Crapwelder
9th January 2019, 02:31 PM
Hi guys, newbie to forums, I have been reading various posts and views for months about the Y62’s.
After having a BT50 brake we finally narrowed the replacement down to a patrol, chev, or cruiser.
The chevs are awesom but just toooo big to park in town, the cruisers are 2000 technology for 2018 prices,
So it came to a patrol.
I grew up with petrol V8s so know what is involved with fuel usage, ( just learn how to drive a petrol V8 ).
We got hold of a new white 2018 in December.
Wow, they ride smooth, family comfort for touring and the power for towing there’s no substitute for cubic inches.
We just finished a trip to tassie, done almost 4000km averaged 18.7 ltrs per 100 towing a jayco camper around 2 tons worth.
The patrol eats up the road kms, easy to do big distances and handles the bends and windy stuff well, it got a bit tight in some Hobart back streets, but they were built for horse and carts.
The car is standard except for a towpro elite and redarc dc charger, it has a genuine Nissan towbar, sand grabber floor mats and ruffnut seat covers, I removed the rear seats and made a drawslide fitted with an Engel 40ltr fridge which pulls out and tilts.
I had one issue with the cooling fan continuously coming on for the trip home, it dragged most of the way back to Bathurst, outside temp was between 25-30 degrees and we sat at 100 to 110 km.
Does anyone have an idea why, the rest of the trip it only came on in city driving and very rearly.
I thought with its cooling system being so big it would never come on especially at these speeds.
Keep up the good work on the forums
Cheers
After having a BT50 brake we finally narrowed the replacement down to a patrol, chev, or cruiser.
The chevs are awesom but just toooo big to park in town, the cruisers are 2000 technology for 2018 prices,
So it came to a patrol.
I grew up with petrol V8s so know what is involved with fuel usage, ( just learn how to drive a petrol V8 ).
We got hold of a new white 2018 in December.
Wow, they ride smooth, family comfort for touring and the power for towing there’s no substitute for cubic inches.
We just finished a trip to tassie, done almost 4000km averaged 18.7 ltrs per 100 towing a jayco camper around 2 tons worth.
The patrol eats up the road kms, easy to do big distances and handles the bends and windy stuff well, it got a bit tight in some Hobart back streets, but they were built for horse and carts.
The car is standard except for a towpro elite and redarc dc charger, it has a genuine Nissan towbar, sand grabber floor mats and ruffnut seat covers, I removed the rear seats and made a drawslide fitted with an Engel 40ltr fridge which pulls out and tilts.
I had one issue with the cooling fan continuously coming on for the trip home, it dragged most of the way back to Bathurst, outside temp was between 25-30 degrees and we sat at 100 to 110 km.
Does anyone have an idea why, the rest of the trip it only came on in city driving and very rearly.
I thought with its cooling system being so big it would never come on especially at these speeds.
Keep up the good work on the forums
Cheers