Toyota, unbreakable, but the cracks are starting to show...

[jimbo110]

Add this to the list of Prado diff failures, Landcruiser and Prado suspension failures etc.

Engine Bay Body Rips - Toyota FJ Cruiser Forum (http://www.fjcruiserforums.com/forums/problems-dealer-service/33440-engine-bay-body-rips.html)

All is not happy in Toyo-land.

[spudboy]

Do we get FJs in Australia? Never seen one.....

[matthewk]

its plastic what did ya expect :twisted:

[maca]

Do we get FJs in Australia? Never seen one.....

And for good reason......

They are FUGULY (but I am biased :)).

[rijidij]

They are FUGULY (but I am biased :)).

Lucky we don't have them here. It would be hard for someone to decide between buying one of these, or a Hummer H3. You would have to decide just how much of a tosser you want people to think you are. :wasntme:

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/09/1697.jpg
http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/yhst-14561158332260/2008-hummer-h3-alpha.jpg

[Slunnie]

It would be the hummer for me.

The H3 is a civilised replica of something remotely in its family.

The Toyota whatever is a just 40 series retro pretender that accidentally sat on a lone Hummer DNA cell and got unlucky enough to give birth that thing.

[abaddonxi]

Lucky we don't have them here. It would be hard for someone to decide between buying one of these, or a Hummer H3. You would have to decide just how much of a tosser you want people to think you are. :wasntme:

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/09/1697.jpg


I kinda like it, bastard crossbreed of an International Scout, a Saab and a Russian truck.

And there's no chance you'd mistake it for anything else, which is a good thing these days.

[p38arover]

I saw a lot of them in the US when I was over there a few months back.

[PAT303]

Toyota bodies have been doing that for years.We had a fleet inspection at one pit and found cracks in every vehicle,120 in all,even the office 100 series had a cracked roof and later I worked for a contractor that ran Patrols and only 2 of the 9 didn't have cracked chassis,one had daylight shining through the rail. Pat

[Ace]

makes me want to dry reach, I agree with Slunnie, would be the hummer for me if i could only choose between the two

[series3]

agreed, that blue thing looks utterly foul

[Disco_owner]

Ewwww , looks like something designed and built by the russians...:o

[RobHay]

Kinda like a throwback to the 1960's isn't it

[V8Ian]

Kinda like a throwback to the 1960's isn't it
More like a throw up. The grill got its cues from the 40 series, thats the best bit of it, shame the rest of it looks so bad.

[Hymie]

Hummer for me, it has floglights so I can drive around in the daytime with my floglights on.

[hiline]

Hummer for me, it has floglights so I can drive around in the daytime with my floglights on.

:Rolling::Rolling::Rolling: i seem to remember a certain comment about that ;)

[scarry]

There was also an article in one of the 4x4 mags about thousands of LC 200's that are gonna be recalled for chassis cracking with the genuine bullbar fitted.
The modifications to the vehicles is major.

Could of been in a 4x4 aust,but i cant seem to find it.Maybe someone can find it &scan it onto here,makes interesting reading:)

[cookiesa]

Ype the Cruiser bar now uses, under license of course the mounting system developed by ARB

[Slunnie]

Ype the Cruiser bar now uses, under license of course the mounting system developed by ARB
I thought ARB designed theirs like that so that it could be winched off. Apparently the crush cans are quite soft in them.

[cookiesa]

not sure of exact details but combination of winching and reinforcing as the frontal area has very little strength, as has since been shown!

Great engine... although I know of 1 owner who went from perth to adelaide (direct) and used 1.6 litres of oil....... less than 30k on it!

but don't load it up.... there is nothing left once you have passengers, fuel and a small amount of cargo! (unless you do a GVM upgrade before it is registered (or get it engineered afterwards)