Nissan Patrol 4x4 (Africa)

2024/07/10 - Elephant Sands Not sure if I have mentioned it already, but my mother has a thing for elephants. So we spent an extra day at Elephant Sands. Most of the people were just overnighting and so we had the camp-site to ourselves the next morning. I'll be dead honest - if you'd told me at so...

Peter - Hunter's Road is definitely on my to-do list as well... One day... :)

2024/07/09 - Francistown to Nata / Elephant Sands Distance: 239km Driving Time: 2h54 TRK.png MAP.png We stopped for a few photos on the way out of Woodlands to check out the Hunters Road memorial which is just off the entrance road. After that, we hit the tar road north. Road was relatively quiet -...

2024/07/08 - Gaberone to Francistown Distance: 461km Driving Time: 5h36 TRK03.png MAP03.png Resupplied early AM in Gaberone and headed out North on the A1. Stopped for some photos at the Tropic of Capricorn sign just before Dinokwe. The monument there consists of a whole series of volcanic rock pil...

2024/07/07 - Potchefstroom to Gaberone Distance: 359km Driving Time: 4h24 TRK02.png MAP02.png Headed out from Potch early, taking the Ventersdorp before taking the R53 out towards Swart Ruggens and then the R52 to Lichtenberg and then up North to Zeerust. Reason for this route, as although it is a ...

2024/07/05 Pretoria to Potchefstroom Distance: 179km Driving Time: 2h16 TRK01.png MAP01.png Headed through to Potch for the folks' 50th anniversary on the Friday evening. Did some shopping for the trip con Saturday and had a few beers at the River Cafe near Potch dam. Damned nice Belgian ale they h...

So, just a place holder for my trip report for Bots. I arrived back yesterday. Folks wanted to see Elephant Sands (my mother is Elephant bedinges) and having recently had their 50th Anniversary, I was tasked with knocking together a trip at short notice. The idea that emerged was Elephant Sands for ...

The first photo seems to be a standard steel rim. The other seem to be the standard series 1/2 alloy rims as per the photo I've attached. But... are you sure those are 17" rims ? Both of those came out in 16" only, as far as I know. What size tyres are you running ? ie: 285/75R16 / whateve...

Hi Anika - and welcome to the forum. The PCD (pitch circle diameter) for the Patrol is not standard. I believe that some forum members who have used after market rims have had the PCD machines out on their rims in order to get them to fit. However, I do not know the details on this as I am running s...

Heiko - welcome to the forum. There are several members here with Y62's. Unfortunately, us poor folk who cannot afford them all have Y60's / Y61's. :rolling: :rolling: As such, I'm totally the wrong person to ask. I could point you at the reference library which has various manuals and similar. Howe...