GU Patrol - Power Loss

Submitted: Monday, Oct 28, 2013 at 02:20
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Hi guys,

I have just come back from travelling about 2,500km of WA's southwest and am starting to have intermittent problems with my 2009 Nissan Patrol GU VI 3.0L auto engine.

While on a beach, alone, on relatively soft sand my engine lost all power and cut out completely. Managing the panic, I switched off all electrics and the engine restarted after about a minute off bursts of turning it over.

I had another problem in soft sand 2days later where I could not get any power, not moving at all, in drive or reverse, 4WD or 2WD, but still could rev to 4000rpm in neutral or park. I fixed this again by switching everything off, waiting 30 seconds and starting again.

Driving home the car lost all power and shut down twice, leaving me of the side of the highway. I noticed that both these incidents occurred either on or just after, reasonably steep inclines.

The car was packed with camping gear at all these times, but still within the GVM and was not towing.

The engine has no modifications, no exhaust, chip, blocked egr etc. and has just over 60,000km on the clock.

It has just has a major service with did not indicate anything of interest. I have since called the service centre back who request they take another look at the vehicle.

I just wanted to know whether anyone else has had similar problems with their 3L Patrol and if so, how they fixed it? I'd just like an unbiased opinion, before I start paying big $$$ for 'tests' and unnecessary replacements.

Cheers,

Nathan.
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