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This has been going on for so long, when the S11a was released and the Tojo came along, shortly followed by the Patrol, the Tojo and patrol both in 3 speed with atrocious suspension the arguments around the bbq started.
I was in Darwin then and everyone used to 'live' under their house , the yarns were only ever about Land Rover v Toyota v Patrol.....the size of barramundi you caught last w/e.....the size of the crocodile you saw on the Mary......and whether your marinated buffalo was hotter than the stuff your mate cooked.
Nothings changed has it?
All my previous Land Rovers have been very reliable, but being a mechanic, I do check them over often. I've also had a GQ patrol TD42 and an 80 series 1HD-FT and both had more go wrong with them. The disco 300Tdi is better to drive than either of them were and it's got 100,000 more km's on the odo. I know when I had my Landcruiser, when things went wrong I convinced myself that I must have gotten a one-off lemon. Most people don't believe me when I tell them the mighty 1HD-FT was no quicker than the 300Tdi. They freak out when I tell them it dropped a collet causing an engine rebuild totalling $17000. I told my wife the major thing that could go wrong in the disco is probably the auto at this age and that it might cost $3000. But then I told her that's about the cost of a set of injectors for a Prado which are a common repair and she felt a lot better.
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