I've just bought a K11 Micra
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I have a strange purple coloured 2001 K11 in the yard atm. Mate has gone on holiday and left it here to see if we can salvage the cills or whether it need to go to the great scrappies in the sky.
Borrowed it a few times in the last few months and it reminds me I miss the days of having a little tin can biffabout! I still think I'd have a K10 though, had one as a yard car when I was 16 and even when I'd attacked it with a the spanners it refused to die
Borrowed it a few times in the last few months and it reminds me I miss the days of having a little tin can biffabout! I still think I'd have a K10 though, had one as a yard car when I was 16 and even when I'd attacked it with a the spanners it refused to die
TwigtheWonderkid said:
51mes said:
Friend had one of these - completely indestructible his two kids learnt in it - over about 7 years all it had apart from service items was a brake light bulb.
Strange, I had a Nissan Terrano for 10 years and then the brake light bulb blew. Must be a weak point on Nissans. When oh when are they going to get the reliability right? 
I run a 2002 1.0L K11 Twister as my daily 60 mile commuter for two and a half years it never missed a beat, it was one of the best cars I ever owned...bought it for £1200 and sold it for a £1000 not bad depreciation for 30 months.
Young lad next door is learning to drive and his dad recently got a K11 from a client for £500, 2002 1.0L with an amazing 17,000 miles from new, it's mint and drives perfect...young lad doesn't like it and wants a Corsa.
I'd have another in a heartbeat.
Young lad next door is learning to drive and his dad recently got a K11 from a client for £500, 2002 1.0L with an amazing 17,000 miles from new, it's mint and drives perfect...young lad doesn't like it and wants a Corsa.
I'd have another in a heartbeat.
More k11 love from me. Got one when I need a cheap reliable car in a hurry with the intention of getting something 'better' after 6 months or so. Kept it for four years and 30,000 trouble free miles in the end. My wife used to have a T-reg one that was ragged mercilessly every day; the DVLA website reveals that it's still out there somewhere, having just passed it's MOT for another year.
I had a K11 Micra for a year - it's was a 1.3 GX auto with sunroof that only tilted, central locking that didn't work With the remote, a/c that didn't work but the electric Windows did and it had power steering.
It was fun, surprisingly quick from 0-5 mph and utterly reliable in the 5k miles I drive it.
Bought for £200, sold for £825 😀
It was fun, surprisingly quick from 0-5 mph and utterly reliable in the 5k miles I drive it.
Bought for £200, sold for £825 😀
A friend had a new (L-reg) 1.0LX in '94, it was a great drive 
; not quite a Mini in deep snow, but I only bogged it down once in 12"... It would also sit at a fairly quiet 90 indicated all day and give 40+mpg at the same time.
Next door neighbour has a thing for K11 1.0s, she is on her third but only because she crashed the first two
. I managed to get my hands on the first one to check it over because it wouldn't start one time - while the spark plugs had a 2mm gap, the oil was off the bottom of the dipstick and it needed a litre of coolant, the thing stopping it was that the fuel tank was empty! Truly a cockroach 
- the car, that is, not my neighbour (who is unworthy of such a resilient car 
)!
; not quite a Mini in deep snow, but I only bogged it down once in 12"... It would also sit at a fairly quiet 90 indicated all day and give 40+mpg at the same time.Next door neighbour has a thing for K11 1.0s, she is on her third but only because she crashed the first two
. I managed to get my hands on the first one to check it over because it wouldn't start one time - while the spark plugs had a 2mm gap, the oil was off the bottom of the dipstick and it needed a litre of coolant, the thing stopping it was that the fuel tank was empty! Truly a cockroach - the car, that is, not my neighbour (who is unworthy of such a resilient car )!Awesome! I love a good micra. My mum used to have a 1.0, can't remember which model but it was white! the rot got the better of it and on the final day of its MOT me and my dad took it to get some bails 5 miles from home.
Leaving the farm yard I said to my dad, this car has been brilliant, won't it ever die? He said let's find out! It had 140,000miles and for the last 3 miles of the journey it sat on the rev limiter in 2nd gear! All the way home, his size 10 pushing the pedal through the bulkhead, screaming it's tits off, needless to say, it was still fine. It never even got hot! We were both deaf and I have never laughed so much in life.
We then cut the roof off, ripped out the back seats and used it as a giant, powered wheel barrow for carting logs and anything else we didn't want to carry around the small holding we had at the time. It lasted another 2 years of being ragged by me and my dad, lugging so much firewood around it would be on the bump stops. Hammered from stone cold, burnouts, handbrake turns the lot. We only scrapped it when the clutch gave up the ghost.
Epic machines. Why can't anyone build a car as tough these days?
the rot got the better of it and on the final day of its MOT me and my dad took it to get some bails 5 miles from home.Leaving the farm yard I said to my dad, this car has been brilliant, won't it ever die? He said let's find out! It had 140,000miles and for the last 3 miles of the journey it sat on the rev limiter in 2nd gear! All the way home, his size 10 pushing the pedal through the bulkhead, screaming it's tits off, needless to say, it was still fine. It never even got hot! We were both deaf and I have never laughed so much in life.
We then cut the roof off, ripped out the back seats and used it as a giant, powered wheel barrow for carting logs and anything else we didn't want to carry around the small holding we had at the time. It lasted another 2 years of being ragged by me and my dad, lugging so much firewood around it would be on the bump stops. Hammered from stone cold, burnouts, handbrake turns the lot. We only scrapped it when the clutch gave up the ghost.
Epic machines. Why can't anyone build a car as tough these days?
aw51 121565 said:
A friend had a new (L-reg) 1.0LX in '94, it was a great drive ; not quite a Mini in deep snow, but I only bogged it down once in 12"... It would also sit at a fairly quiet 90 indicated all day and give 40+mpg at the same time.
Next door neighbour has a thing for K11 1.0s, she is on her third but only because she crashed the first two . I managed to get my hands on the first one to check it over because it wouldn't start one time - while the spark plugs had a 2mm gap, the oil was off the bottom of the dipstick and it needed a litre of coolant, the thing stopping it was that the fuel tank was empty! Truly a cockroach - the car, that is, not my neighbour (who is unworthy of such a resilient car )!
Err think you have the rose tinted spectacles on mate. I had a t reg 1.0 micra as a 1st car and it sat halfway up the rev range at 70. Any more than 75/80 and the engine started wheezing and bits started falling off. Also in my experience the piddly little bicycle tyres where shockingly bad in snow. ; not quite a Mini in deep snow, but I only bogged it down once in 12"... It would also sit at a fairly quiet 90 indicated all day and give 40+mpg at the same time.Next door neighbour has a thing for K11 1.0s, she is on her third but only because she crashed the first two
. I managed to get my hands on the first one to check it over because it wouldn't start one time - while the spark plugs had a 2mm gap, the oil was off the bottom of the dipstick and it needed a litre of coolant, the thing stopping it was that the fuel tank was empty! Truly a cockroach - the car, that is, not my neighbour (who is unworthy of such a resilient car )!Although I had it for 2 years and 10k miles without as much as a service and it never let me down. Got short of it because the exhaust came off (rust) and it was going to cost as much as the car to replace it.
We owned for 1993 K11 Micra about 15 years ago. Had not one issue in 5 years ownership (except self induced - see below!). We only ever had oil changes and tyres changed!
Ours was a special dealer edition, Micro Dot. Sunroof, body coloured bumper and metallic paint. Still a 1.0 engine, wind up windows and Spartan interior.
Back in the day I wired an alarm and central locking into it, which then spectacularly failed during some heavy rain. Wifey was driving through central Leeds with the central locking switching on-off continually, emergency lights flashing and alarm sounding. Oops
Mike
Ours was a special dealer edition, Micro Dot. Sunroof, body coloured bumper and metallic paint. Still a 1.0 engine, wind up windows and Spartan interior.
Back in the day I wired an alarm and central locking into it, which then spectacularly failed during some heavy rain. Wifey was driving through central Leeds with the central locking switching on-off continually, emergency lights flashing and alarm sounding. Oops
Mike
First car I had the use of after passing my test was my Mum's 1.0l-base white with no radio or rear wiper (L46 TAP) and then her Micra Wave (M306 CCD) which was metallic blue with a sunroof, tinted windows, central locking and a radio. Really enjoyed both of them and they were pretty fun and spritely to drive and I think the only expense was a new battery - we racked up over 100k in each of them in a couple of years before moving them on
Chris
Chris
Mephistofleas said:
Bit random but didn't realise they did autos...
0-60 in 18 seconds for a 1.0l k11 (according to AT)
It makes me want one even more. Whyyyy??!
We had one a while back with a dodgy cvt box, 0-60 was more like 20odd seconds. I remember lining up alongside an SL55 AMG and jokingly asking the driver if he fancied a race so I could see just how vast the difference in speed was. Great fun!0-60 in 18 seconds for a 1.0l k11 (according to AT)
It makes me want one even more. Whyyyy??!
caelite said:
Err think you have the rose tinted spectacles on mate. I had a t reg 1.0 micra as a 1st car and it sat halfway up the rev range at 70. Any more than 75/80 and the engine started wheezing and bits started falling off. Also in my experience the piddly little bicycle tyres where shockingly bad in snow.
Although I had it for 2 years and 10k miles without as much as a service and it never let me down. Got short of it because the exhaust came off (rust) and it was going to cost as much as the car to replace it.
Narrow tyres are better in snow than wide ones. Maybe you had Summer tyres? Any little old front drive hatch with narrow tyres and a relatively-heavy engine is ideal in snowAlthough I had it for 2 years and 10k miles without as much as a service and it never let me down. Got short of it because the exhaust came off (rust) and it was going to cost as much as the car to replace it.
Had a K11 SR, I think they only sold about 700, better handling twiddly 13 inch alloys, ABS, great fun, I once flew it high off a humpback bridge and it landed on the front cross member, and push the bonnet up by about 5 mm, a quick adjustment of the bonnet catch and it was back to normal(ish). 75 bhp 1.3 engine, not changing up until 7200rpm, no rose tinted glasses it was brilliant, changed for a 172 which felt so heavy after the Micra, I was like a dog with two dicks with the 172, but still had the K11 for another 2 months to blast about in, normally when the 172 was having its monthly visit back to Renault!!
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