Prado recall

Can I be first to say OH WHAT A FEELING?

PS. nissan should have had the balls to do this with the bleep box.

On the end of a 12 month count down to our Cape York trip. So far in the last few weeks, a total rebuild of the gearbox, pain in the arse and costly, now throw in a cyclone, apparently continuing rain and lack of open roads.

Waiting on more details but if I get a recall now I'll start to think that the universe is working against me and this trip!!

Sandy

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Toyota to Recall 217,767 Prado Sport-Utilities to Repair Axles

May 16 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp., Japan's biggest automaker,
said it will take back 217,767 Land Cruiser Prado sport-utility
vehicles in Japan and overseas to fix faulty rear axle shafts.

The recall, which starts tomorrow, affects vehicles built between
April 1996 and January 1999, Toyota said in a filing to Japan's
transport ministry today. As many as 107,767 units will be recalled in
Japan and 110,000 units will be taken back from Europe, China and
Australia, Toyota said.

The axle shafts, which are not reinforced, may cause tires to fall off
when they are driven on winding roads, Toyota said, without providing
financial details of the recall.

One accident was linked to the faulty drive shaft, the transport
ministry said, adding that the accident did not cause any injuries

Spitting axles is ugly.
If you have a close look at the old photo at the bottom of this post you can see my mates CJ5 Jeep minus the left hand rear wheel. Not only is it minus the wheel but axle as well.
The photo is taken in the camping grounds at Coen about 20 years ago! We where on our way back down the Cape about I think 20 or 30 k's north of Coen when the whole back axle got spat out.
We tried a couple of different things to get it back, a log used as a skid under the axle was one of them.
Eventually we flipped the tongue over on my Hayman Reese towbar, dropped my mates towbar on top of that. Shoved the pin out of a bloody big shackle we happened to have with us throught the towball holes, nut on the bottom and the photo says the rest.

People where great, everyone stopped for a chat and to offer ideas. Only problem, everyone that stopped to think shoved a beer in our hands. That was even uglier than the wheel bearing. Good job we had four vehicles in the convoy.

We got it onto a truck in Coen for a trip to Cairns for repairs.

Big bun fight when we got home as my mate had paid to have the rear wheel bearings replaced before we left.

Geoff.

Oh, what the heck, I'll say it....

"Oh, what a failing, Toyota"

Gives credence to the old comeback "I had one too, but the wheels fell off..."

"Three wheel drive, the Prado owners' four wheel drive."

"Don't you love a vehicle that comes with TWO spare wheels?"

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Give us your best line...............................

Geoff M
Those vehicles in the photo look to be nicely balanced did you connect up a Weight Distribution Hitch as well!! LOL or maybe you can not remember, "hic"

eerfree

Land Cruiser Prado 95

Date: 17/05/2006

Supplier Name: Tpyota Motor Corporation Australia Limited

Product Make: Toyota

Product Model: Land Cruiser Prado 95

Target Number: 20,688

Model Years From: 1996 to 1999

Consequences:

Campaign Number: 6521D

VIN Range: All with WMI: JT7. VDS: 11UJ95, VIS: 00001007 - 00021922 and VDS: 11VJ95, VIS: 00001019 - 00053796.

Serial Range:

Product Info: Manufactured April 17, 1996 through January 6, 1999.

Defect Details: Due to insufficient strength of the rear axle shaft flange, a crack may develop at the neck of the flange if the vehicle is operated in certain driving conditions, such as repeated high speed driving on winding mountain roads. If the vehicle continues to be operated in this condition, the crack may expand and in the worst case, the flange could fracture causing wheel seperation.

Consumer action: Contact your local dealer.

Market Coverage: National

Recall Coverage: National

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Toyota Australia will wait until they are confident they have enough replacement parts before they contactt owners in writing. This is what I was told by Pennant Hills Toyota yesterday.

geez, first if you break a shock, the front wheels fall off, now the backs go as well :-)))

On the bright side - owners will get new axle seals / bearings etc fitted for the cost of the new diff oil - sweet.

Perhaps the people (I was getting a little irritated by) who were joyously criticising the quality of Australian made vehicles in another thread on this forum about one week ago would care to comment?

Mike Harding