If you have a engine oil light come on take it as serious,there has just been one at local dealer , 90,000kls ,completely striped the primary drive gear for the oil pump. This gear is a very bad design, just a round collar with two very small flat sides that do the drive, these rounded off.
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This was diesel, dont know about the petrol. All these sort of things are a result of building light weight high reving , hight torque motors, it comprimises reliability & durability.
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Be your self; there's no body better qualified ! "I came into this world with nothing , I still have most of it"
These vehicles are a real worry. You fellas go out and do all the homework to find the vehicle to do the job for you, and this sort of thing happens. It seems the manufacturers aren't being very honest about their machines and their performance. You buy a brand new, very expensive vehicle to do the job, and it lets you down. I'm convinced I'll stick with my truck for a while yet. Just like Just Cruisin', the oldies are still the goodies. My diesel truck has done 304,000 kms now, and she purrs all day towing Roma @ 85-90 KPH.
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20ft Roma caravan - Mercedes Benz Sprinter - SA-based at the moment. Transport has no borders.
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I am driving a 1992 80 series landcruiser. I can find nothing to replace it with that I would feel confident in. Add to Navara diesel woes, fuel injection defects with the common rail system. A guy I work with has a D22 Navara, just had $8500 worth of warranty work done on the system, and it now blows so much black smoke you would think it was an old tractor. Wal
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