What did you do to your 120 today?

[mick_tissa]

Hey Mick, did you see Whitey's Ironman group buy?

http://www.pradopoint.com.au/showthr...-Pro-Group-Buy

The same shocks that you have, but revalved exactly for the Prado.

Haha oh no I missed it.... that sucks, I should jump on line more often lol, I took the plunge as they where having a Sale when I went in for a quote and the shockers looked tough and I liked the idea of being able to adjust the front struts. I will start reading through all the threads tonight, thanks for the info.

[photoprado]

I just had fitted a 2" lift kit by Ironman, I had 3 damaged shockers and my coils had sagged a fair amount, so I'm very happy with the result so far as it has raised it over 100mm from where she used to sit. I had decided to have the performance TOY055BKP1 kit fitted, the front struts are adjustable and the shocker are foam filled. There service here in Adelaide was excellent too. I will add some photos soon, I just need to work out how to do it first lol.

Hey Mick, did you see Whitey's Ironman group buy?

http://www.pradopoint.com.au/showthr...-Pro-Group-Buy

The same shocks that you have, but revalved exactly for the Prado.

[mick_tissa]

I just had fitted a 2" lift kit by Ironman, I had 3 damaged shockers and my coils had sagged a fair amount, so I'm very happy with the result so far as it has raised it over 100mm from where she used to sit. I had decided to have the performance TOY055BKP1 kit fitted, the front struts are adjustable and the shocker are foam filled. There service here in Adelaide was excellent too. I will add some photos soon, I just need to work out how to do it first lol.

[Wtrxprs007]

after driving without an interior for a while , i finally put it all back together. looks nice and new again

[Ribman]

My girl has had a few things in the last 2/52.
Full service;
Brake pads, and took the time to get the slotted rotors put on the front while available;
front bearings;
Mickey MTZ 265/70/17;
rear spacer (thanks AMTS) when the rear tyre wouldn't fit properly afterwards;
rear tyre cover (cause the old one wouldn't fit anymore);
rhino pioneer platform, standard awning off one side, clevershade off the other;
winch cable off, rope in;
front shocks;
rear draws and barrier;
wiring for fridge;
new fridge;
new drop slide (cause the fridge is now too high on the draws);
wiring for USB power in the second row, so the kids can charge on the road (instead of pushing things forward for me to do for them);
Spot gen 3 (thanks Craig).

Almost done.

[foxclan]

At 200,000+ kms you've putting in long life plugs? - Are you aiming for a full lap of the odometer!!
Only 787,679 to go...

Yep she'll do it!

[120D4D]

At 212320km changed the spark plugs for some Denso Iridium long life units, p/n. SK20HR11
Also gave the MAF sensor a clean.
Cheers
Troy

At 200,000+ kms you've putting in long life plugs? - Are you aiming for a full lap of the odometer!!
Only 787,679 to go...

[Hobes]

Hey James.
How is it.
I am very surprised by it audio quality, nice to have big screen to look at torque and maps with.
Does it do all you wanted.
Yes and there is obviously a lot more it can do still looking for a offline map app for off road stuff, will adding a DVR over the next few weeks.
Is it easy to use.
Yes and damn it starts fast.
Does it have any quirks.
The AM had to have its booster connected up to work as the aepro kit did not do this, but what surprised me was how easy it is to pull out and replace headunit in the Prado. So far once it crashed while using torque and answering phone call but I updated torque and it never happened again. Also I am a novice at Android so there is probably a bunch of features I have not got my head around yet.
Can you read it in sun.
Yes, the original unit was more affected by sun,even sunlight directly over head is no concern as it sits proud from dash.
Adjust screen up/down.
You can only articulate the screen on its hinge pretty much to put a DVD in, there is enough movement for me to find my spot.

Several guys I know are looking at purchasing one but are concerned at price, in my opinion they are cheap as hell (through eBay) and actually have great warranty compared to other name brand units.
Cheers.

[foxclan]

At 212320km changed the spark plugs for some Denso Iridium long life units, p/n. SK20HR11
Also gave the MAF sensor a clean.
Cheers
Troy

[Razorback81]

Well after much searching went with a shock/horror not a Toyota Prado Specific unit, it is a xtrons unit http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/10-1-Octa...item2125f7a7d8 comes with some apps on it. Fitted a rear view camera and honestly that was the hardest part the double din head unit took about 10 mins to switch out, I did buy the Toyota to Din quick connects thru Aepro but unit is awesome and looks good in dash. The only thing I would add is because screen is large is when fitting sort of adjust it so it is pointed to the driver as much as possible it did it straight at first and after installing realised and quickly adjusted agian, also use a pillow to let the entire assembled rest without straining wire etc when switching units. I brought mine on a fleabay 20% off deal which come up often. Now just trying to get my head around android operating system.












Hopefully these images are the correct size.
Also fitted this rear view camera installed in license plate light but while it does see behind you is obviously off centre in this position will fit a different one later as close to centre as possible. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/112231396...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Hey Hobes
after having the unit for a while now
how is it?
does it do all you wanted ?
is it easy to use?
does it have any funky quirks ?
can you read the screen in the sun ?
can you adjust the screen ? up & down ?

cheers James

[Wtrxprs007]

fitted the 20" slim light bar and throttle controller from 4wdsupacentre.

[LowRange]

Today i fitted up a Direction Plus 30 Micron fuel manager kit as a pre-filter. Installation was very simple, no swear words required.

[Wtrxprs007]

so a bit has happened to the 120 in the past month. hit a tree while on the tracks, got that repaired through insurance (will be posting damage photos soon), then gave her a 190k service, then bought and installed the new superpro upper arms to get wheel alignments back in good shape (handles a lot better now and havn't gotten an alignment yet).

today took her back out on the tracks and did alright for the state of the tyres on it at the moment.

coming soon is a throttle controller from supercentre and their new slim lightbar.

[TCT888]

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[LowRange]

The original 120 series rims had a lot of corrosion and looked pretty ordinary. So i bought some 150 series rims and ordered 5 Pirelli Scorpion ATR in 265/65/R17 at $224 a piece from Tyresales.com.au and had them fitted today.

This is how they look on the 120 if anyone is considering doing this: