Way to sell a ute!

**playwme** · 12-02-2012, 10:18 PM

Yep. Any problems or breakdowns you have in a HQ-WB is part of it's character. It's not a sign of it's unreliability or lemon-ness.

**wbute** · 13-02-2012, 10:01 AM

Originally Posted by playwme

Yep. Any problems or breakdowns you have in a HQ-WB is part of it's character. It's not a sign of it's unreliability or lemon-ness.

Yep, thats why only people who love them still own them.....

Yes it is character building when your front engine pulley splits in half when you are 300km away from home on Good Friday. Then you realise that the twin lower pulley is impossible to find, and the triple ones don't work with an aftermarket A/C compressor. So the best option is to use a single pulley and drive home 300km with no belt on the power steering pump. then the next time you go on the same trip the plastic bisso on the 3rd and 4th gear linkage breaks and you are stuck with only first and second gear on friday night 300km away from home.
Then there was the time some moron let my tyres down in my then girlfriends(now wife) car space in her unit block in Sydney. I assume it was a protest about the excessive noise it made or the bullbar or just cause they were losers......
But I love it, and its getting its blue slip today so i can use it as a sometimes daily driver again lol.
Got to love em, but they were never in the same league as Toyota when it comes to build quality or reliability.

**HK1837** · 13-02-2012, 11:07 AM

Originally Posted by wbute

but they were never in the same league as Toyota when it comes to build quality or reliability.

True, but you don't see 1971-1985 Toyotas on the road anymore, and when you do they are worth their weight in scrap! A friend recently got a 1974 Crown in pristine condition, registered, that was on its way to the scrap yard. He just couldn't let a low kM, total original survivor car get scrapped. It is still only worth $200 a tonne though!