Thread: A sad Day. Goodby Deefer.

Originally Posted by PAT303

How many Toyota/itsamitsy/Datsuns would do 12-13 central Australian Desert trips without something needing repairing/replaced?. Pat

Geez Pat.... From all your posts, u seem very anti Toyota / Nissan ,etc

With the shear numbers of Toyota's sold, as u know, u are always going to get some failures, when compared to the numbers sold, the % would be very small....

Just look at JEEP.... from what I read on the web in recent times, Jeep is coping a fogging for their lack of reliability and lack of customer service..... They might even surpass LR in the bad rap that they had from times gone past... lol

Originally Posted by cafe latte

Clutch can be driver error of the previous owner, if he was anything link the father in law the clutch did not have a chance
Chris

Yes, you could be right, but I don't know the original owner. All I know is he fitted some quality accessories and had it serviced every 10,000 kms.

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Originally Posted by PAT303

Bigger coolers on Toyota's is a band aid,the tranny overheats because the T/C doesn't lock up unless your doing 100 in 6th,again,like suspension,it's another aftermarket cost,a very exxy one at that. Pat

A mechanic once told me that Toyota fits the minimum size radiator that can cope when new, so as the radiator loses some efficiency over time it slowly becomes inadequate. May not be the only ones of course.

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Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

no, you're not meaning to be smart...bull****!

just go into the pinnacles , technical chatter and read about the heartache and woes that D2 owners have had over the last 15 years.

I don't know where you get your parts prices from but I've never found one item that you have rebuked at anywhere the price you have suggested.

D2's have been the bread and butter of companies like British Off Road for years.

Why is there such a huge aftermarket business surrounding D2's? It's because they are basically heaps of **** with particularly good on and offroad manners and once you've turned your D2 into a mobile aftermarkets parts bin it is generally reliably ok.

What a load of bollocks. I have flogged mine hard over 13 years. Love it. I overheated the v8 through my own fault. I cross threaded the header tank cap and it blew ALL the fluid out and cooked. The 4.6 was a cheap upgrade to fix that. 5th got noisy in the manual and a kit fixed that. I have done clutch master and slave. I have done brake master. One alternator and one radiator. Front prop shaft and CV's. Fixed the ABS modulator very cheaply. One wheel sensor. Rear donut and spiggot for driveshaft. 280,000 on the original motor despite the overheat. Eventually the head gasket could take no more. 290,000k vehicle with a lot of off road, very short trips as the daily driver, towing a 2 ,000kg boat and at times heavier weights. All of the above was very cheap given the duties AND that it was $20k less than the same specced 100 series Land Cruiser when i bought it. And its given me enormous pleasure. I have a D1 too and yes it has been less of a spend for similiar miles but i prefer the d2.

Cheers

Originally Posted by Robmacca

Geez Pat.... From all your posts, u seem very anti Toyota / Nissan ,etc

With the shear numbers of Toyota's sold, as u know, u are always going to get some failures, when compared to the numbers sold, the % would be very small....

Just look at JEEP.... from what I read on the web in recent times, Jeep is coping a fogging for their lack of reliability and lack of customer service..... They might even surpass LR in the bad rap that they had from times gone past... lol

I've had more Toyota/Nissan vehicles than Land Rovers,I was a Toyota mechanic for a time. Pat

Not good the OP is having issues.
On the flip side of the thread conversation though...I am very glad the majority of mechanics all over Australia are staying in business due to the existence of a small market share of Land Rover products. So too for the aftermarket companies offering suspension and driveline upgrades like ARB etc. if not for the Land Rover all of these profitable businesses would be broke without regular work from any other manufactures product.
The expertise and capability of the majority of mechanics on Land Rover products must be vast and common too for the same reasons.

Yawn think I'll have cuppa and head to bed.

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or u could simply drive it like a manual and drop it in a lower gear for the steep hills, etc instead of just letting the Auto change for u....[/Q
Kinda defeats the purpose of buying an auto don't you think?. Pat

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

A mechanic once told me that Toyota fits the minimum size radiator that can cope when new, so as the radiator loses some efficiency over time it slowly becomes inadequate. May not be the only ones of course.

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The series model Toyota's have the same size rad as a defender,fitting a desert cooler twin pass rad with water wetter and completely filling the fan hub with fluid essentially making it solid is a common overheating fix from the 2H on. Pat