Patrol TB45 Thurst

I've got a GU 4500, it's a great bit of gear, really don't know what you're on about Hey Dad. Mine gets 19l/100km's when hammered, 4 or 5 extra bucks per hundred k's hardly worth crying about when you're saving many thousands on initial purchase price and get the improved driveability of a petrol. Service intervals are halved too which a big consideration.

Out of the recent crop of large 4x4's, reliability and longevity of the TB45E is second to none (except for the naturally aspirated Toyota 1HZ diesel). Don't have to believe me, talk to the blokes at your local Nissan Parts counter, just ask them what bits and pieces they commonly sell for TB45's. Not much I bet. Try finding the achilles heel of the TB45E and let me know what you come up with. They're ceratinly not a rocket ship, but they get along surprisingly well and cruise beautifully. Off road, well I haven't been stuck yet and have left a lot of anaemic diesels struggling behind (or stuck) on hill climbs.

4.2 TD. Great motor, rock solid, but some have had issues (overheating, piston skirts etc).
3.0 TDI. Disaster area, just do a search the archives here and you'll soon get the picture.

After years of faultless service, I'm about to replace mine with the 4.8 as I've been so happy with petrol Patrol. (for the record, I also own a diesel Cruiser so I'm not biased either way. In fact, I'd buy a 1HZD-TE (?) Toyota turbo diesel tomorrow if they didn't have the fatal flaw of IFS and hilux diffs)

Another option for your new GU, with just 26,000km's on the clock, sell it to me!

Extractors, exhaust , and a Unichip , bring great results on the 4.5.

Forget the hiclone.

Best I have got on mine was 15/100 on highway , usually average about 17/100, towing my CT is between 20 and 22/100 with worst of 26/100 , and that was towing in sand.