2007 V8 landcruiser ute warning lights

It sounds like the water has frozen the alternator brushes in their guides and they have lost contact hence no charging and lights will come on because the charging normally truns off those lights after startup and when charging commences, Try tapping the alternator with solid hits to loosen the brushes.

If not, disassembly may be required to free up the brushes so they can operate normally.

Most current model alternators have the combined voltage regulator and brush holder just held on by two Phillips head screws.
Unscrew those two screws and carefully pull out the voltage regulator and check that the brushes are moving freely, aren't broken, and the slip rings are smooth and shiny.
You can also check for damaged connection contacts and wiring while you're at it.
Be very careful about hitting alternators, it's too easy to break something.

When they do your service ask them to check or dry out water around the starter motor as this can hold water and cause failures in the future.

Oh What a Feeling Toyota

I suspect that the water levels were well above design speci's.

Disco.

Rick R1
I recall seeing on lcool.org where it was suggested that after going through deep dirty water you should then apply copious quantities of clean water to the front of the alternator whilst the engine is running at low idle speed. Apparently these vehicles will withstand being quite deep in clean water (as I have done with mine up to 750mm in a 200 series) but they do not like the mud through the alternator. They also have an issue with dirty water laying in the V, as the starter motor is also in this V and can be immersed in mud and water for some time, and not so easy to get to.

Regards
Athol

Hi Rick

Whilst I agree with all the replies so far I can also tell you that combination of all 3 warning lights is also every common for absolutely no apparent reason!!!

A google search will show you how common and unsolved this is.

My experience with this combo is the following

1) First time I was on the way home from the goldfields...the vehicle had not seen water for months...they just suddenly appeared on the dash and frightened the beejessus out of me...........I pulled over...visually the oil level was normal...the multi tester ( and dash gauge) showed charging.......I changed the fuel filter.....all lights still on...I disconnected the battery.....I re connected etc....all still on........I hopped underneath and tapped the alternator to free up anything maybe sticking...no joy

Out I dragged the sat phone and I called a Toyota dealer and my diesel mechanic at home and an auto sparky I knew ...they could not help

So I reasoned that I had verified that all the systems were ok......oil level....fuel and charging....I was many hundreds km's from any town...so I simply drove on waiting for a disaster to happen.........vehicle performed faultlessly.....

After a few hundred km's they simply went out!.......this has since happened 3 or 4 times over a 2 year period........

Google showed this is common...there is no answer I have found to date.......they eventually (so far)...go

Very disconcerting for sure........but your not alone.....don't fret if Mr Toyota cant find it because I doubt they will....just drive and stick some black electrical tape over the lights if you cant handle it :)

I just hope they don't charge you for something that might fix itself before you get the vehicle in there....or fix itself while its in there.........might be gone before you take it in even

cheers

Thanks for the feed back. My batt isn't charging and as motoring along it seemed to put a blow out noise out of the turbo around 2000 rpm and sort of struggle. So is this cause of lack of charge to run computer or something ?