Nissan 3lt

Yep

Crap

hahahahahahahaha
Mr. "B" you crack me up with your humour!
Is that why you surround yourself with really nice toyota owning friends?
So when you go 4wding you always have a reliable tow vehicle to get you outa strife, its only a matter of time mate !

Cheers Pesty

hahahahahah I shall not mention being pulled thru a boggy section by a 80 series that subsequently broke a CV or something in its front end, I should have known that a Toyota front end is sus to any additional strain, like a stone on a tyre or something hehehehehe

Might I add that he had 33" tyres vs 31's on the Patrol and well his piddly little diff pumpkins cleared all but the deepest ruts while the truck built Nissan sat on top of the dirt hahahahah then I rolled tyre off the rim and the day started to get better then rofl

its the one word jokes that like

The first ones were released in April 2000.

Not quite!

Mine is stamped "BUILT FEB 2000"

Same here "Feb 2000 Build".........................................RIP :)

Hehe so as you guys have rightly pointed out, there was a 2 month gap between when they started building them and when they were released :-)))

but there were rumors that there were a few of the 'old' motors creeping into early 2002 regardless. That's why I say 2003 to be sure. This may be a case of the vehicles being complied 2002 and still built in 2001. Vic roads puts 2002 year in this situation.

Leroy

Thanks for that vote of confidence John. Maybe I'm one of the lucky ones, mines got 156k on it made May 2000 still going strong with no problems at all apart from a minor oil leak on the sump which was a nighmare to fix. Thank goodness Toyota make a decent silicon sealent.

Trust is a choice thing I think, you choose not to.

Martin yes you maybe right in respect of being one of the lucky ones. (I genuinely hope you remain that way)

Me I would never be happy about taking one of these things somewhere remote regardless of the year built, always in the back of your mind is gunna be the question "Is today the day"??

I have never said that Toyota is 100% reliable in every respect only a very brave man would but neither have I seen so many people who have been put through so much heartache with these 3.0 litre engines.

Good luck.

Your right on the money there John,that is regards to Nissan . Tis the buyers whom have the problems.

Bob.

Hmm, aren't you the same guy that claimed Nissan put a 3.5L TDi in their Patrols? Aren't you also the same person who responded to a request for more info about a 2nd tow hook by saying it is required to get the car onto a flatbed?

I find most people on this forum are quite helpful with their comments but so far I would not place yours in that category.

Considering how Nissans have no resale (which you have also stated in a previous post) how is it that I was able to get more than my lease payout value on my 3 year old Patrol? Must have just been lucky I guess.

They must not be telling the car yards and dealers then becasue I just spent three days looking at plenty of 3 litre Nissans for sale ranging $36900 to $40990 second hand.

Seems pretty good resale value to me.

Re the survey-

If you are on this list and haven't taken part, please do. I have had a very poor response.

Daggs.
Blown_zd30
Roly.
AJB
Pud & Barb
Bulla. (daughters car)
Yakodi
Plugger.
JR
Mike.
B & M.
Emackj
Fourstall2000
Donald A
Jorgejhandal
Old Johno
Ron 2006
BushMark
Ted
Piggy

Cut and paste this to your browser

http://www.djolsen.com/nissanpatrolsurvey.doc

Download Survey and email to me at admin(at)djolsen.com.

Wasn't here a link just the other day to a 2005 that had ingested the turbo twice in a 1,000 k?

yes got that one

Well all I have done over 400,000 in my 1986,3.3 L Have only replaced Turbo , & I am like the song I BEEN EVERY WHERE.

Yeh, the first I've heard about it! :)

Nothing ..... Absolutely nothing

Thinking of fitting one to my Troopy. :-)

sorry make that the 2006 cape trip
see you greg