I’ve come across a good replacement for my written off Triton.

Don’t know much about carsales,com.

Car appears to be Coburg Vic. Don’t know my way around Melb. very well.

roughbarked said:

I’ve come across a good replacement for my written off Triton.

Don’t know much about carsales,com.

Car appears to be Coburg Vic. Don’t know my way around Melb. very well.

Surely it would make more sense for you to buy a car closer to where you live.

dv said:

roughbarked said:

I’ve come across a good replacement for my written off Triton.

Don’t know much about carsales,com.

Car appears to be Coburg Vic. Don’t know my way around Melb. very well.

Surely it would make more sense for you to buy a car closer to where you live.

Yes it would but it has been five weeks now and none have come up.

roughbarked said:

dv said:

roughbarked said:

I’ve come across a good replacement for my written off Triton.

Don’t know much about carsales,com.

Car appears to be Coburg Vic. Don’t know my way around Melb. very well.

Surely it would make more sense for you to buy a car closer to where you live.

Yes it would but it has been five weeks now and none have come up.

Where do you live?

roughbarked said:

dv said:

roughbarked said:

I’ve come across a good replacement for my written off Triton.

Don’t know much about carsales,com.

Car appears to be Coburg Vic. Don’t know my way around Melb. very well.

Surely it would make more sense for you to buy a car closer to where you live.

Yes it would but it has been five weeks now and none have come up.

The one I wrecked was bought locally and was an excellent buy. Had only 57,000 K’s on it. Took me seven months to find it though. Three seconds to ruin it.

dv said:

roughbarked said:

dv said:

Surely it would make more sense for you to buy a car closer to where you live.

Yes it would but it has been five weeks now and none have come up.

Where do you live?

Closest major town is Griffith NSW.

roughbarked said:

dv said:

roughbarked said:

Yes it would but it has been five weeks now and none have come up.

Where do you live?

Closest major town is Griffith NSW.

Around here, utes are prized by farmers etc and they generally drive them into the ground unless I can find one where the farmer retired, bought a new ute and got sick and hardly ever drove it, then died and his family want to be shot of it.

roughbarked said:

dv said:

roughbarked said:

Yes it would but it has been five weeks now and none have come up.

Where do you live?

Closest major town is Griffith NSW.

Ah okay then I guess yes you probably will have to travel.

Does it have to be a Triton, on most of those car sites you can look via vehicle type, price range and location.

Some years ago Mr Speedy and I test-drove a car which we found on Carsales. The sellers had Ferraris and other sports cars at their home, which also had security gates etc. and the whole set-up looked dodgy to me. After the test-drive, we pointed out what appeared to be a panel/headlight alignment issue and queried whether the car had been in an accident. The owners assured us that it hadn’t been. Before we left, we were easily able to knock $33,000 off the price and told them we would check everything with REVS and get back to them. Alarm bells were ringing.

The REVS check went well, but as I was still suspicious, we called all of the other state authorities too. The car had been a statutory write-off in SA. Needless to say, we didn’t buy it.

I’m not sure whether by now (almost 10 years later) the States have this information on a single database. They should have, but still worth looking into.

AwesomeO said:

Does it have to be a Triton, on most of those car sites you can look via vehicle type, price range and location.

I like the Tritons and they are generally less expensive to buy second hand than Toyotas. I like the Isuzu motors but Holden stopped using those a while back and Isuzu as a brand in Australia is a bit too new to have inexpensive well looked after utes on the market.

Speedy said:

Some years ago Mr Speedy and I test-drove a car which we found on Carsales. The sellers had Ferraris and other sports cars at their home, which also had security gates etc. and the whole set-up looked dodgy to me. After the test-drive, we pointed out what appeared to be a panel/headlight alignment issue and queried whether the car had been in an accident. The owners assured us that it hadn’t been. Before we left, we were easily able to knock $33,000 off the price and told them we would check everything with REVS and get back to them. Alarm bells were ringing.

The REVS check went well, but as I was still suspicious, we called all of the other state authorities too. The car had been a statutory write-off in SA. Needless to say, we didn’t buy it.

I’m not sure whether by now (almost 10 years later) the States have this information on a single database. They should have, but still worth looking into.

Thanks. Valuable info there.

roughbarked said:

AwesomeO said:

Does it have to be a Triton, on most of those car sites you can look via vehicle type, price range and location.

I like the Tritons and they are generally less expensive to buy second hand than Toyotas. I like the Isuzu motors but Holden stopped using those a while back and Isuzu as a brand in Australia is a bit too new to have inexpensive well looked after utes on the market.

08-09 colorados have the isuzu motor in them iirc, and should be cheap enough.

roughbarked said:

AwesomeO said:

Does it have to be a Triton, on most of those car sites you can look via vehicle type, price range and location.

I like the Tritons and they are generally less expensive to buy second hand than Toyotas. I like the Isuzu motors but Holden stopped using those a while back and Isuzu as a brand in Australia is a bit too new to have inexpensive well looked after utes on the market.

If you are not interested in resale value Great Wall? They are dodgy as fuck and 10 years behind everything else but I have not heard that they are unreliable and I see a few farmers around here with them.

AwesomeO said:

roughbarked said:

AwesomeO said:

Does it have to be a Triton, on most of those car sites you can look via vehicle type, price range and location.

I like the Tritons and they are generally less expensive to buy second hand than Toyotas. I like the Isuzu motors but Holden stopped using those a while back and Isuzu as a brand in Australia is a bit too new to have inexpensive well looked after utes on the market.

If you are not interested in resale value Great Wall? They are dodgy as fuck and 10 years behind everything else but I have not heard that they are unreliable and I see a few farmers around here with them.

THey use Mitsubishi motors doon’t they?

AwesomeO said:

If you are not interested in resale value Great Wall? They are dodgy as fuck and 10 years behind everything else but I have not heard that they are unreliable and I see a few farmers around here with them.

Aren’t they the least safe vehicles in the entire world?

http://www.caradvice.com.au/545184/great-wall-steed-flunks-ancap-test-with-two-star-rating/

AwesomeO said:

roughbarked said:

AwesomeO said:

Does it have to be a Triton, on most of those car sites you can look via vehicle type, price range and location.

I like the Tritons and they are generally less expensive to buy second hand than Toyotas. I like the Isuzu motors but Holden stopped using those a while back and Isuzu as a brand in Australia is a bit too new to have inexpensive well looked after utes on the market.

If you are not interested in resale value Great Wall? They are dodgy as fuck and 10 years behind everything else but I have not heard that they are unreliable and I see a few farmers around here with them.

All good until rb decides to do his own maintenance. Mesothelioma anyone?

Sd they figure out what caused your fade out behind the wheel? or are they happy to send you back out on the road?

Speedy said:

AwesomeO said:

roughbarked said:

I like the Tritons and they are generally less expensive to buy second hand than Toyotas. I like the Isuzu motors but Holden stopped using those a while back and Isuzu as a brand in Australia is a bit too new to have inexpensive well looked after utes on the market.

If you are not interested in resale value Great Wall? They are dodgy as fuck and 10 years behind everything else but I have not heard that they are unreliable and I see a few farmers around here with them.

All good until rb decides to do his own maintenance. Mesothelioma anyone?

good point.

dv said:

AwesomeO said:

If you are not interested in resale value Great Wall? They are dodgy as fuck and 10 years behind everything else but I have not heard that they are unreliable and I see a few farmers around here with them.

Aren’t they the least safe vehicles in the entire world?

http://www.caradvice.com.au/545184/great-wall-steed-flunks-ancap-test-with-two-star-rating/

Yeah, 10 years old. But you do have to be careful about ANCAP tests, cars can be marked down which have nothing to do with structural integrity and crumple zones but because they don’t have various driving aids.

stumpy_seahorse said:

Sd they figure out what caused your fade out behind the wheel? or are they happy to send you back out on the road?

No. That has still to be dealt with but I thiink it probably comes under what Poik said about old folks.

Speedy said:

AwesomeO said:

roughbarked said:

I like the Tritons and they are generally less expensive to buy second hand than Toyotas. I like the Isuzu motors but Holden stopped using those a while back and Isuzu as a brand in Australia is a bit too new to have inexpensive well looked after utes on the market.

If you are not interested in resale value Great Wall? They are dodgy as fuck and 10 years behind everything else but I have not heard that they are unreliable and I see a few farmers around here with them.

All good until rb decides to do his own maintenance. Mesothelioma anyone?

Yeah, make sure the recall was performed. Part of the dodgy as fuck.

AwesomeO said:

dv said:

AwesomeO said:

If you are not interested in resale value Great Wall? They are dodgy as fuck and 10 years behind everything else but I have not heard that they are unreliable and I see a few farmers around here with them.

Aren’t they the least safe vehicles in the entire world?

http://www.caradvice.com.au/545184/great-wall-steed-flunks-ancap-test-with-two-star-rating/

Yeah, 10 years old. But you do have to be careful about ANCAP tests, cars can be marked down which have nothing to do with structural integrity and crumple zones but because they don’t have various driving aids.

I looked at great walls last time. Didn’t like they way they were built.

Get a triton with the 3.2 litre diesel engine if you can, they went with the smaller 2.4 engine after 2009.
Also make sure the engine emission control system hasn’t been tampered with, a lot of cowboys thought they knew better than the engine designers and blanked it off.

Peak Warming Man said:

Get a triton with the 3.2 litre diesel engine if you can, they went with the smaller 2.4 engine after 2009.
Also make sure the engine emission control system hasn’t been tampered with, a lot of cowboys thought they knew better than the engine designers and blanked it off.

you’ll find rodeos with it blanked off, then a 5mm hole drilled through the blank. with it fully shut it would throw up ecu errors.

Peak Warming Man said:

Get a triton with the 3.2 litre diesel engine if you can, they went with the smaller 2.4 engine after 2009.
Also make sure the engine emission control system hasn’t been tampered with, a lot of cowboys thought they knew better than the engine designers and blanked it off.

The common rail looks good.

stumpy_seahorse said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Get a triton with the 3.2 litre diesel engine if you can, they went with the smaller 2.4 engine after 2009.
Also make sure the engine emission control system hasn’t been tampered with, a lot of cowboys thought they knew better than the engine designers and blanked it off.

you’ll find rodeos with it blanked off, then a 5mm hole drilled through the blank. with it fully shut it would throw up ecu errors.

I had a Mazda 323 back when they were new and the mechanic told me I could cut off the emission control, which I did. Nobody complained when I sold it.

roughbarked said:

stumpy_seahorse said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Get a triton with the 3.2 litre diesel engine if you can, they went with the smaller 2.4 engine after 2009.
Also make sure the engine emission control system hasn’t been tampered with, a lot of cowboys thought they knew better than the engine designers and blanked it off.

you’ll find rodeos with it blanked off, then a 5mm hole drilled through the blank. with it fully shut it would throw up ecu errors.

I had a Mazda 323 back when they were new and the mechanic told me I could cut off the emission control, which I did. Nobody complained when I sold it.

Silly thing to do.

Peak Warming Man said:

roughbarked said:

stumpy_seahorse said:

you’ll find rodeos with it blanked off, then a 5mm hole drilled through the blank. with it fully shut it would throw up ecu errors.

I had a Mazda 323 back when they were new and the mechanic told me I could cut off the emission control, which I did. Nobody complained when I sold it.

Silly thing to do.

yair.

roughbarked said:

Peak Warming Man said:

roughbarked said:

I had a Mazda 323 back when they were new and the mechanic told me I could cut off the emission control, which I did. Nobody complained when I sold it.

Silly thing to do.

yair.

When I traded it in though, he was more worried about the tool kit missing from the boot.

Anyway, I can get a carfacts report of unknown content for $29 or I can ring the seller because I did get his phone number. It is a 2006 GLX diesel 4×4 Triton twin cab with 2.8 turbo, canopy bull bar and roof racks. Same as my old car. Same colour only without bullbar roofracks and GLX. Don’t really want auto windows but Japanese electronics and window winders seem to have a good record.
Almost immaculate with only a small blemish on right rear corner. Interior immaculate. 162,000 km.

My biggest worry is the fact that he needed to change the water pump. I’d like to know why and the details surrounding the incident.

He didn’t answer his phone.

Maybe his is an old dude like me.

roughbarked said:

Anyway, I can get a carfacts report of unknown content for $29 or I can ring the seller because I did get his phone number. It is a 2006 GLX diesel 4×4 Triton twin cab with 2.8 turbo, canopy bull bar and roof racks. Same as my old car. Same colour only without bullbar roofracks and GLX. Don’t really want auto windows but Japanese electronics and window winders seem to have a good record.
Almost immaculate with only a small blemish on right rear corner. Interior immaculate. 162,000 km.

My biggest worry is the fact that he needed to change the water pump. I’d like to know why and the details surrounding the incident.

coz it’s done 162k km…

poikilotherm said:

roughbarked said:

Anyway, I can get a carfacts report of unknown content for $29 or I can ring the seller because I did get his phone number. It is a 2006 GLX diesel 4×4 Triton twin cab with 2.8 turbo, canopy bull bar and roof racks. Same as my old car. Same colour only without bullbar roofracks and GLX. Don’t really want auto windows but Japanese electronics and window winders seem to have a good record.
Almost immaculate with only a small blemish on right rear corner. Interior immaculate. 162,000 km.

My biggest worry is the fact that he needed to change the water pump. I’d like to know why and the details surrounding the incident.

coz it’s done 162k km…

Yep. Bearing, seal, or impeller erosion. Doesn’t mean the engine over-heated.

poikilotherm said:

roughbarked said:

Anyway, I can get a carfacts report of unknown content for $29 or I can ring the seller because I did get his phone number. It is a 2006 GLX diesel 4×4 Triton twin cab with 2.8 turbo, canopy bull bar and roof racks. Same as my old car. Same colour only without bullbar roofracks and GLX. Don’t really want auto windows but Japanese electronics and window winders seem to have a good record.
Almost immaculate with only a small blemish on right rear corner. Interior immaculate. 162,000 km.

My biggest worry is the fact that he needed to change the water pump. I’d like to know why and the details surrounding the incident.

coz it’s done 162k km…

maybe timing belt replacement so do water pump at same time.

Boris said:

poikilotherm said:

roughbarked said:

Anyway, I can get a carfacts report of unknown content for $29 or I can ring the seller because I did get his phone number. It is a 2006 GLX diesel 4×4 Triton twin cab with 2.8 turbo, canopy bull bar and roof racks. Same as my old car. Same colour only without bullbar roofracks and GLX. Don’t really want auto windows but Japanese electronics and window winders seem to have a good record.
Almost immaculate with only a small blemish on right rear corner. Interior immaculate. 162,000 km.

My biggest worry is the fact that he needed to change the water pump. I’d like to know why and the details surrounding the incident.

coz it’s done 162k km…

maybe timing belt replacement so do water pump at same time.

Yeah, that’s the standard thing on some mitsi engines.

poikilotherm said:

roughbarked said:

Anyway, I can get a carfacts report of unknown content for $29 or I can ring the seller because I did get his phone number. It is a 2006 GLX diesel 4×4 Triton twin cab with 2.8 turbo, canopy bull bar and roof racks. Same as my old car. Same colour only without bullbar roofracks and GLX. Don’t really want auto windows but Japanese electronics and window winders seem to have a good record.
Almost immaculate with only a small blemish on right rear corner. Interior immaculate. 162,000 km.

My biggest worry is the fact that he needed to change the water pump. I’d like to know why and the details surrounding the incident.

coz it’s done 162k km…

could be part of normal servicing, yes.

Boris said:

poikilotherm said:

roughbarked said:

Anyway, I can get a carfacts report of unknown content for $29 or I can ring the seller because I did get his phone number. It is a 2006 GLX diesel 4×4 Triton twin cab with 2.8 turbo, canopy bull bar and roof racks. Same as my old car. Same colour only without bullbar roofracks and GLX. Don’t really want auto windows but Japanese electronics and window winders seem to have a good record.
Almost immaculate with only a small blemish on right rear corner. Interior immaculate. 162,000 km.

My biggest worry is the fact that he needed to change the water pump. I’d like to know why and the details surrounding the incident.

coz it’s done 162k km…

maybe timing belt replacement so do water pump at same time.

The timing belt, they do the bearings as well but not necessarily the water pump.

roughbarked said:

Boris said:

poikilotherm said:

coz it’s done 162k km…

maybe timing belt replacement so do water pump at same time.

The timing belt, they do the bearings as well but not necessarily the water pump.

a good mechanic will do it cos it is cheap and the motor is apart so easy to get at. though I don’t know where the pump is on Mitsus.

AwesomeO said:

Boris said:

poikilotherm said:

coz it’s done 162k km…

maybe timing belt replacement so do water pump at same time.

Yeah, that’s the standard thing on some mitsi engines.

But it is also about whether it really needs doing at the time. ie; the injectors are normally done by a set number of k’s but if they don’t need it then they can wait until the next service.

Tritonasaurus Rex has now done 250k.
I haven’t touched it, just had all the services and computer upgrades done at the designated intervals.
Still as tight as a drum, touch wood.

Boris said:

roughbarked said:

Boris said:

maybe timing belt replacement so do water pump at same time.

The timing belt, they do the bearings as well but not necessarily the water pump.

a good mechanic will do it cos it is cheap and the motor is apart so easy to get at. though I don’t know where the pump is on Mitsus.

It isn’t where the timing belt is.

roughbarked said:

Boris said:

roughbarked said:

The timing belt, they do the bearings as well but not necessarily the water pump.

a good mechanic will do it cos it is cheap and the motor is apart so easy to get at. though I don’t know where the pump is on Mitsus.

It isn’t where the timing belt is.

Well on the 1.8 petrol mitsi motor at the five year I think it was timing belt change they do the water pump as well.

Peak Warming Man said:

Tritonasaurus Rex has now done 250k.
I haven’t touched it, just had all the services and computer upgrades done at the designated intervals.
Still as tight as a drum, touch wood.

Should get 500K easily

AwesomeO said:

roughbarked said:

Boris said:

a good mechanic will do it cos it is cheap and the motor is apart so easy to get at. though I don’t know where the pump is on Mitsus.

It isn’t where the timing belt is.

Well on the 1.8 petrol mitsi motor at the five year I think it was timing belt change they do the water pump as well.

Yeah, come to think of it the whole front has a single cover.

thing is if you have to remove similar stuff to do the belt as you do the water pump then you also do the pump. water pumps are cheap.

Peak Warming Man said:

Tritonasaurus Rex has now done 250k.
I haven’t touched it, just had all the services and computer upgrades done at the designated intervals.
Still as tight as a drum, touch wood.

It’s had two new batteries in the 8 years.
Funny thing is they just die, no warning, not like other cars I’ve had that show signs the battery’s on the way out.

Peak Warming Man said:

Tritonasaurus Rex has now done 250k.
I haven’t touched it, just had all the services and computer upgrades done at the designated intervals.
Still as tight as a drum, touch wood.

how often do you get it serviced?

Boris said:

thing is if you have to remove similar stuff to do the belt as you do the water pump then you also do the pump. water pumps are cheap.

all true. This is why I want to talk to the seller about his comprehensive servicing history.

Boris said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Tritonasaurus Rex has now done 250k.
I haven’t touched it, just had all the services and computer upgrades done at the designated intervals.
Still as tight as a drum, touch wood.

how often do you get it serviced?

Once a year abouts.

Peak Warming Man said:

Boris said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Tritonasaurus Rex has now done 250k.
I haven’t touched it, just had all the services and computer upgrades done at the designated intervals.
Still as tight as a drum, touch wood.

how often do you get it serviced?

Once a year abouts.

250k over 8 years is about 30k a year. surely you get it serviced more often?

Peak Warming Man said:

Boris said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Tritonasaurus Rex has now done 250k.
I haven’t touched it, just had all the services and computer upgrades done at the designated intervals.
Still as tight as a drum, touch wood.

how often do you get it serviced?

Once a year abouts.

More frequently early in it’s life, now about once a year.

Peak Warming Man said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Tritonasaurus Rex has now done 250k.
I haven’t touched it, just had all the services and computer upgrades done at the designated intervals.
Still as tight as a drum, touch wood.

It’s had two new batteries in the 8 years.
Funny thing is they just die, no warning, not like other cars I’ve had that show signs the battery’s on the way out.

They usually have a viewing hole that shows green if if it is OK and other colours for needing charging or this is forked.

roughbarked said:

Boris said:

roughbarked said:

The timing belt, they do the bearings as well but not necessarily the water pump.

a good mechanic will do it cos it is cheap and the motor is apart so easy to get at. though I don’t know where the pump is on Mitsus.

It isn’t where the timing belt is.

Could replace water pump and pulley bearings with a serpentine belt as a precautionary measure.

Rule 303 said:

roughbarked said:

Boris said:

a good mechanic will do it cos it is cheap and the motor is apart so easy to get at. though I don’t know where the pump is on Mitsus.

It isn’t where the timing belt is.

Could replace water pump and pulley bearings with a serpentine belt as a precautionary measure.

I’ve found out some details about the seller on the web by tracking usage of the phone number. Notably this post asking questions about sediment in the coolant. https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/470418-sediment-in-coolant/#comment-7829289

He says he is actually a diesel mechanic by trade and has done the servicing himself which included changing the water pump and back flushing the motor. He has only had the car a year and it was previously owned by an energy company.

Yes. Got my present car through it. Wouldn’t go anywhere else on the web.