Thread: Toyota FJ thoughts

Originally Posted by Zeros

What is a 10as?

Alarm module and also does central locking and immobiliser

Made by Lucas the prince of darkness

What year is your Defender?

Originally Posted by martnH

Alarm module and also does central locking and immobiliser

Made by Lucas the prince of darkness

What year is your Defender?

Mine’s 2014.

...could you just remove and revert to key locking? Better for out bush anyway.

Originally Posted by Zeros

Mine’s 2014.

...could you just remove and revert to key locking? Better for out bush anyway.

Yours will be fine. You probably have the upgraded version
But still plenty of Lucas wiring

For your question, yes I think itsa good idea. But you will need someone to decode and recode the ecu.

Actually I want to do that too. The immobiliser on the defender is a joke.
Just plug in a diagnostic tool and add a new key fob and the stupid truck will think she has a new owner.

The main power line goes out of the battery box...It's so exposed you can just cut it. What is the point of the immobiliser in my puma defender anyway except to meet the regulation so that JLR can keep selling such product.

I need to stop ranting. I love my defender but JLR doesn't love me. Somebody please tell me Toyota is different.....

I drive my defender off-road.
To high country to desert to cape York.

The component on the truck will break and I will need replacements.if the logistics for the defender is not there, I will not be able to use it as a work vehicle.

....I am looking for replacement and I have test driven the FJ, LC76 and Pajero.

I think FJ is probably the most capable and cheapest to run.....The petrol engine is NA so few hoses and no turbo so I can't imagine the engine will have many problems.

Auto box plus petrol engine works beautifully off-road. This is my personal opinion. You have the infinite control of speed while rock crawling and the burst of power from a petrol engine on sand. This means you can slow the FJ down to 20cm/h without burning the clutch. In the defender I can do this but only with left foot braking and right foot throttle.

Not to mention the crawl control that literally give you the "dummy's" slow speed control...

The downside for the FJ (to me) is probably the payload of k my 500kgs (besides part-time 4wd). This is almost the same as a wrangler. It's a small car and can be easily overloaded.

My defender 110 has almost 1 ton payload. That's a lot of camping crap you can carry....

Originally Posted by PhilipA

The early ones did not have crawl control or AFAIR a large fuel tank, or the ability to have ETC and rear diff locked.

Actually the traction control does work with the diff lock in the early models.

I had one of the early models in 2011.
Super capable vehicle and typical Toyota reliability.

There were a few times where I could drive a track with 33’s that larger Patrols with 35’s had to winch.

There actually is quite a lot of storage space for a couple to tour in but would be difficult for a family of 4.

The 10AS is hardly a crisis when I first bought my defender (TD5) I bought a spare AS10 and have carried around since. I have spent many years in Outback Australia living in the places that others visit for a fortnight and say they have been Outback.
On 2 occasions the car faulted when starting just turn off the ignition wait a minute and turn it back on and it starts.
Today I live in relative suburbia (Melrose) not sure I would bother doing it all again.
I know Jose can change the ECU so it will work without it but unless the Puma Defenders are much worse I wouldnt bother.

Originally Posted by djam1

The 10AS is hardly a crisis when I first bought my defender (TD5) I bought a spare AS10 and have carried around since. I have spent many years in Outback Australia living in the places that others visit for a fortnight and say they have been Outback.
On 2 occasions the car faulted when starting just turn off the ignition wait a minute and turn it back on and it starts.
Today I live in relative suburbia (Melrose) not sure I would bother doing it all again.
I know Jose can change the ECU so it will work without it but unless the Puma Defenders are much worse I wouldnt bother.

If there is less smoke, I will not want to tell everyone I met about this. "My land rover want to cook me alive"

How would you handle a problem like this? The 10as decided to Burn itself. The heat fused the green plug to the socket.
Maybe I should bring a spare grey plug and green plug just in case.

You may not know but the 10as on puma is special and no longer available. The td5 10as won't work on a puma

P.s. I paid almost $400 for the second hand part. And I want another one just in case

Also even you disable immobiliser, still you need a functional 10as to drive the car. I don't know why....