Thread: Toyota or jeep

Pajero,most underated vehicle on the road. Pat

Originally Posted by blitz

Apart from the Rubicon, which arguably is the most capable 4X4 sold and I'm near chocking writing this go the Toyota they are reliable and most mechanics have worked on them

A mate of mine owns a rubicon,it's capable now it's got 5K's worth of aftermarket gear on it,a defender it's not.Prado's reliable,our old one needed towing four times in 2 years. Pat

Originally Posted by Tank

Wouldn't the Land rover service deal be available from any licensed, approved Auto maintenace and repairer establishment, esp. in remote areas, Regards Frank.

It is all the electronic software type stuff that i doubt anyone would have in Portheadland.Even for the routine service you need someone familiar with these types of vehicles.

As seen often on this site,once a mechanic not familiar with these types of vehicles gets hold of them,the grief starts

I looked closely at the Paj,not bad,particularly for the $,but still not in the D4 class.Wouldn't touch a Prado.

Originally Posted by PAT303

Prado's reliable,our old one needed towing four times in 2 years. Pat

And after 14 years of Land rovers,never had one towed yet

Originally Posted by Tank

Quote: 2. servicing. Landrover susprised me with this one as being employed by a Big Hole Pilbara company i was intilted to free servicing for 2 years However there is no dealer for at least 1200KM so not very good for us.

Wouldn't the Land rover service deal be available from any licensed, approved Auto maintenace and repairer establishment, esp. in remote areas, Regards Frank.

I would doubt they would honour the free servicing as they are not dealers

Originally Posted by d@rk51d3

Toyotas "fixed price service" never ends up being the fixed price, from countless reports I've read.

Alot of people seem to have been caught out with that.

Funnily enough, I was also browsing the Jeep website just the other day.

Wrangler Rubicon. Almost everything the Defender should have been.

I've never had a problem with he fixed price service part from toyota and the first service we had after the fixed price cost us around $700

Originally Posted by scarry

And after 14 years of Land rovers,never had one towed yet

Twice,both times after being serviced. Pat

Originally Posted by Grumbles

The planned ownership time might be important here from several perspectives.

Long term the Prado 'may' be more reliable than a Jeep but from what I can see on the AJOR Jeep website Jeeps are improving out of sight to what they once were with newer owners reporting big distances on the clock and no problems. I took what I thought may have been a big gamble on this improving reliability factor and bought a new Wrangler in April this year and I did this knowing that I once bought a Cherokee which was the nightmare of nightmares to own. Fingers crossed but no issues so far with the Wrangler.

Given the Jeep three year warranty and that you can also purchase an extended manufacturers warranty for them then this may be a financial "comfort" factor if unsure about reliability and repair costs.

Jeep Grand Cherokee gives you a lot of bang for your buck straight out of the box but over time their resale value will probably not match that of a Prado.

Good luck with your decision.

thanks for that. We (the missus) tend to keep her car for about 4 years. However the prado we have is the the first 4wd she has owned and her last cars where lasers and focus's so not a great outlay.

I think that our current prado is at the stage of either keeping forever or selling now as it's proberly the best resale we will get and before it costs big $$ in servicing costs.

I guess buying a new jeep I would like to think there would still be some resale value after 4 years otherwize it might not be a great purchase for us.