Thread: My passion , my business, but GRRRR!

It is your call, HERE is a place to start about Japanese cars.

Get a BMW motorcycle and will be the end of problems

Well its not often that a vendor has a day in the life of their customers !!

About 15 years ago I got sick of breaking & spending all my money on LandRovers, ratio of drive them time to fix them time was about 1:2

then I went to Jap Land , 40 series, 80 series 100 series , ratio of drive time to fix time = 100:1 , very reliable , but no character , no soul , the phrase 'whitegoods' is often bandied about. and I forgot how to swing spanners.

Now I'm back in a Landy, I dont regret my Toyota time one bit, but I do have a true appreciation of how fantastic the Td5 Defender is.

Well just went out to the misbehaving so and so!!
In High range it clicks into gear, but no movement.
tried it in low range and reverse is ok. So what gives???

umm, isnt ZF zee Germans??

These toyo owners are bitter!
Toyota Landcruiser 200 Series- "Oh what a lemon......"

Jarwohl, ze Germans are capable of producing short-lived rubbish if they feel like it. Or if building down to a price / expectation...

Appliances are good. They work every time. Japs are good at building appliances. Jap appliances are generally more reliable than other appliances... My late Crown appliance had a perfect auto. that had never been 'serviced' in its 350K+.
My other ($9,000 imported 1989) Mazda appliance (written off at 417K) had a perfect manual gearbox, still easy and NO lack of synchro... and the original clutch, despite the last 15K driven by a 'clutch-slipper'. Every switch still works, including headlight beam-switch (That was a low blow...) Drove perfectly straight, no wandering or vices... Original disc rotors and calipers.
And all the door mechanisms work perfectly. - More than I can say about my 1995 / $95,000 RR Classic.

You have my sympathies, I understand your sense of betrayal and disappointment...

Bad behaviour should never be rewarded, which is why, IMHO, a Rover V8 with slipped liners should always be replaced with another brand of engine, NEVER re-built. - The same treatment where possible with any other parts...


And yes, some Jap vehicles do have "character", Being reliable means that you don't notice a change in behaviour, so you need to listen & feel more closely...

Late Edit:- Oh what a Lemon... seems that Toyota are'nt Japanese any more... Never heard that kind of warranty rubbish and duck-shoving relating to Mazda or Mitsubishi.

Anyway, Toyota owners must be wusses... Myold petrol VW Passat had a factory-acceptable oil use of 0.5 to 1.5 litres per thousand km. - Said so in the owner's handbook. - At least they told you ....

Originally Posted by Chucaro

It is your call, HERE is a place to start about Japanese cars.

Get a BMW motorcycle and will be the end of problems

For a little balance, 'land rover recalls' search results - productcompare.com.au

but character can't be manufactured, and I've never heard of a recall for too much of it.