Turning my low mileage Fortuner into a high mileage Fortuner...

[grips]

How do you do a bearing check on sealed bearing units ? Asking for a friend

[Mad Manny]

I think Jake's means; jack up and wikkle the wheel top and bottom and then left right and check for movement.

Or just replace them every 80000km regardless....

[grips]

Best is to replace. But diff bearings on a no floating diff seldom fails. I won`t touch them if there is not a problem.

[Redman]

How do you do a bearing check on sealed bearing units ? Asking for a friend

Jack the vehicle up. Place hands at 9 and 3 0'clock. Push in and pull back and see for play.
Place both hands at 12 0'clok and pull/push to see for any play
Repeat step 2 at 3, 6 and 9 0'clock on wheels.
Or this is how we used to do it on the Isuzu's

Not sure if our friends at Toyota do the above, or if the stand and look at the wheel and say "Yes we checked it"

[Redman]

Forgot to mention that the DPF was replaced about 2,000km ago under the campaign.

Probably the one thing I dislike most on modern diesels. But luckily a new one so should be okay for a while

[grips]

How do you do a bearing check on sealed bearing units ? Asking for a friend

Jack the vehicle up. Place hands at 9 and 3 0'clock. Push in and pull back and see for play.
Place both hands at 12 0'clok and pull/push to see for any play
Repeat step 2 at 3, 6 and 9 0'clock on wheels.
Or this is how we used to do it on the Isuzu's

Not sure if our friends at Toyota do the above, or if the stand and look at the wheel and say "Yes we checked it"

Very easy to confuse suspension play with bearing play with the 12 , 6 0`clock method

I had a humming sound on a Ford Ranger which I suspected were a wheel front bearing. No play. Even turning the wheel nothing could be felt.
In the end after replacing both left and right I found the right bearing pitted but with zero play.
Best to replace at intervals as indicated by manufacturer.

[Redman]

So it seems like my local Toyota dealership here in Brisbane doesn't want me to make my Fortuner a high mileager.

When it went in for it's 120,000km service the service advisor asked if they could do a valuation on my vehicle. I agreed not really sure what I'm going to do with that info.

Few hours later I received the following email about my vehicles value, future service costs compared to a new vehicle, as well as a rough calculation on what my monthly payment will be.

[Mad Manny]

So he suckered you into considering a new vehicle?

[Redman]

Yes indeed suckered me into thinking in that direction... Just for a moment.

I must admit though, I really like my Fortuner, so cannot justify new debt just because Toyota employs some really clever staff.

Will probably go through this exercise again at the next service, when the new Prado is on the floor.

But for now, the Fortuner is going nowhere

[Redman]

So Fortuner going in for it's 130,000km service tomorrow.

Middle seat belt clip in the second row stopped working. Swambo bought a dog restraint that clips in there from Temu and it seems like this has stuffed this clip up. Will ask Toyota to quote me for the part only when it goes in for the service. So far only thing that has stopped working but probably due to the made in China sh+t we tried to use.

Will probably spend too much time looking at the new Prado on the floor. Luckily I have saved Henk's Fortuner Review video on YouTube so will watch that again if the new vehicle itch starts to present itself.

[Mad Manny]

Why are you letting women and dogs in your Fortuner!?!

[Redman]

I have a friend with a new Everest so I like to take my dog along in case my mate needs someone to walk home with him.

[Mad Manny]

At least the poor dog doesn't have to sit in the Ford...

[Redman]

One thing I always do to keep my vehicles fresh is a deep clean of the air conditioning system. Wurth offers fantastic products for this. I recently used their Antibacterial Air Conditioner Cleaner. It’s super easy to use just remove the cabin air filter, turn on the fan (AC off on circulation mode), and spray the cleaner into the footwell.

To make the process even easier, I removed the glove box on my Fortuner (and previously my Hilux). It simply unclips and slides out, allowing the cleaner to circulate more effectively.

While you’re in there, it’s a great time to replace the cabin air filter. I’ve been using Sparesbox for ordering of parts (Same blokes that 4WD247 have been punting on their channel www.sparesbox.com.au). The Toyota OEM filter can sometimes compress under heavy air conditioning load, but the Ryco filter I got from Sparesbox is much more sturdy and maintains its shape better in my opinion.

New Ryco

Old Toyota filter slightly mis formed

Air cleaner activated

Old vs New

Ryco in place