Likelyhood of original GUII ZD30 blowing up after 117,000km without an issue?

Submitted: Tuesday, Jul 27, 2004 at 20:00
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Hi all,

Look, we have a 2000 GUII Patrol 3.0L TD. The lease period is coming to an end and I will be purchasing the car after the lease and selling it. I am taking out another lease on another 3.0L Patrol.

I have been reading about the issues the original ZD30s have. My motor as far as I know has not been replaced. It has done 117,000km now without an issue. The majority of these kms have been my wife towing horses. She drives the car relatively hard. :-P As I was saying we haven’t had an issue with the motor. Every now and again it seems to develop a ‘lumpy’ idle which is usually rectified by a quick stab at the throttle. Only recently have we had issues getting it started (ie: taking more than 3 turns of the ignition to start the motor, leaving the ignition on each time for around 4 seconds at most) This also doesn’t happen all the time.

Apart from that we have constant trouble engaging 1st, 2nd and sometimes 3rd gears, especially in winter. To be expect in winter, however not the point where I am sometimes forced to take off in 2nd or after trying to shift into 2nd move back into 1st and attempt to accelerate again. Very embarrassing in the city traffic… Cleveland Nissan insists there is nothing wrong with it and that they have 'never been able to stimulate the issue.' Idiots... Hehe

Anyway, we have come this far with our motor and not had any issues of the sort I have seen documented on the internet. What are the chances of these issues occurring after we sell it? I don't want to sell it to someone I know and have them ring up and yell at me because the car just blew up! :-(

We have always serviced the car at Ni$$an’s recommend intervals – consistently 4 months ahead of the date on the sticker on the windscreen! :-P

Thanks for any ideas, and sorry if this particular topic has been investigated before – I was unable to find anything about it via google or the inbuilt search engine in the forums.

Cheers,
Nissan_nut

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