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Originally Posted by arvi86 Congratulations Rohit! Wishing you several thousand miles of happy ownership in the ever-lasting Toyota!
Moving on from a Civic to a Fortuner is like chalk and cheese, quite literally. Enjoy the new-found freedom to explore places that you wouldn't have dared in your darling Civic. |
Thank you for the wishes arvi! Long time, mate. Guess that's a fault on my part. You are absolutely right on saying so. Fellow BHPian Rachit.K.Dogra said the same thing to me after hearing my final choice of vehicle,
"Replacing a low slung Civic running on 17" alloys with a hardcore off-roader like a Fortuner is equivalent to a complete religion change! ". *thumbs up*
A vehicle like this gives you sort of freedom to travel that is hard to imagine otherwise. Rhandle himself told me the same thing, he was like
"if someonce comes to me in midnight and asks me to drive to Timbuktu, my hands will go blindly pick the keys of this car every single time!" Quote:
Originally Posted by dean5545 Congratulations on your new ride. Your Fortuner has my dream setup of a bull bar and lift kit.
Out of India the Fortuner is used mostly for its off-road capability but sadly in India many buy it just for the looks.
Hats off the previous owner for the wonderful setup.
The only thing I don't like about the ARB bullbar is the fact that it's chin protrudes a lot and doesn't gel with the bumper. That's why I like the Viper bumper made for the South American Fortuner. Attachment 1509681Attachment 1509682
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Someday I hope to own a Fortuner on the lines of the below pic: Attachment 1509683 |
Ooooh, We had discussed this new gen Fortuner pics a couple of days back only. It looks manacing to say the least. Means total business and doesn't look soft from any angle. Trust me, my car has been taking to every nook & corner of India by Rhandle and has done all what one can imagine with it! And I plan to do the same. BTW you are one of the guys on forum who have been driving Toyotas well into 6 digit odo reading, so you'd know how reliable and boring these things can be. lol.
Viper bumper looks swell! BTW mine is Ironman, not ARB. Both of them are pretty similar though. Best part of Ironman (& ARB) front bumper is, it is fully tested to be compatible with crumple zones and airbag deployment in Fortuner. So, no compromise on safety there! *thumbs up*
Thank a lot of your wishes. Cheers mate!
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Originally Posted by Sheel Loved your thread as well as the Fortuner. I have been up, close and personal with this when it was bone stock and despite bringing Rahul here, he was still all praise for his Gurkha Wish he spends some more time here and here [both]
Go and explore, this is what is meant for, off-roading will be a part of exploration which this will handle with ease. Must say, in stock form too, the Fortuner is quite competent to do most of the exploration part, this is a bonus.
+1 dean5545, loved the bumpers on the Fortuners and the new one doesn't look that soft with these bumpers and other off-road mods. |
Thanks Sheel! Gurkha is hard to take out of his mind even now! And so is the case with Roy_Libran too! Hehe. Rhandle is getting is Gurkha even more serious off-road prepared again and it is currently a WIP, should be back on road soon!
BTW I said Hi to him from your side!
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Originally Posted by extreme_torque Congrats on the car. I see a lot of them as Hilux utes here in Australia everyday with the same metal bumpers upfront. These things are bulletproof.
I do not think you can buy another car with more than a 1.3 lakh kilometer on the odo and yet be sure about its overall reliability. Only a Toyota. |
Thanks extreme_torque. Ironman & ARB being Australian brands, would obviously be much more popular there. Completely agree with you on reliability part!
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Originally Posted by GTO Congratulations on a great looking truck! Whenever I see the term pre-worshipped / pre-owned in a thread title, I smile because I know someone got a good deal .
The mileage is higher than what I'd personally be comfortable with on a used car ( although I don't mind using my own cars to 2+ lakh kms). That said, if someone put a gun to my head and made me buy a used car with 6 figures on the odometer, it would be a Toyota body-on-frame diesel. If cared for, they will easily go beyond 3 lakh, even 4 lakh kms.
Wish you thousands of happy kms with the beast. Congrats again . |
Thanks a lot for the wishes, Rush! I indeed got an excellent deal here.
And on topic of smiling; I smiled today only, seeing your post in your BMW thread suggesting a 50,000 kms Euro car would make you nervous in used car market! And here I am, having bought a car with 138,000 on the odo!!!
You see, trouble is, more than 80% of Fortuner (or most of diesel SUVs) sold in India are bought for long distance running in mind. A lot of Toyotas and others I checked in market were having much higher mileage than my car and were clocked back to 60-80k kms.
This is India and we are known to be a nation of Jugaads. IIRC, there was one case where the previously owner was so smart that he got one service done from Toyota every 10k kms and one from outside, clocked back the odo by 10k everytime he got it done aftermarket (it only costs INR 500 to get a new chip for odometer!)! So, essentially his car had covered twice the kms than what odo showed and this odo was backed with service history from Toyota! Can you imagine?
Come and think of it, Rhandle used the car for 75 months and put on 138k kms, meaning an average of >1850 km/month. Not too far from my monthly average than Civic (I had put on 108k kms in 62 months, averaging 1735 kms/month). But I do agree with you, I had my own conversations about high mileage on my vehicle too! Then I looked into service history of the car and it has been to Toyota every 5000 kms like a clockwork. And it is so detailed that suppose Toyota recommended to replace a set of screws, rhandle got it done without having a second thought! It is that well taken care of! The end result is, despite going through innumerable on-off road expeditions, the car feels tight from every angle and drive like one.
I am lucky to find such a well maintained vehicle and jumped on it as soon as I got all the details right!