Colorado owners check your oil

Lol Big Fish !,..The last time i criticised a dealer i got howled out of this place!, Theres nothing better than to do a long trip and have your engine use no oil, It puts a dent in your confidence when they do.

Cheers Axle.

Axle, sometimes we have to wait and see what transpires. I can remember you laughing about the BT50/PX ranger chain driven oil pumps even though all the high performance jap bikes have been using chains to drive the oil pumps for years and they do rev just a little wee bit higher than a diesel. Mine doesn't use oil and it doesn't blow up when the oil is changed.

Toyota have had the problem and Holden should be given the chance to do what toyota did.

Nothing wrong with bringing the issue to light but the internet can breed many exaggerations and half truths.

Axle
you got howled at because your complaint was unfounded and ridiculous. It was just plain dealer bashing.

Alan

Alan not sure what your on about?,..If it was the 100s timing belt issue, then it was not unfounded and ridiculous!,as it looks like the b/inlaw is getting reimbursed for most of the damage from the Toyota dealer he dealt with, They only put a belt on it when it was due for a full kit, They have admitted the mistake.

Have a good day


Cheers Axle.

Dealers that is, Just had a phone call from a mate that's totally p@#@#@ off with a Toyo dealer that sold him a landcruiser 100s about a 18mths ago. The vehicle had 230,000ks on it and they replaced the timing belt before putting it on the lot for sale.

Now that's a fair bit over as 150,000 is the belt change interval, but at least they recognised that. The vehicle has performed with out a glitch for the last 60,000ks and has been doing a lot of caravan towing , until yesterday when it came to a sudden stop on the highway . The timing belt broke due to a tensioner failure causing mass destruction internally of the(1HDFTE).....It appears they just wacked a belt on it and left the rest of the hardware!....Very poor effort from a Toyota dealer here I feel.

Axle above is what you originally posted, and yes you did bag out the dealer, your other post above proves you did so without all the facts.

One of the facts you missed with your premature post was that they ( the dealer ) accepted liability.

The other is that they are willing to repair the car.

Now that you have all the facts and had you waited to see the outcome, your original post may have been very different to the one you posted.

Just sayin.

As for the Colorado issue I have no comment.

Don't forget 60000 kms in 18 mths towing. That's a lot of work, and in that time at least 6 services, so why didn't whoever servicing it pick up an issue. They weren't to blame were they.

Steve,..They deserved to be bagged out ,the amount of stress they created from poor workmanship, and it was only a phone call from the right people that changed their mind in regard to liability.




Alan, you cant see inside a motor?



Cheers Axle.

My point is Axle, that if you or anyone bagged my business as a third party on this forum without so much as a reply from me, I would have a law suit against you/them and the owners of this site the next day.

You need to be careful with what you say, because if the dealership you bad mouthed on this forum decided to go you, you would be up that creek without a paddle because you were a third party bad mouthing a company without the knowledge of an outcome regardless of the companies decision because.

A: They hadn't made a decision.

B: It was none of your business to bad mouth them openly on an open forum without all the facts.

You may have all the best intentions for your mate, but at the end of the day, your mate might come off second best if someone let the dealer know what you had said about them on this forum without the facts.

Just sayin.

Axle,

Your mate bought a high mileage secondhand car and then proceeded to work it hard and put a lot of mileage in short time on it.
At some point he has to at least suck it up a bit instead on trying to blame others. That's the risk of buying secondhand. To paraphrase bantam, if you want a new car reliability, you got to buy a new car.

Alan

That's a rather stupid statement. "Customers don't know how to check oil". Thats the sort of garbage I,d expect from a dealer.
What level of education do you think would be required to learn the art of reading a dipstick?
Some of the oil usage is ridiculous(read the many threads /posts/complaints about the issue).

Haha - can assure you I'm not a dealer.
But the majority of people I know through work/social and even some in the 4wd club do not lift their bonnet, let alone check the dipstick. I've drummed it into my 4 kids that they need to check these things .... but generation X and Y don't check oil!!

My first car had oil changes every 2000miles. Occasionally needed topping up. The servos had glass bottles of oil in a stand and you just grabbed one and poured it in. Cars of the past burned more oil than those of today.
Colorado (and many others) are now 15,000km. Little surprise that the oil level can drop with the longer intervals. Those who still change oil every 5k don't have to top up.

The point is Phil that the people complaining are the ones checking their oil and telling of how after distances of 3000, 5000 and 6000klms they have used several litres of oil....Dealers are saying this is ok....
Typical dealer B.S...

Yes they do run a different motor to the Isuzu have since the new Colorado came out in 2012. It is the same motor as in the Jeep Wrangler as GM/Fiat now own VM Motori a bit of the story.2011

A new product line of a V6, 3.0L displacement engine is launched in 2011, adding a new class of vehicle applications such as luxury SUV’s and large top-of-class sedan, like the Jeep Grand Cherokee and Lancia Thema. Further development of the RA428 engine results in a Euro 5 high performance engine named A428, mounted on the traditional Jeep SUV Cherokee and Wrangler, as well as the newly launched Lancia Voyager. The ownership structure changes: Fiat Group purchases the 50% share previously owned by Penske Corporation. VM is today a 50:50 Joint Venture between GM and Fiat Grou

Alastair - Agree with everything you said.
Same with my wifes Tiguan and my 200 - they use a little oil, but it's not a problem - just need to check it and top up.