100HDJ Turbo how many Ks are to many

When I was looking to buy a prado, there where heaps with 200000ks plus and they still wanted top dollar. The ones with 300000ks plus where worth only $8000 to $12000.
Is yours a diesel or petrol. Only issue with the diesel is the head which is only about $2000.rest should last 400000ks. Petrol motors also seem to do 400000ks if well serviced.
Cheers Pete

Hi Pete. I hope you are right: another 100,000 km or better would be really nice!! Better still another 200,000 km!! Ours is a petrol engine (manual trans) and it is going in for a clutch job this week, but generally it has been disgustingly trouble-free.
I would hope that the real Landcruiser will be better still, and my point was really that you'll probably have to pay $35,000 for a good LC 100 with 200,000, but still be buying a vehicle with quite a bit of age under its belt. I'm certainly not bagging the LC.

Since when could you import 100 series landcruisers?
AFAIK all imports ceased a few years back,unless you have owned it while living overseas for 12 months.

The only vehicles that are easy to import are ones not sold new in Australia,although many slip through as they are badged differently in other markets

dont they have to be over 15 years old now to import except under certain circumstance?

Some do ,some dont,but Landcruisers are not able to be imported at all.
This is a list of vehicles that can be imported

http://rvcs-prodweb.dot.gov.au/sevs/sevsindex.htm

Mini Minors were approved a few months back but are not on the list yet.

To MAx10

Whatever gives you the idea that Japanese cars are looked after better than here.

I would strongly dispute that after having SEVERAL imports in my days in NZ.

First one a 1984 Toyota Corona ST150 ( not used here)

Supposedly had 68,000k on it..HA HA

AT the time nearly all imports had between 55,000-70,000k on them.

Turned out that they were wound back anything up to 100,000k

Second one was a Toyota Hiace 2.4 diesel van Went Ok but at 80,000 the

tranny was stuffed. 80,000?????????

also took some panels off under floor and was full of sand.????????

Third one was another Toyota ( good cars Im told)

ST 170 2 ltr diesel Supposedly had 58,000k on it.

When I removed glovebox I found a logbook page 4 years old that had 4,000k

more on it than the car had done when I got it.

Motor gave up in 12 months with highest compression of 290lb.

Got a s/h Motor which had 425lb.

Lastly (I know I should have learnt)t bought a 2.0 ltr V6 Mitsubishi Eterna
Tranny was a bit rough 6 weeks later stripped it and clutches were so thin you

could see thru them Drums in tranny were nearly worn thru.

Think Mr tard aass san must have sat at lights with feet on both pedals

Another guy bought a similar mitsi and gave it to his wife for 6 months, went

Ok so put it on as a taxi and it lasted 3 months.

Several dealers got into serious trouble over imports having odos wound back.

So now tell me imports are well looked after.

They have to get almost stripped after a certain time or 60,000k so they just

drive them and dump them at that Oil is like syrup, never been changed they

dont look after the insides either They are worth nothing.

When they started importing them into NZ they were buying them for $800

and selling them for over $10,000.

A friend of mine had a son working over there buying cars and cutting them

up and sending containers of parts back to NZ

He got a really nice Skyline for under $2000 and sent it back with parts all

around it and got it in OK

Was worth about $12,00-$15000 in NZ

My experience with imports

They have cleaned up the industry somewhat but the cars are not a lot better in some cases

Thanks guys for your comments and advise. Looking at a unit with a little more K's does open up the field some what. I checked last night and there was 13 for sale around oz in the $30k to 50k range on carsales. May have to travel but will be worth it in the end. See you on the road. Cheers Bill