farmer2018 wrote: » What's the best all round pick up on the market? For driving and towing. Budget max 10k.
Rabbitman wrote: » Had a 06 hilux 3.0 lt . Great jeep , had it 10 yrs only regular service and a leaf in rear Spring . Have a 12 Navara now , completely different jeep , a lot softer .
What would people's preference be 2017-2021? this will be used as a private vehicle and light farm use. A friend was telling me a Navara you get good MPG and comfortable to drive.
Also looking for a pick up here, anyone any opinions on vw amarok or ford rangers?
Anyone here know anything about the 2.5l engine in the Isuzu dmax from about 2016? Looking at one at the minute and just wondering what they're like
I've a 161 dmax for nearly 3 years and I couldn't fault it tbh. It's not the most flash of pickups but does the job and is reliable. I'd do a right bit of towing and although it's not especially powerful it never fails to get the job done and is surprisingly economical to run imo. It usually averages around 28mpg over a mixed range of driving and will do over 30mpg on longer motorway runs. There a comfortable enough yolk as pickups go and nice to drive.
The clutch went in about 2 years back and apart from that it hasn't needed anything other than regular servicing and consumables. There a bit highly geared imo and if you're doing much reversing with a loaded trailer it can be hard on the clutch. I use the 4wd low box to try and avoid this. I had a Landcruiser and a Ford Ranger before this and although it hasn't got the same low down grunt type power that they had it's a nicer yolk to drive and has never failed to get the job done. I'd often have 3 tonne of cattle on behind and if you tip away it will get there the same as any other pickup. If I'd reason to buy another pickup I don't see any reason I wouldn't pick the Dmax, there's nothing outstanding about it but it ticks all the boxes.
I'm looking at an automatic so the clutch won't be a problem Albert. Thanks for the honest appraisal.
I have a pre adblue Navara and pull a tri axle box with cattle regularly enough.
It pulls no bother, its automatic, just make sure the gearbox has been serviced or get it serviced yourself.
The arse of it hangs down a bit, some people upgrade the rear shocks, but its not a major issue.
It's very comfortable to drive and hasn't let me down yet, same as any other vehicle, keep it serviced regularly.
Have a 15 Reg 2.0L Amarok here. Find it a nice comfortable drive. Its Automatic so constant 4WD but as a result, sticks to the road very well. Also has a good stiff suspension so cornering is also a comfort and never get that feeling of about to fall over into the passenger side etc. Can be hard on juice depending on what way its driven (but they all are in fairness). If you can get a manual gearbox in 2.0L (which i think are rare), then you get an option to be in 2WD or 4WD, which may leave it a bit easier on diesel but prob not by much at the end of the day. I upgraded from a 04 DMAX and i found the difference to be night and day with the Amarok been far more comfortable to sit in for long journeys and also the spec been miles ahead.
To be fair, everything is an upgrade on an 04 dmax in terms of comfort and spec. Had you bought a 2015 dmax again it would be too. Not sure are many an upgrade on reliability though.
To be fair, I have the Amarok 3 years now and haven't had any issues with it beyond a regular service. So to me its reliable compared to the dmax whereby I had to replace ABS sensors every 6 months or so. It also had an electrical leak which no one could find the root cause of believe it or not, so every now and again I would have a flat battery!! But yeah true, anything is an upgrade from a 04 🤣
does anyone here use a Volvo xc90 for farm use? My farm use would be the odd run to the co op or trailer load of cattle or sheep to the mart. herself is on the look out for a car too and instead of getting a 7 seater for her and a pick up for me I’m wondering would the xc90 and a cheap run around car do the trick
Edit: or something like a q7 too. tax is cheap enough on them at around 400 for the year plus you can easily get 170bhp above
Most cars are illegal now pulling livestock trailers. I 've only ever heard of one farmer being told to change to a jeep if he wanted to keep pulling his trailer , so it's not being enforced that much
We don't have a farm but a 'smallholding' or 'hobby hold' at best, however even I found our XC90 to be awful. I say xc90 but that's actually xc90s, I owned 3. All of them had issues with the AWD and or the gearbox. Lovely cars, safe and great interior etc but about as useful as a moped for offroad agricultural use.
Softroaders/faux by fours like the Q7, XC90 etc are not for real agricultural or offroad use, they are for collecting kids from school in a premium marque.
For real farm use I'd suggest a range rover l322/l405, a defender, a landcruiser, or something like that. An older landcruiser amazon would have 7 seats as well but have high tax.
I wouldn’t using the car for trailer work.seen as I don’t do a whole lot of trailer work I was thinking I could use the xc90 or equivalent those days. I know lads are driving cars and heavy loaded trailers and getting by fine, but you’d be worried about insurance if there ever was an accident
Ya I know what you mean, nothing beats the pickups actually built for the job but I suppose I’m trying to not have to buy two vehicles soon. Any half decent pickup seems to be 20k plus.
What's the towing capacity of an xc90?
2.4 t I think from a quick google
what year of a xc90 are you looking at ? The older models have very high road tax with 2.4 engine
looked on done deal, there’s a 2016, 190bhp for 280 tax, another 16 with 235 bhp for 400 and an 18 with bhp 235 and tax at 600. All 3 were 2 litre
I like those cars myself but I didn't think they were fit for 2.4 ton, my hilux is 2012 and could do with a change as they do rust
was researching it a bit more. There is different engine variants of xc90, a d4 fwd with towing capacity of 1.8t, a d4 awd of 2.4t and a d5 with 2.7t
Stuff is not shifting any more. Keep an eye, an odd bargain is starting to appear. I picked up a 161 dmax with 160,000kms, so 100k miles in old money, automatic, top spec in good nick for €11k.
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