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Thread: dude bought a LEMON LANDCRUISER 200 series

  1. 9th December 2010, 08:45 AM #21
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm View Post
    Are these people serious? They are using 500 mls of oil in 1000 k's and they call that oil consumption! Obviously they were not driving in the 50's and 60's when a pint to 1000 miles was considered quite normal consumption for an engine in good condition. Most owners would not have been at all concerned about a quart in 1000 miles. Normal oil change interval then was 1000 miles for most cars and no-one worried about oil consumption if you did not have to add oil between changes. Do you remember servos having racks of pint and quart oil bottles out on the driveway next to the pumps?

    Unlike you Brian, the rest of the world has moved on since the 1950s. Most (good) cars in the '80s, '90s and '00s used <100 ml per 10000km.


    Edit - besides which - the toyota engines use ~33% more than your "pint per 1000 miles". So acceptable oil consumption has increased by 33% in the last 60 years???
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  2. 9th December 2010, 09:40 AM #22
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    Yeah - these days an engine should not be using that much oil. Maybe LC200's use short skirted pistons which flap around more, ending up making the bores oval....

    That guy has had a rough run - no wonder he made a web site. Interesting comments added by other owners too. Mostly the gripes are about the reaction by Toyota to the problems.
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  3. 9th December 2010, 09:50 AM #23
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    Guess you never need to change the oil, as it's continuously replenished.....LOL
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  4. 9th December 2010, 10:00 AM #24
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    Interesting where 4WD motoring is heading. Toyotas V8 diesel has been a disaster, not to mention weak diffs, poor load carrying and 100mm track difference on 70 series. Nissan, with probably the worst diesel engine in 4WD history, have given up and are going fuel guzzling petrol V8 only on its Patrols. Landrover has got the Ford Transit engine and all its woes. Makes me glad I've got the OKA with its trusty Perkins.

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  5. 9th December 2010, 10:02 AM #25
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grumndriva View Post
    I particularly liked the comment about it being Toyota's fault that he lost his two remotes!
    Yea .. there is a few comments that show up the ignorance of the owners ... Especially the comments about the seats ... It's as tho they just walked in the showroom floor and just signed on the dotted line ... THEN went for the test drive
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  6. 9th December 2010, 10:23 AM #26
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    A mate of mine worked for Toyota for years and he told me many times that people would walk in and buy one without even driving one or driving anything else,it's a Toyota so it must be the best.I wouldn't worry about overloading one,it's a physical impossibility for a person over 8 to fit in the third row seats. Pat
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  7. 9th December 2010, 10:51 AM #27
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    What a sook. Who would spend $87k and then whinge about the seats? I bet he doesn't know what a dipstick looks like either.

    For what it's worth, my D2 V8 leaks less than what his motor is consuming.

    There are many similar threads around in internetworld about other makes and models and their gripes with service managers etc.
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  8. 9th December 2010, 02:19 PM #28
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    the Weekend Australian motoring column by John Connelly is always an interesting (quirky) read. Last week he was talking about taxpayers propping up the local car "assembly" industry and mentioned that the Landcruiser V8 (diesel) has been a "disaster" in the mines. Apparently toyota won't supply the 6 cyl version to the Australian market, so a local motor vehicle private importer/exporter has been given an order for 200 6 cyl variants and he's wondering how to get them into Oz... he may even have to buy them o/seas, disassemble them, send the bits as "parts" on different ships and reassemble them here... so much for sacred cows and bureaucracy
    Then again I wonder if he's wasting his time...i.e would the 6 cyl version be any better...
    Now, 200 130s might be a better proposition!
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  9. 9th December 2010, 02:31 PM #29
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    The difference between the two is chalk and cheese,the 1HD-FTE is one of the best T/D's around,good power with good economy.The V8 doesn't have either. Pat
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hoges View Post
    ...Now, 200 130s might be a better proposition!
    No Airbags. No go in a mine site.....
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