2006 Toyota Land Cruiser - Staying Put

[DeanH]

Still getting rid? Or are you tempted to persevere now?

[St.Jude]

13 minutes ago, DeanH said:

Still getting rid? Or are you tempted to persevere now?

Got to keep it really for the time being, as I won't this money back from selling it so I'll have to use it instead.

[bezzabsa]

Just imagine if it was a Land rover.....you'd be grey / bald and minus an arm, leg and kidney and also have a huge oil slick on ya drive!!!

[Dobloseven]

2 hours ago, St.Jude said:

Got to keep it really for the time being, as I won't this money back from selling it so I'll have to use it instead.

Can the garage get the aircon working? Apologies if it's sorted. 

[RoverFolkUs]

6 hours ago, bezzabsa said:

Just imagine if it was a Land rover.....you'd be grey / bald and minus an arm, leg and kidney and also have a huge oil slick on ya drive!!!

And after all that, stuck on the hard shoulder on the way home 😂

[St.Jude]

13 hours ago, Dobloseven said:

Can the garage get the aircon working? Apologies if it's sorted. 

Spoke to them about it. They don’t do it but have a special guy who does and they’ll get him to look at it.

He said though that the usual issue is the pipes going to the back, and the pipes being corroded. To fix that it’s a body off job so most people just block the back pipes off and make do with the air coming from the front.

So we’ll see. Maybe block it off for now but reinstate it later on.

[NorthernMonkey]

Stuff that…get them blocked off. If your passengers want air con, they can always get an Uber black.

[St.Jude]

They got back to me on the air con.

Both pipes going to the back are corroded, and the rear evaporator is leaking. It’s £500 for parts and £300 for labour to resolve it, as I think it’s a body off job.

They’re going to cap it off and when I win the lottery in the future I’ll get the rear reinstated. 

[St.Jude]

Rightio. It’s back.

I drove it from Ledbury to Stourbridge. It’s fine. Dare say the ride is a bit better than I remember, not so bouncy. That’s my handiwork with the dampers. It’s also nice to have air con for the week ahead. I hold no hope for it working beyond that point. 

It’s going to go back in the spring for rust proofing underneath and a gearbox oil flush. Couldn’t find money in the “budget” to cover 20 litres of ATF. 

Now I’m on Faceache marketplace looking for free slabs so I can put some down on the driveway in order to get the Lada on stilts.

I will say, for as much as it was good to be back and adjusting to the drive - I don’t have much confidence in it. It will hopefully earn that back but it’s never good if you’re driving something and you can’t relax thinking if it’s going to go pop on you.

[DeanH]

I have a pile of them but I'm nowhere near you. If you're passing nearby you're welcome to them though

[Dave_Q]

I also have a pile of slabs I need rid of a similar distance away, HTH

On a more serious note great to hear the heap is in roadworthy condition and hope you finally get some good use out of it.

[St.Jude]

The sister-in-law goes to Leeds Uni, so I could make the trip to collect. But she’s not got back to me about when she’s meant to be coming back so thanks but I’ll let you both know.

As it is to be expected now, I went out to it this morning to drive it - fucker won’t start. Batteries are flat. So I need to wait for the wife to get back in order to go to Halfrauds to buy another battery, as while I know one battery is good and holds a charge, I think the other one is too far gone.

C’est La vie and all that shit.

[St.Jude]

New battery for £138. I bought two, one was wrong, but when I found out the battery I’ve been charging seemed to be dead, and the other one I’ve not removed (which i had no battery for) seemed ok. 

Let’s see how we go. At least I know Halfrauds aren’t too bad in terms of price for them.

[St.Jude]

So I should give an update.

It's clocked over to 160,000 miles, I've done about 600 miles since the last fuck up.

What's good:

• The air con, some how, still works!
• The suspension hasn't exploded or collapsed or anything like that!

What's bad:

• The ride is fucking shocking on the rear.

I'm giving this a chance, but something's not right at all with the rear. I thought for a while that the car might be bedding in. I've new shock absorbers and new air bags, but every time I go over a bump it's like I'm flying over it at 100mph. The rear just goes wild. It's like a combination of it being really really stiff/hard while at the same time bouncing like a motherfucker. It's like the shock absorbers aren't even there, but they are because turning it from Comfort to Sport does calm things down. Not a lot though. It drives like it's missing a fuck load of weight on the back, a bit like an empty pick up truck. But I stuck about 300kg of slabs in the back of it last week and it was just as bad. Probably worse with the arse of the car being 300kg heavier. The height is constant, it's not on stilts, even with the weight it sorted itself out. So all of what was wrong before is OK now.

I don't know if the front shocks, as they're likely to be as old as the rears were, are affecting the rear as it's all adjustable. Like it registers the bump at the front, then over compensates on the rears? I don't know if there's some sort of computer that sorts it out and that's fucked. I don't know if I've fitted two duff shocks on to the car.

I've sent the people who done the suspension an email to see what they think. It's still being driven, and it will collect more slabs, sand and shit this week for me to pave just outside the garage for the Lada. After that, it has an MOT due and depending what the specialists suggest, it's future is up in the air.

[St.Jude]

This thing is fucking cursed.

This morning I fired off an email to the guys who sorted the suspension out asking them if they had any ideas. Then decided to go out somewhere with the wife and child and thought we’d go in this, so she can see what it’s like and stop her bitching about it.

At the drive through for a Costa there was a queue, and up to this point the car had been bouncing like a motherfucker. Well it’s never not since the above work. I thought I hadn’t actually tried moving the height up or down since it was done. So I moved it to high, and the compressor kicked in and the car moved up. Once finished I put it back down to N.

Honest to God, the car is perfect now. It is like a Magic carpet, so much better than even before I changed the shocks.

So it is cursed, and I may raid my mom’s stash of holy water and douse it with it.

[Gaffer]

From your previous post it sounded like it was clanging off the bump stops being that bouncy.  Maybe changing the ride height brought the rear suspension back into action as if it had gone to sleep somehow?

Either way glad to hear it’s going in the right direction, read this from start to finish and quite like this thing.

[SiC]

Probably needed to reset itself when you cycled the positions? 

Perhaps over inflated after the previous work (from being on a lift) and it only lets it out once cycled. That said, I'd thought they would cycle it on the ground after the work to double check it all worked. 

[Rust Collector]

7 hours ago, St.Jude said:

Then decided to go out somewhere with the wife and child and thought we’d go in this, so she can see what it’s like and stop her bitching about it.

At the drive through for a Costa there was a queue, and up to this point the car had been bouncing like a motherfucker. Well it’s never not since the above work. I thought I hadn’t actually tried moving the height up or down since it was done. So I moved it to high, and the compressor kicked in and the car moved up. Once finished I put it back down to N.

Your Mrs is riding in the car, that she is critical of, with possessed air suspension on a family outing, and you decided to press the ride height switch!!

You must be the bravest man alive and I’m glad that on this occasion your bravery was rewarded.

[RoverFolkUs]

The law of sod dictates that it was supposed to shit itself in spectacular fashion 😅

[Mrcento]

7 hours ago, St.Jude said:

This thing is fucking cursed.

This morning I fired off an email to the guys who sorted the suspension out asking them if they had any ideas. Then decided to go out somewhere with the wife and child and thought we’d go in this, so she can see what it’s like and stop her bitching about it.

At the drive through for a Costa there was a queue, and up to this point the car had been bouncing like a motherfucker. Well it’s never not since the above work. I thought I hadn’t actually tried moving the height up or down since it was done. So I moved it to high, and the compressor kicked in and the car moved up. Once finished I put it back down to N.

Honest to God, the car is perfect now. It is like a Magic carpet, so much better than even before I changed the shocks.

So it is cursed, and I may raid my mom’s stash of holy water and douse it with it.

So it was needing calibrated?, Makes sense really given all the issues it was having before. Something that's often overlooked on Land Rovers air suspension as well, they need properly re-calibrated after suspension work or sensors get changed or the ride has much more chop in it than it should.

Glad it was something so simple in the end.

[Popsicle]

Hopefully its all sorted - you do deserve some luck with the ungrateful thing after all the time, money and effort you've put into it.

[St.Jude]

13 hours ago, Gaffer said:

read this from start to finish and quite like this thing.

You quite like it? You absolute sadist!

10 hours ago, SiC said:

Probably needed to reset itself when you cycled the positions? 

Perhaps over inflated after the previous work (from being on a lift) and it only lets it out once cycled. That said, I'd thought they would cycle it on the ground after the work to double check it all worked. 

I’d have thought they’d have done that too. Maybe they have, that’s why I’m saying it’s cursed. Even driving out of the place the ride was crap. But I had been that long without driving it I couldn’t say whether it was right or not. The height has been constant as well so it’s not collapsed.

10 hours ago, Rust Collector said:

Your Mrs is riding in the car, that she is critical of, with possessed air suspension on a family outing, and you decided to press the ride height switch!!

You must be the bravest man alive and I’m glad that on this occasion your bravery was rewarded.

Well in my head it’s already fucked, and if it shat itself again at least she had her mocha to keep her distracted.

10 hours ago, Mrcento said:

So it was needing calibrated?, Makes sense really given all the issues it was having before. Something that's often overlooked on Land Rovers air suspension as well, they need properly re-calibrated after suspension work or sensors get changed or the ride has much more chop in it than it should.

Glad it was something so simple in the end.

No idea. Google hasn’t helped, there’s no mention (I could find) of calibrating it. All the other posts are on about removing them etc.

[bezzabsa]

this thread really makes Land Rover Discovery 3's look like a cracking buy 😝

Hurry up and get the Lidl on the road

[somewhatfoolish]

Definitely in the category of "switch it off then back on again M9"; take the win and tell everyone you knew it would work. 😁

[St.Jude]

3 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Definitely in the category of "switch it off then back on again M9"; take the win and tell everyone you knew it would work. 😁

But it’s more fun saying it’s cursed 😂

[St.Jude]

It’s MOT day.

Well it would be, but today the garage I’m using is being inspected by VOSA. Was originally booked for 8:30 but the bloke was stressed doing a demo test and asked if I could go back at 3:30. I said fine.

I’m here and the VOSA guy is still here. The guy is still stressed, and apparently this guy’s dad was a VOSA man and called “the terminator”.

It is interesting to see though I must say.

[St.Jude]

Son of Terminator didn’t do anything. They all passed.

And so did the money pit. The tester couldn’t fault it, just mentioned the rear brake disc are getting thin but not thin enough for an advisory.

[mat_the_cat]

At least you know it's had a good going over. 

Every time I see this thread pop up, I think to myself "WTF has broken now?!"

[St.Jude]

10 hours ago, mat_the_cat said:

At least you know it's had a good going over. 

Every time I see this thread pop up, I think to myself "WTF has broken now?!"

When the tester told me it had passed I genuinely said “you sure?”.

I wasn’t expecting a fail, but I wasn’t thinking it’d be so good either. So believe me when something happens I too think “WTF has broken now” 😂

[warch]

A clean MoT suddenly makes it all worthwhile again.