Hi Tony, thanks for your reply. Have you had your car long? and I see in your intro that you do not have a second car because " I can't afford one." ? I do hope that is not because you spend so much keeping your Treg on the road? Wher do you life? I'm in Boondall, Brisbane.
Kind Regards, Bob
Hi Bob,
I'm a bit down the road from you, we are between Port Macquarie and Forster on the NSW Mid North Coast.
Fortunately the "can't afford" statement is not due to keeping my Treg (MRS) on the road.
I've been very fortunate with mine as in 6 years/170K kms, I've had no unexpected repair costs other than the "known" issues such as intake manifolds, centre carrier bearing, park brake and rear hatch struts, fortunately all these were replaced at no cost to me under my extended warranty cover.
My other expenses relate to "running costs", being changes of engine oils, transmission, diffs + transfer box and coolant fluids and normal replacement of wear items such as brakes and tyres, I also chose to include the serpentine belt plus tensioner and the toothed belt as maintenance items with replacement at 100K intervals.
I do a bit of remote area travel generally towing a van so I am very fastidious about maintenance as I do not want to break down somewhere many hundreds of kilometers from a repair source so try to do as much as I can to avoid that happening.
I'm very happy with my Treg, it's such a versatile vehicle, I have done a number of modifications over the years to compliment what she already did well so I hope to be able to keep her for a very long time as there is nothing out there at the currently that I want to replace her with.
It will be a sad day if I am ever forced to part with the "MRS" because of spiralling costs.
BTW, were you able to get any joy on your DPF issue yet?
TonyB