Top Gear Toyota Truck (Hilux) video merge thread---you repost it, it gets merged!

[lee]

forget smacking him, i wanna take his keys away.

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[ctcost]

Hell I just had my tranny remanufactured to the tune of $3200 plus change. Keep that thing. You obviously don't know what you have! Everytime I get mad at mine and start thinking about getting rid of it I go out and look it and go......nahhhhhhhh....and then i do something more to rebuild it just a little more. Sheesh youngsters these days.

[calisurferdude2000]

Originally Posted by lee

forget smacking him, i wanna take his keys away.

Forget taking his keys away, get him away from that 4Runner as fast as possible before he does something we will regret. Hearing this makes me want to start :cry: :cry: :cry:

[TRDUSA2002]

Originally Posted by dsm59

The Auto transmission on my 94runner just wont die.HEck it doesnt really show any real signs of thinking about it.Sure the shift from 1st to 2nd when the unit is cold is about as crisp as a corn flake thats been in milk a little too long but c'mon 217k on it and it can still hold a gear all the way close to redline.sure it leaks a little,sure it didnt get its oil changed from 110k to 195k,I even tried serveral 5k rpm netual to drive drops when i was 16(back in 97),in hopes to kill it so that my parents would buy me a turbo eclipse. its out lived the original motor,a low budget rebuild of the orginal shorty and now its 54k into a new (at the time) OEm motor. ive driven with the ECT button on since 98...my Eclipse has gone through 4 transmissions..apparently 400whp going through any transmisson Mitsubishi has built is a bad idea....

How long do these toyota built trannys last? AS you can tell i havent really been gentle with it.although no Longer my daily driver i fear that the 4runner will out last my 2003 Silverado...I always told my self "when the tranny goes on the 4runner so does the rest of the car"

Do you guys think that if i do one of the Bilstein power flushes, that ill blow whats left of those old seals?Probably.

Man you have alot to learn my friend. If you hate the 4runner so much then sell it to someone that will appreciate a well built 4runner. Things like this make me sick.

[lee]

he wants a friggin eclipse too... christ

[lee]

look what he wrote in another thread:

hoping that the bastards responsible for all this havent has thieir way with my Baby. i get to my 4runner...no windows broken....what a sigh of relief! but wait THe Bastards tried breaking my window....what ever they were using to break the windows had left a couple of 3" deep scrathes on my front passenger window...they were unsuccessful...i felt so prourd of how the TOYOTA temperlite windows held-up.

what the fudge? decide if you like it or not.

[TRunner]

How do you get the more then 3" thick windows? Is that an upgrade package?

[mike87]

how about you just send it to me and ill give you my totaled one.. id settle for a popsicle stick with an engine and wheels right about now..

[dsm59]

u guys got it all Wrong....i absolutly love my 4runner....ive just abused the heck out of it..and it still keep coming back for more...ive never been around a car with 217k on the chassis that feels the same as it did when it 75k on it...im just in Awe of this thing...

the 3" was in reference to the length of the scratches....not the depth.

and my parents only blessed me with a 3yr old 4runner cause dad went through a mid-life crisis and decided he wanted a Cobra and gave me the $runner..

i bought the eclipse like 8yrs ago...

and im not spoiled...just been lucky enough to have worked my a$$ off to have learned something that payed well when i was a teenager...

i just cant justify getting rid of it till the Transmission blows...till then ill keep driving it like i stole it!

[ugabulldog]

So you'd rather the transmission blow instead of just selling it?

[lee]

god that makes absolutely no sense

[dsm59]

dude the most i could get for it around here is probably 2k...i dnt need to sell it. i just want to see how long it can hold up...my friend and i have bet my wife that that it ill go to 250-255k before it crapps out she says it willdo it at 235k...ive changed the most fluid as possible out of it in regular intervals for the last 25k so its being maintained now...and the sad part about it is that the only thing wrong with the car is that i have to polish and buff it after every 5car washes,to keep up the faded red paint looking kinda glossy!

[TRunner]

Didn't save much face did he?

Look... If you are eventually going to get rid of it do it now while it is still drivable so you can get some money for it. Either that or keep on driving it like you stole and when you blow the transmission, PM me and I'll take it off your hands for you since it is basically trash then.

BTW - most of us are just razzing you about this, but your perspective does dumbfound us all.

[4Hummer]

I think I made the little rich momma's boy mad.

Found in my PM Box

Originally Posted by dsm59

hey why dont i give u my address and you can come do it in person..or if u like, have your wife/gf/sister come over and ill : show em the backseat of my 4runner!

God bless u buddy

I'd say sorry dsm59 that I upset you.. But Naaaa !

You seem like a SPOILED ROTTEN RICH BRAT, that gets anything and everything he wants all paid for by his parents,

Some of us work hard to obtain the things in life we own, and would never dream of blowing up a perfectly good truck so momma can buy us a new one.

You post on a forum of toyota loving and worshiping people about wanting to BLOW UP YOUR TRUCK so mommy and daddy can buy you a new one ? And than you think your not going to get RAZED about it ? grow up.

HOW OLD ARE YOU ANYWAY ? 16

[99_Runner]

Sell the thing to some one who actually cares. If you really want to kill the trans, drain all of the oil and drive around for a while, that might do it. But seriously, sell it to some one who will appreciate the vehicle and take care of it.

[lee]

this thread should be deleted.

[dsm59]

Since when does owning a 11yr old 4runner make u rich?

sure my parents bought it for me...but that was back in like the 97'



OH and 4hummer...get a job that pays better. maybe then u can get yourself that 95 4runner you've been wanting for christmas....maybe santa Will drop one on your house next Christmas!



Okay-- let this be the end of this...

[quik05]

I just watched a show on the discovery channel called "Top Gear" and in one segment they purposely tried to kill a mid 80's Toyota pickup. They drove it into a tree, they tied it to a boat ramp and let the tide come in. But ropes snapped and it was lost at sea for about 5 hours, but the tide went down and they found it, flipped it back right side up, let every thing dry out, cleared the cylinders and it started up and they drove it off the beach. They then dropped it from a crane, ran it through a building, dropped a camper on it, hit it a couple of times with a wrecking ball, and FINALLY set it on fire!

Guess what, it still ran.

[colsoncj]

What kinda of truck?

[quik05]

The show is british, so it was a hilux 4x4 w/ a diesel.

[White83]

The video of that has been floating around for quite some time now. Glad to finally be able to see it on TV though about time they got that show over here.

[DudeBud]

Originally Posted by quik05

The show is british, so it was a hilux 4x4 w/ a diesel.

looked like a 22re to me

[White83]

Looked like the water from the cylinders was shooting straight up and it sounded like a diesel. I vote diesel

[DudeBud]

ok you got me just watched it again and it said 2.4D on one of the badges

[Praufet]

in the british version of the show they actually put it on top of a building that was being demolished and it still survived, the british version is much better