Thread: The new truck (Hilux Surf)

Well I took the truck down to Taranaki this week. The thing has a problem!

Heading up some of the really steep hill/passing lanes it just dropped all of it's power. Then the check engine light came on. Then it'd come right again.

The guys at Toyota said it's a timing control system malfunction. I'm glad they had the computer to be able to tell me what becuase that's a really useful piece of info...

Anyway I figured maybe the fuel filter was clogged a bit so I put a new one in down there and that alleviated the problem for the most part, but it did happen a couple of times on the way back (but it was more like a small lurch/drop in power every now and then).

Once I filled up again towards the end of the trip I came flying up the bombays in top gear loaded up with people and it went fine... so maybe it was a bad batch of diesel with some shit in it.

The old man is going to check it out this weekend.