Faults:

Bulbs throughout constantly blew.

Battery kept discharging and needed replacing.

General Comments:

Had very good first gear acceleration and good exhaust noise for a 1.0.

The cabin is made very light by the large windows.

The car is easy to drive and park, but the steering can become very heavy in tight turns.

Faults:

Needed a new head gasket, o rings, oil was spitting into the waterways.

New hoses the oil that was spitting into the waterways was also spitting out into the engine bay and was softening the hoses, this used them to split.

New suspension, it was like jelly and caused the tires to wear on the inside edges, they went from brand new to illegal in 5 months.

General Comments:

The sound of the radio through the speakers is awful.

The parcel shelf rattles a lot.

The seats are generally uncomfortable.

It will only have some form of speed when it has been knocked down 2 gears to overtake or you have to thrash the hell out of it to go anywhere.

Faults:

Nothing yet till now except some minor trouble in the electrical system.

General Comments:

The car is very reliable and economical.

However the car parts here in Malta are very expensive.

Faults:

A new starter motor at 90,000 miles.

Suffered one break down in it's life through a fault in the distributor cap. This problem was only a small problem and was fixed free of charge.

General Comments:

My first thoughts of a Micra were that it would be sloooooow and didn't have much style, but I bought it because it was cheap and cheap to run, and as a poor student, the running costs were the most important aspect I had to consider. In saying that, mine is a particularly attractive example of a car of this age with only a minor patch of rust on the front wheel arch. These cars have a surge of acceleration on start off. I have took mine to speeds of 90MPH with passengers in the rear. I never thought it would go so fast. It is parked outside every night in all weather conditions, summer and winter and has NEVER failed to start with the first turn of the key. It has suffered one breakdown which could be said is down to lack of maintenance on my part. Insurance and tax is cheap, seats are fairly comfortable and the cabin is spacious enough. The only complaint I have is that awful standard radio Nissan fitted, I have since took it out and fitted a decent one! In short, it is an excellent car. Someone has wrote on this website that their Micra, similar to mine doesn't go faster than 50mph, but I can assure you all cars will go faster than 50mph if you use the thing called a gearbox. Nissan Micra's 1983-93 have zero defects from my experience.