Well the antara is one year old now and just had its first service £274 and no issuses reported.
Done over 16k todate and had only a few problems, faulty heated seat button and a mass air flow sensor replaced. The DPF seems to do its thing every 500 miles or so and after initially been paranoid about it just let it get on with it. The car is doing 32mpg which to be fair is poor but i can live with it, mix of round the doors and a motorway trips to work. The drive i think is good for such a tall car and on a long trip you arrive fresh and can step out with feeling all aches. The kids have plenty room in the rear and they are not complaining all the time which is a bonus as we are intending to to drive to France and switzerland in the summer.
The build quality of the car is sturdy and nothing has fell off yet but a word of warning, the other day the wife was driving adround a corner when the door flew open with no indication it was not secure. It then happened again further on, turns out that the door handle when pulled was stuck out and she had notnoticed causing the lock to be open, WD40 seems to have sorted but could have been serious.
the car seems fairly capable off road and performed ok in the snow recently for a soft roader, think the ground clearence could be better and i have actually reduced the front scoop to about 2cmand it looks better i think
been driving 30yrs and had a wide variety of cars and all in all forvaue for money i am pleased with the car, are there bettercars? yes, are there worse cars? absolutely, would i buy another? yes
Done over 16k todate and had only a few problems, faulty heated seat button and a mass air flow sensor replaced. The DPF seems to do its thing every 500 miles or so and after initially been paranoid about it just let it get on with it. The car is doing 32mpg which to be fair is poor but i can live with it, mix of round the doors and a motorway trips to work. The drive i think is good for such a tall car and on a long trip you arrive fresh and can step out with feeling all aches. The kids have plenty room in the rear and they are not complaining all the time which is a bonus as we are intending to to drive to France and switzerland in the summer.
The build quality of the car is sturdy and nothing has fell off yet but a word of warning, the other day the wife was driving adround a corner when the door flew open with no indication it was not secure. It then happened again further on, turns out that the door handle when pulled was stuck out and she had notnoticed causing the lock to be open, WD40 seems to have sorted but could have been serious.
the car seems fairly capable off road and performed ok in the snow recently for a soft roader, think the ground clearence could be better and i have actually reduced the front scoop to about 2cmand it looks better i think
been driving 30yrs and had a wide variety of cars and all in all forvaue for money i am pleased with the car, are there bettercars? yes, are there worse cars? absolutely, would i buy another? yes