Thread: My 2015 D4 is coming up to 160,000 km in 4.5 yrs. What should I have done?

Always seems to be the case that just when you get a vehicle to a stage of repair or development that suits......you feel the need to sell it!!

Someone will get a bargain.....no doubt😎

Originally Posted by LRD414

Curious as to why you’re planning on selling Rob given the praise and how well suited the D4 seems to your travelling.

Regards,
Scott

PS; please don’t partake in sale “advertising” in this part of the forum, even if it is referring to well into the future.

Scott apologies I was only replying to a question

Why sell? Simple we swap out all our 4WD at around the five year mark or around 120,00km so this one is in the zone and I have not been considering the D5 to do the work we do. So have been waiting until we knew all about Defender and whilst the full and final price remains an unknown until the end of this week I cant really see myself in an LC200. But if the price is right who knows. I have just got back from the SA 4WD show after pricing a fitout for a Cruiser and the Lovells GVM upgrade is around $5k to start with and that may mean it won't fit in the garage to start with.

Going to be an interesting week

Rob

Originally Posted by INter674

Always seems to be the case that just when you get a vehicle to a stage of repair or development that suits......you feel the need to sell it!!

Someone will get a bargain.....no doubt😎

Nope don't really feel the need to sell it just the law of diminishing returns tells me the longer I hang on to it the more money I have to pull from the pension fund to buy something to replace it

Rob

Originally Posted by RobA

Scott apologies I was only replying to a question

Why sell? Simple we swap out all our 4WD at around the five year mark or around 120,00km so this one is in the zone and I have not been considering the D5 to do the work we do. So have been waiting until we knew all about Defender and whilst the full and final price remains an unknown until the end of this week I cant really see myself in an LC200. But if the price is right who knows. I have just got back from the SA 4WD show after pricing a fitout for a Cruiser and the Lovells GVM upgrade is around $5k to start with and that may mean it won't fit in the garage to start with.

Going to be an interesting week

Rob

Re the lc200 ... Have they fixed the air box issue? 5k seems cheap. I'm comparing to my mate who's spent a lot more than that setting up his cruiser to tow 3t. Mind you he's had 2 goes at getting the suspension right. The auto also had to be re mapped and the engine was re mapped with a larger exhaust for more power!

But like you he's at a stage where a full warranty is unobtainable so he's looking at a new one.....before the new model comes out supposedly next year.

He reckons the new one won't be as good as the 200 series.

There's no doubt that Aussies just love the Cruiser but have you driven the Nissan?

Originally Posted by INter674

Re the lc200 ... Have they fixed the air box issue? 5k seems cheap. I'm comparing to my mate who's spent a lot more than that setting up his cruiser to tow 3t. Mind you he's had 2 goes at getting the suspension right. The auto also had to be re mapped and the engine was re mapped with a larger exhaust for more power!

But like you he's at a stage where a full warranty is unobtainable so he's looking at a new one.....before the new model comes out supposedly next year.

He reckons the new one won't be as good as the 200 series.

There's no doubt that Aussies just love the Cruiser but have you driven the Nissan?

Actually $5k for a GVM upgrade is at the higher end of the scale. That's for a Lovells kit which, in SA, includes a fully certified GCM upgrade as well. I was surprised at that but they have the certificate for perusal. I have quite a few friends with heavily modified cruisers and having driven most of them against a 2019 model all I can say is Toyota has obviously spent some time fixing issues that should have never existed in the first place. I have never felt the need for more power with the TDV6 so find it hard to understand why anyone would want more than 650Nm in what is effectively a truck. Read slowish and solid but not a heck of a lot of fun to drive IHMO.

The 300 series is at least two years away according to my industry contacts and will come with a petrol hybrid and diesel both with 6 cylinders and turbos

We are not at this point yet. That arrives shortly after our local dealer gives me the pricing on the SE and HSE we have specc'd

Rob

Originally Posted by RobA

Why sell? Simple we swap out all our 4WD at around the five year mark or around 120,00km so this one is in the zone

Interesting. I’ve just clocked up 5 years and 115,000km on mine. At this stage I think I’ll keep it, maybe it’ll be good for another 5 (I hope so). Certainly been fantastic so far and I don’t want to face starting again just yet.

Scott

Originally Posted by LRD414

Interesting. I’ve just clocked up 5 years and 115,000km on mine. At this stage I think I’ll keep it, maybe it’ll be good for another 5 (I hope so). Certainly been fantastic so far and I don’t want to face starting again just yet.

Scott

Same here Scott. 5 years and 165,000km. I'd be happy driving it for 3-5 years +, until the engine or gearbox crapped itself, then assess from there.
Chris.

The D4 here is my longest owned 4 wheeled vehicle.
Coming up on 8 years and 148,000km. Much of it offroad.

It’s still tight as a drum, performs better than every (tweaked) and will get a full suspension refit in the new year.

What’s it worth? Doesn’t matter now. The outlay and interest saved is being redirected to Super and will pay off in years to come.

It’s the first time in our lives we said “Yes we want one (2020 Defender). We won’t do it because we can do...... with the same outlay.” Shocked me!

This will do for a while yet


So will this


Our crossover is getting a rebuild, the boats going to get a make over and repower, and the house renovations will commence in the new year....

I still want a 2020 Defender though!!!