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  1. 18th March 2014, 05:50 PM #1
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    Good come backs for Toyota loving mechanic mate.

    G'day all.
    Here I was hosting one of my good mates birthday celebrations last Saturday. All was going good until he mentioned he was looking at buying a 100 series landcruiser and that it is the best most durable 4wd ever made and that I should sell my Disco and get one." Land Rovers are expensive unreliable POS and that's coming from 20 years fixing cars". D3 and D4 are utter crap. I told him about the utterly dangerous IFS and ****weak front diff, weak manual box, no unlocked low range ect. Laughed it off. According to him, anything not Jap is unreliable and too expensive to own. But he recons Volvo's are in the same boat so I know he's full of it. So LR brothers, I'm looking for some factual (mechanical) and quirky come backs that I can fire at my Toyota brainwashed mate ( who is a good mate ). So brothers (and sisters) lets have em!!
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  2. 18th March 2014, 06:00 PM #2
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    Toyotas are reliable in the same way my microwave is reliable, they're both an appliance. Useful, but not exciting at all.
    If that's his attitude, don't bother trying to sell him on the merits of our trusty steeds. He won't be swayed, and he doesn't deserve to.
    So smile, nod, have a quiet chuckle. And enjoy the superiority of owning a green oval off-road legend as opposed to a jap microwave car.
    Or just say "I'd rather push my land rover than drive a toyota"
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  3. 18th March 2014, 06:06 PM #3
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    Take him out 4wding...
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  4. 18th March 2014, 06:08 PM #4
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    You seem to have already pointed out the 100`s weak points, now you just have to get him on your local firetrails & let your Disco finish him off. But do try to help him find a live axle 100 as no-one would let a friend buy one with that constantly sagging (could have something to do with excess weight) IFS.
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  5. 18th March 2014, 06:09 PM #5
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    If he doesn't get it by now, then don't bother explaining it to him.
    You'd be wasting your breath.
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  6. 18th March 2014, 06:42 PM #6
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    as I say to mates with Toyota's if you reengineer something you copied for 50 years with little to no improvement then it is beyond to be as reliable as a rock but they ride like one too

    I have a friend with an 80 series they use as a tow tug for there race car which has been towed home 3 or 4 times this year from head gasket to latest being the steering box failing.
    I just had to say buy a Toyota they said it will be reliable they said.
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  7. 18th March 2014, 06:44 PM #7
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    just if he plans to buy share in oil company. because most of them will use a sump of oil in a few months once over 60ks
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  8. 18th March 2014, 06:48 PM #8
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    I know where you're coming from but aren't you succumbing to the
    "Jap vehicles are better than anything else"
    "British vehicles are better than anything else"
    After all..................a complex is a complex.
    I know I have an inferiority complex when out in the D1.
    Everyone is inferior to me (except for other Landies, of course)
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  9. 18th March 2014, 06:57 PM #9
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    May be swap cars when out bush next! Then let him out drive you
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  10. 18th March 2014, 07:06 PM #10
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    I can't say about 100 series but my son has a LC200 (approx. 96K from memory) which has caused him grief although it was eventually fixed.
    Firstly the thing had to have the suspension upgraded to tow his boat plus carry him and a couple of mates with scuba gear. Around 5K plus an engineers certificate.
    When he complained about the galloping oil consumption he was told "it's a high tech vehicle and you have to accept this"!!!!!! I thought new manufacturing standards made things better not worse?
    Then after just a week away at work it wouldn't move out of his gently sloping driveway but was told this was quite normal although his much older Rangie took off straight away.
    Apparently you have to wait for oil pressure to build up before attempting to drive off.....
    Eventually Tojo decided to do something about it (I think he had to use Consumer Affairs WA to prod them) and he took it to a main dealer but not the one he bought it from because they were useless.
    3 MONTHS later he got it back with a new transmission and modified engine and now he's happy with it.
    They did provide him with a Pajero for use during the 3 months which apparently cost them 3.5K per month,
    Bullet proof, totally reliable? I don't think so but they are loved by many although I can't see the attraction.
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