edumacate me on the ute thing guys

We bought a flat deck Triton GLX double cab for Mrs Duckdog purely on price and the 10 year warranty.
Great wee truck, drives well and feels more nimble than my Ranger.
Had it serviced today (4 year, 45K service) $275 flat rate labour charge, $442 for parts included fuel filter, air filter, oil filter, oil and front brake pads.
Great value for money and you can't beat the 10 year warranty (my new Ranger only has a 5 year warranty)
Evidently there is a $40k fieldays deal coming up on the Black edition, might pay to check it out.

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Originally Posted by No.3

Mitsi 10 year powertrain warranty does give you a bit of confidence in their product. Got an Outlander last vehicle change for the wife's kid karrier. Seems to go alright. Second hand were only $4K cheaper than new and no warranty!

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only applies to the original owner, and the service costs in christchurch are ridiculous

You do have to shop around in these parts, quite a bit of difference between dealers...

Not the only reason but one reason i didn't buy a Mitsi was servicing cost. Ask your dealer for a print out

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Originally Posted by gonetropo

bought a d-max last year, far more economical and comfortable than the triton

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As stated in another thread, the two Isuzus we’ve had/got have been/are great. D max was 6 spd manual and towed our caravan 5500 kms thru South Island returning mid 10 litres/100 km. The current Mu-x, different shell but same running gear and 6 spd auto returning low nines/100 km non towing. Biggest hassle is the volume of oil they hold; each change drinks nearly 8 litres of fully synthetic. $$$! My cousins business services it as still under wty and he recommended Isuzu over Mitzi. I took both for a test drive before buying. Mitzi felt light; Isuzu more reassuring, esp on tight corners.

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Originally Posted by Mohawk .308

What’s the difference in cost between a D max and the Mitzi?

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Guessing about $10-$12k, but we traded our d max on the MU-X. Former was 2017. ‘X’ is 2021. I added 42500 kms to former. We got our money back. The ‘X’ deal was sweetened by $12.5k price reduction, free towbar, monsoons, rubber mats throughout, swapping over if brake controller and 2500 ruc. Couldn’t ignore the deal.

Mitsi is a little dearer than the local Ford outfit cost-cost (although I haven't been there since they unpinned Ford from Mazda and had to build another service area and showroom). They were only charging a few c a litre more than I could get the oil for for the Ranger (fully synthetic moonbeam and unicorn fart stuff from the pricing). I was on a bloody good rate as a commercial marine type, that was before Covid and the account structures tightened up though. Mitsi for the same thing is decidedly more expensive...

Having said that, I do have a lot more confidence in the local Mitsi dealer than the Ford one which is an unfortunate but true fact. Knowing what I know of the local mechanic outfits, there's a few I wouldn't touch and a few I wouldn't touch with someone else's limbs and appendages and a few I'd shrug and take the risk on but I'm fairly confident with the local Mitsi crew. On older vehicles I am perfectly happy doing my own servicing and mechanical repairs too, I can read codes but don't have the gear to upload and recode if needed which is getting to be quite a limitation with the newer vehicles with correction factors and addressing to worry about.

And on that - some of the mileages getting quoted in this thread seem more than I'd like to be honest. My Ranger is currently returning average of 8.6-8.7L/100Km, and that's combined use highway, around town, towing (both light and heavy), and swinging between unloaded and fully loaded. This is on a slightly lifted front/high load springs rear ute with a fairly unaerodynamic Fleetline Ultra canopy and the towing gear etc permanently hung off it (no tricks to clean it up or anything like that). No special 'economy' driving techniques, aircon running the whole time, use cruise control all the time as well, just get in and drive. People getting over 10 or 11L/100Km have the right to feel justifiably pissed off in my opinion!