Hello all from sunny Athens (Greece)
I am new in the forum, but I have been driving a Land Cruiser J120 (? or Prado? well, I am not well used with the international types and names yet-here in Greece it is called Land Cruiser 90), with the 3.0lt 1kd engine, purchased end 2004 and rented to me as new, so I have been the only "owner", at least driver, although I was not the official owner of the car.
Last January (2015) I got a broken engine (and later on I read about the injector issues of these 1kd engines)-not one note did we ever get from Toyota or from the renting company about that issue.
The car stayed about 6 months in a garage without having decided what would be done with it.
July 15 we decided to purchase the car with broken engine and have it fixed.
The mechanic found an 1kd engine which he claimed to have done just 8000km, from a Hilux of 2014 which was crashed from behind. Of course I do understand that such stories can always be made up, but the engine seemed really clean. In any case now the engine is on, and there are just a couple of issues remaining to be solved so soon we are going to have the car back-and ours this time, officially.
So that's the whole (brief of the) story, and here am I
Hope I am welcome here.
I am new in the forum, but I have been driving a Land Cruiser J120 (? or Prado? well, I am not well used with the international types and names yet-here in Greece it is called Land Cruiser 90), with the 3.0lt 1kd engine, purchased end 2004 and rented to me as new, so I have been the only "owner", at least driver, although I was not the official owner of the car.
Last January (2015) I got a broken engine (and later on I read about the injector issues of these 1kd engines)-not one note did we ever get from Toyota or from the renting company about that issue.
The car stayed about 6 months in a garage without having decided what would be done with it.
July 15 we decided to purchase the car with broken engine and have it fixed.
The mechanic found an 1kd engine which he claimed to have done just 8000km, from a Hilux of 2014 which was crashed from behind. Of course I do understand that such stories can always be made up, but the engine seemed really clean. In any case now the engine is on, and there are just a couple of issues remaining to be solved so soon we are going to have the car back-and ours this time, officially.
So that's the whole (brief of the) story, and here am I
Hope I am welcome here.