Hi,
First Id like to thank you MUD community for wells of information and support.
This forum is what convinced me to buy my first "land cruiser", its LX.
I got inspired by reading stories of people flying out of state to buy their cars. At first it seemed bit crazy, but I listened to yours advice and had PPI inspection done which helped me to feel better about putting down deposit and buying a plane ticket.
So i did my walk though the car, tried checking every possible option to see if it works. Being my first car of this caliber I cant say I knew well how everything should function.
Here is few issues that I found and wonder if someone can help me out with.
1) when cruising above 60mph I can hear a wind noise coming out from moon roof, but only when sunshade is open. when I close the sunshade noise drops significantly, but still there. Is this a common issue and something that can be fixed by replacing rubber seals?
2) when moving steering wheel hard left or right I can hear a whining noise coming out from the steering pump. its not very loud but its there. On Honda cars it was a simple fix, just replace O-ring on inlet of the pump. I have not looked at reservoir to see if there is air bubbles in there. Is it the same or I am in big trouble with this one?
But have to say driving this car is pure pleasure. I did 550 miles yesterday and never felt this good after long trip.
First Id like to thank you MUD community for wells of information and support.
This forum is what convinced me to buy my first "land cruiser", its LX.
I got inspired by reading stories of people flying out of state to buy their cars. At first it seemed bit crazy, but I listened to yours advice and had PPI inspection done which helped me to feel better about putting down deposit and buying a plane ticket.
So i did my walk though the car, tried checking every possible option to see if it works. Being my first car of this caliber I cant say I knew well how everything should function.
Here is few issues that I found and wonder if someone can help me out with.
1) when cruising above 60mph I can hear a wind noise coming out from moon roof, but only when sunshade is open. when I close the sunshade noise drops significantly, but still there. Is this a common issue and something that can be fixed by replacing rubber seals?
2) when moving steering wheel hard left or right I can hear a whining noise coming out from the steering pump. its not very loud but its there. On Honda cars it was a simple fix, just replace O-ring on inlet of the pump. I have not looked at reservoir to see if there is air bubbles in there. Is it the same or I am in big trouble with this one?
But have to say driving this car is pure pleasure. I did 550 miles yesterday and never felt this good after long trip.