How many miles do you have on your FJC

Niner · 12-10-09, 09:46 PM

You all need to get wheeling 27 months 100000 miles and wheeled colorado Utah Indiana missouri Iowa Minnesota Michigan and a crap load in Wisconsin. That's just with the fj cruiser not my others and only one power steering pump and rear axle seal i still have a spare inner tie rod and axleshaft. oh yea and one windsheid from a dump truck over served.

DrUnit · 12-11-09, 04:48 PM

2008, owned for 22 months, just shy of 14,000 miles. I wheel plenty, but I have a very short commute to work, plus I also wheel and drive an FJ40. I don't pay attention to the gas mileage anymore.

bernd122465 · 12-11-09, 08:19 PM

Mine is three and it has 25,800 to date.

Mtbcoach · 12-12-09, 05:40 AM

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Mine is three and it has 25,800 to date.

You cheat, using a trailer for the big trips. Mine has to drive all the way across all on its own to have fun...

bernd122465 · 12-12-09, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Mtbcoach

You cheat, using a trailer for the big trips. Mine has to drive all the way across all on its own to have fun...

Well Jerry you might think it's cheating I call it a for sure ride home. I'm glad I had it on my last trip. Driving it home was not an option.

Mtbcoach · 12-14-09, 08:48 AM

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Originally Posted by bernd122465

Well Jerry you might think it's cheating I call it a for sure ride home. I'm glad I had it on my last trip. Driving it home was not an option.

Not meaning to be anything but jealous. I wish I had the space for a tow rig and trailer to save some miles getting to and from the trailhead. Particularly, those long ones to Moab and CA and just in case something bad happens...

gaylonw · 12-28-09, 09:57 AM

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Just rolled over on 65K.
Replaced brake pads and turned rotors. Still had some life left, but is was time.
BFG All Terrain KO are still going strong at 7/32'nds.
19-20 mpg most tanks.
Gr8 trk!!
Lots of fun................gm

37 months old and 77000 miles and no problems, BFG's are still amazingly good.
I changed the plugs a couple of months ago.
New plugs picked it up a bit; as they were supposed to be changed at 30K, but they aside from a little wear on one side of the electrode they looked OK.
I did notice a slight improvement with quicker starting after the change and it seemed to restore some pep that I had lost gradually over time, but it was marginal.
Everyting is wearing well on the interior, the driver seat is showing some wear but not an unexpected amount.
I would consider an upgrade to a new TRD or Trails unit but the resale/trade value is too low to make it make worth my while.
That's one of the issues with the car industry today.
But it remains a Gr8 Trk so I will keep it and rotate its use alittle more with my 80 and 62 in 2010!!
Not bad duty.......gm

targa88 · 12-30-09, 02:14 PM

2007 with 70,000kms

NorthFJ · 01-24-12, 09:42 AM

2007 with 267,000km (roughly 166,000miles)
Over-all it's been a great truck.
Problems:
- Had to re-build the ADD actuator as it started sticking
- bypassed both 4x4 and lo-range sensors
- I've had tranny shudder almost since day one but it comes and goes so I just leave it.

Other than that, just routine maintenance, a windshield change and a couple of tire changes!
We're hoping to get 500,000km (roughly 310,000miles)

SWUtah · 01-25-12, 12:11 AM

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Originally Posted by NorthFJ

2007 with 267,000km (roughly 166,000miles)
Over-all it's been a great truck.
Problems:
- Had to re-build the ADD actuator as it started sticking
- bypassed both 4x4 and lo-range sensors
- I've had tranny shudder almost since day one but it comes and goes so I just leave it.

Other than that, just routine maintenance, a windshield change and a couple of tire changes!
We're hoping to get 500,000km (roughly 310,000miles)

Tell us more about the tranny shudder. You said comes and goes. Does it never get worse over time? Have you ever had the transmission serviced?

NorthFJ · 01-25-12, 10:37 AM

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Tell us more about the tranny shudder. You said comes and goes. Does it never get worse over time? Have you ever had the transmission serviced?

Like I mentioned, it's been there almost since day one.
The shudder is very minimal but does come and go in waves.
The first wave of "getting bad" (which is still minimal) my wife and I were in the middle of moving so we had too much on the go to worry about it and since it was so minimal I didn't worry much.
Then it sort of went away for a while....
The next time it started up again I had about 50,000km on the truck and decided to change the fluid. I have been changing the fluid ever since then every 50,000km or so. The problem does not seem to be affected by fluid changes, or pulling a trailer or weather etc. and hasn't really gotten any worse (or better). I've seen way too many horror stories of auto trannies being ripped apart and never being the same. Since it doesn't really bug us or or seem to have ill effect, I've just left it. I did a little reading and found one generation of Lexus (I can't recall the model now) that had a similar symptoms. Toyota did a firmware upgrade on the lexus as there was a bug that caused the tranny to hunt between gears when up-shifting. I have it in my head that our tranny is doing the same thing. When it starts to do it, if I change the accelerator position slightly (either way) the tranny shudder settles down. When it's in it's mood, the shudder is worst when shifting from 1st to 2nd and less noticable when shifting between 2nd and 3rd and doesn't seem to affect the next up shifts from there. Never happens on downshift.
As mentioned, I change the fluid every 50,000 km, use only the toyota recommended fluid (WS) and follow the toyota proceedure to a tee.
I have read numerous posts on people having shudder issues with these trucks that required new torque convertors and trannies, I really don't want to go down that road unless it got worse.
It does seem like there may be an issue that Toyota can't put their finger on though....not sure.....

At this point, we have more than 1/4 million kms on it and the tranny has never failed so perhaps the issue (what ever it may be) might be more of a nuisance than a real problem!?
I've worked on machines long enough to know, if it's not really causing you trouble, don't bother, otheriwse it usually opens a can of worms!

Hope that helps!

NorthFJ · 01-25-12, 10:58 AM

Just FYI for anyone having real tranny issues, you may find this an interesting read:
Shuddering transmission problems =( - Toyota FJ Cruiser Forum

Volley · 01-25-12, 01:03 PM

For what it's worth, I no longer have my FJ but I also had tranny shudder. I did off road my truck but ended up getting a new tranny around 70,000 miles. I had the extended warranty so was replaced for free.

Started out as like a thump under acceleration and turned into an outright vibrating shudder usually under load. Still loved the truck and would get another one, finances permitting :-)

loup407 · 02-01-12, 08:12 PM

I got my '08 I'm January of that year. I just turned 89,000 miles. No problems and no real complaints.

1BiGGuy · 02-01-12, 09:24 PM

'07 bought in August of '06. Just over 160,000 miles. Had to replace one tie rod end and one wheel speed sensor. I've also had 7 or 8 windshields and need another now. Love the FJ though.

NorthFJ · 02-07-12, 09:18 AM

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'07 bought in August of '06. Just over 160,000 miles. Had to replace one tie rod end and one wheel speed sensor. I've also had 7 or 8 windshields and need another now. Love the FJ though.

If there is a downfall to these trucks (and don't get me wrong, I love my truck) but the windshields break WAY too easy!
I'm on my second, but it's cracked too, I've just left it for now as it seems to be a repeating theme.....

1911 · 02-07-12, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by NorthFJ

If there is a downfall to these trucks (and don't get me wrong, I love my truck) but the windshields break WAY too easy!
I'm on my second, but it's cracked too, I've just left it for now as it seems to be a repeating theme.....

I'm still on my factory original windshield, at 130,000 miles. But I've almost lost count of the number of times that I've had chips filled with epoxy. Probably have chips in my chips by now.

Woodsman · 02-07-12, 08:20 PM

2008 purchased Oct 2007

37,800 miles with well over 3/4 of them being from trips back and forth to Western Colorado and Southeastern Utah. Still on original windshield but have lots of pinstripes in the paint.

helocat · 02-07-12, 11:42 PM

2007 - March month built so 59 months old, almost 5yrs.

16,000'ish miles on the odometer

40,000 miles (about) carried on a trailer. So the original windshield has about 56k on it, no chips or cracks.

4 different transfercases ran since new.
- Stock
- Inchworm duel (Broke it)
- Marlin Crawler duel set up
- Atlas II 4 speed (In now and wow what a case in an FJC!)

2 Stock fuel tanks. One chopped up for the first two aftermarket T-cases and back to un molested stock tank with the killer Atlas II T case.

2 Automatic Transmissions. Killed the original trany on Rubicon due to oil seal allowing all the oil to go into the cavity between the trany and the T case. Nothing leaked on the trail, just toasted the trany.

6 or so different suspension set ups, to many changes to list.

NBFJCruz · 02-11-12, 12:36 PM

4 yrs and 4 months... 126,000 miles. passenger side bearing replaced. Front rotors pads and calipers replaced twice due to frozen caliper (grrrr). replaced windshield once so far but it is pretty much sandblasted...