Hi, I'm looking to buy a used Land Cruiser somewhere in the '95-'98 range. Can someone tell me at what mileage the factory recommends the major maintenance items like the timing belt, etc?

Also, any advice or comments on those years would be appreciated.

acf hi mate

Are you after an Colorado model or the Amazon.

I bought my Colorado last July with 69000 miles on it and that had the 70K service done and the cam belt was changed @ 59K.

Wait for the right one it took me just over a year to get mine.

Also reading up on the Landcruiser roughly @ 60K the rear disc get warpped and again they were changed on mine before I bought it.

Hope you get one soon, it's the first 4x4 I have owned and hopefully my next one will be an LC5 3.0 D4D VX.

I think oil is about every 6K miles and a service about every 10K.

Ash

Thanks for the reply, Ash.

Pardon my ignorance but I'm not sure of the difference b/w Colorado or Amazon? Is that only a UK thing?

All the ones I'm looking at have at least 80k miles so I hope those services/repairs have been done.

What year is yours?

acf

The Colorado is a 3.0TD and the Amazon is I think a 4.2 TD

Mine is a 1997 on a P


Ash

Ahhh, it is a "UK" thing. Where do you live?

Ours in the US don't have diesel engines. I'm actually in negotiations as we speak on a '97 as well. Its got a 4.5L 6 cylinder unleaded gas engine though.

[quote]Its got a 4.5L 6 cylinder unleaded gas engine though.  [/quote]
rather u than me mate - you'd need to own a Petrol station here in the UK to run something like that!!!!

Rash.

[quote name='Rash@R.A.Motors' date='Jun 18 2004, 10:15 AM'] [quote]Its got a 4.5L 6 cylinder unleaded gas engine though.  [/quote]
rather u than me mate - you'd need to own a Petrol station here in the UK to run something like that!!!!

Rash. [/quote]
Yea, not much better over here.