CRD engine dramas

[the evil twin]

That doesn't sound too reassuring. 200 cars?
I assume they all didn't have the problem but the dept. wasn't taking any chances with OH&S. Sounds like it could even be a current problem if the new ECU had the same issue. I wonder what the failure rate is?

Nah, don't worry about it... they hadn't added extra earth's, disconnected the batteries for 30 minutes or fitted small barn door extension brackets and fishing rod holders

[Rock Trol]

Good god E.T!!!
How could they have let them go out of the depot in that condition in the first place? Next you'll be telling me there was no fridge to keep the drinks cold!

[threedogs]

Reading through this and my first though was the ECU. The DSE, or now DEPI, used to run all Patrols a few years back, and now are Yotas . They had terrible issues with the utes and one of them was the engine would just simply cut out at any given time. They self diagnosed the issue themselves and found the ECU was to blame. At the time Nissan didn't want a bar of it, and the DSE had put lock out tags on their entire fleet of over 200 cars. I remember working at the DSE in Benalla a few year back and there was maybe 60 or so Patrols all parked up with lockout tags on the steering wheels.

Great to see its all sorted.

A few years ago now if using your VHF radio and hitting the brakes some 4x4 would cut out mainly Disco and some 100s.
Peter from Telstat diagnosed and fixed the problem

[Scorpiovee]

200 cars doesn't surprise me. The techie from Nissan reckons 1 in 4 CPU's were faulty on the production line

[mudski]

Nah, don't worry about it... they hadn't added extra earth's, disconnected the batteries for 30 minutes or fitted small barn door extension brackets and fishing rod holders

Lol. And NADs...
A few other issues they had was the rear tyres rubbing on the chassis, bending the rear of the chassis when towing (even though they had Nissan build to their specs), breaking rear leaf springs and splitting the rear rims in half. Mind you these Patrols weren't off the floor. They were all, beefed up, according to the DSE's needs.