Auris diesel vs i30 diesel?

I seriously considered a three year old i30 estate about 5 years years ago. An attraction was that this engine met the standards of the time without a dpf. The Kia Ceed is essentially the same car with harder seats. For other reasons (mainly access height) I went with a Nissan Note (E11) with the 1.5 cr diesel. Grey in all respects, but careful recording has confirmed 59.something mpg over the years. Two road springs, two air-con condensers, and two tyres in 25000 miles are all its needed.

so you need a timing belt, water pump and auxiliary belt asap

I can understand springs as nearly all cars made in Europe have lowest price springs made in East Europe.

But why the 2 air con condensers? I've got a 25 year old car that still has pressure in the air con (but not enough and it's R12 so no one will touch it - might have propane (R290 and R600a) in it). Do you tail gate quarry / road stone lorries, do gravel rallies?

If the grill doesn't stop stones fit a wire mesh in front of it.

Timing belt after just 25,000 miles?

I wasn't clear enough: that's in my ownership: 50-odd K total, in 8 years.

It's on the list to be done if I still have the car in spring.

No.

I was going to do that after the first one, but then...

I didn't expect to keep the car long after the first replacement. These are about the only jobs (apart from a flywheel change on a post-war Rolls-Royce) that I've entrusted to a garage in 50+ years of car ownership, so I'm naturally suspicious about how well the job was done.

I've sorted out a piece of expanded metal, but not yet the tuit.