10,000km tow test: D4 vs LC200, Munja Track

When you get to Walcott inlet don't park too close to the high banks as they have a tendency to collapse every now and then But they are better than parking on the low areas as the lizards cant get up the banks and there are less mozzies and sand flies if you camp away from the inlet/river[thumbsupbig]
Have a great trip[bigrolf]

What's the range of the d5 towing 3 tonne?

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Originally Posted by Markus1

What's the range of the d5 towing 3 tonne?

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Td6 d5 is 3.5t

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Originally Posted by Vern

you are now on par with a bog stock ti y62 patrol, at the princely sum of $65k, I am amazed people buy these 200's. [emoji6]

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Yes but the only reason those Patrols are so cheap is that no one wants to buy them so if Nissan wants to stay in the market they have to virtually give them away.

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Originally Posted by 101RRS

Yes but the only reason those Patrols are so cheap is that no one wants to buy them so if Nissan wants to stay in the market they have to virtually give them away.

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Yes, it's great isn't it, and only because everyone is scared of petrol, similar fuel economy to the cruiser, especially towing arount 3t, and $30k cheaper, also no real known show stoppers. Those sales are only here in Australia, look overseas, it's a different story. There are A LOT of 200 folks trading in on the patrol now too.

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Originally Posted by 101RRS

Yes but the only reason those Patrols are so cheap is that no one wants to buy them so if Nissan wants to stay in the market they have to virtually give them away.

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Maybe its time for Land rover to wake up and follow Nissan's lead on pricing. Cant see the "Archie" being a cheap option to boost Aus sales of L/R

Cheers Ean

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Originally Posted by Vern

And a new engine[emoji1787][emoji1787].
They even have dedicated 'dusted' Facebook pages.

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I had Three D2’s over the years,and every one of them got dust on the clean side of the air filter.There were quite a few threads about this issue on here over the years,and LR did nothing about it.The airbox is a very poor design,although reports of dusted engines were non existent.

The LC OEM airfilter has now been modified with a thicker rubber seal.

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Originally Posted by scarry

I had Three D2’s over the years,and every one of them got dust on the clean side of the air filter.There were quite a few threads about this issue on here over the years,and LR did nothing about it.The airbox is a very poor design,although reports of dusted engines were non existent.

The LC OEM airfilter has now been modified with a thicker rubber seal.

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Yet they are still dusting engines, or is the issue somewhere else?

This'll be a more interesting read once the actual data from the trip is in...

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Originally Posted by Vern

Yet they are still dusting engines, or is the issue somewhere else?

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Maybe it has more to do with the quality of the filter and the frequency of changing them out than the design of the air box itself.
I know for a fact that IF I put a crappy air filter into my D2a V8 it will "dust up" very fast But when I put a top quality filter in there and change it every 20,000k or even more often on really dusty tracks I have No problems at all with "Dusting up".
I have found that since fitting the snorkel to the D2a I can now extend the filter service by at least 10,000k as well.
I imagine IF the L200 owners( and just about any other brand/model) followed a similar regime with their air filter then "dusting up" would be a thing of the past.
I wonder how the new D5's will fare on the super dusty black soil tracks with their super long extended services, These long periods between servicing especially in harsh conditions seem like a recipe for disaster to me as is taking your air filter for granted in ANY 4WD.