New member and a new 2009 3.0L CRD

G'day,

I thought I'd post a brief intro. I have just bought my latest GU, this one is a 2009 that I snapped up with only just over 46000km on the dial.
Before this one, I have had two, or a 2001 3.0L manual and a 2005 Auto.
The first one was well kitted for outback touring and the plans for this latest one are to do similar.

Here is a photo of our old one on Stockton Beach
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This is the new rig. I have just had an OME 2" lift and a bulbar installed. Next will be a dual battery setup, a snorkel and some driving lights
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Hello and welcome to the forum, heaps of info here so jump in anytime and enjoy,
Nice pick up on your latest Patrol is it Black?
Any issues with the 2001 model

Thanks for the welcome.
Yeah, despite having promised myself not to get another black car, I decided to give this one a go because she was as new. Never left the bitumen actually!

I had very few issues with the 2001. They had the original ECU with a fault that only showed up under very specific circumstances. Nissan Australia flatly denied there was an issue there but through an understanding Service Manager in Canberra, we managed to get into the ears of Nissan Japan who sent out 3 or 4 modified units. (I believe those were subsequently the standard units in later models but I'm not 100% sure on that)
Anyhow, the replacement ECU fixed the issue but fuel consumption went up slightly. These units were marked development units and I had to report back to Nissan on how they did.
In the end, everyone was happy!

great thanks for that I think you are the 3rd black patrol here,
The ECU failure ,,,,I wonder if that had anything to do with the early models
exploding, and of course Nissan would say there is no problem,
I wonder how many others were given the Trial ECU. Interesting

Welcome aboard mate. Very friendly and informative bunch of folks around here. Good choice of car too !!! Enjoy!

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The ECU failure ,,,,I wonder if that had anything to do with the early models
exploding, and of course Nissan would say there is no problem,
I wonder how many others were given the Trial ECU. Interesting

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These symptoms were mainly at high altitude and heavy use like towing. A classical example was I was going up White Mountain behind Batemans Bay and all of a sudden lost all power and was pumping out white smoke
Switched off the car and started again and all was well
From memory, there were four units sent out. One went into my car before I was heading out for a Red Centre trip (towing). One went into a car in Canberra that often played in the Mt Koz area and one went to Darwin

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Originally Posted by Hodge

Welcome aboard mate. Very friendly and informative bunch of folks around here. Good choice of car too !!! Enjoy!

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Thanks mate, forum is great!

Welcome to the forum mate.

Welcome
Must be like home to you as you obviously like patrols
lots of things tom learn and find out here
Good luck with the fit out looks good so far
regards
Joe

welcome to the forum mate, i was at stockton early this month whilst visiting my daughter in the hunter, good info on the ecu on early patrols too thx.