What ute do you drive?

[mic-d]

I've got a 2000 Hilux 2wd single cab. Bloody reliable.

Cheers
Michael

[Auld Bassoon]

Nah Tikki! Get real It has a 'lecky sunroof

[Tikki]

Nah Tikki! Get real It has a 'lecky sunroof

What a cooooool ute!!!!! ... but why do I have this mental picture of feeding out hay to the cows thro the sunroof :confused:

Cheers
Tikki

[Auld Bassoon]

Must be the "Tikki Bombs" onto the peasants at the roadside

[Felder]

Holden (Isuzu) Rodeo, two wheel drive single cab. Think it's a 96 model, turbo diesel and she cops a flogging. Poor girl has been known to have a one tonne machine on the tray whilst towing another one and a half tonne on the trailer. :eek: 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.

Also have a 2003 Toyota Hilux 4x4 Dual Cab, 3.0l diesel. Nimble footed, comfortable (compared to Rodeo), tows well. Has fun on weekends . Just wish she was turbo....imagine driving to Queensland towing over two tonnes of machinery. Slow trip.

[Iain]

it will tow a 2.5 tonne trailer for work and carry 7 people (more at a pinch - just dont tell DanP or he will come up from victoria to get me )

I have a 98 Landcrusher and pull up to 3 tonnes (11'9" horse float and two huges mules), which is legal as it is fitted with 4 wheel brakes and breakaway.
Also have airbags if the suspension decides to drop a bit.
Apart from that I reckon the Suzuki Mighty Boy is one of the best utes I have seen
We just bought daughter a Falcon Wagon, does not impress me at all, wallows around and has no road feel at all compared to the Toyotas we have.
Had it checked out and got a clean bill of health, nothing wrong at all, so much for Jap crap.

[Cliff Rogers]

... a Falcon Wagon, does not impress me at all, wallows around and has no road feel .....

What model? The EA wagon (late '80s) was bloody dangerous.
It has/had cart springs in the rear & a big donk up the front & if you had your foot down & hit the slightest rough spot (even on the bitumen) the back would flick out & try to pass the front. :eek:

[Iain]

97 el 6 cyl 4 litre (I think, if not 3.9).

[ozwinner]

the back would flick out & try to pass the front. :eek:

:confused: is that wrong? :confused:

Al

[Auld Bassoon]

Just wish she was turbo....

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

[BrisBen]

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

[shep]

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

[shep]

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.

[Felder]

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

[fred.n]

2003 Hilux

Goes like the clappers

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