YES IT HAPPENED TO ME.
Our trip to
Innamincka was gr8, but on the way
home I decided to try 5th gear towing. Everyone said it can be done, as long as I am doing 100 km/hr, you are on the flat, or going down
hill.
So after about only 200 km's of 5th gear running, on the return trip, in between Thargominda, and the NSW border, she went wiiiizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz !
Oh dear, (not allowed to swear) was my thought ! ... darn, gosh gollly ..
Has this really happened, and so quickly.
What had the previous owner done to my Nissan ?
That's the only thing me, as the second owner can never really know, but now know what gear they had towed in.
I am at present at a mates place in Albury, and pondering with the Idea of heading
home, or getting the thing fixed here.... at Walla Nissan.
They will try and get Nissan to pay for it, as a good will warranty, as the old girl is 9 years old, and done the magic total of 152,000 kms when it stuffed up.
I rang up my local 4x4
shop that I get to do things form me, that I cannot do, and the ball park figure is $2500 approximately.. Ouch !
At least I know I can get
home in 4th.
Had to cut off the last leg of the trip, over to another mate, and his family in Nowra..
Had to tell Kiwi & Mahindra the sad news last night..
Cheers
Bucky