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I knew when I was buying the beast that the running costs may be a bit high, but £1K in two months is pushing it!
It started when the girl went in for a major service, and cambelt change. My mechanic said it would take one day when I dropped it in on Friday, poor bloke returned it Tuesday as he kept finding areas where the dealer had taken shortcuts to get it through the MOT last June.
Then while away in Scotland whilst yourselves were enjoying Yorkshire start getting vibrations from the rear after driving down a surfaces road that made Landale Quest look like a Motorway. Pulled into the nearest garage with a quick get this car on a ramp plea, only to be told the rear prop uj was damadged. Now I can tell you that the Knights of the road that wear yellow do not know what a Hilux Surf is, they sent a powerlift to tow an automatic with a damadged rear prop uj to tow me out of the glen (bush mechanics came into it (removed rear prop drove out using front wheel drive))
My long suffering mechanic took it in to find that both UJ's were damadged but luckily the prop wasn't damaged.
Oh almost forgot exhaust pipe split and one of the boxes was blowing.
Just got the girl back again, and my mechanic laughingly said should he order a new head now or wait until I blow that, oh how I laughed with him, he does not know that after blowing the head on my old BMW I watch the temperature gauge like a hawk.
But all in all I still love the girl, and when I'm back in the black with the bank will have to get her muddy again.
It started when the girl went in for a major service, and cambelt change. My mechanic said it would take one day when I dropped it in on Friday, poor bloke returned it Tuesday as he kept finding areas where the dealer had taken shortcuts to get it through the MOT last June.
Then while away in Scotland whilst yourselves were enjoying Yorkshire start getting vibrations from the rear after driving down a surfaces road that made Landale Quest look like a Motorway. Pulled into the nearest garage with a quick get this car on a ramp plea, only to be told the rear prop uj was damadged. Now I can tell you that the Knights of the road that wear yellow do not know what a Hilux Surf is, they sent a powerlift to tow an automatic with a damadged rear prop uj to tow me out of the glen (bush mechanics came into it (removed rear prop drove out using front wheel drive))
My long suffering mechanic took it in to find that both UJ's were damadged but luckily the prop wasn't damaged.
Oh almost forgot exhaust pipe split and one of the boxes was blowing.
Just got the girl back again, and my mechanic laughingly said should he order a new head now or wait until I blow that, oh how I laughed with him, he does not know that after blowing the head on my old BMW I watch the temperature gauge like a hawk.
But all in all I still love the girl, and when I'm back in the black with the bank will have to get her muddy again.
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