Prado with Dtronic

Have a look at LCOOL forums. It has been covered to death there....
Basically gives you more power and torque, so the car is easier on the go.

Dont know, never had a Prado, but am also interested because I am also concidering a new vehicle in the next 6 months and a Prado is up there on the list of vehicles concidered.

This is the info from the Dtronic site Site Link

Hope it helps, but am interested in comments from those who have been there, done that.

HAve one fitted to my 2004 TD. Took it off recently just to compare the performance value. Couldn't wait to put it back in.

It makes a huge difference both around town and on the highway where the vehicle goes from feeling ho hum at 110kph to having some accleration when needed.

Downside is that they cost so much. If you ahve the $ and a TD - do it. I haven't had the car dynoed but it is very obvious the power increase, particularly for towing. I still get about 11l/100k as well

Rob

I'll share with you a short anecdote demonsrating the effect of a Dtronic on a Prado TD 5 speed manual (95 series - 2002 model).

While living in the NT, Prado full of camping gear, jerries of fuel, stuff on the roof rack, towing a boat (GVM approx 1 tonne). Fifth gear came behind a 3 trailer road train at about 110 kph up a slight gradient. Just put the foot down, no change down, terminal speed past the road train was 130 kph! Remember I was also towing a boat.

Better response/torque down low end of rev range. Fuel consumption hasn't increased that much, can still get 10.5L/100 km highway cycle (not towing). Towing a 16 ft caravan (at the speed limit) the worst I get is around 16 - 18L/100 km, average is 13 - 14L/100km.