What ute do you drive?

2003 Navara turbo diesel STR duel cab with alloy tray and racks

Only change was to put Cooper Discoverer ATR tyres on it (OEM Bridgestone HT's were a joke, 25,000 k's and were shot)

Goes like ##### off a shovel, give it a squeeze on the highway and you can actually overtake!

Although I did come out of a 4.2l naturally aspirated diesel Ford Maverick (The best Ford that Nissan ever Built) that I used to open the door and kick like Fred Flintsone when I wanted to overtake going downhill with the breeze behind me.

Takes one tonne in the tray without a problem, tows two like a dream, Flat 1800 x 1800 tray size is pretty much all I need without wheel arches in the way.

Handles the odd weekend in the mud well although it could do with a JC bar for SWMBO:D :D

Shep - I, too, have a radio and it has ONE station.[/quote]

mate in 98 the ute spent 3 days under water and now to turn the radio off i push in the ciggi lighter. the wipers turn it of as well. ist been a good ute. fixed the glow plug timer on the weekend by smaking it with a hammer.

oohroo
shep

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Originally Posted by Shedhand

my 2nd last ute was a Triton GLX 2.4 4X2 tray ute. Sold it when I got Commodore Berlina fleet car for work.
Then bought a 2000 Mitsubishi Challenger 4x4 asy retirement present. All the bells and whistles in and out including electric brakes for towing really big stuff and 10 stack CD and really big fat all terrain tyres. I love it. Would really lerve a Ford F350.

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Originally Posted by Auld Bassoon

Just hook up a big Felder D/C to the air intake, and give the fuel pump whatsit a tweak :D

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:D:D

2003 Hilux

Goes like the clappers:D :D

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Originally Posted by Felder

Good ute but I wish she had a sixth gear for freeway travelling. Not fun driving to Melbourne in a diesel with the engine constantly around 3250rpm.

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snap! My wife is always asking me to change down. "That's it!" I say. Used it to commute for 18 months on c.3000 rpm.

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Originally Posted by Dan

Are the racks removable and are the roll tops as good as they look?

A nice shiny silver 2004 XR8 falcon for me.:)

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I have never tried to remove the racks but they are all held in by two 17mm bolts at the base of each rack. Shouldn't be too hard.

The roll tops are good.
They are infinitely better than a torneau.
They are also better than the lift tops or hard tops because you can have ladder racks.
If you have a load that is higher than the roll top you can just leave it open rather than having to remove it as you would with a hard top.
The whole setup was allready on my ute when I bought it but I think the racks and top would set you back $3500.

BTW, I am thinking of selling my ute with the roll top and racks, if anybody is interested PM me. It is a 2000/2001 (unsure:confused: ) red AU II XR6, 103k, 17" wheels, nudge bar.

Cheers, Jack