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[EdgeDJ Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close EdgeDJ]

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Hi Folks,
I've been a "voyeur"of this site for 2 years and thought I should join. I don't own a Prado but I'm trying to convince the other half that's the way to go. :roll:
Work has had a couple for them though. 2 X 97 one base 2.7 and another tricked out V6 promo vehicle from our local Toyota Dealer. (had to hand it back... Dang!)
I would like a 120 with a 1KZ-TE. I'm interested in running homemade biodiesel (boo hiss I know). Its a hobby thing rather than a money thing.
Great to be a part of the awesome site.
Well done to all involved.

Matt

[pradohart Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close pradohart]

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Good afternoon
Just found this site and thought I would introduce myself
My call is Pradohart I own a 2007 dark grey D4D manual. it has ARB deluxe colour coded bar with a XD9000 winch and IPF lights. Front and rear lockers, piranah dual battery system, snorkel, OME 50mm lift. In the future I hope to get a rear bar of some sort and UHF radio

When I bought my Prado I said to the guy I want reversing Camera (great for hooking up the camper) and sensors and he asked me why do I want both. My reply is have you ever seen my wife in a shopping centre car park. Be that as it may 3 out of 4 corners have bark off
Pradohart

[Dulcie Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close Dulcie]

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Greetings All,

I can now legitimately put a posting on the site. I just ordered my new White SX 3 door Prado with Tow Bar.

Hopefully I'll get it soon, if they can locate a white one around Melbourne, otherwise I'll have to wait till it gets off the boat in 6 or so weeks time. Have never owned a 4wd before but my current car is a Toyota and I've never had a problem with it.

I've studied this forum for a few months now and have learnt stacks from all of you. There's a load of passion for Prados on this site and as newbie to 4wding, I really do appreciate all the candid conversations and at times brutal honesty with which everyone responds to the various subjects.

I'm beginning to realise that I naively thought the car was a bit expensive, hmmmm!
Looks like the accessories will keep me broke too!! :lol:

My beginning wish list is
Bull Bar
Dual Battery System
Snorkel
Recovery Kit - I suppose I should have put that first
All Terrain tyres
OME Nitrocharger Sport Shocks - are they as good as they say?

No doubt I'll add heaps more as I understand what I need for the great outdoors I'm about to tackle.

cheers
Dulcie

[Photographer Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close Photographer]

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Hi guys my name is John, I have just put down a deposit on a 120 series which I will pick up next Saturday. I've been driving an ST Patrol for the last 21 years and thought it was time to update.

As my handle indicates my passion is photography which fortunately is something I share with my (almost new) wife. We are heading to the Red Centre again in twelve weeks time and for this trip I have also ordered a new off road camper trailer which should be delivered just in time for an Easter trial.

Hope to learn heaps of tips in the forums and also impart my own knowledge regarding past travels or photography.

Model: GXL D4D Turbo diesel
Year: 2006
Colour: Silver
Accessories: Not much yet
Wishlist: Everything

[ntp Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close ntp]

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I have also ordered a new off road camper trailer which should be delivered just in time for an Easter trial.

Welcome John... :wink: what type of camper have you ordered?

my passion is photography which fortunately is something I share with my (almost new) wife.

:shock: :shock: :shock:

[Photographer Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close Photographer]

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Welcome John... :wink: what type of camper have you ordered?

Thank you for the welcome ntpryce, unfortunately money ran a little short after buying a RAV4 a few weeks ago and now the Prado so we had to settle for a soft floor Bush Boy Camper which is sold by Kangaroo Tent City. We were looking at a pre loved Kimberley Kamper but it sold before we could get to see it and with time running short we decided to buy a tent.

Well you know what happens when you walk into the store to buy a tent .....you come across a camper trailer .....you think about all the nights you have spent in a tent sleeping on an air mattress .... the you look at your wife and say what the hell it's only another 10k :wink:

[2Paint Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close 2Paint]

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Hey everyone,

My name is John been a long time guest to the site. So I have finally joined up, its a great forum with valuable info for all prado owners and people who are interested in this model.

A big thumbs up to the contributors to the site your knowledge & expertise is very informative and also to the moderators for doing a great job with the work you do with this site.

So thanks eveyone, hope you all have a good one!

[joey Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close joey]

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Welcome to all the new members...

enjoy the site....we do!!!!

joey 8)

[packhorse Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close packhorse]

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G'day out here in PP my name is Rob. I have only just signed up to this wonderful forum after spenting lots of time reading the posts. I have ordered a new 150 GXL on Tuesday. The salesrep said it would take 2-3 weeks but received an email from him yesterday advising that my Prado had arrived. When I rang him in shock he advised that the boat has come in early (I have my doubts but why complain). I should have it late next week. The important things at this stage are:

Model: 150 GXL Turbo diesel
Colour: Graphite (mid grey)
Automatic, as I spend a lot of time in traffic in Sydney
Accessories on delivery are just tint, towbar and protection option (paint, seats underbody).
To be fitting once I get my grubby mits on it will be the GMC UHF.
Cant go tricking it out to much as it is used for work and the boss would get annoyed. As he pays the bills I need to keep on his good side.

My current ride is a 2006 GXL turbo diesel that is being traded on the new one.

[Goose Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close Goose]

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Hey guys/gals

Bought the Prado about 6 months, and have been a silent member of prado point for most of that mostly reading up on the technical side.

Site has been a great resource of info and laughs, cheers to all.

Model: Prado 90 series VX
Year: 2000
Colour: Champagne
Accessories: ARB Bullbar, Narva 175 spotties
Wishlist: Suspension lift, Dual batteries, UHF, Muddies, and the list goes on and on and on...

Goose

[kelpie 92 Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close kelpie 92]

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Hello all
My name is Peter and along with my wife Rosie we are proud owners of a Prado
Model: GXL Turbo Diesel
Year: 2003
Color: White
Accessories:
Towbar
Bullbar
KC Daylighter driving lights
2" lift kit
Poly Airs
Snorkel
Outback Drawers
Cargo Barrier
Cooper ATRs to be upped to STT sshortly
GME UHF CB

Trips done:
Simpson Desert including Hay River and Madigan Line
Cape Melville and Gulf Country
Next trip: Kimberley in May 2010.

Great site Cheers
Kelpie 92

[Boomslang Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Boomslang]

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G'Day all. I've been a member for a few months now and have even dared to place a few posts but I've never introduced myself. We're a 2 person team - my wife (Renee) is a very keen 4WD enthusiast and loves driving our new Prado as soon as we're off the bitumin. When I caused a lot of damage to our V6 RAV4 in October last year by enjoying Stockton beach too much, we both realized we need a real 4WD. While I was getting quotes for the repairs to the RAV4, Toyata offered us a swop for the green Prado on display. Although it meant I was trading down from a 2007 model to a 2004 it didn't take long to accept the deal. It was great for us as we needed a vehichle urgently for our then upcomming South Australia expidition and the limping RAV was no longer my problem. Renee never liked green cars and when she saw it se said it looked like a boomslang (Afrikaans for treesnake). Well the name stuck and we love our green Prado. I've learn't so much from this forum and have done a few mods to the truck (yes it is not a car anymore) which was close to stock when we got it. I'm looking forward to post my rig build up in the near future. Since October we have done 11,000km (mostly off the black stuff) and have been on a PP outing as well. Regards. Piet and Renee (Team Boomslang)

[GH4wd Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close GH4wd]

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Renee never liked green cars and when she saw it she said it looked like a boomslang (Afrikaans for treesnake) Piet and Renee (Team Boomslang)

That was a classic story :!: Welcome Piet & Renee.

Cheers,

Glenn

[GTX Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close GTX]

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Hello,

I've been reading for a while, have posted a few, and now realise that I've not introduced myself :shock: how rude of me :shock: sorry all :wink:
I had a Subaru Impreza Hatch, I loved it :lol: but then baby X came along and whilst tiny at birth (5lb 9oz) she is now part giraffe :lol:

So my husband and I went hunting, he is Toyota mad, has had Hilux's for ever for work utes ( I grew up with Subaru Brumby's :wink: ), so the new "car" had to be a Toyota, no two ways about it :mrgreen:

So in our hunting we saw many and varied Prado's, some had been unloved, and some were $$$, but very nice - but we wanted to pay for ours outright ( and it's damned nice to own it outright and not be paying it off :wink: )

I found one (it had to be bloody white didn't it :roll: much to my husbands delight) that was for auction in Melbourne.
It hit the internet on Thursday night.
I rang about it on Friday morning, got the auction guy to crawl all over it (amazing what a bit of crying baby in the background and female pleading can achieve :wink: :lol: ) and it sounded great. Needed a new windscreen, and had a scratch on the rear LHS bumper - had been painted over- but could still be seen...... It had full service books, and was basically what we wanted (I so wanted red, but that's another story), so I told the auction guy that I would take it, sight unseen :shock: (my husbands almost blind faith in Toyota's :roll: and we live 3.5-4 hours from Melbourne), and he was agast, said I had to come and look at it, that he couldn't sell it to me in good faith.....
I asked if it could be test driven, he said no, not being an auction vehicle it could not.
He made me/ask very nicely/suggested I ring my husband before I spent that sort of money (my husband had seen it on the internet with me the night before).
So being the good wife that I am :lol: :lol: :lol: , I rang my husband, I think that call lasted all of 2, maybe 3 minutes at the most :lol: and then rang the auction guy back.
By this time it is lunchtime Friday, I explain to the auction guy that I want all the paperwork done, that I do NOT want it registered, that it will be driven home on a VICROAD's 28 day permit, and that the $ will be transferd within the next 15 mins :wink: I think the auction guy was a bit taken back. I don't think he has many women buying 4WD's in that manner :mrgreen:

I ring back at about 2.30pm, speak with auction guy, have you got my $?, have you done my paper work?, "yes, I already have run my insurance, they have it listed as we speak :wink: and I will be there tomorrow afternoon at about 3pm to pick it up :mrgreen: "

So on a Saturday afternoon this is what I picked up;

A 120 series, 2005, (Bloody) White, 3.0 Turbo Diesel Auto, Fun bus and bless it's bloody white paint it hasn’t skipped a beat since I drove it out of Melbourne :wink:

We have however had some “Kangaroo” panel-beating done :? , which was really just a blessing, because now instead of a placky bumper I have a pretty colour coded (I’m pleading chick on that one :lol: ) ARB Delux Winch Bar…
And thanks to you wonderful people at Pradopoint, the fun bus got fitted with a rear dust deflector before we headed up to the Birdsville Races last year (and it worked a treat, THANK YOU).
Have also done the Hilux squirtie thing change over (again THANK YOU), and I am having a bloody good time reading about all the other fun things that can be done, to make the fun bus more fun.
I also got the darkest legal window tint all 'round, I hate bright light, unless it's out in front of me (ie spotties), and I may have "stolen" the UHF out of the house as well ops: :lol: :wink: .
And me being a woman and all, ( you know how we love SHOES :lol: ) I had to get new "bootS" for the fun bus, so it now has BFGoodrich AT's, WAY BETTER THAN THE GRANDCRAPS THAT WERE ON IT :wink:
Oh yeah, did I mention that one of our groomsmen owns the Exhaust place in town :mrgreen: , it now has a 3 inch system all the way thru :mrgreen: sweet to play with, and now the fun bus has a very nice purr :wink:

I asked my husband tonight about some spotties, he was being un-fun, I don’t think he wants the Prado to be more “FUN” than his Hilux…….


Oh well there is always tomorrow :wink:

Cheers,
Ralph ( the female “T” part of the GTX )
Gary and Xarifa are the other Prado lovers :wink:

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

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Hey people

My names Aaron, like a few people here from what i have read, i have been around for a while as a guest never really had anything to say or questions to ask as just about everything i have looked up here has been covered already which is most excellent

Anyway currently own a 1998 90 series for the past few years now did a lot of 4wheeling back in NZ and only recently started getting back into it as more of my weekends have freed up.

Only really done a few minor things to my truck really - New tints, stereo (might i add with the help of a factory wiring diagram from here) and set of Goodyear Wrangler Atr's

However I'm hanging out for the 4x4 show to purchase a Fridge and a dual battery system.
I'm currently planning on building a single drawer system in the back because believe it or not we actually use the rear dickie seats now and then, and strapping the fridge on top with a slider arrangement

So once again Hello

Ps. its amazing how many PP vehicles Ive seen around Brissy as of late, hell i was parked next to a Grey 120 series at Bunnings this afternoon in cannon hill, i think ive also passed Goose at Bribie a few times to