Convince me to keep it!!!

[joe112]

Right.... Thats it..... I've really had enough this time!!!!

The Surf is Going!!!

I know i'll miss it when its gone but i am really sick of it permanantly breaking down! Again today on the way to work the alternator adjusting bolt went! now i will have to try to get home without it overheating (hmmmm... no chance!)

I am ****** sick of the thing

Many thanks to all of you for your help in the time i've been on here... Will keep dropping in to see you!

PS - anyone know where I can get a bolt from (Its the big long one that adjusts the alternator)


Many thanks

Joe112
soon to be Ex surf owner!

[laser_jock@work]

If it's the bolt I'm thinking about- it shouldn't just 'fall out' there ought to have been a locking nut on it.....?

[joe112]

If it's the bolt I'm thinking about- it shouldn't just 'fall out' there ought to have been a locking nut on it.....?

nah mate.. not fallen out... sheared! its the long one (about 6") that is used to adjust the alternator to tension the belts - (Not the one that goes into the alternator)

[TonyN]

Its not the poor trucks fault that someone overtightened it!



I've got the nut and bolt from non-EFI trucks, but not the single bolt (no lock nut) for the later trucks. You'll get one from Toyota.

[slim]

Right.... Thats it..... I've really had enough this time!!!!

The Surf is Going!!!

I know i'll miss it when its gone but i am really sick of it permanantly breaking down! Again today on the way to work the alternator adjusting bolt went! now i will have to try to get home without it overheating (hmmmm... no chance!)

I am ****** sick of the thing

Many thanks to all of you for your help in the time i've been on here... Will keep dropping in to see you!

PS - anyone know where I can get a bolt from (Its the big long one that adjusts the alternator)


Many thanks

Joe112
soon to be Ex surf owner!

OK SO YOU GET RID OF THE SURF.....THEN WHAT DO U BUY?????COULD BE THAT UR NEXT CAR COULD KEEP BREAKING DOWN ALL THE TIME!!!!!!THEN U HAVE TO START ALL OVER AGAIN........THEN U SELL THAT AND BUY ANOTHER CAR AND THE SAME COULD HAPPEN WITH THAT , WELL U CAN C WHERE IM GOING NE WAY.....AT LEAST N E PARTS U HAVE REPLACED/REPAIRED WILL BE OK.....IF YOUR SELLING YOUR SURF FOR THAT REASON I WOULD THINK AGAIN!!!!!!!!

[ChaosinDevon]

Joe, I sympathise with you BIG TIME, Iknow what it is like to owna vehicle that just becomes a bottomless pit for cash. My tricked up Rangey owed me £4500 by the time I decided enough was enough.
Thing is though, like others have said, your next vehicle maybe worse and cost you even more.

[Gtdog]

It is not realy fair to ask us to convince you to keep your Surf, as you may have gathered the bulk of us are happy with our ones, and are rather bias.
Lets say that we do manage to convince you, you would hate us each time you had to spend more money on your toy.

Sadly its a chance you take when you buy an import, you know nothing about the history, previous owner, or maintainance provenance. Some of us are lucky and some not. Ultimately its a big complex old car that lived on the other side of the world for most of its life, most are over ten years old, and I dare say most have issues. If there is anyone here that expected their Surf to be totaly trouble free as a ten year old, sorry they were deluded.

If you keep the Surf I wish you the best of luck with it, If you dont I wish you the best of luck with whatever you purchase.

All the best,

Gtdog

[mamadwyvin]

You'll never have as much fun, or as many virtual buddies with anything else, we all feel your pain, just think, this bolt could be the last thing until.....the MOT or something...imagine that .....bliss..driving round warm and cosy feeling smug all winter. Surfin in the snow, santa's sleigh bells and its little funky mirror on the one side....sniff, and then if you sold it, where would it end up sniff, NOT THE BATTERSEA OF SURFS?

YOU CAN'T SELL IT!!!!



Nx

[ChaosinDevon]

You'll never have as much fun, or as many virtual buddies with anything else, we all feel your pain, just think, this bolt could be the last thing until.....the MOT or something...imagine that .....bliss..driving round warm and cosy feeling smug all winter. Surfin in the snow, santa's sleigh bells and its little funky mirror on the one side....sniff, and then if you sold it, where would it end up sniff, NOT THE BATTERSEA OF SURFS?

YOU CAN'T SELL IT!!!!



Nx

Well said...... someone get that girl a tissue and a pint

[laser_jock99]

Sadly its a chance you take when you buy an import.

Gtdog

I'd expand that a bit to 'sadly it's a chance you take buying ANY CAR'

Been talking to a guy a today with an 04 Discovery V8- he's on his forth engine and is understandably totally p*ssed off with Land Rover. The car has been in the garage 23 weeks so far this year and he wants his money back. I sympathise more with him and his problems than the minor faults a 15 year old 4x4 might have!

[Pete]

It is not realy fair to ask us to convince you to keep your Surf, as you may have gathered the bulk of us are happy with our ones, and are rather bias.
Lets say that we do manage to convince you, you would hate us each time you had to spend more money on your toy.

Sadly its a chance you take when you buy an import, you know nothing about the history, previous owner, or maintainance provenance. Some of us are lucky and some not. Ultimately its a big complex old car that lived on the other side of the world for most of its life, most are over ten years old, and I dare say most have issues. If there is anyone here that expected their Surf to be totaly trouble free as a ten year old, sorry they were deluded.

If you keep the Surf I wish you the best of luck with it, If you dont I wish you the best of luck with whatever you purchase.

All the best,

Gtdog

A well thought out and well put response. I lost all faith in mine and got rid at the end of september after 3 1/2 years ownership. You make your choice and live with it.

[mamadwyvin]

A well thought out and well put response. I lost all faith in mine and got rid at the end of september after 3 1/2 years ownership. You make your choice and live with it.

Stop you guys.....I'm welling up!

[pops]

Stop you guys.....I'm welling up!

its ok girl welli's go on your feet.

sorry your surf has to go but like gtdog says pays your money takes your chance,
least you tried hey let us know what you get to replace the truck with

[Djandco]

If it makes you feel any better, I used to own a Fu**terea the poxy car cost me over a grand in the first two months to keep on the road.
Then I was enlightened, I became the owner of a K reg Surf.
I cant say its all been fun.
2 Tyres slashed £160
Head went £1200
MOT £450
MPG 21 and falling
Car wrote off by TESCO!!!
back on the road and still going strong.
I have put a lot of money into it and I have to say
I AM GLAD!
It is the best 15 year old car I have ever seen.
My only regret is, I wish I knew they did a 3L when I brought it!

be one with the Surf, and like it, you will still be going strong in another 15 years. Maybe with a limp, but hay, life is full of tests.

[joe112]

Hmmmm

Well Read all your responses... I have to say i cant argue with any of them!

Managed to get the surf home last night with NO PROBLEMS!!!

As the alternator had slipped - therefore loosening all the belts the fan wasn't spinning at all. I was expecting to overheat (or get very close) atleast every couple of miles! IT DIDN'T !!!!! Made it 31 miles home, through country lanes without the heat needle going over 3/4 of the way once!!! I was amazed!! .. That must prove the effectivness of bonnet vents!

The surf is trying to tell me something!

So... I have decided.... The reason I WAS going to sell it was cost.. here's the solution... New bolt to fix yesterdays nearly break down £2.09+VAT from toyota! Can't argue with that.

Fuel economy - Heated fuel cat from TonyN (please email me with prices mate for a complete kit.. in other words everything I'm likely to need!) and run on near 100% veg oil - i recon £15 per tank full - cheaper than the mrs's honda jizz.

So thats it... i'm decided.. Its STAYING!!!!! I would miss it imensly (spelt wrong) - even the thought of driving a golf instaed gives me this deflated.. empty feeling!!!

Joe 112