Most of the complaints against most car companies are trivial like phones not Bluetoothing or stuff needing resetting. Mechanical reliability issues are unusual.
Most of the complaints against most car companies are trivial like phones not Bluetoothing or stuff needing resetting. Mechanical reliability issues are unusual.
Mick, you have been bloody lucky with your automotive electronics if that is your opinion. Since the first electronic ignition systems in the 1970's to todays all electronic singing and dancing cars I have had a right royal rooting from auto. electronics. Numerous failures requiring tilt traying to a dealership. Great fun when sailing down a highway in the middle of the night when the thing just stops many miles from help, or, stops in a six lane main road at peak hour.
Much of the stuff fitted to new cars can be classed as selling tools so salesmen can have a ****ing contest. "Ours has this, this, this, and theirs doesn't". Many items can be classed as possibly nice to have but unnecessary.
URSUSMAJOR
OK fascinating. This link Central Tire Inflation System | HowStuffWorks needs to be read in detail but it's easy to understand. The key to making this system work is the rim. QED that means nothing but an OE rim will ever be available for this system and that may, repeat may, prejudice tyre choice for us that like to drive off bitumen. As well the tyre choice, depends on rim design, may also become quite vehicle specific. For me the homily of "be careful what you wish for" applies to this piece of technology.
Don't get me wrong I have used them in my defence career and they work really well. But the rim and vehicle type are all engineered around continuous mobility regardless of conditions so that sort of engineering requirement makes for a very different vehicle compared to something commercially available. Yes I know heavy vehicles have them but the same logic applies. You also don't do a lot of airing up and down either whereas on a typical outback trip we would carry out that process probably around 100 times depending on where and why.
The USA market will love it as unless the duck changes this they are heading towards legislating for systems like this across the board
Give me the choice
Rob
They are based on recalls per year usually, i think for such a complicated car 3 free recalls during a year is not to bad, usually carried out during service.
Toyota Land Cruiser Recalls by Year - Toyota Problems
Says over 2x per year for cruiser.
I remember reading its around 3x for the new vogue, pretty fair considering how much more car you get.
200 Cruiser has suffered from engines using oil, dirt in engine via airbox leading to limp mode, cv joints clunking. They are also very expensive when things need replacing Why I SOLD my 200 Series Twin Turbo Diesel !
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