nissan patrol turbo diesel engine blow up

Hi lynnie,
Thats bad news, but as long as you have service records you qualify for after warranty assist some dealerships are lazy and not interested in helping,ring Nissan direct and speak with them.

Hope this helps lynnie

http://www.lonards-automotives.com.au/patrol.html

:-)

Try searching the site.

Is yours a 4.2 ltr or 3 ltr motor?

lynnie - I had the same problems plus a lazy dealer, went to fair trading, dealer all of a sudden agreed & I had a new motor & wiring loom fitted. They have known of this problem since that model was bought out

Good Luck

Don't take this the wrong way it's just a little lighthearted but with all the 3 litre Nissan saga's the same song lyrics keep coming back to me. With apologies to Queen:

Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
And another one gone and another one gone
Another one bites the dust
Hey I'm gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust

Regards Andrew.

Hi mate , sorry to hear your bad news, I' m in the same boat myself with a 2001 3 Ltr T/D and am watching these threads very carefully, can I ask where are you, and if possible could you let me know how it all goes ? the number for Nissan HQ is 03 9797 4111, the guy I spoke to there's name was Lance, he told me that Nissan would not abandon us and was aware of the problem, but could'nt do anything until the engine actually blew !!!
what can you do ???
anyhow please keep us posted,
best regards,
Dave

Hi lynnie,
Our 3ltre blew 13/01/06 and still havn't got it back. We dealt with a lady at head office, Val Davis. When you ring, don't take the options, wait for the main switch and then ask for who ever you need, 03 9797 4111. At first we thought it was the turbo as it blew the inlet hose off. Symptoms, black smoke, death rattles, loss of power. Ended up being a hole in number 2 piston. We didn't have the service book up to date as we do it ourselves and Nissan were not going to pay any costs. 170,000km. We rang this Val Davis ourselves and she agreed to pay for the parts, we had to pay for labour.
When it was picked up it was running, then later when we tried to start it, 5 minutes of winding and she went. When it's warm we have buckly's of getting it to go. They say it's the injector pump, which is apparently common for them to go, but it was fine before the rebuild? So now, after going further up the chain of command, it's off to Cooma Diesel. Apparently they are pretty good at injector pumps. We hope so. It may just mean that the timing is out on the pump. We heard today that in Europe Nissan recalled all of the early 3 litres. Good luck.
Pud and Barb. Goulburn NSW.

So its finally happening,Nissan are winding back their support on the blown engines.
Overall this is bloody disgusting,they avoided a recall by replacing early failures and waiting until enough time has passed to now only pay for parts,next no help at all as the fleet is to old,this leaving the poor bastards who did not have a early failure with the cost of engines, when it was continually sold when known to have problems.
This matter has been thrown around for years and just shows how a big multi nationals can avoid their responsibility and how weak our consumer affairs is when dealing with these people.
Every one in the industry or club scene knows about the problem(mine went too but Nissan replaced in 2004),so do all the Magazines and apart from various threats no one has been able to get an answer from Nissan on what really caused the problem our how they fixed it.
As I said ,bloody disgusting.
Regards