Toyota Land Cruiser Prado 2013 FAQs

Check out real-world situations relating to the Toyota Land Cruiser Prado 2013 here, particularly what our experts have to say about them.

• Toyota Prado 2013: Radio failure

  I’m also putting out the call to Prado owners. This is a new problem, and the replacement unit is likely to be updated. But make sure it's logged in the service record in an unlikely event of future dramas.

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• Prado transmission cooler

  It doesn't. It's probably good insurance to fit a cooler when you're towing its maximum rated load for extended periods. But you also need to consider the sort of roads you are using and your driving style. If you're on highways and not going off-road, and you change down manually when you want to climb a hill you probably don't need it.

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• Was there a recall on the 2013 Toyota Prado?

  This is a pretty well known problem with the three-litre turbo-diesel that Toyota was fitting to Prados between 2009 and 2014. The problem began when Toyota redesigned the pistons of the engine to help it achieve Euro 4 emissions standards. Earlier versions of the motor that didn’t comply with Euro 4 did not have the same problem.

  The piston cracking most commonly occurs once the engine has covered something like 100,000km or 150,000km. It was also most likely to occur in engines that had been modified to produce more turbo-boost or vehicles that had been used for extended periods of towing heavy loads.

  Toyota did issue a service bulletin for the problem and began fitting post-2014 engines with different fuel injectors and a revised piston design. Piston failures in these later engines are rarer but still not entirely unknown. Even though a service bulletin was issued, Toyota did not issue a recall for the affected vehicles.

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