Nissan Patrol 4x4 (Africa)

I called one of the oil test companies, they confirmed piston burning due to over fuelling is something they will detect with their test. It will be very interesting if somebody had a blown motor to send an oil sample, and also send a an oil sample of another running vehicle. Here's the reply re the...

Thank you, so this is really a difficult one. I pity those people who buys these Patrols not knowing about that issue.

Thank you gents, so the main problem is determining the condition of the insides when looking at a used vehicle, I guess there is no way of doing that.

Expensive to repair when they blow up, what is expensive? What total cost are you looking at?

Tinus lotz wrote:no its not there is a lot of info on this forum just speak to groot seun and oom mac

Thank you, I have spent a lot of time here already ready, but it is so difficult to put it into context.

Hello! The 3.0TD Patrol, is it really THAT bad? Specifically the 2003 model, with 125,000km on the clock. I have searched Google for hours and hours, and all over the show you get forum entries with okes saying do not touch, stay away, they blow up etc, but I cannot find many forum entries where act...