Outer Limits 4x4 Board

So on top of the grand my timing belt cost me last week, the mechanic showed me a spot where my rad was starting to weep and recommended i replace it.

As just about everything else in the car has been replaced or rebuilt now so I want to keep this car well maintained and ultra reliable.

The car doesnt overheat or haver any other heat based concerns. it is turboed and tows regularly.

My local radiator specialist has recommended i dont go for a new Rad as most of them are rubbish compared to factory oringional. ie this one lasted 20 years but a new one might last 3-4 ish. and dont genera;yy have the same cooling effect as the old copper ones.

next price bracket up and his recomendation is to recore using my existing tanks and staying with 3 core. $530

or go to the extreme of a pwr rad etc $1000 ish.

What are peoples experiences, with cheap new rads v's recored ones?

cheers

I got a genuine Toyota one for $350 or so and haven't had heating troubles.

Thats for the 3 core diesel.

When my 92 turbo lux needed a newie I got a triple flow for just under 500 from aussie dessert coolers. Was ace. Their claims of being 15% more efficient I reckon are pretty close.

Hanko, I had the same problem not long ago, and had the top tank renewed. Nothing wrong with the original core, and the bottom tank runs cooler so they are generally fine as is.

Currently doing the same, four core with new tanks for just over 5 hunge. Where I live you normally get ripped off too.

highway chook
from what the mechanic said my core is the problem, and the rad guy said the tanks far outlast the cores.

howesy i will check them out - anyone had one of these for a few years?

Weiner - how on earth did you get a yota genuin for that money? i would do that in an instant. last timei spoke to toyota about a rad they wanted well over a grand.

thehanko wrote:highway chook
from what the mechanic said my core is the problem, and the rad guy said the tanks far outlast the cores.

howesy i will check them out - anyone had one of these for a few years?

Weiner - how on earth did you get a yota genuin for that money? i would do that in an instant. last timei spoke to toyota about a rad they wanted well over a grand.

Went to my local wreckers and they rang Toyota up and got it in for me

ive had to get 2 for different reasons lol but they were both brand new, 400 from a radiator place, both had toyota printed on them and looked 100% the same as the original. never had a cooling or reliability issue with either of them

ive got a 6 month old (In truck) LN106 copper one sitting in my shed, right next door to a 1yr old copper KZN130 surf radiator! The truck now runs a KZN165 hilux fan and radiator!