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I purchased my 2007 Toyota Prado from Peter Kittle Toyota in SA, traded my petrol Grande for a diesel Grande,
From the first day I picked up the car it was the most miserable experience and the worst money I have ever spent in my life. I bought a dud. Lucky for me I spent $1200 on Toyota extended care warranty which has just run out. And this car is just about to cost me my marriage. My wife said to me back then when I traded my almost new petrol Prado that cost me $65k to the diesel $75k model, WHY do you need this diesel car, just keep the petrol model. My father always said to me Listen to the woman, BUT never do what they tell you to do. Well this time I should have.
The start of my problems with this car.
1. No power, so I took it to Bill Buckle Toyota here on Sydney's Northern Beaches, they advised that I had tampered with the injectors, and it caused the injector to fall into the engine which has caused (GET THIS) $20k worth of damage to the motor, well <Profanity, removed by Admin>! ....$65k and now another $20k your kidding I said to the service manager. nonetheless after it sat in their work shop for 6 weeks yes guys that's right 6 weeks and calls every day to them asking about the warranty, they said they had never seen this happen and they said that I tampered with it so warranty would not cover it. So I said to this imbecile. I was as furious as <Profanity, removed by Admin>, if its not fixed in 5 days I'm going to do something that Toyota regrets. Bang 3 days later it was sorted, Toyota warranty fixed this problem. They said it is like as new, I said we'll for the amount of money I paid it would want to be.
2. After leaving the workshop, I noticed some lights come on the dash and thought nothing of it, these lights were ABS/ VSC TRC / VSC OFF/ traction control etc. so I left it for the weekend and decided to call them on the Monday and let them know. They said bring it back and they would reset the computer, all done, and another week later the lights started flashing again. Back to Toyota, and they started blaming me for installing a new ARB Sahara Bar, Lights, diff locks, new suspension, Anderson plug, compressor, inverter, you name it they wrote it down and showed me the problem code which was wiring.
I was fuming that they again started putting the blame on me. Any way it wasn't affecting my car, other than having none of the above functions working, it really didn't worry me, the lights were coming on and off like their was a short somewhere.
2 years on and I went to engage REVERSE and I needed to use SHIFTLOCK, and now is a every day episode. Same Toyota service at BIll Buckle Toyota has told me it is a wiring problem and comes from all my accessories, 2 days out of warranty.
Any way after all that I decided to take it away from this service centre to another Toyota dealer still on he same page they said it was a malfunction with the (GET THIS) common rail wiring lume which would probable cost around $1900. I asked for them to speak with Toyota Warranty and they declined, so now I'm up <Profanity, removed by Admin>, creek again.
This week I took it to bill buckle Toyota for the 70000km service, and pink slip for rego, they declined the pink slip because of the lights coming up on the dash and said I needed to get this repaired, at Toyotas rate of $132 per hr and not knowing if it can be resolved.
What a bunch of <Profanity, removed by Admin>, .
I want every one to know, DO NOT BUY A TOYOTA PRADO they are the biggest heap of <Profanity, removed by Admin>, that I have every come across, and Toyotas lies and and deceiving attitude make out as it is the consumers fault.....
SHAME ON YOU TOYOTA.
I will make sure that I will contact every authority possible to make the whole of Australia know what Toyota and their employees do to the people of Australia.
From the first day I picked up the car it was the most miserable experience and the worst money I have ever spent in my life. I bought a dud. Lucky for me I spent $1200 on Toyota extended care warranty which has just run out. And this car is just about to cost me my marriage. My wife said to me back then when I traded my almost new petrol Prado that cost me $65k to the diesel $75k model, WHY do you need this diesel car, just keep the petrol model. My father always said to me Listen to the woman, BUT never do what they tell you to do. Well this time I should have.
The start of my problems with this car.
1. No power, so I took it to Bill Buckle Toyota here on Sydney's Northern Beaches, they advised that I had tampered with the injectors, and it caused the injector to fall into the engine which has caused (GET THIS) $20k worth of damage to the motor, well <Profanity, removed by Admin>! ....$65k and now another $20k your kidding I said to the service manager. nonetheless after it sat in their work shop for 6 weeks yes guys that's right 6 weeks and calls every day to them asking about the warranty, they said they had never seen this happen and they said that I tampered with it so warranty would not cover it. So I said to this imbecile. I was as furious as <Profanity, removed by Admin>, if its not fixed in 5 days I'm going to do something that Toyota regrets. Bang 3 days later it was sorted, Toyota warranty fixed this problem. They said it is like as new, I said we'll for the amount of money I paid it would want to be.
2. After leaving the workshop, I noticed some lights come on the dash and thought nothing of it, these lights were ABS/ VSC TRC / VSC OFF/ traction control etc. so I left it for the weekend and decided to call them on the Monday and let them know. They said bring it back and they would reset the computer, all done, and another week later the lights started flashing again. Back to Toyota, and they started blaming me for installing a new ARB Sahara Bar, Lights, diff locks, new suspension, Anderson plug, compressor, inverter, you name it they wrote it down and showed me the problem code which was wiring.
I was fuming that they again started putting the blame on me. Any way it wasn't affecting my car, other than having none of the above functions working, it really didn't worry me, the lights were coming on and off like their was a short somewhere.
2 years on and I went to engage REVERSE and I needed to use SHIFTLOCK, and now is a every day episode. Same Toyota service at BIll Buckle Toyota has told me it is a wiring problem and comes from all my accessories, 2 days out of warranty.
Any way after all that I decided to take it away from this service centre to another Toyota dealer still on he same page they said it was a malfunction with the (GET THIS) common rail wiring lume which would probable cost around $1900. I asked for them to speak with Toyota Warranty and they declined, so now I'm up <Profanity, removed by Admin>, creek again.
This week I took it to bill buckle Toyota for the 70000km service, and pink slip for rego, they declined the pink slip because of the lights coming up on the dash and said I needed to get this repaired, at Toyotas rate of $132 per hr and not knowing if it can be resolved.
What a bunch of <Profanity, removed by Admin>, .
I want every one to know, DO NOT BUY A TOYOTA PRADO they are the biggest heap of <Profanity, removed by Admin>, that I have every come across, and Toyotas lies and and deceiving attitude make out as it is the consumers fault.....
SHAME ON YOU TOYOTA.
I will make sure that I will contact every authority possible to make the whole of Australia know what Toyota and their employees do to the people of Australia.
Up there with the best vehicle I've had, 200k haven't had a issue (touch wood) put a clutch in it when I bought it at 89k that's about it. I must of got a good one
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