interesting recovery car choice...

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U7Xf6l6spk"]evo snatching a 2 tonne patrol - YouTube[/ame]

[MR LR]

I've recovered one of those long hunks of junk before, stuck in the exact same way, however i just winched it down with the Land Rover. Patrols are rubbish, don't know why anyone likes them.

Cheers
Will

[superquag]

Maybe "Reliability", or Value for Money...

[MR LR]

Maybe "Reliability", or Value for Money...

Never seen either of them in a Patrol... we had a few as trade-ins back in the day, dad said they were actually disgusting cars, and had problems too, oh and as to value, i think spine reconstructions cost more than a Vogue...

Some friends of ours had a 3.0 Tdi, what an abismal hunk of ****, they missed camping trips due to problems with that car.

[bigmac]

Real Smart people too had strap hooked on to the tow ball.
What sort of recovery point would be on an evo?

Bigmac

[goingbush]

The Nissans aren't all bad,
I was on a LROCV club trip at Mt Tullarook in the 80's and a brand spanking new GQ Patrol straight from the showroom was there and it scared the heck out of a lot of LR people about how good they were in the rough, Sign of things to come & some thought Death Knell of the LR (The disco wasn't released yet)

One bad section only the GQ and a near new V8 110 ware able to negotiate. They are really very good off road, even standard.

No matter how one eyed landy you are they really are a good off road truck, At least they still have Live Axles across the model range.

Apart from being a soul-less piece of Jap Crap there isn't actually much wrong with them, (with the exception of the 3 liter diesel grenade)

[superquag]

.......Some friends of ours had a 3.0 Tdi, what an abismal hunk of ****, they missed camping trips due to problems with that car.

Maybe you're right... Thinking of a local businessman who upgraded from Toyota to a D4 diesel (when the Labor party was handing out money...)

At least he did'nt miss his ( four ) camping trips like your unfortunate Nissan owner... just that he came back from THREE on a flat-bed.

The last was 1130+km away, with the caravan.

Not even a minor warranty issue with his new Landcruiser

[MR LR]

Never had a problem with any of our Landies, because we MAINTAIN them and don't treat them like a washing machine. If you just drive them, good luck to you, enjoy your ride with the towie. That being said my Discovery has been towed home on a car trailer, but only because i drowned it, could have done that to a Toyota aswell

[goingbush]

OH What a lot of Bollocks,
On my Last trip around Australia (outside of major cities) I saw a Total of Four Landrovers, One Defender on the Tanamai & three Discos on sealed roads, ALL THREE Discos were on the back of Fladbeds.

I saw Thousands of Japanese 4WD, only 2 on flat tops, both 80 series Toyotas, one at Port Augusta, one at Broome (that one was mine ) So my conclusions 75% of Landrovers Broken down, 100% of Discos broken down , less than 1% of Jap crap broken down. You can't say all those Toyotas were maintained perfectly, (but mine WAS !!)

[MR LR]

Never said anything like that, Toyota's are reliable, i admit that, they are bloody good things, but boring and soul-less. I owned an 80 series for about 3 weeks, the fella drove it further than i ever had on his test drive. I had picked up my Disco the week before that, was my aunties car and i was supposed to sell it for her, but i bought the Disco and sold the appliance, at time's i've regretted it, but the good times out-weigh the bad. All i said is we've never had a problem with our Disco's, what i mean is they've never been on a flatbed, we've been able to fix them all on the side of the road.

All i said in my initial post was Patrols are crap, they are reliable crap (except the 3 litre), but still crap IMO. But i'm biased.

Cheers
Will