Used Nissan Patrol for sale in the UAE

Buying a used Nissan Patrol in the UAE

There are more than 550 used Nissan Patrols on LicensePlate.ae, and half of them are under about AED 120,000. Which half you should be shopping in depends on three things the price alone does not tell you: the generation, the engine, and what the kilometres on it have actually been used for.

This guide covers what a Patrol costs by generation and by model year, the differences between the Y61, Y62 and Y63, the five engines sold here, how far mileage really moves the price, what to inspect before you pay, how the Patrol compares with the Land Cruiser, and what yours is worth if you are selling. The figures update themselves from the cars on this page, so they are today's market, not last year's article.

What a used Nissan Patrol costs

Generation moves the price more than anything else. These are the Patrols on the site now, grouped by the generation Nissan actually built:

Typical price is the median — the middle car, not the average. A single top-of-the-range Y63 pulls an average somewhere no real car sits.

Price by model year

Each year has its own page with the cars listed for it:

Y61, Y62, Y63: which Patrol is which

Three generations are on sale second-hand in the UAE at the same time, which is unusual and catches buyers out. They are not three versions of one car; they are three different cars.

Y61 — the Safari and Super Safari

The Y61 is the old-shape, body-on-frame Patrol that built the reputation — simple, heavy, and the one the desert crowd still buys on purpose. Nissan ended Y61 production in 2016 and then restarted it for a handful of markets including this one, which is why around 90 of them are here with model years running to 2024 — the Super Safari, a Middle East trim of a generation the rest of the world stopped buying. If you want a Patrol to modify, tow with or take off-road every weekend, this is the one people recommend.

Y62 — the V8 era

Launched in Abu Dhabi in February 2010 under the slogan "Hero of All Terrain", the Y62 turned the Patrol into a comfortable road car with a 5.6-litre V8. It ran until the Y63 arrived, through two substantial facelifts, and it is by far the biggest slice of the used market: roughly two thirds of the Patrols here are Y62s. An early 2010–2013 car and a 2022 car share a shape and very little else — cabin, screens, suspension and safety equipment all moved on. Check the year, not the silhouette.

Y63 — the current car

The Y63 arrived for the 2024 model year and is the biggest change in the Patrol's history: the 5.6 V8 is gone, replaced by a twin-turbo V6. It is the only generation here where the used price still sits close to new. Around 100 are listed, from about AED 170,000.

The engines, and what each one means

Five engines are in circulation here. The output figures below are the catalogue's, and the counts and prices are the cars on this page:

The practical split: the 5.6 V8 is the default used Patrol and the one with the deepest parts and specialist network here. The 4.0 V6 was the cheaper way into a Y62 and is noticeably slower in a car this heavy — worth a test drive loaded, not empty. The 4.8 is the Y61's straight-six, which is why Super Safaris feel nothing like a Y62. The 3.5 and 3.8 are the Y63's, and the twin-turbo 3.5 makes more power than any V8 Patrol sold here.

How many kilometres is too many?

There is no number above which a Patrol becomes a bad car. There is, however, a very clear answer to what the market pays — here is what the cars on this page actually ask:

Read that table carefully, because it flatters low mileage. The cheapest bands are not cheap because of the kilometres — they are mostly older Y62s, while the under-80,000 band is full of nearly new Y63s. Mileage and generation move together, and the table cannot separate them.

The useful rule is the boring one: a 150,000 km Patrol with a complete service history is a better buy than a 90,000 km one with no records. The Patrol is a body-on-frame SUV with a long service life; what wears it out is heat, sand, towing and skipped services, none of which show up on an odometer.

GCC spec or imported?

"GCC spec" means the car was built for Gulf sale — cooling, air conditioning and trim specified for this climate, and a service history that happened here. Imported Patrols, usually from Japan or the United States, are common and are not automatically a bad buy. The difference is how much work it takes to verify one.

We do not record regional specification per listing, so ask the seller directly and have it confirmed against the chassis number before you pay anything.

What to check before you buy

Air conditioning — first, not last

In this market the A/C is the single most expensive thing to get wrong. Test it at idle in direct sun, then again at speed, then the rear unit on its own. Temperature should hold, not drift warm after ten minutes.

Suspension

On a Y62 this includes the hydraulic body-motion control system. It is expensive, it is specific to this car, and a soft or uneven ride is a reason to walk away or to budget for it before you agree a price — not after.

Signs it lived in the desert

• Underbody and skid-plate impacts, bent steps, sand packed into recesses
• Differential and transfer case seepage
• Aftermarket suspension, snorkel, winch mounts, re-drilled brackets
• Sandblasted paint on the leading edges and headlamps

Desert use is not disqualifying — this is what the car was built for — but it changes what you should inspect and what you should pay.

The rest of the walk-round

• Engine: cold start, oil and coolant condition, leaks, any ticking that does not clear
• Transmission: hesitation or jerking between the lower gears, especially when warm
• Electrics: every camera, every window, memory seats, the infotainment screen
• Body: panel gaps, paint depth, overspray in the door shuts, weld marks under the carpet
• Papers: chassis number against the documents, mileage against the service records, finance cleared

Nissan Patrol or Toyota Land Cruiser?

The two dominate this segment here and the honest answer is that they are good at different things. There is no winner; there is a fit.

The Patrols are above on this page. The other side of the comparison is used Toyota Land Cruiser — compare the two lists on price and year before you decide on the badge.

Running costs

A Patrol is a two-and-a-half tonne SUV with a large engine, and the fuel bill follows from that: annual kilometres multiplied by real consumption multiplied by the pump price, which in the UAE is reset monthly. The 4.0 V6 and the Y63's turbo V6 are easier on fuel than the 5.6 V8, but none of them are economical and a seller who tells you otherwise is selling.

Insurance is driven by the car's value, its age, your own claims history and whether you take comprehensive or third-party — a nearly new Y63 and a ten-year-old Y62 are not the same conversation. Servicing is the ordinary cost of a large SUV; what makes it expensive is deferred work, so ask for the invoices rather than the word "maintained".

Where the Patrols are

Worth knowing before you drive out to see one:

These link to every used car in that emirate, not only Patrols.

Selling a Patrol, or finding out what yours is worth

The same things that decide what you pay decide what you get: generation, model year, engine, mileage, service records, accident history, whether it was modified and how many owners it has had. A Patrol with the folder of invoices sells faster and higher than an identical one without, and the gap is larger on this model than on most.

Common questions

Every figure in the tables above is read from the adverts listed on this page at the moment you load it, and refreshes through the day — there is no "as of" date, because there is nothing to go out of date. They are asking prices, not recorded sale prices.