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After spending about an hour scrubbing away at my rear axle with a wire brush yesterday to get rid of surface rust and, while doing so, casting my eye down what seemed like acres more chassis still to do, I'm thinking I'm going to have to break out the power tools to get the job done before the...

That's the good thing about the comparison sites. You can fill all the crap in, get a quote and then go back and change various bits to see if you can get it any lower. But, as you say, it does feel like voodoo most of the time.

I find that's pretty much par for the course these days. Which is why I referred to it as a "No Claims Penalty" in my first post. My insurance renewal quotes go up every year, even though I have accrued an extra year's No Claims in the meantime. Thank god for the meerkat site and confused.com...

Cheers all. Whatever was on there was so filled with crud and/or seized that it didn't feel like a moving part at all. So I'll get a couple ordered while I'm still numb from the shock of ordering my new OEM LBJs from Partsouq: $300+ including postage.... and that's before the customs and DHL...

As I mentioned in elsewhere, my "almost-a-Colorado" has some oil misting around one of the rear wheels, which I think is a weeping hub seal, rather than brake cylinder. Also, it came with a new Toyota hub seal in amongst the folder of receipts etc. which points to someone else having made the...

Oh. I don't know... just off the top of my head... first thing that comes to mind... maybe some of Toyota's pickup-derived 4x4s....? Although I accept we probably don't want an actual "Toyota Pickup" section, or the place will be overrun with farmers, asking how many heifers you can fit in the...

Since I now have a vested interest in this too, my vote would go for at least adding an "Other Toyota 4x4" section

This is pretty much what I feared. But the eternal optimist in me dared to hope it might be straightforward. This is the other factor which has me dreading it. Half an hour on hold, listening to Greensleeves, interspersed with a message saying "Your call is important to us", followed by...

Hi all. I know this is a bit of a "How long is a piece of string?" question. But I'm just looking for some very rough ballpark figures. I currently run two insurance policies. One on my van and one on the missus's car, where I have her as a named driver. It was loads cheaper to do it that...

You've got a good memory! New place is a bit of a case of "swings & roundabouts", compared to where I lived in MCR. In MCR I was in a block of flats with only one allocated parking space. So I couldn't keep more than one vehcle. Here, I'm out in the sticks in a wee row of cottages up a muddy...

I find it positively handsome compared to the FJ Cruiser. That's like the unwanted outcome of an illicit liaison between a Land Rover Defender and a Fiat Multipla.

Hi all. I just came across this site while loking for an owner's handbook for my Surf. It seems to be quite a good repository for manuals for Japanese [and other import] motors: https://jdmfsm.info/Auto/Japan/ Looking through the LandCruiser section, I think I've seen most of the manuals on...

I should have walked away from that Collie when I went to see it. I got truly shafted there. But, as they say "Hindsight has 20-20 vision". I'd been looking for so long and the two or three I'd seen before were so bad that I thought, at last, I'd found a semi-decent one. But, the more I...

Thanks all for welcoming me back. I'll deffo make this my first port of call for any "crossover questions" which relate to LCs as well as Surfs. @Tractionman I've still got the van. Renault Master. Originally, I only bought it as a temporary measure to move house with. But,, in spite of...

Hi all. It's your one-time regular half-wit stuzbot here. Owner of the awful Colorado, about which I "enjoyed" many a discussion in this 'ere forum a couple of years back. BTW --said Colorado eventually got sold for about a third of what I paid for it, just to get rid of the damned thing...

Yeah. Those along with the eleventy billion assorted sump plugs I bough that time. I think next time I buy a motor, I'll do it the other war round and choose a vehicle to fit the parts I already have lying around. Buying parts to fit the car isn't working for me.

Well, t'is the end of an era [albeit a pretty short era!]. After being pissed about by the first 'buyer' on eBay, I relisted the waggon again and it sold second time around. Only got a tenner shy of £1400 for it. So I lost over 2 grand during my year and a half of ownership. But better 1400...

These are the clips I bought. Seem to be decent enough quality and you get a good selection and lots of them: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/353723473111

No. But I'll check it out, if I decide to go down that route. Cheers.

I dunno mate. I'm still pondering on a pickup at some stage, for the slightly cheaper road tax, compared to a 'normal' 4x4. But, if I go for the obvious choice of a HiLux, I think I'll probably end up on the endless quest to find one of those without similar problems underneath.

Hmmm.... well that was quick. Somebody bought it straight away for £1400. But, looking at his feedback, he seems to be a serial "Buy a vehicle and not turn up to collect it" artist. So, no doubt this story will still run and run.

Well, I've finally got round to listing mine on eBay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/374275354094 Blurb on the auction is pretty much the same as on my post in the classifieds from earlier in the summer...

I know what you mean. In my idiotic youth I went through 3 Land Rovers of varying vintage before buying my 1st Japanese 4x4 and realising that the doors didn't have to fly open when you went round corners, you didn't have to put a tray under it when you parked on anyone else's drive, that...

There's a forum I used to frequent many years ago, when I had the crazy notion of buying a Zil 131 [which I actually thought your pics were off at first glance] to convert into a Mad Max camper waggon to live in. I've not been on it in a long time and it looks like a bit of a ghost town now...

Yep. I shone a torch up inside the gap and could see that there were a couple of mounting tabs on the inside. Both were already broken and dangling [even before my mindless violence experiments] so looks like someone has been in there before me. Ta. I suspected as much.

I just bought a bumper pack off eBay. So no more Mr. Nice try-not-to-break-them' Guy [Although I'm sure that, like the hilarious time I bought the box of assorted sump plugs, the box will have every kind but the ones I need]

Thanks all. Looks like mindless violence and a box of replacement clips off eBay is the way to go.

Well, glutton for punishment that I am [and quite unrelated to the failure of Bargain of the Century© to provoke any padlock unlocking amongst the hoi polloi], I thought I'd let the dog see the rabbit today and remove the plastic trim round the rear wheel arches. So I could better assess what...

Yeah. I'm going to stick it on eBay, when I can motivate myself to take the pics and write the blurb. I just thought I'd try the forum first, seeing as every time I've listed a vehicle on eBay in the past, I've had to wade through about half a dozen messages of the "Would you take £100 for it...