Thread: LC200 using 5 litres of oil per 10000 kms

Hi guys,

IMHO, I think all new car makers need to tighten up when it comes to warranty and faults issues, horror and good stories come out of all makes, some ridiculous, some not so.

Tojo made the decision clean enough for prospective buyers when they dropped the standard model for the 200 series, if you want a bushable towing vehicle go buy a 79 series, if you want the toorak tractor, the 200 is your bus. The other thing to bear in mind is that Tojo make vehicles for a "truly" globalized market, where the 200 would better suit the SUV market in the US than it does here.

Although they confused the situation a bit when they added crawl and hill descent, not an off road vehicle eh?

Look on the bright side...................if he changes the oil every 5k it will only use half the oil



Cheers Andy

It could be worse it could be a cummins.
I have herd of up to almost 40 lts over 20000k, (worst case)
but 25+ is common per 20000k service.
Cummins clame 20lt is accepable, over that they rebuild under warranty.
The cat c15 i drive has 910000km and has not had an extra drop
put in between services in its life.

Andrew

'93 200tdi disco
'65 "88 s2a

ps the tdi at 250000 uses no extra eather.

Originally Posted by PhilipA

As explained to me by the mechanic at Mataranka,

Allan at Willy's Autos? Good bloke, I am working about a 3.5 hour drive from there at the moment.

I know 2 guys that have 200 Toyos and they hate them with a passion, high oil consumption and around 28-30litres/100 (towing).


Martyn

My boss has one and in 40000km he has used 18L of oil and plus he has been back to get the yail shaft replaced

Toyota told him that the high useage of oil is normal and it will reduce over time

Adam

This oil consumption reminds me of the first aeroplane I owned - an Auster with a Gipsy Major engine (six litres, 145hp, 108kw) - permissible oil consumption range was a minimum of one quart per hour up to a maximum of one gallon per hour. From memory, it actually used about two. The rather small luggage compartment was mostly occupied by two or three one gallon tins of oil. My memory suggests the engine held eleven gallons of oil. Most of the oil used ended up coating the bottom of the fuselage.

John

Originally Posted by JDNSW

This oil consumption reminds me of the first aeroplane I owned - an Auster with a Gipsy Major engine (six litres, 145hp, 108kw) - permissible oil consumption range was a minimum of one quart per hour up to a maximum of one gallon per hour. From memory, it actually used about two. The rather small luggage compartment was mostly occupied by two or three one gallon tins of oil. My memory suggests the engine held eleven gallons of oil. Most of the oil used ended up coating the bottom of the fuselage.

John

Via the exhaust or ala Land Rover?