Buying a 100 s Landcruiser

I bought a diesel, poverty pack Landcruiser and love it. It isn't the fastest on the road but it has plenty of grunt to tow with.

I upgraded from a V6 Triton dual cab and will not go back.

Cheers Kev

You can't just look at the cost of fuel. You need to look at fuel consumption as well.

I suspect as you will be heavily loaded your petrol bill will be huge whereas the diesel bill will be pretty much constant. You could run petrol/gas but there is the issue of finding LPG out in the sticks, although it depends on where you are touring, plus you'll need to relocate the spare tyre ($$$).

You need to weigh up the extra cost of diesel/litre + purchase price as oppossed to increased consumption of petrol when towing.

In addition diesel is a lot safer then petrol (kaboom hazard). That alone is worth a premium.

look at fuel economy.......you will more than likely get more km out of a diesel than a petrol tank......im not sure what the economy is like between them but from experience unless its a v8 petrol then its gunna chew it.....but i could be wrong....I used to work in a servo and the big cruisers and patrols that always came in were always complaining about economy on ulp......diesel...they were content....

Id buy diesel purely for this reason....we had an 80 series on petrol / lpg and it chewed it big time....I know its a totally different car and hard to compare but our navara is cheaper to run!

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The deisel may cost $10 000 more to buy, but resale will be higher when you decide to upgrade from a Toyota later on.
Cheers

I recently did the research on a TD vs V8 petrol and came to the conclusion that the TD would cost more over 5 years but not by too much.
I decided to get one anyway as they do have some other advantages - range on a single tank being the obvious one. Plus I thought I'd just "feel better" about owning the diesel and using less fuel.
There are not many TD's out there though so good luck finding a suitable one.

Well I bought a 2005 TD with 58K on it cost me $57k and I couldnt be happier.

My van weighs 2.7tonne and at 100kph I get 5.9kper litre. Or just about 16l per100km.
That was on a trip where I was being naughty with the speed limit due to lateness as well.

Have just put a DTronic chip in it and am going vanning tomorrow so will see if there is any improvement.

Unfortunately they seem to be dearer now that 12 months ago.

Look at the ex govt sales If you can get a good one there may be worthwhile.

The V8 will use more towing than the TD but costs a lot less to buy and gets a lot less on trade in as well.

Was talking to a guy last week who has a low mileage V8 and was going to trade on a new Hilux and was offered $28,000 for it. He wont be upgrading I dont think.

Also spoke to a 200 owner who was crying at the cost of fitting electrical accessories to it and was wishing he could buy his 100series back. He was dead serious as well.

Apart from all the info in these replies, your quoted prices are essentially capital city numbers. Wait till you have to buy fuel at somewhere away from the capital city and see what the petrol price vs diesel is.

Check country price differentials and I think you will choose diesel!

Any petrol will use more then a diesel. Yes dearer to buy in the first place but as said above resale will be the same. Yes diesel is dearer at the pump but will go alot further klm wise. I just spoke to a bloke last night that I have become friends with over the years and he is organizing a trip to the Alice (tour guide tag along). He was telling me about organizing fuel etc and has 10 vehicles going. He is allowing 20L per 100k for the 6 cylinder T/diesels, 15L for the T/diesel prado's and 30L per 100 for 2 of the 100 series petrols which will be towing campers. One of the blokes which owns one of the 100 series has upgraded the fuel tanks and will be carying another 5 jerry cans on his camper trailer. My mate is also making them take off the cat convertors to reduce the chance of a flare up from spinifix (spelling). He is also making all the petrol ones carry one of those 5 litre garden spray pumps with water in addition to the fire extinguisher. Yes ilegal removing the cat/convert but said this is the main cause of alot of fires. He just got the fax back from where the fuel will be supplied and diesel will be $2.78 a litre petrol will be $3.85. That is at the current price he said this will probably rise by july. I think this is what alot of above was referring to when it comes to fires. Regards Steve M

Hi Big Marty,

I have an 80 series LC on dual fuel and so I can run on what ever is available at the time. I was reading some threads last night on the forum about fuel prices and even out the back of beyond, if gas was available, gas was half the price of ULP ond more than half the price of diesel. Close to 2 fifths.

Dual fuel vehicles cost less even in the dealers yards and if you get one with the spare tyre carrier already fitted you have all bases covered and you will have plenty left over for the holiday, There are several available, Ive been looking for comparison reasons.

Try looking on that carsales.com.au site and you will find plenty in Victoria. They go in for them in a big way down there apparently.

Thems my thoughts on the matter.
Regards,
Bruce

Big Marty



Despite the extra cost a diesel is a far better proposition if you are towing.

What experience do you have in a 4X4. If you have none or little consider doing a 4X4 course before you do your trip.

You will also find that in a lot of places fuel costs are a lot more than the costs you quoted.



Tjilpi

Here is one example of the safety aspect of petrol over deisel.
I'll admit it is not related directly to the vehicle however, In 2003 I travelled to Cape York and when we arrived at Gunshot Creek we were told of the family that had thier whole world destroyed the day before. The story goes that they had been camped there for a couple of days when they were refueling from petrol jerry cans in prep for moving on when the jerry can they were using exploded after being sparked from the pilot light of the 3 way fridge that had been running in their camp.
Apparently the fridge was some distance from the vehicle but there you go.
I believe there were deaths with rescue choppers called in the extract poeple etc etc

Big Marty,

My wife and I, have a really nice 11/2000 GXL dual fuel 105 Series coming up for private sale soon. We have a new 200 Series on order.

It has dual batteries. elec brake controller, spare wheel carrier,HF CB, Load Rail roof rack, for a tinny, is an 8 seater, has only done 117,000 and is immaculate. We have it's full history and log books etc.

It has never been off road and never been damaged in any way. We bought it privately from a lady owner, who used it to go to tennis and Woollies (seriously) When we bought it in 2006 it had only done 88ks and we had lpg fitted straight away.

We want $30k for it, and currently use it to tow our caravan, and if you are interested, send me an email