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    Aug 17, 2020 4 minutes

    NAVARA OIL SPECIFICATION

    I drive a 2014 Nissan Navara 3,0 V6 turbodiesel (V9X) with 66 500 km on the odo which I mainly use to tow my Jurgens Xcape caravan. It is meticulously maintained and has a full service history. On my last trip (pre-COVID-19), the vehicle was serviced in Port Elizabeth from where we toured through the Baviaanskloof and then back to Middelburg in Mpumalanga taking in several mountain passes.

    Back home, I noticed the vehicle had used 500 ml of oil since the service. Friends of mine with similar vehicles also noticed an oil-consumption trend when towing and suggested I upped the viscosity of the oil. The prescribed oil specification

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