My friend works for the NHS and looks after people with learning difficulties .
One bloke is in his 60's but he has a mental age of a 6 year old .
So they live in a specially adapted house that the NHS bought about 20 years ago .
Now about 6 months ago they got someone in to put shelves up in...
I've got 2 inch body lift from milners and 2 inch iron man lift kit from westcoast 4x4.
And run 285/75/16 hankook dyna pro
Only issue I had was on heavy braking whilst turning slightly the tyre would rub on the front mud guard .
So I fixed that by taking them off .
I'm about to fit 20mm...
So my swb prado has 2 inch suspension lift and inch body lift sitting on 33'a but the back looks like it's sitting lower than the front . Was wondering if spring spacers are available so I can bring the back up a little .
Suspension is only 6 months old so not saggy
I worked at a garage that bought a terraclean system . Biggest pile of junk I've ever seen .
They Did a scenic diesel . That smoked like fook . Ended up changing the injectors and then the pump .
Did a vw touareg that ended up bending rods within 20 miles caused by excessive fuel through the...
My friend owns a body shop . I was thinking about getting the headlight surrounds and front grill colour coded .
However I've never seen another prado with these parts painted .
Has anyone ever done this ?
Will it look right ?
Here's a pic of my truck
They have 4 hrs to complete the grandprix .
This 4 hrs starts when the flag drops for the start .
So if they have lots of red flags and safety cars and they don't finish before the 4 hrs comes round then the grandprix stops at 4 hrs irrelevant of how many laps have passed .
Group of us are spending the bank holiday weekend laining a round Wales . We are going to be based in aberystwyth .
Arriving Friday and leaving Sunday evening
Does anyone have a list of decent lanes or know a route to follow .
We plan on doing the strata florida on the saturday then onto...
Only had my cruiser in the road a few weeks ..
And I've noticed if I'm coasting downhill every now and Again my engine management light comes on briefly . It then goes off once I pick up the throttle .
Now it doesn't do it every time .
And seems to be more likely to do it if I've turned...
Would have been interesting to fit the temp sensor first then start changing things to see how the temp varied and see what made the biggest difference
Fitted My engine temp guage today
Relatively easy to fit . And very accurate .
Because I have the 76c thermostat an external oil cooler for the autobox and my fan on the intercooler oh and refurbished viscous fan the water temp stays very close to 79/80c when hot. .
Even powering uphill it...
I did portsmouth to rome last year in 34hrs with a 12hr overnight in strasbourg ..
Some beautiful scenery in the alps.
I'd do it again but I'd want to take it abit slower next time
Just to update this thread ... I got 12 studs from milners for £25 delivered .
Toyota were defo smoking when they fitted the wheel studs to the 90 . Long ones on the back and short on the front doesn't make any sense
Struggling to find somthing I can use to keep my spare safe ..
Wouldn't be best pleased if my new rim and 285 tyre went missing .
So what's the best way of making sure my rear door mounted wheel stays put and doesn't go walk about
I've fitted new wheels from an 80 series and needed to get some Wheel nuts .
So i bought some tappered nuts and now when I put the wheels in there isn't much thread for the nuts to grab on to. .
I've measured and get 4 complete turns ..
Is that enough ?
If not where can I get some extended...
I'm on my 3rd set of hankook tyres on 3 different vehicles .
Fantastic tyre that's nice and quiet on the road .
One issue is that according too every tyre supplier I've spoken to is that hankook are no longer making the dyna pro . So once stocks run out that's it ..
I've just bought 5 x 285...
What's the best VFM light bar available ..
Want somthing for between the headlights on my prado .
I was thinking about 32 inch
Seen a few on ebay but would rather buy somthing that other people could recommend ..
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