Goodbye Nissan Patrol Y61

Submitted: Monday, Dec 09, 2013 at 06:52
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After a reliable 13 years I have decided to get rid of the trusty Nissan Patrol.
The decision was not easy and stemmed from a friend who's horror story goes like this.

They came to Adelaide from Canberra to stay in the caravan which they have towed all round Australia with the Nissan Patrol with the ZD30 3.0 litre diesel engine. It has done about 150,000 kms. All was going well on the way back home when trouble struck, the engine blew 10 k's out from leaving the caravan park at West Beach. A tow-truck was arranged to take it to a mechanic. The caravan was towed up to relatives and parked out the front. Mechanic advises him that the engine will cost about $16,000 to replace with a new engine. no such thing as a recon 3.0 litre he says. Repairs were commenced and finally he got the vehicle back and was told you need to do a 1,000 km's first to run it in. Sounds easy you say, well he didn't get that far and comes out in the morning to discover a pool of oil under the car. Rings mechanic and the Patrol gets towed in again, suffice to say friend is not happy! Mechanic tells him that the rear main seal on the engine is leaking, so friend says surely it's covered by warranty. Mechanic rings Nissan who supplied new engine and they say after being told what has happened that "No warranty applies" due to the fact the new engine was bolted to old parts and not new. At this stage the smoke out of our friend's ears is very noticeable. After a bill over $20,000 and stuck in Adelaide for 72 days he drives back to Canberra with caravan in tow. Since then I have looked through many 4X4 forums and the comments all too familiar, that the 3.0 is a grenade just waiting to explode.

My Patrol had 138,000 kms on the clock and never missed a beat, but I sure don't have a spare 20K for a new engine, should the inevitable have happened.

Anyone else had this experience? Comments

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