2.8 deisel really that slow?

Yep ,there slow.It'll tow your boat and gear easily at 100kph until you hit a hill,then start working that gear lever down.Even though Im happy enough with our 4 Runner.I know of heaps of 2.8's that have done over 500 000kms with 5000km services.

Deano

Slow as a wet week on the inclines and head winds. But it will go all day and the next and the neaxt and the next....................

Cheers
Wal

As said above ... the 2.8D is slow but it will go all day ... and it will probably take all day to get where your going if there are hills involved.

My 2.8D has towed a 1.3 tonne camper trailer, which fine on the flat roads but I've had to change down to second gear on some hills.

That was then, I had a turbo fitted last week ... and now it tows the CT without a problem. Last weekend, I even overtook another car going up a hill while towing. Talk about a whole new experience!

Yes. I have a '92 2.8 sr5 lux with now 360,000 on the clock, they don't call them hill detectors for nothing. I towed a 1500kg caravan to Mt Isa and back ( gladstone ) between Winton and Kynuna the country is apparantly flat but you are actually going up the Diamentina watershed, on this stretch I couldn't get above 75k when the road finally turned to the west to head into Kynuna the old girl took off as the road actually flattened. An extrmemly reliable truck but I now have a LX100 for towing the van. I sometimes wondered if I shouldn't have put the turbo on it instead of buying the cruiser however I use the Hilux for work ( dualcab ) and was looking for a vehicle that would last another 3 years until I retired. I have put 200,000k on this Hilux in the 3 years I have owned it.
Even driving to Brisbane on the Bruce h'way you don't try and overtake if the passing lane is up a hill, the first time I tried it the slower sedan then passed me on the inside.

Graham

in one word....YES

loaded with gear expect 100 on the flat 80 in the hills and 40 kms up big un's

shadow

Slower...lol
Turbos fix that though!
Andrew

Go and drive one.

Your idea of slow may not be the same as others...

why do you think they are so cheap?

Sheesh, if you all think the 2.8 is slow, you really wouldn't have liked my old 2.4 Lux!
Thank the Lord for new high-tech diseasels - I think?
Glenn B.

Deano 1,
I have a 2.8 dual cab with extractors. Extractors obviously work as I get 105KPH. Actuall got 115 out of it the other day after a downhill run.
But...at least I know its going to get there.

Slow?

My wife's 1996 2.8 litre diesel dual cab cruises quite comfortably at 110, and given most of WA will wind itself up to about 118. It is bog standard and has done a trouble-free 110,000 km..

Whether you find them slow probably depends on whether you are a typically twitchy city boy, or a country boy. (You can also tell when city types telephone 'cos they usually hang up after four or five rings!).

HiLuxes are really not intended as bitumen cruisers, but on dirt roads etc, we at least find the performance is adequate. It's a ball of fire compared with the OKA!

I personally prefer our 2000 78-series Troopy, but it's not that much faster.
Collyn Rivers