Ontario BS Thread

Do we know this beast?

 

Anyone know what going on with this landcruiser? no plates looks stolen. in south Scarborough in the old rona parking lot

 

^Rather odd for the vehicle to sit there for a long time with right rear tire missing while the spare hangs off the bumper.

Did you record the VIN through the windshield? I wonder if simply running the VIN through Google may yield something, maybe a Carfax page showing it's been reported stolen.

 

Were there summer berry drinks in the cupholders ?

 

Parking style is odd, but who would steal this tho… not that Middle East lacking any old rusty 80 series…

 

Anyone with (or know anyone with) a white 3rd gen interested in a Body Armor Semi Hidden Winch Bumper?
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If we do...sign em up for parking lessons.

 

I got in contact with the owner, wasn't stolen but a nightmare with a shop that got it there. Said hes gonna pick it up soon

 

Parking looks appropriate for the location. See the BMW sign in the background?

 

Got a check engine light..... something about low coolant temp... off to the dealer I went..."rear water inlet with thermostat sub assembly"...figured I'd get them to do an oil change at the same time....anyway....$1,200 later....

 

That’s not bad of a price for the work involved, I’ve seen it from the back when did the clutch. Pretty tight there

 

Thanks. That makes me feel a little better. Although if I check the part cost online then it looks like they charged almost double... but then again, at least it's properly fixed.
They also wanted to do transmission/diff flush, but they were going to charge even more due to the skidplates. So I'm going to try all that myself.

 

Keep the receipts for future, never know if some day later Toyota issues the recall and you can get refund. Pretty common issue on the turd gen from what I see over the forums.

 

Does anyone know is there's an easy fuse to tap for signal in the engine bay that's on when the engine is on but off in acc and on-with engine off? Ill take inside cab tap as well.

 

I believe all the fuses inside the cab are keyed ignition which sounds like what you are looking for.

 

They are keyed ignition but on with ignition weather the engine is on or off. This is for a relatively dumb DC-DC charger so I don't want it pulling 20A if the engine isn't on. I also don't trust my brain to remember to switch manually.

 

Ah gotcha. That’s a tricky one. Does the dc dc charger have voltage regulator where it won’t pull amps unless ample charge is there?

 

@somebody not sure about your set up going on but you can use a voltage sensing relay or battery isolator.

 

DC-DC de tres dumb. If it gets power, it charges. RCNUN DC 9-44V 12V 24V to DC 12.6V 14.6V 16.8V 18.2V 25.2V 29.2V Dual Battery Charger for 12V Lifepo4 Lithium LiMn2O4 Batteries - AliExpress 13

Its a complete aliexpress experiment of being cheap and probably sunken cost fallacy. But, if all works out ill have a ~$250 100Ah lithium setup.

 

Coming in with the smart search words (sensing relay). Still going to quest for the right circuit to tap as relays are practically free. If i have to, i guess I can blow my budget on this

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