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Reading the latest Car Mechanics mag and there are some pics of a L200 owners vehicle post-axle bolt failure 😯
Apperently all should have been recalled and these replaced. His wasn't, rear axle seperated and the prop shaft decided to pole-vault the car
age of vehicles concerned please??
However the owners car was a 2007 model.
Thanks
Nay probs
Erm I've got a 57 plate and never been recalled
Pop into WHSmiths and scroll through to the readers section.
There are pics of where the L200 had flipped (at a mere 40) and landed upside down on the central barrier of a A road. The owner/children had a lucky escape and guess what Mitsubishi said? 'Claim off your insurer'.
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There are pics of where the L200 had flipped (at a mere 40) and landed upside down on the central barrier of a A road.
To be fair, that will happen to any 4x4 if its driven like a car.
For what its worth, my old boss had an L200 - it was the most shockingly unreliable car imaginable. His went through several gearboxes, numerous turbos, an engine... Eventually the dealership gave him a whole new one (!) which then also blew up. Now, it was towing a heavy trailer every day as it was used for work, but even so, it wasn't undue usage for a vehicle of that type. I wouldn't buy one.
To be fair, that will happen to any 4x4 if its driven like a car.
Driver noted a rumbling jerking noise and decided to slow asap and investigate. Got down to 40 before it happened.
my dads company had one for a while on an early 03 place- steering rack went TWICE. didnt see mega rough stuff just building site inspection. it was replaced with a fiesta
Err this is a PSA thread guys not a slagging off/'I want one' thread 😕 😆
Err this is a PSA thread guys not a slagging off/'I want one' thread
How long have you been on here? All threads degenerate into personal attacks within the first page. It is in the rules or something....
That is a very good point actually
Found the Outlander to be one of the worst 4x4's I've ever had the misfortune to drive. Turbo failures,turbo pipe failures, oil dumping sessions and engine failures. Company has gone back to Disco's. I thought Japonese stuff was reliable?
I use a L200 for work and it's crap. I had one of the tracking rods fall a part luckily in a field if it had been 5 minutes earlier It would of happend when I was going down the dual carriage way at 50mph.
Would never advise anyone to buy one. Oh and I have been told it's replacement will be an Outlander 🙁