Recent content by JDMaffinity93

Wonder how Doug is going to talk about the V35A in his Sequoia if its starts showing some growing pains aside from dumping it on Cars & Bids for an inflated price to his fanbase. The guy bought a Countach and a GT40 and then slandered his 200 series because he spent 13K in service at a...

The guy doesn't have much experience with Land Cruisers. That said, the more accurate statement is that he didn't acknowledge the radiator as a weak point in the 200 series in that video. He also just released a video on the 100 series LC and overlooked common issues on those as well, such as...

If it's from the rust belt, 23K sounds about right for a 2013 rig with 200K. Let's see what long-term issues the V35A starts showing once those rigs start getting into 6-digit mileage and 5-plus-year-old territory (I think everyone will still praise the UR). I will admit it was stupid on...

Is it as hefty of a job on the 3UR as on the 2UZs?

It does. Buyers have deeper pockets in BaT, especially for museum condition collectors like this. 78K and this didn't sell, that is absurd

121K is the bid with still six days to go. That is just bonkers, especially since this is not a third row. These late build 200 and 201s are honestly investments at this point since the V35A is still a dumpster fire of an engine until time proves otherwise.

I would think maybe even longer. The first UR came out in 2006 in the LS460s and the Tundras. Technically the first VA series's motors came in the LS500 in 2017 but the V35A for the truck application didn't come out until 2021.

Too soon to say; the earliest 300's are only now turning three years old. We still haven't seen what the impacts of thousands of heat cycles, seasonal elements, and other external components has on all the new hardware in those V35A engines. Toyota had 15 years to develop that powertrain, so I...

You can get as much as you want of a 200/201 series as long as you address all the known failure points in the 100-200K range (radiator on pre-18, water pump & starter or early builds, cam tower, and coolant valley) and keep the car in a dry climate away from road salt and other corrosive...

You've lost with that mindset even if they did source the engine from Japan. Unless they flew in a master factory technician to install your engine, you are also getting inferior labor to do the swap as well. I would think that down the road, the 22-23 LX600s are going to have significantly...

It is no surprise that a smaller displacement V6 engine with two turbos that produces more HP and 20% more torque is going to have more failure points than a low-stress, high-displacement V8. You can't bend the laws of chemical physics, no matter how good the metallurgy has become.

2016-2017 models also suffer from deteriorating steering wheel trim and have mandatory rear seat entertainment systems. The front differential on some accounts was reportedly updated for 2020-2021 models as well.

One or two levels of complexity over a URJ200/201. Two air intakes, multiple radiators, etc. No doubt though, this is a functionally superior car dynamically and likely off-road while also being more fuel efficient.

Not sure why Toyota would want to bring back the 300 series as it makes zero sense from a product lineup perspective; last time Toyota sold over 10K units of the LC was in 2000 (the model year before the Highlander and Sequoia stole the thunder). And the model hadn't seen over 4000 units...

The last time Toyota bothered to spend marketing dollars on the LC was with the pre-facelift 100 series. Since the Sequoia came out, Toyota has put all marketing dollars towards that car. 98-99 was the last TV/print commercial for the LC100 in America but I think Lexus continued to market the...