Servicing Question....

[BongoBerry]

Evening all

Of late I have been struggling my service plan for my patrol.... the history being that up until it did 29835 kms (18 538m) all the servicing was done by Nissan, at various Australian Nissan dealerships. So in a nutshell the last service was at 30,000km's (18k miles), that was in June of 05.

In August 05 I brought the patrol back to the UK, converted km's to miles, and have done an additional 7000 miles here in the UK... so, if you are still with me... I am now due a 24000 mile service (albeit a little late -cough-)

I am noticing a missing bolt here and there (last one was on the d-link recovery point, and todays is the air intake manifold) and am wondering what the best service option is?

Do I
1) take it to a local Nissan garaged and get fleeced?
2) forget about servicing as it hardly see's the road, is out of warranty and only fix things when they break
3) find a 4x4 garage (help on that required) and get them to follow a service check sheet for the patrol (help on that too )

advice appreciated

oh - and touch would nothing major has every gone wrong with it ......

ciao

 

[tezzer]

hi slug32, why not use the downloads under quick link and do it yourself, least you know whats done, and it will only cost you for the parts, and you can do a bit at a time ! :thumb2 :clap









tezzer

 

[BongoBerry]

1# honestly.... I can strip a bike no problems... but a car... um... rather not
2# its 4.8l pertrol not diesel. most of the DIT downloads are for diesel and I have no idea where any similarities in design lie
3# its been to hell and back in the outback, so i would like to make sure it stays in ecent nick (i.e. I dont f-anything up)

 

[Jocky]

1st I'd take it to Nissan. Remember they won't do anything till you give them the go ahead. They will never have seen a 4.8 petrol patrol anyway:augie

Get them to at least change the oil and filters and if they find anything wrong they will give you a list with costs. If you think you can DIY the problems good, if not take it somewhere else for prices and see the difference.

I've got an aussie patrol haynes manual, but its only for diesel models, so can't tell you whats in the service for 4.8 petrols.

 

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[BongoBerry]

Wow guys thanks for the feedback...

The servicing chaps down at Crawley Down Nissan have done the MOT for the past 2 years, and they do tend to "oohh and arhhh" at the motor when they get their hands on it

I like the idea of them listing everything that's wrong with it :0 and then trying to DIY some of it. I was also planning to go fully synthetic on the oil, so I guess there is not a huge issue in getting them to look at it.

I'll see when I can get them to look at it, and get an idea of costs... I'll post back here with details