New Model 4WD's - No Spares?

Manufacturers and retailers are obliged by law to provide spares for 7 years.
No doubt there is fine print.
Might be worth checking the law. You may be eligible for some compensation? :)

Cheers,
Peter
OKA196 Motorhome

http://www.stretchcvboot.com/cv-boots/

Get a couple of these boots for cv shafts
Easy to fit and tear resistant
Loads on ebay 2-3 days from uk

For the belts , measure what's on and go to bearing belt shop like CBC
Anything + or - 10 mm will be ok

As for the hoses just order and wait
If it's a new vehicle should be fine for 10 years unless you manage to put a stick through one But highly unlikely

With the cv make sure you have a good socket and long tube as they are pretty hard to loosen
I I fitted stretch boots to my Prado outers recently and it took a bit of effort to undo the cv nut
Cheers
Mike

They build a new model, release it to the world and then find that some components are over represented in their rate of failure.

It takes a bit for the logistics side to catch up from their predicted consumption to better reflect the actual consumption. Or they wait for usage patterns to develop before they start stocking replacements.
It can also be that all sub assemblies are allocated to production, so end users can end up down the list when it comes to getting parts.

One project I worked on, the equipment type was still in production, but we had to wait 3 years to get a replacement part delivered because all the bits were allocated to production and no one thought about stocking spares.

KB - This sounds like Toyota have pulled the same stunt as Hitler did - put every component into production machines to make production look better - but they have no spares backup.
In Hitlers case, this was a big factor in the Nazis defeat, as the likes of the Luftwaffe had to cannibalise perfectly good aircraft, to keep others going that broke down.
It was demoralising to the men at the front and costly for the Nazi war machine.

In Toyotas case, this will blow up in their face if it continues. We can buy Chinese crap and have to hunt around for parts - without paying exorbitant money for new Tojos, and yet still have to hunt for parts.

Then again - this could be a dealer stunt, too, avoiding possible alternative lines of supply to go through more profitable sources, such as directly through Toyota. It could also be a restrictive convenant by Toyota on the dealer, too, that they are obliged to only source parts from Toyota Motor Corp head office.

I'd suggest you contact some of the independent Thailand dealers, owned by Westerners, who specialise in exporting parts and vehicles from Thailand.
Mark Motors and Mikes4x4 come to mind, there is likely to be others.

Cheers, Ron.

Take some self-fusing silicone tape to repair any hose punctures, and some metal epoxy putty.

Go to CBC Bearings to get belts. Quality is better than any other brands including Toyota.

"Is this just a sign of the times and do all manufacturers have a long lag time between model release and parts availability in Australia?"

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My last job in the motor industry was in the service office of a Toyota dealer. That was in 1986. It was the same back then and it looks like nothing has changed.

Many parts are usually available almost immediately when a new model is released but things like belts and hoses are not supposed to be worn out within six months. My 2003 Hilux has 158,000 ks on it. I replaced the original hoses yesterday and the belts three years ago. Both of them looked like they would have lasted a lot longer.

Toyota serpentine belts and radiator hoses are superb. I haven't seen or heard of anyone busting one on a near new vehicle - I no longer carry these as spares.

Goto Terrain Tammer.

On a similar vein - we have a MY16 Landcruiser ( owned since Dec '15) and were planning on putting a bullbar on it before we leave on our 14 week trip. We leave in 2 weeks. The only ones currently available are the Toyota and ARB brands - both expensive. Admittedly this is an aftermarket product we are looking at. Other prominent brands are apparently still in delevopment. We will head off without the bullbar and our fingers crossed and will reassess when we get home.

The linkage between Spare parts availability and Marketing driven model changes is not new, however it was not the original philosophy of General Tojo.
The FJ40's, 55's right through to the HJ75's in the mid eighties had a great deal of parts commonality; particularly mechanical.

eg., A CV broke at the Cape in '92, went to a "Spare Parts Dealer" (a few wrecked FJ40's and 45's) in Bamaga and was offered the mandatory beer and we headed off amongst the 1.5m grass, dismantled a CV joint, got what I needed and returned to the Jardine and fixed it. Got us back to Newcastle no worries.

Model inter-changeability of Parts was extremely handy.

I toured the Toyota factory some years back and ask an engineer about the constant model changes that had entered the 4WD scene and he answered it with a short retort ......... "Marketing not Engineering fault"


Cheers

dad