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I know this is an old thread but just thought I'd share with everyone my experience of the Note.
Up to now we've had two Nissan Note's on the motability car scheme, so thankfully wasn't paying for tyres on it.
The first one we had - 57 plate - was going through tyres like they were going out of fashion. Each year we must have gone through about 3 sets of tyres which a lot of my friends said for just 15,000 miles a year that's ridiculous. This was our first car so I didn't know exactly how long tyres were supposed to last.
The second one we've now got which is a 60 plate seems a lot more better on the tyres. I don't know whether they're using different tyres or something, but firstly these new tyres seem to have a lot more deeper tread on them, and secondly they do last a lot longer.
On the vehicle we did about 40,000 miles on the first set that was included with the vehicle. We only have 60,000 miles allowance in this car so if the first set lasted 40,000 (the guy at Kwik fit was quite surprised they'd lasted so long) and this set lasts just as long then we should have no need to replace them again during our contract with motability.
So it seems that the newer Nissan Notes seem to have longer tyre life than the older ones. The old Note we had was a Nissan Note SVE, this new one is the Nissan Note Teckna (the SVE was the top of the range trim for the Note, but they've now changed the trim names and the Teckna is the equivalent to the SVE).
Also I notice some people slagging these cars off on here because they're French - they are NOT French - Nissan is just in partnership at the moment with Renault. The cars themselves are made here in Britain (Newcastle), and most of the parts come from Japan. In the Nissan's you get the best of three - British engineering (famous for the Mini, Land Rover, MG, etc), Japanese technology, and French design (ooh-la-la!). Also before getting another Note we did look at the Renault's and the dealer said to us the Modus is exactly the same as the Note - even though the two are in partnership and are similar the Note is nothing like the Modus. The back end of the Modus is so much more lower than the Note, as well as the lights, there was no Sat Nav as standard, automatic headlights, automatic windscreen wipers, quite a lot of the technology was missing - it was like comparing a Skoda to a Volkswagen, they might be made by the same company but they are very different vehicles.
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