another grenade

LOL :-)

Craig!,,, If you were to work out how many mitsubishi diesels on the road actually gave problems, compared to other brands,, then i think you would be surprised, going back to the d55 and up to the latest motors , i personally have only heard a couple of rumours that the 2.8 was a bit vunerable to head gasket failure, but that was it "rumous!"


Cheers Axle

I'm no longer hung up on a particular brand anymore despite driving Toyota's for over 25 years. They all have their specific faults but the gap between them is closing fast. The company I work for has purchased over 40 Tritons in the past 2 years & are proving to be very reliable. Certainly the pick of the light utes at the moment.
Cheers Craig..............

Tritons, especially the single cabs must be the ugliest japanese ute around. Even the Sangyong looks better. While Im not saying that they are, the dual cabs just look like a showpony?

Unbreakable.

You're joking. Lok at what they have go wrong.

You're waaay ahead with a Nissan.
All they got going for them is very good advertising blurb.

I wouldn't have one in my garage. And I got three cars.

macka17

You're kidding!!

I can't speak for Nissan as I've never owned one but I have had 4 Toyota's starting with a Corolla, then a 55 series wagon, a 75 series ute and a '97 80 series Landcruiser and never had problems with any of them.

Must add that none of them were treated with kid gloves.

I must have been one of the lucky owners. :-)

I broke two new nissans in the NT in 4 Months on the bush roads, mostly on the Mereenie Loop, both with cracked chassis. Swapped to a Toyota Hilux SR5 and after eight months of the same torture its almost as good as the day I picked itup from the dealer.

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A mate of mine had a Navara dual cab. Pulled of the road into a small ditch-creased the chassis at the front of the tray. A write off! No panel damage whatsoever.

Yes Steve.

I was about to ask on his level of intelligence.

Regards
Macka17

Bearly,

Broke two Nissans in 4 months mostly on the Mereenie Loop ??

Could they have been Nissan Micra's ?? Probably best not to take them on the loop, even though I would have thought that they would still have survived the Loop as it is pretty tame compared to other tracks around Oz.

My Patrol and CT have travelled some pretty crappy wheel tracks over the years and not yet broken....just cant see it happening to be honest.

Had even thought of going to the dark side for about 30 minutes a couple of months ago when the wheel carrier pushed a tree over, but the Patrol has just been so good.

Brett.......

Agree crd

Without some specifics these type of posts don't add anything to the collective knowledge. They are about as useful as testimonials like:

"A mate of mine has a Toyota/Nissan/Mazda/Mitsubishi/Isuzu that has travelled a million ks with no maintenance and no problems."

Flynnie

flynnie.
for starters I drive a Holden commodore Ute ,Once least a nissan 99 2,8 turbo diesel it never mist a beat in the time of the lease,so I have no affiliation with any brand, as for stirring the pot, it would appear i have, but it was unintentional just telling it as it is, and no I don't know what model it was but I do know it was only a few years old. if you like next time I see him ill ask all of the questions hope this gets you of your high horse cheers bill.

sorry flynnie it should have read to CRD patrol.

sweetwill,
When you say the engine "died" did it just stop or did a piston go out the side or what happened ?

Dave.
he told me it blow up,I will go and ask him this afternoon what year,model,and what exactly did it die of, I did ask him if it was still under warranty he said it wasn't I also asked if he had been in touch with Nissan he said he hadn't, when I mentioned that they had a history of failure he said he has been told this a lot since. bill.

hi all.
I rang the fellow this afternoon to ask what did happen to his Navarro,.
it was a 2005 Lt turbo diesel.160k on the clock.
It just stopped no noise no bang when the head was taken of, the piston nearest the fire wall had a big gouge in it there was also metal fillings around,when he spoke to Nissan they said it would be two weeks before they could do anything so he sold it without repair. bill.