has small annoying rattle driver side B pillar, also has to be careful when driving (eg. cold engine wear, DSG oddities). Whereas my '64 Nissan Leaf feels rock solid, zero rattle, zero mechanical sympathy required when driving. I often floor it in the Leaf within 1min of starting to drive. 

 

Don't get me started on the recent snapped coil spring with a 6 years young car. 

 

I do agree the Pulsar curtesy car was horrible, especially when it was back-to-back from my instant accellerating electric car to a CVT. Qashqai is more like Cashcow. And then there's Nissan's styling..... (eg. Juke, Leaf) 

 

Nothing wrong with Brown! It's understated class

 

(My Octavia is exactly that colour) 

 

  

I also have Tekna for my Nissan Leaf. It is brilliant. the 360 camera makes parking a breeze, full leather is very nice and I very much prefert seats in the Nissan to Octavia alcantara-leather seats. 

 

Leaf tekna also gets heated seats all round, heated steering wheel. Something makes wife very happy. 

Never seen purple poo but each to their own. Nissan Leaf owner thought they would impress me with the acceleration away from the lights whilst I was driving the wife's petrol Karoq. It was soon dispatched going up the motorway sliproad.

49 minutes ago, shyVRS245 said:

Reversing camera and blind spot warning are very useful in my experience.

Yeah, and front heated seats were one of the few features my OH said she'd quite like so that's another plus, hence my uncertainty and why potentially things like colour might tip the balance one way or the other hah.

 

Edit:

Never had LED lights, I believe the Nissan Pulsar tekna comes with those compared to halogen on the octavia, do they make a big difference?

Edited 7 May, 20206 yr by GeorgeStorm

57 minutes ago, shyVRS245 said:

Never seen purple poo but each to their own.

Watch this Lirpa Loof

10 minutes ago, PetrolDave said:

Watch this Lirpa Loof

A Man in a bird suit on April 1st gives it away. That's Life.

1 hour ago, shyVRS245 said:

Nissan Leaf owner thought they would impress me with the acceleration away from the lights whilst I was driving the wife's petrol Karoq. It was soon dispatched going up the motorway sliproad.

I do hope you Karoq has warmed up at that point  

 

Most traffic lights are on 30-40 mph roads, just saying  

1 minute ago, wyx087 said:

I do hope you Karoq has warmed up at that point  

 

Most traffic lights are on 30-40 mph roads, just saying  

Thanks for asking yes nice and warm after 13 miles. Just filled the car up Sainsbury's near J21 M1 and joining the motorway so 70mph NSL applies.

I love the idea of a Nissan Leaf and a Skoda Karoq trying to out accelerate each other from traffic lights 🤣

11 minutes ago, Alex-W said:

I love the idea of a Nissan Leaf and a Skoda Karoq trying to out accelerate each other from traffic lights 🤣

The difference is the Leaf can't manage 500 miles after a 2 minute top up with electricity.

20 minutes ago, shyVRS245 said:

The difference is the Leaf can't manage 500 miles after a 2 minute top up with electricity.

No. At the same time, most people don't drive 500 miles daily. 

 

The biggest difference, I think, is Leaf driver wouldn't need to ever worry about filling up. It's always ready to go in the morning. 

 

But I digress  

Can willy waving be kept elsewhere?

 

Opinions on the light difference, is it a personal thing or would led simply be a direct upgrade from halogen?

It's brighter and less yellow, sure, but the LED in my Leaf is less focused and doesn't shine as far as Xenon on my Skoda. 

 

Unless Pulsar has proper Audi-like LED matrix lights (which I doubt) it's going to be a minor upgrade in light colour rather than real upgrade in visibility. 

 

Having said that, I'm comparing Leaf LED headlight to Skoda Xenon and my previous Mercedes halogen. I hear Skoda halogen are pretty bad........ 

15 minutes ago, GeorgeStorm said:

Can willy waving be kept elsewhere?

 

Opinions on the light difference, is it a personal thing or would led simply be a direct upgrade from halogen?

Duly noted and put away. Skoda halogen headlights are awful (last car we had them on 2015 Rapid like candles). LED are brighter than Xenons (wife has LED on her Karoq) but I'm happy with the Xenon's on my Superb and it wasn't worth waiting for the 2020 model just to get slightly brighter headlights. Both our 2018 Karoq and 2019 Superb have rear LED tail lights which are good.

Haha cheers, and ah ok I believe the octavia I'm looking at has halogens (although I'm all a bit lost with all this car stuff so could be very wrong), so that's good to know.

3 minutes ago, GeorgeStorm said:

Haha cheers, and ah ok I believe the octavia I'm looking at has halogens (although I'm all a bit lost with all this car stuff so could be very wrong), so that's good to know.

Just double checked the original link you posted and from the photo's of the front and as I expected the Octavia SEL does have Xenons because it has headlamp washers as well to clean them which is a legal requirement with self levelling systems.

Just had the garage confirm they are halogen apparently.

3 hours ago, shyVRS245 said:

 the Octavia SEL does have Xenons because it has headlamp washers as well to clean them which is a legal requirement with self levelling systems.

The presence of headlamp washers doesn't mean Xenons - my Elegance has headlamp washers and halogen headlamps.

On 07/05/2020 at 16:45, PetrolDave said:

The presence of headlamp washers doesn't mean Xenons - my Elegance has headlamp washers and halogen headlamps.

 

And vice versa...my Amarok has Xenons and no washers.

15 minutes ago, pist0nbr0ke said:

 

And vice versa...my Amarok has Xenons and no washers.

If the output of Xenons is below a certain level (2000 lumens I think) then neither headlamp washers or self-levelling are required.

Would others agree that skoda halogens are somewhat lacking then?

1 hour ago, PetrolDave said:

If the output of Xenons is below a certain level (2000 lumens I think) then neither headlamp washers or self-levelling are required.

 

Makes sense. They certainly aren't the brightest around...and have a manual level adjuster. Deffo Xenons though. 

3 hours ago, GeorgeStorm said:

Would others agree that skoda halogens are somewhat lacking then?

They're not amazing, but they're not the worst IMHO.