- Doors and Seats
3 doors, 5 seats
- Engine
4.5DT, 8 cyl.
- Engine Power
151kW, 430Nm
- Fuel
Diesel 11.5L/100KM
- Manufacturer
4XD
- Transmission
Manual
- Warranty
3 Yr, 100000 KMs
- Ancap Safety
4/5 star (2011)
2010 Toyota LandCruiser Troopcarrier: owner review
The Toyota Troopcarrier is the best work and fun vehicle ever.
Owner: John Bennett
- I like the go anywhere capability.
- Nothing really, being old I like manual gears but maybe automatic gearing would be better.
The Toyota Troopcarrier is the best work and fun vehicle ever. It takes me everywhere I want to go fishing, and it has been superb on Pilbara mining leases where we did botanical surveys of development areas state-wide. This car was bought new by our business with the Government rapid tax reduction incentive before being sold back to me when the business was closed in circa 2017.
It has the BHP mine spec requirements installed plus some other items for fun things including, bull bars, side bars with steps, winch, all recovery stuff, dual battery system, power isolator lockout, VHF UHF two way radio, antenna for mobile phone, fire extinguisher, and a Hayman Reese towbar. The last item allows putting a normal ball connector in the towbar, with an off-road option being the more flexible one on caravan.
I also have a small vice bolted on a bit of square tube that I can put in the towbar if I need to hold something to hacksaw or drill. I also have all three different types of towing electric connectors to suit a normal trailer, and our outback camper caravan with electric brakes. There's a high-current electric connector for both caravan and for remote starting if the battery fails, a full length roof rack with an extra spare wheel for both the car and the caravan.
Also in the kit are sand bog recovery plastic strips, a ladder from the side bar up to roof rack on the passenger side, two rollers at the rear end of the rack to enable easy loading of stuff up onto rack, a connector for the roof-mounted flashing light (for when on mine sites), a cargo barrier behind the rear seats, pull out drawers in the cargo area, electric socket and tie downs for fridge freezer in cargo area, reversing camera, and maybe some others not coming to mind presently. Only things missing are diff lockers and rod holders on front bull bar.
It has taken us all over Oz with our caravan including from Perth to the tip of Cape York via the Great Central Road, as well as all the way up the Gunbarrel Highway. My provided pic shows us crossing a dry river bed on a mine site survey in Pilbara. I can provide a short video of making that crossing if anyone is interested. With us being retired now, it is taking us on lots of trips within WA only in these virus worry times. It also serves as a workhorse, taking garden and other rubbish to the local tip with our 6X4 trailer with a cage on top. I suspect newer models also have a reversing camera as standard.
Our previous car was a HiLux, which we managed to break - the crankshaft cracked and a piston came adrift. The troopie has never faltered however, and is still going strong. We will likely keep it for another 10 years (at age 82 it will likely outlast me) as I prefer diesel which is more reliably available off the beaten track. Our neighbour has said if we ever want to sell the troopie he would like to be first in line.
There is nothing really that I think should come standard in newer vehicles other than maybe a roadmap system like one in my wife's Hyundai, and perhaps also a reversing camera system.
Owner: John Bennett
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