Please Be Thankful for 200 Series Land Cruiser Maintenance

[Heritage 2020]

Greetings All,

I love my Land Cruiser—regardless of first world problems that may occur like a delaminating leather steering wheel cover.

Ahem.

Back in the day, my wife bought a new Silver 2004 Land Cruiser Discovery 2 SE as a daily driver.

It was my wife’s daily driver and family toy. Truth told—I loved it—and the memories it provided for our young family.

We sold our Disco 2 in 2011 with 161k miles and it had zero reliability issues other than a water pump, replaced front driveshaft, sunroof failure, and failed ABS sensor 4x —plus 100% factory dealership maintenance during our ownership.
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With God as my witness.

After watching this video—I will never complain about any aspect of LC200 LX570 maintenance ever again.

Perspective,…..

Sheesh!

 

[riffman12]

I love discos. So much character. Fantastic visibility. And they're just cool

But I don't love having to think of head gaskets as preventative maintenance

 

[Heritage 2020]

I love discos. So much character. Fantastic visibility. And they're just cool

But I don't love having to think of head gaskets as preventative maintenance

I love the ‘90s-‘04 Discos.

If you’ve owned a Disco in the past and watch the video—you will get the point.

 

[DesertRider]

The coolest vehicles start every time you hop in them and get you to your destination and back without a tow truck.

 

[sdnative]

Please don't use Land Cruiser and Discovery in the same sentence

 

[rlynch356]

Haha.... I just got rid of an LR4 5.0, total POS compared to the LR3 4.4. ... That said, I will never buy another JLR product other than a classic defender.
I do own and enjoy a 1995 Defender 90 NAS

 

[tempestv8]

I had a Discovery Series II with the 4.0 V8 which eventually slipped a cylinder liner due to an overheating episode. I had to get the engine block rebuilt with Top Hat liners to eliminate future cylinder bore issues.

I sold the Disco II V8 and bought a 200 Series VDJ200 after that, which was simply a much more confident and powerful tow vehicle.

I still think the Disco had a lot of character, but I would not look back as the Cruiser has not costed me multiples of thousands of dollars in maintenance costs, having to constantly chase oil leaks, replace idler pulleys and starter motors, tailshaft rotorflex couplings, double cardan joint repairs to the front prop shaft, replacing super soft brake rotors, wheel lock nuts made of butter soft metal, etc. etc. It was a very competent offroader, with mountain goat like ability, there's no question.

In the Discovery V8's defence, its alternator and airconditioning compressor location is far superior at the top of the vee compared to the abysmal locations that Toyota chose to place the alternator and airconditioning compressor on the V8 diesel engine. Let's not even think about the starter motor location, deep inside the vee of the engine. Oh well, everything is a bit of a compromise but the Land Cruiser has been super reliable so I shouldn't be complaining.