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My Pajero was the 2500 Diesel with 67,000 ks on the clock, And I had it about a month and I had just started a new job and I had to work a month in hand, I was on my way to work doing overtime early on a sunday morning and I had it booked in to get the cam belt changed on the following Thursday and the little devil snapped, It was a newly imported on from Japan with every possible extra on it being the Exceed Model, so that ended up at the wreckers, Bought it for about 6.5k and sold it for 300 bucks, It's a shame because it was like new, not a mark on it.
They sell the Maloo and the Monaro over here, I don't like UK cars, In OZ I had my own panel shop and my own mechanical workshop so I was always building V8's for people,
The landrovers are a pain too, the TD5 has a little "O"ring that seals the fuel system to the sensor and if it goes it sucks diesel up in to the sensor and shorts it out and then you end up with computer problems,
The Landrover Freelander is a real dog, I had the top of the line 2002, 2 litre petrol model and the overflow bottle split anyway it did the head gaskit in so 3500 bucks later I got it back and within 2000 miles it died again, when they changed the head gaskit the never checked the Valves and where it had over heated it had managed to bend a valve on number 3 cylinder, seeing as It all had just been fixed, I never though it could be the valves, Landrover said it was dirty fuel or a blocked fuel pump , well the fuel pump in those is under the driverside rear passengers seat under a plate and the whole unit sits in the fuel tank, So First I swapped the filter in the pump that didn't help and then I changed the whole pump and then all the injectors, and everything that Landrover said it was Was wrong, so I thought bugga this and gave it a compression test, Sure enough all the others were reading about 270 psi and number 3 was reading 132 psi, so again I phoned the wreckers to come and get it, That only had 56,000 miles on the clock too and that engine is a 2 litre Honda motor, The later models had a BMW engine in them, but what ever you do don't touch the freelanders with the 1.8 or the 2.0 litre motors in them because they are the same engines/Blocks but they are junk, Landrover knew that it was the overflow bottles causing this yet they did not recall any of the cars to fix the problem, they just let people run in to strife and then sell them a replacement overflow bottle. Damn thing was just on it's second set of Tyres too, they hadn't done 3000 miles yet.,
Landcruiser are not an option here because they don't import the Troopy's over here and they only way you can get one is if it is what they call "A Grey Import" which is an excuse for the insurance companies to rip you off and the Toyota Dealers won't fix them because they did not make any money because it was imported, So I asked them well considering these vehicles are made for crossing continents How on earth is a person how has crossed the continent supposed to get their truck fixed, So they then tried to tell me that because it was an import "ALL" the Tools were different
So I told em they were talking Bol***ks, along with that they did not have a clue what they were talking about, Lol.
So my options are either a Jeep Cherokee or Cherokee Sport, an Isuzu or a Pajero, and ever since Top Gear did a show about the Hi-Lux the prices of them are right out of the park.
John.
They sell the Maloo and the Monaro over here, I don't like UK cars, In OZ I had my own panel shop and my own mechanical workshop so I was always building V8's for people,
The landrovers are a pain too, the TD5 has a little "O"ring that seals the fuel system to the sensor and if it goes it sucks diesel up in to the sensor and shorts it out and then you end up with computer problems,
The Landrover Freelander is a real dog, I had the top of the line 2002, 2 litre petrol model and the overflow bottle split anyway it did the head gaskit in so 3500 bucks later I got it back and within 2000 miles it died again, when they changed the head gaskit the never checked the Valves and where it had over heated it had managed to bend a valve on number 3 cylinder, seeing as It all had just been fixed, I never though it could be the valves, Landrover said it was dirty fuel or a blocked fuel pump , well the fuel pump in those is under the driverside rear passengers seat under a plate and the whole unit sits in the fuel tank, So First I swapped the filter in the pump that didn't help and then I changed the whole pump and then all the injectors, and everything that Landrover said it was Was wrong, so I thought bugga this and gave it a compression test, Sure enough all the others were reading about 270 psi and number 3 was reading 132 psi, so again I phoned the wreckers to come and get it, That only had 56,000 miles on the clock too and that engine is a 2 litre Honda motor, The later models had a BMW engine in them, but what ever you do don't touch the freelanders with the 1.8 or the 2.0 litre motors in them because they are the same engines/Blocks but they are junk, Landrover knew that it was the overflow bottles causing this yet they did not recall any of the cars to fix the problem, they just let people run in to strife and then sell them a replacement overflow bottle. Damn thing was just on it's second set of Tyres too, they hadn't done 3000 miles yet.,
Landcruiser are not an option here because they don't import the Troopy's over here and they only way you can get one is if it is what they call "A Grey Import" which is an excuse for the insurance companies to rip you off and the Toyota Dealers won't fix them because they did not make any money because it was imported, So I asked them well considering these vehicles are made for crossing continents How on earth is a person how has crossed the continent supposed to get their truck fixed, So they then tried to tell me that because it was an import "ALL" the Tools were different
So I told em they were talking Bol***ks, along with that they did not have a clue what they were talking about, Lol.So my options are either a Jeep Cherokee or Cherokee Sport, an Isuzu or a Pajero, and ever since Top Gear did a show about the Hi-Lux the prices of them are right out of the park.
John.
