PROBLEMS - GU NISSAN PATROL 3.0L TD 2000

Lea,
Check previous postings here, there is a lot of info. Symptoms fit in with the age/model of your vehicle.
Also, check out the Yahoo site http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/patrol4wd/.
Gerry

Hi Lea,

Sounds like a blown engine for sure. The series 2 GU 3.0TD have a bad habit of blowing a hole or cracking a piston on 3/4 cylinder. Take it to a Nissan dealer and you will get a brand new series 3 engine, even if out of warranty. The dealer may try and fob you off, but simply ring Nissan Australia and you will eventually get looked after. They may try and get a co-payment out of you (it is a $12,000 motor) but don't do it, they eventually pay the lot. Its a known fault that has occured on many series 2 motors.

Blowing the engine has probably done you a favour (once the inconvieniece is over) You will end up with a brand new series 3 motor with zero kays on the clock. The series 3 motor does not have the same problems that the series 2 did.

Cheers

Captain

You wouldn't happen to be a Journalist by any chance. ?

In regard to replacement motors - a friend in WA has an older model Nissan - flat sided body! He replaced the standard motor with a big American V8 diesel, 5.7 litres I think. Boy has that car goy some grunt - on longer desert trips he carrys a 200 litre drum of fuel - they have been 'everywhere' in it!

With the 'warranty' replacement motor - as suggested, stick to your 'guns' until you get what you want - don't let the dealer fob you off.
I had a problem with my '98 Forester gearbox - the dealer gave me the run round so I eventually contacted Subaru and they had no hesitation in getting the job done for free - and it was well out of warranty.

Good luck

Lea,
How many km's are on your car??

As captain has pointed out, the oil recall helped the elimination of the problem, but has not entirely fixed it. This was done with the series 3 and different oil pickup & extra sensors.

Cheers
Andrew

I WANT ONE!!! OH YEA..........

Who was it on here that had never heard of it happening?

Your donk is fubar.. if there is no warranty, it will be around $13,000 repair...

Lea, Check out POST NUMBER 12,328 on 24/4/2004 from Bob & Lex in Sydney.
This sounds EXACTLY the same as what they suffered from.
Nissan came good with a new donk.

Was the increase in oil capacity just a new dipstick with markings further up it or did they actually fit a new deeper sump.
I've been told that was what happened but do any owners actually know?
GMH went the dipstick route with the V6 Commodore engines at one stage.
I know of one series three 3 litre that has grenaded, maybe they don't have enough kays on them for the problem to manifest itself yet?

The increase in oil capacity was simply a recalibrated dip stick---Read shorter dipstick,not any other change.

Jeeeesuus, fella's dont want to hear any crap about the Explorer any more, i'll just quote this post, Firestone was the problem with the Explorer and as far as i know Firestone is not a genuine Ford part.

Baz.

ach dont know how to prove it to you but on my 2000 model thats what happened,drive to dealer change dipstick top up oil drive out,suggest you confirm with nissan.They did not remove sump.

My 2000 GU diesel engine blew up in December.
It was a second hand vehicle bought through a nissan dealer.
At the time of failure it was at 118000km and out of warranty.
Nissan replaced the engine at no cost.
The vehicle had no Nissan service history.
The vehicle had an enlarged sump fitted,so this alone did not eliminate the fault that existed with this model.
You will get a new donk if you go through NISSAN H.O public relations dept.
Great trucks,enjoy your new engine.
Regards

Lea,
There was no service history with Nissan,ie it had not been serviced by them our their agents.
The service book that came with the vehicle only showed the stamp of the first free service,no others records to show services.(although the salesman said there was, no records existed)
there was a delay of about two weeks, while Nissan had the dealership I used to check the condition of the engine, and send a report to H.O.
I must admit there seemed to be a bit of buck passing going on as every time I queried either the dealer or the H.O, they claimed the other party was holding things up.
When finally the approval came from Nissan,I was told the repair would take about one week.
Six weeks later after being promised it every Friday,I lost my temper with frustration, and went to let it all out on the service manager,which I did.
I demanded to see the truck and found that although the engine was in,the rest of the work had not moved from when I last saw it two weeks previous.
I rang head office after seeing this and voiced my displeasure.
3 days later the truck was finished.
It is going well .but the air sensor has been faulty since the new donk was fitted,and is to be replaced next week.
As to the engine ,who knows what it is,Nissan sent me a letter saying my vehicle had been fitted with a replacement engine as reqd for that model.
I have written to Nissan to determine which engine is fitted, with no reply to my letters.
As I have stated on previous posts, Nissan is to be praised for standing by there product and relacing blown engines out of warranty,but condemned for the shroud of secrecy that exists on the reasons for the failures,you as I do ,will wonder if the engine is the solution to further long term problems.
This must be affecting sales of the 3.0 litre,which is a shame as they are a great performing truck.
Good luck,be firm.

Lea,
All the info on the 3.0 put me off and I eventually went 4.2td. I get my oil and filters done every 5k. It costs a bit but I think the car deserves it. Chat to Roly & good luck.

Been away for a few days. Just trying to catch up with my daily dose of the forum.

E.G.R. Valve is suspect number one.

Mine went at 40K.

Bit of a rattle, cloud of black smoke, and not enough power to climb over a discarded potato chip packet.

Best of luck

Lea I feel for you,
Mine blew up on Friday ,it developed a miss at idle apon further inspection a huge amount of blow-by disscovered apon removal of the oil filler cap .Only 70000 km out of warrenty by 8 months .So dissapointed ,half way through building my custom made camping trailer the patrol was supposed to tow around Australia for us. Looks like it maybe Prado time,wife wants an auto.
Best of luck.

Lea ,
Ours not as bad as first thougt, compression tested ok.Possible leaking inlet valve causing miss and back pressure ,popping back into the air cleaner.What ever it was has gone.Glad about your new engine hope it goes good.