Vasja Zupan

@Srikumar I apologise but unfortunately I need to cancel for tomorrow. I hope I'm not too late to leave the place to someone else... 

Hi, thanks @Frederic

Hi @Frederic, I've seen a cool photo of a good looking white Prado on Instagram 😎. Can you share original here? Thanks.

@Frederic & @Danish Mohammad (and the whole team) thank you for a great ride and enjoyable day. 

Hi, I've removed myself from WL as I can not come tomorrow. Thank you.

Have a great ride. 

Best,

Vasja

Hi,

there is a bit of wrong information in the original post. it's saying "When:  12 Feb 2022, Sunday". Got me confused. 

This drive is tomorrow Saturday 12th. Correct?

@Foxtrot Oscar and @JeromeFJthank you for the great day (and all for digging me out  ) looking forward to drive again with you sometime soon.  

Hi, I've just got both front and back spoiler removed. Also small front mud flops removed. Not too difficult - approximately 2h job.

Yes, it's a number of holes, some rather big  

May plan for next steps is to trim front bumper, fill the holes and paint all below the line where the spoiler ended black.

Hi @Waqas Parvez, your mod looks super nice, I'm researching to do similar or replace the bumper for fibre one. Metal look nice but apparently one would need to pull it of every year to get trough inspection. Besides we do not have kangaroos here ... 

I have a 2021 Prado Adventure (with additional lips/spoiler below bumpers - even lower then without).

Would you mind sharing where did you get skid plate and bumper trim? My whatsapp is +971525086821. 

Thanks.

Thanks @Rob S this is super helpful for all newbies as well.

I'm also finding it difficult to navigate some Prado mods. I have the Adventure model and I'll need to remove front and back spoiler and add skid plate. Plus eventually replace front bumper as the new model will probably look ugly if only trimmed. 

If any one has any image to share for the modified or fabricated front bumper for new model, that would be great.

Hi,

1. yes: Prado - white

2. no driving experience

3. yes as shared in my first post

Thanks @Zixuan Huang - Charlie, this is helpful. I'll take a look at options to upgrade asap.

37 minutes ago, Zixuan Huang - Charlie said:

Looks like Prado has won battle with Fortuner without hassel

Yes, Prado won but not totally without hassle   

On 1/30/2022 at 10:19 AM, Foxtrot Oscar said:

Front and rear tow hooks

Hi,

I'm driving a stock Toyota Prado 2021 only fitted with stock tow hook back and front, not the heavy duty ones, (pictures included)

Is this sufficient or do I need to fix additional ones before first drive. I will do that anyway I'm just not sure I'll manage to do that this week. 

Looking forward to Sunday. 

Thanks.

I went with AXA at the end - . Agent was talking about 5m limitation but it's not in the final policy (at least I can not find it). But there is section which was mentioned before. It also mentions off road recovery...  

I guess this is ok.

Best,

Vasja

Thank you @Tom B. That is interesting - my agent/broker is claiming none of them do. Including Orient. 
 

Hi,

received 5 quotes from different insurance companies (all big names locally) and none of them covers proper off road. all have this 50m from road policy...

Any idea where to go? Or do you negotiate that directly with the agency or broker?

I've pulled the plug on Prado.

And now I'm on the hunt for skid plates and bumper adjustment (trim or replacement)  Hope to fix those before I break spoilers off on the drive 🤔

Thanks everyone for help and support. I hope to see you on the drive soon. This is an awesome community!

Thanks @Gaurav This helps a lot.

10 minutes ago, Rob S said:

Its just as much psychological and it is facts and figures!

I agree.

1 hour ago, ASAD. said:

well firstly thinking you will roll over is a bad start before you even start 😉.

Yeah, that is a good point   Honestly I have no idea how often this happens... Just wanted to be on the safe slide and see if that is something people often buy... 

Has anyone experience with Al Futtain / Toyota additional insurance - they call it GRP VRP. It's supposed to cover difference between regular insurance and price you paid for the car.

"VRP Insurance is designed to pay the difference between the amount paid under your Comprehensive Motor Insurance Policy in the event of a Total Loss, and the cost of a new replacement vehicle."

They also offer this for preowned cars. Price for 2 years is approximately same as full coverage insurance for one year (therefore 50% per year on top of "normal" insurance). 

Buying a relatively "new" car (recent years) it sounds tempting. Especially if one experiences roll over or some similar stupid thing a Newbie could do

Any experience? Is it worth it?

17 minutes ago, Patrick van der Loo said:

Happy to provide the info and costs etc. My whatsapp is still my US number: +12039128797. Send me a message and I will forward the info

Thanks @Patrick van der Loo my WhatsApp is +971 52 508 68 21

58 minutes ago, Gaurav said:

Sharing the garage information is not allowed to remain unbiased and to prevent spamming.

Understood.

There is no Dm function on the forum? (sorry for off topic questions and newbie mistakes  )

Hi, Thanks for all this helpful insight guys.

@Waqas Parvez and @Patrick van der Loo where did you get bash skid plate installed? Did you find any kind of bull bar or similar modification for the front (and maybe back) bumper as well? The idea is to install both skid plate and replace front bumper. And keep original parts in order to get the car back to original if needed for resell. 

19 minutes ago, Zixuan Huang - Charlie said:

We need some opinions from Fortuner owners, its 0 - 10 for Fortuner so far 🤣

That is true
Another big advantage is price - Fortuner wins that one as well.