Kibkom North Cyprus Forum

Considering changing my vehicle for an Outlander. Any forum member out there who either owns one now or has in the past willing to share information with me please?

I don't want to ruffle any feathers but I know personally of two people (and they have said there are more) that have had to have their engines replaced on their Outlanders here in the last 18 months or so. These vehicles are probably around 10 years old so maybe worth taking into consideration.

Thank you indeed. I have been looking at one around the 2006 mark so that would put it squarely in the 10 year-ish bracket. I am aware that the timing belt is a 100,000 mile replacement "Must" but apart from that there are very few reported engine failures due to normal operations. As there are quite a few different makes of engine in the Outlander range it would be interesting to know which ones failed and why. If at least two have failed in the past 18 months it smells of a bad batch of engines and that is a worry. Thank you again.

Waddo, I've just had a vision of you driving the beast through Ozankoy and ragged robin standing outside her house angrily waving a stick at you. Sorry RR, just my sense of humour

silverfir, I drive through Ozankoy most days, most people don't even know I have gone past! It is not the type of vehicle that is driven it is the way that it is driven that annoys people - lol. Where I live I have a constant stream of concrete mixers, water tankers, high speed taxi's, noisy quad bikes and normal cars/4X4's and everything else, particularly the inbred racing hire car drivers who treat this section of straight down hill as a kind of race track. It was much better before they re-surfaced the road and removed the speed bumps and I suppose in a couple of years and when somebody kills themselves at the tight corner at the bottom of the race track, it will change again - progress, you can not stand in it's way and just need to bend with it.

The Outlander is a big car for sure and has a very high safety rating which is why I am interested in one - I would rather have a Mk 3 Pajero but the boss has said NO to that - no sense of humor - so I look for something that will take a hard hit and leave the passengers uninjured! The Outlander fits that bill in all ways, and it is much smaller than the white builders trucks that race through Ozankoy anyway.

Somebody must have something GOOD to say about them????

It is a lovely car to drive!

Hi Waddo,
A year or so ago, I was considering buying one to keep in the UK. Looked at quite a few and I think they are an impressive car. Would not have looked at them but having had a Pajero for the last 12 years here, think they are well made and very sturdy. In the end though, having owned Volvo for 30 years, the gold V70 was the only way for me to go.

Not long back I had a Hyundai Santa Fe - around about the same size (height wise off the road) and enjoyed it but always yearned for my old Pajero, I have had many of them over the years and still yearn for another one! I think the Outlander fits all the bills for us, two dogs to cart around as well, lots of wood and blocks and stuff get moved around in whatever vehicle we have so it is good to have a "Larger" motor. All the reports I have read have been favourable and I don't even mind that it drinks more than I currently use because we don't go far - but we do like to go in safety. So a final question must be - what is the road tax on one of these, well near enough anyway? Many thanks to all for help and advice.

And your Santa Fe is still going strong Jim's chuffed with it and looking after it. Good value.

Hi terry, glad to hear it, hope they do away with the road tax as well then it will truly have been a bargain. Wife still miss's it a bit but saw the sense in the temporary drop down in size. Now that finances are more stable it is time to go back up to a safe big beast to scare people with - lol.

I would love one (and before anyone starts making rude remarks - I put my hand up to this one) I would never be able to parallel park the thing, something that I can do perfectly well under normal circumstances . But I would love to out stare a fellow motorist in one or two places on our road when there is only room for one car at a time. It would make my day!!

Well, seems like a good motor then as anyone who has one is keeping quiet about it - lol. Guess I will continue the search around the garages - I know of one in Nicosia so will start there to have a good look around and see what they are really like inside the engine bay! Thanks for all the posts.

Quite right silverfir, that is exactly what I do when anyone driving past soaks me when I am trying to get out of my own front door or stops outside my windows and fills my room dangerous and obnoxious fumes.

I dont know any of these beasts personally, but it is a matter of where you use them. Off road vehicles might be fine off road but not on village streets too narrow for them, and certainly not to terrorize other drivers and pedestrians

Like Joandjelly I know of two that have had major engine problems, one was off the road for about ten months and the other is up to about eight months and still no resolution in sight.

Allegedly the engine is very rare and hard to source. 2.4 petrol. Which is difficult to fathom as millions of them have been made.

I bought ours out here albeit only 9 mths ago 2006 model best car iv driven ideal for here .Talking to a guy yesterday he had prob with engine got one shipped from japan very good price aswell.

goldfinch, many thanks for that. I was aware of the engine problems - it all comes down to timing belt change times I think - we had a Camry once that was wonderful till the timing belt snapped - then it was too much to repair! First thing I would do is have the belt changed, regardless of what the last owner said, can't take that sort of chance. Nice to know that you can still get replacement engines from Japan, the only others I have found were in Australia and the shipping costs would have killed that. Still very interested but they are difficult to find anyway. Give me a hint on road tax please, please. Thanks also to torontomapleleaf, the engines for the Outlander had lots of changes and were produced by many manufactures so some of them would be hard to source but as my comment above - I hope that when I do get my sticky hands on one it will last me till I get the major service and belts changed - lol.