And it's welcome from us two 2 newbies34
You don't say what year navara so just our experience with my two sons first one bought a new navara about dunno about 6 or 7 years ago it was very weak on take off was very easy to stall the engine on its own had to rev it up quite a bit to get going it also used to " ping " like the old petrol engines did if the timing was wrong , yes we had then check the timing and they recon it was right , me I'm not so sure though , it had engine oil leak problems he sold it at about 90,000 k we later heard that the engine blew up about 10,, k later don't know what the problem was though ,
Second son bought one about two years later new still has it ( although it has only done about 70,000 k as he is a fifo so not home much ) although it's the same engine etc it is a totally different ute to drive it will take off with the engine at an idle has lots more go and doesn't ping on excelleration like other one did
Both were 6 speed manuals apart from that, the other thing I don't like is that the manual gearbox in my opinion it doesn't have a first gear just a couple of second gears it's geared way way way to fast in first with a load like a van behind I would expect the clutch to wear out way to fast because of this very high ratio first gear , now I love my Nissan patrols have two of them so I'm not anti Nissans so if you go with a navara my advice is get an auto gearbox however I know nothing about the auto gearbox performance

Hope this helps

Woody

Do you have a D40 or a D22? I have a D40 and it pulls and controls that weight.

We have a 2015 run-out model D22, the last that were made. It tows our 1,500kg van with a fully loaded tub (around 800kg) under a canopy with no problems & great fuel economy.

One of the last ''truck like'' utes to be manufactured before they all went ''soft car like''. A rugged rough ride but sure footed under loaded conditions. Sort of like the Tortoise & Hare.