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It's occurred to me that my 120 is at 165,000 miles now and there's a good chance the gearbox oil has never been changed. I've noticed a slight hang (sometimes) between gears, it's mostly smooth. But to ease my own anxiety with the car I should really get this done. I have had a quote last year...

Hi all, Been away for a while as my Land Cruiser has just been sat there on the drive doing nothing. A ride height sensor failed in November and I lost all care for the car to be bothered fixing it. Plus money was/still is tight. So I’ve had the ride height sensor fixed, and the burst air bag...

I noticed about a fortnight ago that the passenger side was on the wonk. Wheel was pulling to the right, looked at the rear and the left rear was down, the drivers side was all the way up. I didn’t drive it for a week as I had the option of another car. About 4 days after parking it up, I...

I’m getting the truck ready for a trip to France in two weeks time, and going through the list of jobs to do I’ve realised that I don’t have a key for the rear wheel cover for my spare wheel. I never got them with the truck, didn’t even think about it. I’ve looked at the lock and can’t see a...

I think I may have mentioned this elsewhere, but right now I've been told by the wife we're going on holiday in October and we're driving. My truck needs to behave, so other than a timing belt change I really do need to address an intermittent problem I'm having with the rear. This first...

I am not one who makes life easy for themselves, and often if I'm doing one job on a car I'll see if there is anything else that could be done while I'm at it. That works out for me sometimes (like it has with this thread), or it bites me on the arse (like when I went to repair the subframe of...

Hi guys, Happy christmas/new year, hope you're all keeping positive and testing negative :) So after many months of driving my 120, letting it idle a bit in the morning when cold so the tapping would stop from injectors, I got my first bit of white smoke. Not enough to declare a new pope, but...

I've had my LC a bit longer now and used it more frequently, and have noticed that when I boot it I leave a big plume of black smoke behind me. When I say boot it, I mean when I do above 2,500 rpm. However, I've noticed that it will sometimes do it at lower revs as well, but not all the time...

So 5 weeks ago I bought my Land Cruiser, and when I went to look at it the sales guy was honest enough to say that while it was advertised with working air conditioning, it's since broke. But he knew the problem well, and it'd be fixed before sale. I drove the car, he wasn't wrong! It was warm...

Hi everyone, thanks for letting me join! I'm Michael, 33 (currently) from Stourbridge and a few weeks ago I bought a 2006 Land Cruiser 120 LC5. Obligatory photos are attached! There is a story with this car. I've always wanted one since I was young. Some of my first memories are me being about...