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    Hello everyone,

    It's my first post here so hello everyone. I need your advice here for a bit, hoping someone finds the time to read this mess. So my father wants to get a new car and I've now got the opportunity to get his Land Cruiser for free. It's a 2005 120 (Prado) with a 3.0L diesel, 5-speed auto, sitting on 190.000km currently (that's about 120k miles I reckon). It's fully loaded, diff lock, air ride, leather and the likes. It would replace my current vehicle, a Corolla hatchback from the same year. I'm not having major problems with it yet but age issues are starting to appear (had brakes fail a few months ago, high pressure pump seems to be on the way out, EGR looks a bit clogged, etc.) and it really feels like the older car between the two, despite having only 75k miles.

    I can handle the maintenance costs and the jump in fuel consumption. But I want to know how many more years I could get out of it. I won't be doing much off-roading other than the odd trip to the mountains but the roads here are notoriously bad. It will however get a lot of snow action. Now I know that Land Cruisers are legendarily reliable, but what about the Prado version? From what I've read they're mechanically related to the 4Runner so how does that fall into the equation? I'm from Europe so there are no 4Runners here, only Hiluxes.


    Thank you very much.
    Last edited by joe77; 07-02-2020, 07:12 PM.

  • #2
    These motors of looked after “1kz” will do 500,000km easy... but they can crack heads when they get warm but I think this is really only Issue with the motor ? And pre common rail a lot safer to travel in just not as quick though

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    • #3
      That would be a D4D engine so you'd need to google potential problems with the early versions of this engine.
      Check if it's had injectors replaced or feedback checked, timing belt done and so on.
      They're a great car and if the engine has been correctly serviced it will last for ages.
      Or at least until your bloody salted roads rust the poor thing away.

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