Looking for new tow vehicle

Ger08 · Senior Member

Looking for new tow vehicle

blaze · Guru

I personally like the land rovers, discos or range rover (on the cheaper side of great vehicles on the second hand market). So I would look for a low km disco 3 or 4.
cheers
blaze

Rod Mac · Veteran Member

Why change then ? if you are on good thing stick with it.

Peter_n_Margaret · Guru

"land rovers, discos or range rover" - bit like OKAs. :) Don't expect to find a spare part in any country town, unlike Landcruiser parts.
"Why change then ? if you are on good thing stick with it." Good advise. Every time you buy or sell a vehicle, someone else makes money out of it.

Rusty W · Veteran Member

What would you like the new car to do better than the pajero, more room?more power? Better tow capacity ?. How much money do you want to spend ? Maybe another pajero if the last one was good. Give us some more info into what your looking for and I'm sure you will get plenty of suggestions.
Russell

Nevd · Senior Member

Why not stick with another Pajero Sport? Was a close second to my final choice (Jeep GC) because of the Jeep's effortless power and comfort, but the Paj Sport would be cheaper to buy and run.

Knight · Senior Member

So 2,398 cc engine capacity developing about the same torque and power as an Isuzu from 3 litres. But 8-speed automatic transmission compared to 6-speed.

I have had four Mitsubishi Pajero since 1990 and was happy with them all, my son currently has a Triton work ute that had a 60,000 km coolant leak problem resulting from casting cracks in the engine block that Mitsubishi repaired free of charge, and is otherwise happy with the vehicle which is always fully loaded with tool boxes and tools etc. But most of the time it only does short runs sometimes towing a large box trailer or his boat.

He plans to replace it with an Isuzu (I have an MU-X heading to 80,000 km over two years) for a couple of reasons. The first being that with the emissions reduction government requirement few diesels will be available in future and EV suitable for work vehicles are a long way into the future, more likely Hybrid technology will be available sooner. The second being the advice I received from an engine reconditioning firm in Queensland that small cubic capacity diesel engines that work hard are reaching reconditioning point at much lower kilometres travelled than larger capacity diesel engines that are less stressed to produce power and torque.

By the way, I read recently that there remains almost as much oil on Earth as there is water.

-- Edited by Knight on Monday 16th of December 2019 04:17:59 AM

The Belmont Bear · Guru

Nevd wrote:
Why not stick with another Pajero Sport? Was a close second to my final choice (Jeep GC) because of the Jeep's effortless power and comfort, but the Paj Sport would be cheaper to buy and run.

Not sure Nevd I bought a 2016 Pajero Sport to pull our 2.7T van (limited to 2.7T due to the GCM of the Sport) after only 14000 kms I decided to replace it with a Jeep GC. I have found that the fuel consumption on a trip is comparable as the climbs, standing starts, wind direction etc. made the smaller 2.4ltr motor work pretty hard - alternatively the Jeep's average consumption remains fairly constant regardles of the work that its doing, there is also a little more breathing space on load limits with the GC. Based on my own experience the Pajero Sport was a great car but if I was seriously considering buying another one I would need to be pulling something under 2.5T. At the time I also made the decision to fit air bags to the Sport just to give it a little more support in the back end as it was giving us motion sickness over any undulating surfaces..

Cheers

BB

Greg 1 · Guru

Need to know what you are towing and what parameters you want in a vehicle. I went from a Pajero to a Ranger purely because of towing capacity and was a bit sceptical about having a Ute at first, as I loved the Paj, but I have a Wildtrak with a canopy on the back and I love it. Actually more comfortable over long distance than my VRX Paj and pulls my 3 tonne van like a train.

markf · Senior Member

Ger08 wrote:
As the title says Im looking for a new tow vehicle currently have a 2016 Pajero Sport which has been unbelievably good. Im looking for suggestions based on personal experience. A few vehicles have been ruled out for various reasons - LC 200 just too expensive, utes etc.

I was in much the same position a couple of years ago and was looking at upgrading from a DIsco 2 to a Disco 3 and went through the pro's and con's of upgrading and found that there was no really compelling reason for an upgrade. The D3 did everything a bit better - fuel consumption, auto over manual, comfort, noise, dustproofness, towing our heavy camper would be a LOT easier, etc... The final deciding factor was that our D2 is very well sorted and is a totally known quantity and is comparatively simple. We stuck with the D2 and it continues to serve us very well.

SouthernComfort · Guru

To some degree it depends on the weight you will be pulling. For towing anything large(ish) though, based on personal experience my best tugs have been LR Disco TD5 S2 and Jeep Grand Cherokee 3.0 CRD (my current vehicle). The Jeep's power and torque is unparalleled IMO. I've also had brief spells with Pajero and Territory, but being petrol neither were up to the job.

sandgrooper1 · Senior Member

HI,

Just as a different offering, a Nissan Patrol Y62. I have just purchased one....not able to comment on the good and bad yet.

Cheers AL

HandyWalter · Senior Member

There are doomsayers for every brand you buy. When I was looking in 2016, I narrowed it down to LC 76 wagon with air and auto box aftermarket, D4 or a Pajero. Pajero was noisy and has issues with door opening with van attached. I just loved the D4 but was always worried about reliability and spare parts etc. So I bought the LC for touring and the D4 for just about everything else. One trip in the 76 convinced me it was rubbish and way over priced. Luckily my son is a Tojo fool and bought it. I have done 80,000K in the D4 mosylt towing and it just leaves everything else for dead. Quiet, smooth, better fuel economy than just about everything else and with air suspension and tow assist no need have help hooking up, leveling the van or unhooking. Best car by far. Service is 26000K but I do my own oil and filter change at 13K as I just dont think its right. As the dealer services are so far apart they work out cheaper than the others that have services at 10K. 2nd hand are a good option. Get one as late as you can and try to get a HSE or SE as they have more ptions included as standard.

Ger08 · Senior Member

Thanks for all the responses - we like to trade our vehicles at abt three years and the Pajero Sport is very much on the short list. It doesnt hurt to gather opinions and have a good look at whats on the market.