After 5 years exactly I thought it was time the Prado had a new battery. I spent a bit of time searching for a suitable replacement, something with a bigger capacity, but not too big in dimensions.
I settled on the new Exide Orbital, which appears to be very similar to the Optima battery.
A slight modification [...]

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Are you aware of the maintenance costs you can incurr when your vehicle has stability control.
It sounds great doesn’t it? Your vehicle starts to go out of control and magically it’s electronic box takes over and saves you.
This is what the so called experts are telling everyone. It is going to be the thing that [...]

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My trusty old BFGoodrich Mud Terrains are ready for the tip. After 77,000 kilometers, they are just too worn for anything but the driest of tracks.
I have been using BFG mud tyres for around ten years now without even one puncture. In all I have been very happy with the tyres, except in heavy orange [...]

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G’day folks. I don’t want to scare you if you own one of the new breed of diesels, but please read on.
I’m in the car industry and have witnessed first hand three occurrences of a very disturbing phenomena.
What happend to each of these vehicles is that the high pressure fuel pumps completely destroyed themselves along [...]

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