How good or bad is a Nissan X trail for off road?

Why tow a small tinny? I'd leave it home.
In many places where it is safe to use a small tinny, it's often possible to hire one.
They are not safe enough to use in rivers/estuaries where croc's are around.
IMHO it's hardly worth the wear and tear on both the boat and trailer towing one around Oz just for the occassional fishing excursion.

Cheers

Disco.

Save your money and take a charter at your various destinations, you will probably find it a lot cheaper and have more fun and fish.

Cheers

Merv

G'day Johnny,

X trail is a soft roader, so that will limit a lot of places you can go.

Having said that, there are a lot of places you can visit.
I would travel to Mitchell Falls or Kalumburu but I would travel the Gibb River Road in an X Trail.

Personally I don't like towing unless I have to but if you really love to travel with your tinny do it. It will save some room in the vehicle with tents and stuff in the boat.

Here's the Australian X Trail Forum in this link
I'm sure you would get some useful advice there.

Steve

There are some guys in my club with XTrails and they are handy enough to go wherever it's possible to go with sub 30" wheels. There is a 2" lift for them and stick on some AT tyres. The diesel model is far superior off road.

Just out of interest, I hear there's just been a recall on X-trail (2004 - 2013) for an accelerator sensor flaw. Does this affect Australia anyone know?

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this was found some where in the NT bigger than the small tinnie lol