Dust Entry into L/H Jack compartment

[clifton Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close clifton]

Hi Guys and Ladies,
This has been mentioned before somewhere briefly, but I will raise it again, if you have a Towpack fitted the plug wiring from the relay passes through not one but two rubber grommets the both of which were never popped into position by the installers on my new GXL allowing heaps of dust into the jack compartment and underbody compartments evetually bleeding out of the jack removable access panel.

The first grommet is about 50mm diam. and is located to the inner rear corner of the jack compartment, very hard to get access even with the jack removed but is possible to pop back into hole as it slides easily down the wiring loom.

The second grommet is also about 50mm diam. under the L/H rear, if you lie on the ground and look up, easy to get at but a bugger to pop into position I use a bit of spit/saliva around the sealing lips of the grommet to make fitting easier.

Their is also another grommet outboard of the lower one which I used for a Fog lamp mod stop/tail wiring which would also be worthwile checking.

No more dust ingestion! hope this helps

[robn Member Find all posts View Profile Close robn]

Thanks clifton

Where did you get the rubber gromets from?

Rob

[clifton Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close clifton]

The rubber grommets are Toyota As Ftted components.

[RUSTY Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close RUSTY]

Same here Clifton, Heaps of dust in the same area in my second hand prado.Who ever put the towbar on from new put the lower gromet on the wiring but forgot to push it into the hole , also the inner one is missing so i had to order one from toyota picking it up tomorrow. Have to work out how to run the plug threw the gromet(blanking plug)mite have to seal the hole i cut with silicone. There are also holes in a body panel that runs under the back of car witch leads to the area aswell, make sure you tape up the ones underneath and at the back of panel . Russell

[viper Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close viper]

Hi Fellas - picked up my VX two weeks ago and thanks to a tip off from Pradopoint found the same problem with not only the tow bar wiring but I also had the reversing sensors fitted by the dealer. Could see daylight looking down thru the jack compartment and found that they'd fed the the sensor loom up through the rear cabin air exhaust vent. Challenged the dealer about it and they gave me the installation instructions from Toyota that told them to do exactly that. I assumed that Mr Toyota wasnt going to clean the dust out of my car so I took the inner panel off and found a perfectly good hole (with a bung in it) just above the exhaust vent that was a perfect fit for the grommet the dealer left floating on the sensor loom. Would have taken the dealer 15 secs more to fit it throu there and saved me an hour and a half of fiddling about - but guess I wouldnt have found the mis-fitted tow bar grommets alonf the way.

[clifton Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close clifton]

I would love to meet the character writing the fitting instructions :evil: :evil: