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I am tempted to fit a good full size bar to the front.
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Sorry to piss in the bonfire, but weren't they banned a few years ago in the UK, for safety reasons? - something to do with the pedestrian lobby?
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This car is sold as a Prado in Australia. I have an '06 model except it has a 4 litre petrol engine. Be very careful replacing the front struts with aftermarket units from TJM, I had one snap in two and the whole front corner of the vehicle dropped down onto the rubber bump stop on a recent outback trip. Of course it was miles from anywhere when it happened approx. 100km South West of Innanincka in South Australia. The second strut broke 60km from home at the end of a 6000km trip.
TJM's national dealer network was useless. The car now sports ARB struts and springs. All up the temp repairs, tow truck and replacement springs cost me near on $2000.00 AUD.
BEWARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Apart from that little hiccup the car has been fantastic, covering many bush miles and as a daily commuter to work on the black top. You can hardly feel the auto box shifting.
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This car is sold as a Prado in Australia. I have an '06 model except it has a 4 litre petrol engine. Be very careful replacing the front struts with aftermarket units from TJM, I had one snap in two and the whole front corner of the vehicle dropped down onto the rubber bump stop on a recent outback trip. Of course it was miles from anywhere when it happened approx. 100km South West of Innanincka in South Australia. The second strut broke 60km from home at the end of a 6000km trip.
TJM's national dealer network was useless. The car now sports ARB struts and springs. All up the temp repairs, tow truck and replacement springs cost me near on $2000.00 AUD.
BEWARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Apart from that little hiccup the car has been fantastic, covering many bush miles and as a daily commuter to work on the black top. You can hardly feel the auto box shifting.
Glen
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Hi Loxy,
Thats a real let down in both senses of the word. 
Sure wouldn't like to be out in the bush when that sort of stuff breaks on you.:confused1:
I am inclined to just leave the suspension just as it is.
I had thought about perhaps a 1 inch body lift, but now I think just some taller tyres perhaps.
The LC3 already rides quite high, so perhaps NO to a body lift.
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Fuel
Is that vehicle going to manage the extra low grade dirty diesel in Africa? just be careful with the filters etc etc.
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Is that vehicle going to manage the extra low grade dirty diesel in Africa? just be careful with the filters etc etc.
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Hi Surfer,
I understand the standard fuel filter on European diesels is 5 micron, at best.
Good point !!!
It may be worth it for me to fit an additional in-line filter of perhaps say 10 micron, to catch the crud, before it gets to the fitted vehicle filter and blocks it.
As an off-topic comment, my son-in-law, runs his '97 Toyota Surf on 50 % veg oil, (new and used depending on what he can get) and 50% pump diesel.
It is all mixed and cycled through a 200 liter drum and a 1 micron filter. Pump delivers 200 gallons / hour so filtered for 1 hour ensures a 5x pass through the filters.
He hasn't had a problem in over 3 years, and only once changed the filter about 2 years ago.
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Sorry to piss in the bonfire, but weren't they banned a few years ago in the UK, for safety reasons? - something to do with the pedestrian lobby? "
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"No.
Just after new vehicles registered after May 2007."
Assuming we are talking bull bars here, how sure are you about that statement. My understand of the ban is that it is illegal to manuafacture or / and fit bull bars to any vehicle after the date the ban came in and punishable with up to a £20k fine and up to I think a year in prison. I looked quite closely at it because after 8 years of no problems, I cleverly bent my bull bar two days are the origonal ban go live date. The two exceptions I found was 1) I can replace mine with a new one because its an accident repair and therefore exempt as I can show I already had one prior to the ban coming into force 2) I believe the ban got postponed because of issues but don't know until when.
Anybody know anything else on this?
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Just after new vehicles registered after May 2007.
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