Thread: fantastic stripdown of 300 series Landcruiser.

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Originally Posted by loanrangie

Plenty of $130k cruisers towing $100k+ boats or vans.

I was at Yanakie and Wilson's Prom last week and I'd guesstimate most of the 4WD and caravan combos in the caravan park would've been been $150k or more: I was at Port Welshpool a couple of years ago and the 4WD and boat combos would've been about the same, and there were dozens of them parked near the slipway.

I'm obviously in the wrong industry, because I'm working out at the moment if I can afford a second-hand kayak.

And I'm continually surprised that people spend $90k on an LC200 and then chop it up to make a twin cab ute.

And I'm continually surprised that people spend $90k on an LC200 and then chop it up to make a twin cab ute.

This doesn't surprise me at all.
The stretch conversion usually comes with a GVM upgrade which at the end of the day gives you a twincab ute with a full sized tray that you can load up to the hilt and still tow 3.5t with.
A Perfect 4WD for towing and touring and as there is nothing "stock" on the market that can match it the stretch conversion makes perfect sense

Originally Posted by Arapiles

Well, according to this - see "Sales by region in 2018" further down the page - we're the third biggest market globally with 46,000 Land Cruisers being sold, which includes all variants and not just the LC200. NB, total sales of all variants are stated to be 400,000, not sales of the LC200.

You'll also note the relatively tiny sales in North America.

This is what I thought would be the situation.

I find it very unlikely that 400K LC200's ... a fairly expensive vehicle, would be selling at 1/4 the rate of the small cheap Corolla, which worldwide sales ended up at 1.6m units.

Tins the body will probably still be available, the new body has been stalled for a few months with covid and other considerations so as we intend to travel this year it will be in the latter half before anything gets done ;-))

Originally Posted by Arapiles

Well, according to this - see "Sales by region in 2018" further down the page - we're the third biggest market globally with 46,000 Land Cruisers being sold, which includes all variants and not just the LC200. NB, total sales of all variants are stated to be 400,000, not sales of the LC200.

Cumulative Global Sales of the Toyota Land Cruiser Series Surpass 10 Million Units | Toyota | Global Newsroom | Toyota Motor Corporation Official Global Website

You'll also note the relatively tiny sales in North America.

Ok by that data,which is out of data and close to 4 yrs old,I stand to be corrected,away ATM,I have some other data at home.

Did you notice sales in Africa were lower than North America,which is interesting?

But any data for last couple of years is probably irrelevant due to Covid,etc,etc.

FWIW,last year LR’s sales plummeted to around 420000 from around 650000 vehicles a couple of years before and a record for the manufacturer,which is not good,but Covid,etc etc,would have been a major issue no doubt.
Evoke being the biggest seller,followed very closely by New Deefer.

Originally Posted by scarry

The local tilt tray guy here told me without European vehicle brands they wouldn’t have a business……


As for oil leaks every single LR I ever had,bought new,went for warranty work to repair an oil leak,with the Puma the worse by a country mile,followed by the D2’s.
Even the D4 had leaking power steering hoses,leaking oil from the fuel cooler that was located in the valley of the engine,and on it goes.EAS air leaks,well we won’t go there.
Still waiting for one of the Tojos we have to leak oil,and some of them have done huge mileage.

If you look at actual numbers of vehicles sold compared with number of issues,the Jap and Korean vehicles will have the least by a country mile,that is a very well documented fact.

Fuel cooler in the valley and cooled by oil??
My fuel cooler is in front and below with the 3.0 engine and is air cooled.
Do you mean engine oil cooler/oil filter assy where the "O" rings can leak when they go rock hard due to oil temp/ O ring age breakdown.

Originally Posted by Discodicky

Fuel cooler in the valley and cooled by oil??
My fuel cooler is in front and below with the 3.0 engine and is air cooled.
Do you mean engine oil cooler/oil filter assy where the "O" rings can leak when they go rock hard due to oil temp/ O ring age breakdown.

Yes,someone is onto it

Bugga of a job,and once the job is in progress there are lots of other little things that needed replacing as well.

Originally Posted by PhilipA

Yeah , terrible cars.
That is why they are worthless.
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Regards PhilipA

My old Calais Director, my XY P3 and a few others were pretty crap purchases at the time.

Held their value too! Doesn’t make them a really good car (none of them were)



There’s even people out there that will pay for defect stamps, coins etc…. So the human factor doesn’t show how good something really is.