LOTS of unhappy Hilux owners

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Originally Posted by Tote

Yes and no..... the problem is that common rails circulate the fuel between the tank and the injector pump at such a rate that a typical water trap could fill up in less than a minute. Also means that any crud will get circulated through the entire system far more quickly than on a system where the return is a low volume.
Not saying it can't be engineered around but you go to any of the fuel companies and they'll tell you "our fuel is clean, you dont need additional filtration." At the night we attended it was mentioned that our fuel is pretty good at the refinery gate, then it gets pumped into tanks that have been in the ground for 60 years etc.
Regards,
Tote

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You simply have to install a filter/separator like a Racor that is sized to the flow.

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Originally Posted by rick130

We've lost our local here, it was going to cost in excess of $120,000 to update a servo that serves a community of a couple of hundred people and the owners mark up was 4c/litre, but I digress....

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The densely populated inner suburb of Brisbane where I lived for a long time once had four servos within the suburb and three more within 2-3 blocks of the suburbs boundary. Now there are none. A Coles Shell outlet is the nearest and it is not even in the neighbouring suburb but one suburb further away.

Where I now live, Norman Park, and in the contiguous suburbs, I counted twenty-four servos closed since "industry rationalization" commenced with the termination of oil company leases in 1989.

Wow, a handful of un-happy souls.
How many unhappy Landy souls are there I wonder?

Many of my trades have a Hilux, SR5 or similar. They love it.
One drives it daily with Simex mud tyres, looks great but WTF.

Hilux owners are a breed of their own and actually believe their trucks are unbrakeable as shown on Top-Gear.
They are just like most others and I do believe they now are made in Taiwan or similar to cut costs.
I mentioned on another post my friends brand ne V8 Landcruiser is now on its 3rd new motor. That is in 1 year and they do not know what caused catastrophic failure. CMI Toyota are not even repairing motor, just in with new one, straight out of crate.
I bet they don't even know how to rebuild and even if they did, would they be able to achieve such small tolerances?

VW just relesed their twin cab ute and will give Toyota a good run for their money.

Competition is good and will make the overall price more competitive.

I hope they sort it out at Toyota, if they go under, just like Volkswagon the whole economy will suffer. The whole world will be affected.

Toyota are having enough troubles as it is.;)

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Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Where I now live, Norman Park, and in the contiguous suburbs, I counted twenty-four servos closed since "industry rationalization" commenced with the termination of oil company leases in 1989.

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I did some work with Shell when they were introducing FlyBuys (early 90s). An important part of that scheme was to track purchase locations against home addresses to assist in determining which servos they could close down. It was all about reducing delivery costs.