advice sought on perentie

[jfoldbar]

hi all. im new to this forum as i hope to get some opinions/advice on a perentie.

one of my employees has recently bought a ex army with the 4dbd1 motor. he bought it privately. hes a young bloke and this is his first car. so understandably he loves it to bits. unlike myself, he has no mechanical knowledge at. well, because of his immaturity he has no knowledge of anything full stop. (but he thinks he knows the lot)

there are some inconsistencies that i like a bit of help understanding so hoping someone may be able to give advice.

the odometer shows 25k. however when he was at my house doing his first service a few weeks ago, i suspect its done more like 300,k. for 2 reasons.

1)
it came with a full service history (army). however it doesnt make any sense.
according to the book, the car had 0 klms in 2004 (its a 92 model), and the oil was changed every 500 klms. it has had more repairs than my landcruiser with 500k. if the book is accurate, why change the oil so often and why so many repairs.


2)
when he changed all the oils, they looked much older than 25klms.





i havnt mentioned my suspicions to him yet. hes happy bragging to everyone that his car has only done 25ks. and really, whether its done 20k or 200k doesnt change what he now has. over all its seems pretty normal for a 4by of that age so my missus and the older guys reckon i just let him keep thinking its done 25k.


just wondering though what other peoples thoughts are on the army service manual showing too many repairs and 500klms oil changes. what does that mean, if anything.


thanks in advance.

[cripesamighty]

Firstly welcome to the forum. You should be able to find everything you need for the young fella here! The odometer would have been reset after the last rebuild or major work done to it so KM's are normally much higher. One of the guys on the forum is ex-Army and has made up a users guide (reasonably priced) for all the Perentie variants. Look up 'Barefoot Dave' in the search function and you should be able to send him a PM. The guide contains info that cannot be found anywhere else and has a matrix to help decipher what work has been done to it. You can also go to the 'Pinnacles' section and look through the relevant sections for more info there. Good luck!

[Mick_Marsh]

It's not the original speedometer. That will have been replaced one or more times. The GM120 (in the log book) would be more accurate. I think mine was genuine km (about 75,000). It had $80,000 spent on it just before I bought it. I'm tipping that wasn't an oil change and service.
Bear in mind these vehicles could have had several ground up rebuilds several times in service.
I wouldn't be too concerned about the no of kms it's done.