My Land Cruiser Prado - Ownership Review


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Wishing all of you the days wishes, Happy Independence Day.
After having a big bath and parked while doing the shopping .

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It is very hot, and outside temperature under car park shade is showed in the attached photo. It is monson, and continuous rain at Kerala. Wish to get one tender coconut from my coconut tree.

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What is Vehicle Stability Control (VSC), experienced yesterday.

I was on a roundabout, and speed between 80-100km/hr. I noticed that irrigation water is overflowing, and inner roundabout circle is partially filled. I entered into roundabout, and took a sharp curve with the above speed. Then all of a sudden some siren and something happened. I realized later that it is VSC kicked off. Thanks VSC for soft landing.

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VSC helps prevent wheels from slipping sideways when cornering or sudden steering. VSC is a system that helps prevent side skids and help stabilize the vehicle while turning on a curve. When the vehicle senses a loss of traction or a slip, braking is automatically applied to all 4 individual wheels and engine power is reduced to help secure the safety of the vehicle. For example, if the steering wheel refuses to turn from over-speeding (under-steering), the vehicle will take control to steer toward the inner curve. Also, when the vehicle begins to spin from abrupt steering handling (over-steering), the vehicle will take control to steer toward the outer curve.

The above exactly happened. Some photos taken while on morning time. It is some vehicle caught fire.

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your Prado is a beauty, i wish there was a reasonable option in india for this! I would have loved to own this sometime!
The pricing/taxation has taken this way overboard out here.
 
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Wishing you all the seasons greetings.
Still the ONAM celebrations are going on here. Some photos are posting here.

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Periodic Service and Job Managements

Japanese are excellent in time and job managements. In JOB management, complete a given job in minimum time with optimized number of resources (manpower). How to optimize the time time taken to do oil change? The resources (R1 and R2) are operated on the vehicle in two levels (L1 and L2). An under ground level (L1) for changing the engine protection covers, remove oil filter, drain oil, and check for all joints etc by manpower R1. On ground level (L2) another manpower (R2) open engine bay, remove oil cap, check levels of all fluids, and fill oil when then other person (R1) complete his task. Both manpower's alternatively work on two vehicles. In this case less than 10 minutes to complete oil, filter change and 11 point inspections including battery water level.

1. Waiting for my turn on Bay 2. The technicians are working on the vehicle ahead.
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2. My turn, and rear view. Check the under ground level (L1) through yellow grid.
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3. Front view of both levels, L1 and L2
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4. Front View.
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5. Technician(R1) working on level L1
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6. Another vehicle waiting behind for his turn.
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Weather changed, now it is almost around 5 degrees during morning. Maximum around 20 to 22. Missed the recent kite show. Waiting for the upcoming motor show. Posting couple of photos.

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Thick Fog, and very poor Visibility.

The weather was very bad due to thick Fog. Visibility was down to one or two meters.
Christmas tree by a pile of Chocolates.[lol]

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Malayalam cine Artisits, Pisharadi and Darmajan got chance to travel in this vehicle. I went to pick them up from the Hotel to carnival place. Darmajan is placing his bags to cargo place.

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Hi Mathew, congrats on buying one of my personally favourite SUV's! BTW i had a question, why didn't you consider the Jeep Grand Cherokee? Its also a great looking vehicle and its my favourite SUV followed by Prado.
 
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CarLoverJosh said:
Hi Mathew, congrats on buying one of my personally favourite SUV's! BTW i had a question, why didn't you consider the Jeep Grand Cherokee? Its also a great looking vehicle and its my favourite SUV followed by Prado.
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Thanks CarLoverJosh.

Jeep Grand Cherokee is cheaper than Landcruiser Prado. Take 10 SUVs on the road, less than 2% Jeep Grand Cherokee, while 40-50% Landcruiser vehicles.

Wishing the Seasons Greetings.

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