Potential bad dealership practice?

mickdw

It would be common for the likes of a landcruiser to have been bought by a large business. Many of those will never see the dealer again.
One of the larger construction companies in the country for example would have their own garage facilities and do their own work unless warranty work needed.
Get toyota to have a look over it. If they cant say its clocked, nobody can, then forget about it.
The fact that motorcheck removed the discrepancy suggests that that entry was not a safe piece of data.

Mad_maxx

mickdw wrote: »

It would be common for the likes of a landcruiser to have been bought by a large business. Many of those will never see the dealer again.
One of the larger construction companies in the country for example would have their own garage facilities and do their own work unless warranty work needed.
Get toyota to have a look over it. If they cant say its clocked, nobody can, then forget about it.
The fact that motorcheck removed the discrepancy suggests that that entry was not a safe piece of data.

i only brought up the odometer discrepancy at the start to illustrate that when several things are off , it can give the impression of irregularity , i admit i was incorrect about the tyres so thats not an issue at all , i didnt know about dealerships using stock finance , that again was a non issue

i accept a business might well do their own servicing but it does seem odd that someone would risk voiding warranty by not servicing in the first few years of ownership , motorcheck lists ownership from beginning of 2017 to february of this year as being private ownership , not company

a business can be pretty brutal when it comes to delicate care of vehicles

Mad_maxx

so the landcruiser was checked out by a toyota dealer today

ECU reading is in sync with odometer reading

level of wear of brake pads typical for a vehicle with 60000 km , they told him they had a two year old landcruiser in yesterday with 75000 km and pads were more worn which makes sense

they put a toyota fuel filter in as the used car dealer had used spurious
worn
biggest issue was the DPF , 80% worn , put it down to original owner driving slow on a regular basis in urban traffic ? , they blew out out and its now reading zero , they told him hopefully it will " regenerate " properly , otherwise its an indication of the fifth injector being in trouble ?

overall they were content with the quality of the jeep

when he got home however , he popped the bonnet and noticed that when topping up add blue , they spilt some and corrosion all over the fuse board lid , as well as some hoses and the area beside the add blue chamber

funny as the service and parts guy handed him a half container of add blue as he was leaving and said " be careful using that , it burns everything "

Toyotafanboi

Warm water will dissolve the adblue. It crystalises on surfaces, it looks horrific but it wont do any lasting damage if you rinse it with some warm water. The parts guy was probably being dramatic, you could stick your hnd in a drum of adblue, no harm.

bazz26

It's piss at the end of the day.

colm_mcm

bazz26 wrote: »

It's piss at the end of the day.

A fitting end to the thread.



Lock it up boys.

ba_barabus

bazz26 wrote: »

It's piss at the end of the day.

The thread or the adblue?

ba_barabus

colm_mcm wrote: »

A fitting end to the thread.



Lock it up boys.

bazz26

ba_barabus wrote: »

The thread or the adblue?

Yes.

Book em Danno.