How far can each Nissan go between services?
| Distance | Time | |
|---|---|---|
| Navara, Juke, Leaf | 20,000 km | 12 months |
| Qashqai petrol | 15,000 km | 12 months |
| Qashqai e-Power, X-Trail, Pathfinder, Patrol, Z | 10,000 km | 12 months |
That's CarsGuide's March 2025 table, and the service book in your glovebox outranks it. One gap to know about: the table came out before the new Navara, so the 20,000 km figure belongs to the older ute. If you've got the new one, go by its own book.
The Leaf is on the same 12 months as the rest of the range. No engine doesn't mean no service: brakes, tyres, coolant and the high-voltage system still need checking.
How Nissan's 10-year warranty works
Every new Nissan starts with five years and unlimited kilometres. Service the car on schedule at a Nissan dealer and cover can extend to 10 years or 300,000 km, whichever comes first. It's open to private and commercial buyers, and it passes to the next owner.
Nissan describes it as service activated, a year at a time. All scheduled services in the first 5 years have to be done to activate the 6th year of cover, and its notice for owners says to keep services within 3,000 km or 60 days of the scheduled interval.
Where a car isn't serviced through Nissan, or stops being serviced there, Nissan says no more years are added and it stays on five years with unlimited kilometres. So going to an independent mechanic doesn't end your standard cover. Done by a qualified mechanic to Nissan's schedule and specifications, it doesn't by itself void the warranty, but the extra years stop.
Own a car sold between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2024? Those needed a Vehicle Assessment and a scheduled service by 31 December 2025 to join. That date has passed, so ask a Nissan dealer where yours stands if it matters to you.
Which Navara do you have?
The fourth-generation Navara, unveiled here on 19 November 2025, was developed from the sixth-generation Mitsubishi Triton and is built by Mitsubishi in Thailand, with a 2.4-litre twin-turbo diesel and a 6-speed automatic.
Older Navaras are a different ute, so a mechanic's experience on one won't carry over completely. Tell us which you have, and whether it tows or carries a canopy. A mechanic who works on Tritons will know a lot about the new one.
X-Trail, Qashqai and the hybrids
X-Trails from May 2022 started with 2.5-litre petrol engines, and an e-4ORCE series hybrid joined in the Ti and Ti-L from early 2023. The Qashqai e-Power is also a series hybrid, and its 10,000 km limit is shorter than the petrol's 15,000 km.
In a series hybrid, the petrol engine mainly makes electricity and electric motors turn the wheels. It still needs oil and filters. The high-voltage side needs someone trained and equipped for it, so raise that first. A local mechanic who specialises in your car.
What you can do yourself
You can
- Look up your model's interval in the book, then diarise both the date and the kilometres.
- Check oil and tyre pressures on a cold car, on level ground.
- On a 4WD, wash salt and mud off from beside the car after a trip.
Leave to the mechanic
- The scheduled service and recording it.
- Diesel and 4WD work on a Navara or Patrol.
- Anything on a hybrid's or Leaf's high-voltage system.
Our take on a Nissan
We'd start with what you plan to do with the car. Keeping a recent Nissan for the long haul? The dealer route keeps the years adding up, as long as every service lands inside the window. If the car's older, or you'd sooner choose your own mechanic, a qualified independent keeps you on the standard cover. Either way, we'd get the interval right first, because they vary so much across the range.