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I'm posting this from a motel room in Cobar, half way home after buying a Pajero in Brisbane. This is part sharing of info for anybody interested, and part recording my thoughts...
I bought my NT from a forum member - details can be found here. Dealing with Paul during the purchase was a real pleasure, and he even filled the tanks for me - that's both of them, about 170 litres of diesel thrown into the deal. Where do you find service like that these days?
As my Paj looked on the Friday afternoon:
After sealing the deal, I spent the weekend in Brisbane catching up with friends and re-visiting old haunts, and also bought a set (5 seats) of sheepskin seat covers from another forum member.
First impressions were good (duh! - I bought it!) and it was good to drive around town - despite needing a little time to become accustomed to the turbo lag when trying to merge into a gap in traffic. Turning circle is better than my NJ shorty, and I'm still not making the most of the reversing camera. I struggled to learn the MMCS navigation too, but a large part of that was carbon based error.
This morning was the beginning of the long drive back to Adelaide. The run out to Warwick was uneventful (if you discount innumerable road works), and I was very happy with the ease with which the DID pulled up Cunningham's. Average fuel consumption went from 11.7 at the bottom to 12.1 at the top.
I topped up the tanks in Warwick, and headed for the border at Goondiwindi. Through Queensland, cruising on a GPS 103 km/h, indicated consumption dropped to 11.3 - then I hit NSW, where cruising speed ramped to an indicated 120 (GPS 113) in the 110 zones. At the end of the day, average consumption was indicated at 12.0. Somewhere along the way I stopped and took these photos:
Highway performance is good, if a little noisy. But I can live with it. Overtaking, even up hills, is easy - I'll need to be careful.
I can't live with MMCS as it is. Bluetooth performance with my phone (Sony Xperia Z) is woeful. At cruising speeds, volume is simply inadequate, even with everything maxed anywhere I could find a volume adjustment. Insult to injury, it doesn't stream music, and it's not even a multi-stack CD player. I need to change this.
I suspect the front is under-damped (it gets a little "floaty" at times), and the cruise control occasionally surges/oscillates when the torque converter unlocks. Below 2k rpm, it unlocks very easily - I know this will get worse with larger tyres, but I want larger tyres anyway.
The driving lights are a nice addition, and should be even better when aligned down the road - at the moment, they illuminate tree tops very nicely.
That's enough for now - doing this on a 7 inch tablet is driving me crazy!
I'm posting this from a motel room in Cobar, half way home after buying a Pajero in Brisbane. This is part sharing of info for anybody interested, and part recording my thoughts...
I bought my NT from a forum member - details can be found here. Dealing with Paul during the purchase was a real pleasure, and he even filled the tanks for me - that's both of them, about 170 litres of diesel thrown into the deal. Where do you find service like that these days?
As my Paj looked on the Friday afternoon:
After sealing the deal, I spent the weekend in Brisbane catching up with friends and re-visiting old haunts, and also bought a set (5 seats) of sheepskin seat covers from another forum member.
First impressions were good (duh! - I bought it!) and it was good to drive around town - despite needing a little time to become accustomed to the turbo lag when trying to merge into a gap in traffic. Turning circle is better than my NJ shorty, and I'm still not making the most of the reversing camera. I struggled to learn the MMCS navigation too, but a large part of that was carbon based error.
This morning was the beginning of the long drive back to Adelaide. The run out to Warwick was uneventful (if you discount innumerable road works), and I was very happy with the ease with which the DID pulled up Cunningham's. Average fuel consumption went from 11.7 at the bottom to 12.1 at the top.
I topped up the tanks in Warwick, and headed for the border at Goondiwindi. Through Queensland, cruising on a GPS 103 km/h, indicated consumption dropped to 11.3 - then I hit NSW, where cruising speed ramped to an indicated 120 (GPS 113) in the 110 zones. At the end of the day, average consumption was indicated at 12.0. Somewhere along the way I stopped and took these photos:
Highway performance is good, if a little noisy. But I can live with it. Overtaking, even up hills, is easy - I'll need to be careful.
I can't live with MMCS as it is. Bluetooth performance with my phone (Sony Xperia Z) is woeful. At cruising speeds, volume is simply inadequate, even with everything maxed anywhere I could find a volume adjustment. Insult to injury, it doesn't stream music, and it's not even a multi-stack CD player. I need to change this.
I suspect the front is under-damped (it gets a little "floaty" at times), and the cruise control occasionally surges/oscillates when the torque converter unlocks. Below 2k rpm, it unlocks very easily - I know this will get worse with larger tyres, but I want larger tyres anyway.
The driving lights are a nice addition, and should be even better when aligned down the road - at the moment, they illuminate tree tops very nicely.
That's enough for now - doing this on a 7 inch tablet is driving me crazy!
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The last couple of km was coasting down hill, so finished the day on an indicated average of 12.6 l/100km over 960 km.
Power is there, just need to decide how far to go with the electrics. Do I want a fuse block? Do I want the low-battery cut-out from my shorty?
I'm slowly sorting out what's what, and have killed spotlights in the process. Oh, well...
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