Thread: Thinking about a D5 Delica...

We're are about to head to the big smoke to pick one up this weekend. Pretty good buying, 2008 with 120k on the clock for about $10k. Its replacing an Xtrail that some F****R smashed into the back of and wrote it off.

I would normally not touch a mitsi due to there dubious reliability. We had a delica space gear as a work vehicle for a while and it was great to work out of but it blew its head gasket 3 times in the two years that I was there. I opened the bonnet once and it looked like an old diesel tractor engine with burnt oil leaking everywhere and caked all over it.

Our mechanic says he services a fair few outlanders and said that they are well built and don't have many mechanical issues. He said the D5 Delicas do go through the odd engine mount and trailing arm bushes and have the same running gear as the outlander. It seems like the mitsi's might have turned a bit of a corner, the newer tritons seem to be pretty reliable and they were offering a 10 year warranty for a while.