If you've looked after her, she should still be giving you reasonable figures and could run to 400k-500k. Unless you see a really good deal on a pre-loved 550 maybe and still get some reasonable $'s trade-in. Mine's doing fine at 205k.
Cheers for that, been looking at Tritons they are giving them away at the moment.
Lets not get into why they are giving them away lol we have done that thread....
Definitely get good figures from the pathy in terms of fuel and power but I only get 400km's to a tank when towing this is sort of where it started.
400km's is good for towing a 2+ tonne van in my books but its does mean quite a few stops between here and say cairns.
Sure could just get a jerry can and stick that on the expanda but I thought I could get an extra tank to get that few extra hundred miles but alas the only fuel tanks for pathfinders require moving the spare to the rear.
Not to bad but the kaymar rear bar is 3k and the tank is 1k so 4k for an extra tank I could just forgot that and go for the $50 jerry can and save some coin.
I then wanted to chuck some new suspension in it springs and shockies and that was about another 1k .
Then was looking at a bull bar + spotties so it was getting up there in cost.
I have been doing a bit more 4wd'ing and have had a few mishaps so want to get it to a point where I feel safe tackling a track on my own so at a minimum I need suspension, bull bar, spotties and tyres.
But for the same dollars + selling the pathy I could be in a new triton with 5 year warranty and start again.
The pathy though has about an extra 30kw's and more torque than the triton so it would be a somewhat backwards performance step but I am just worry how much longer is normal to keep it as most cars I have had are about 200k and below not much more.
In terms of performance the pathy is unreal, just took on the valley pass (Kangaroo Valley) which is a demon of a hill up and down and the pathy shot up it with van in tow and all 4 of us on board @ 50k's an hour and didn't blink so its still very happy.
So yes not over the pathfinder but just at a cross roads as to whether mod it and make it more favourable to off roading so I can actually get out of some sticky situations on my own or start a fresh
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But if I could get another 150 or so k's out of it which is another 3 years then the investment in off road gear would be fine and then I could hand it off to some one in the family as a first car if it was still going.
