Farm jeep/crewcab.

I know a couple of lads with d-maxs around, no issues one is 5 years old and way over 100k, does a lot of going

What sort of stuff you hear happening to them? was thinking of getting one myself , was worried about the 1.9 engine but see the new rangers etc are back on ccs too..

Plant hire contractor here would disagree with that Silverdream. He bought a new amarok V6 in 2021 and kept it 9 months. He said it was a VW fanboys wet dream and nothing else. Poor off road and the drivers seat bolster had tore in ribbons in that time and he is not a 22 stone monster either. He wouldn’t be 12 stone. He went from an 06 Discovery to it.

I know nothing about jeeps but around here the rangers would get the name of being soft and giving loads of bother, particularly the 2.2. Hiluxs are rusting underneath from the day they were born.

Newer model Navaras and Dmax wouldn’t be common locally at all. I know I have an 06 Dmax for the last 13 years and it has been bulletproof, but they have had 3 new models since then.

Had a 19 amarok ,got rid before the warranty ran out,high oil alarm would go before service was due , not suited to short journeys anyway,ended up doing as much mileage trying to clear the filter as anything else

The ranger were very popular around here but I noticed theses a swing back to the Hilux lately.

A lad i work for had a 08 chassis d max for about 10 years.

He did about 10kkm a year in it. A fair bit of towing and a good bit of off road and farm passages. He wouldnt be the worst with maintenance.

It always took a good bit of work to get it through the test.

Ball joints wore regularly.

Rubber mounts for the shocks wore out each year. Both rear springs broke.

There was always a few hardi spicers in the drive shafts being changed every year.

Front wheel bearings needed tightening every year.

It went down on power and cutting out, we thought dirty fuel so took off the fuel tank to clean it. Turned out it was water getting into the tank.. no obvious reason for it.

It was a weekly task to drain off the water.

Both brake slave cylinders in the back axel leaked and were replaced.

Handbrake adjusters had a life of their own too.

Ont of the injectors gave bother too.

Clutch was replaced which was expected due to towing.

Finally when towing a trailer through a field it sheared the shaft coming out of the front diff to the drive shaft. So a replacement diff was needed.

Have a 2.5 d-max too. Wouldn’t be overly impressed either with it for towing. Put up about 20k miles a year between the job/kids and farm.

Tow a lot of cattle home from marts at certain times of the year and to and from farms. If there were 7 500kg stores behind behind you and you’re pulling off on a hill you’d know about it.

Find fuel consumption good enough and handy for the kids. Thought the dmax the best option at the time I was buying.

I wouldn’t think it’s any better for towing. I hear lads who have them say they are good but I always think that most lads that spend big money on yolks find it hard to run them down.

I’d love a Hilux too but at the time they were close to 10k dearer than the dmax for a 5-6 year old.

One can’t have notions when finishing cattle.

For a 14ft box I'd stick with a lwb landcruiser if possible, no experience of them but possibly a 3.2 ranger after that.

The Landcruiser always was and still is the best all rounder.