A Y62 Patrol carries a 3,500kg GVM and a 7,000kg GCM, and tows 3,500kg braked. Because the V8 is heavy, payload is tighter than the size of the car suggests. Pick your year and grade below and the page works it out from Nissan's own figures.
Patrol Y62 (2026). 2 variants, figures transcribed from the manufacturer's spec sheets.
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Patrol Y62 (2026). Payload is GVM minus kerb weight, before you fit anything or put anyone in it.
| Variant | Kerb | GVM | Payload | GCM | Towing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ti 5.6L V8 Petrol (8 seat) | 2,786kg | 3,500kg | 714kg | 7,000kg | 3,500kg |
| Ti-L 5.6L V8 Petrol (7 seat) | 2,847kg | 3,500kg | 653kg | 7,000kg | 3,500kg |
Nissan rates the Y62 to 3,500kg braked, and a van that size regularly puts 300kg or more on the ball. That weight lands on the Patrol's payload and almost all of it goes through the rear axle, which Nissan rates at 2,030kg.
The Ti is an eight seater and the Ti-L a seven. A full car is 400kg to 500kg of occupants, and on a Patrol that is most of the legal allowance before a single bag goes in.
A full tank is roughly 100kg. It matters twice here, because it is also the main reason Nissan's older tare figures look so much lighter than the kerb figures from MY24 on. Filling up is not optional weight.
Nissan's spec sheets up to and including the MY22 brochure publish a tare mass. From MY24 they publish a kerb mass, described as the unladen mass with a full tank of fuel. That definition change, not a heavier vehicle, is most of the jump from about 2,750kg to about 2,860kg. On a pre-MY24 Patrol the payload this page shows is optimistic by roughly a tank of fuel, and we flag it on those rows rather than quietly converting Nissan's number.
The May 2025 spec sheet publishes a 3,505kg GVM and its own carrying capacities add up to exactly that. The MY26 sheet prints identical kerb masses with 3,500kg, and Nissan's own towing web page mixes MY26 masses with MY24 payloads. We publish each sheet as printed and flag the conflict. Five kilograms will not decide anything, but a silent edit on a page people use for legal decisions would.
On the 2016 to 2019 sheets the maximum tow ball download is 250kg at full GVM, rising to 300kg, 325kg or 350kg only if the loaded vehicle is kept 70kg, 100kg or 130kg below GVM. The MY22 brochure prints a flat 350kg. We publish the figure that always applies and state the trade-off, because a bare 350kg is only true when you have already given up payload.
Nissan's own Patrol Warrior spec sheet annotates it as +120kg GVM and +72kg kerb against a Ti, so 3,620kg GVM with the GCM still at 7,000kg. Tow the full 3,500kg and the Warrior gives you only 120kg more combined-weight room than a Ti, which is not what the extra GVM looks like on paper.
2013 to 2015, including the ST-L, is not here. The only Nissan document from that period is the October 2012 pre-launch press kit, and it contradicts every later sheet, listing a 3,450kg GVM with the Australian tow ball figure still to be confirmed. MY17, MY20, MY21 and the non-Warrior MY23 are also blank, because Nissan's published sheets skip those years and we do not interpolate.
3,500kg braked and 750kg unbraked. The 7,000kg GCM is the real constraint: tow 3,500kg and only 3,500kg is left for the Patrol itself, which is under its own GVM, so you cannot use the full payload and the full tow rating at once.
3,500kg on every Nissan sheet we hold except MY25, which publishes 3,505kg. The Patrol Warrior is 3,620kg from the factory.
Roughly 640kg to 790kg depending on grade, year and which mass basis Nissan used that year, and that is before tow ball weight. Choose your variant above and the calculator does the subtraction for your build.
Yes, 1,650kg front and 2,030kg rear across the Y62 range, which is better than most makers here. It means the rear axle check on this site is a real published limit for a Patrol, not an estimate.
Nissan does not publish one in any Australian spec sheet or brochure, so we leave it blank. A 100kg roof rack figure appears only in the 2012 pre-launch press kit, which we do not treat as an Australian specification.