Thought I’d share an update. It’s been a year since we bought our 24 Toyota Land Cruiser 79 series (4.5 L 1VD-FTV turbo diesel V8).
Will post a walk-around video soon!
Hi, the Western route is still doable albeit with some care. Give Expedition Rove a shout, they just did that route;
https://www.instagram.com/expeditionrove
Other folks with the same use as mine are getting 80k - 100k km (49k - 62k mi) but US made. Found several other Thai-made owners with the same problems.
As I mentioned though, just won’t buy them again so all good
Spoken to lots of folks subsequently, seems if you have the US-made ones and drive at the correct pressures they're still fine but the Thailand ones; doesn't matter what you do, if you use them off-road you'll be lucky to get 24k mi out of them.
I've moved over to Maxxis Razr AT-811's and...
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