It was indeed. I assumed we all were aware Land Cruiser is only made in Japan. One of the many reasons why they are what they are.
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Transmission issues - Now needs replacement
I have owned my brand new 24 LC for 6 wks. I just did a road trip from Alberta to the Oregon/Cali Coast and she drove like a dream (mostly). I adored the adaptive cruise and her easy handling. I racked up 5500km on my trip with only minor hiccups during my drive time, which I chalked up to being...
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Transmission issues - Now needs replacement
I have owned my brand new 24 LC for 6 wks. I just did a road trip from Alberta to the Oregon/Cali Coast and she drove like a dream (mostly). I adored the adaptive cruise and her easy handling. I racked up 5500km on my trip with only minor hiccups during my drive time, which I chalked up to being...
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Figured this as well with the beer cheers, but I was raised to not take drinks from complete strangers
There was a post I think at Tacoma forum years ago about the internal QC record of Toyota factories. It was Japan>Mexico>USA. So I am glad they kept production in Japan.
I would also put Stuttgart up there as well for superb QC and extremely high tech manufacturing plants.
Zero Issues.
Purely anecdotal, n=1. I've not had any serious failure issues like those described above but anytime I have felt any bucking from this drive train it has been coasting to a stop in traffic and I've attributed it to the safety systems fighting me, trying to downshift, brake harder and/or sooner than I would on my own (which itself is not aggressive by any means). I've never experienced any issues accelerating, on the highway or cruising quiet neighborhood streets, just in stop and go traffic. I've not yet taken the time to go through the HAL 9000 and disarm the all controls to verify this is the issue because the only time I think about it is when I'm either at my computer looking for reasons to freak out about how much money I dropped on this vehicle or I'm driving and it's not serious enough to make me pull over and give my undivided attention.
One problem with the LCs are the transmission high temperature/overheat that some people noticed (me included)
Typically over long steep climbs slow speeds in 4HI (there's a couple threads around)
Other than that is great. Leaps and bounds better than the slow 4Runner transmission.
Typically over long steep climbs slow speeds in 4HI (there's a couple threads around)
Other than that is great. Leaps and bounds better than the slow 4Runner transmission.
Curious what temps you're getting? Here's a guide I found online, and would agree ~240degF is where I would start to get nervous.
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Transmission Overheating - anyone else?
I wanted to share my experience with the community in case others are having similar issues. My Land Cruiser (1100 miles) is reporting overheated transmission fluid under certain conditions that my service center has been unable to replicate and therefore do anything about especially with the...
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I got 3/4 of the way up on the transmission temperature dash gauge going up a long and steep forest road. No alarms or anything. Just a bit of smell.
Please report your findings here and/or on the other thread.
I’ve gotten the transmission overheat warning twice. Both times at very low speed in steel grades for a prolonged duration. I just preemptively throw it into 4lo now if I see sustained steep grades. No more overheating
in 4LO did you see the temps within the middle mark on the dash or still went up (without overheat)?
Haven’t monitored it, I’ll try to remember next time
If your driving off road with the transmission in D selection the tranny will probably get warmer than it should. The only time I saw the tranny get warm in my LX470 (off road toy) is on a gravel road with selector in D. I put the selector in 2nd and the heat dissipated quickly. The Lx470 has a large air to liquid tranny cooler. When I’m off road I never leave the gear selector in D. A good rule of thumb is if your off road and tranny is getting warm lower the maximum gear allowed.
I've been up and down several steep hills in the PA Wilds region on 3-4 hour gravel road/trail outings, regularly drive I-80 around Clearfield where it hits the highest point, all in 4HI, no issues. The climb around Clearfield is many miles long, is pretty much a long steady climb, and I've done it at 75mph with zero issues. No transmission overheating, warnings. etc.
The problem is the low speed, like 25-30 MPH or even less.
Offroad, forest roads, and not highways.
At 75MPH should be plenty of airflow and RPM to keep temperatures controlled.
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